Prairie Province Homes Embrace Trees and Shrubs for Beauty
The Dominion Experimental Station at Morden Manitoba notes prairie homeowners increasingly plant trees shrubs and perennials to ornament homes. hardy native species line bluffs and bays forming harmonious patches with color through seasons. historic nurseries at Indian Head and Wolseley aided by demonstration cars spurred widespread adoption.
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Delta
Manitoba
Lake Manitoba
Fort William
Prairie Provinces
Indian Head
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Wolseley
The Price Of Progress And Industrial Harm
A London Sunday Express excerpt argues that despite vast gains from the machine age, half a million deaths and £6,500,000 in compensation in seven large industries occurred in a year. It claims machines extend life overall and raise average life expectancy despite risks.
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London Sunday Express
A Call For Higher Pay For Canada’s Finance Minister
The Ottawa Journal argues the Canadian finance minister earns far less than comparably senior posts such as Ontario Liquor Board chairmen railway presidents and New York City mayor. It notes the minister’s job is among the most demanding and deserves a much larger salary than the current 12 000 a year.
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Canada
Ontario Liquor Board
New York
Ottawa Journal
Nihau Island Life With Strict Customs and Silence
Nihau, the most isolated Hawaiian island, has about 130 residents. There are no radios or cars and tobacco is banned. Prohibition has held for sixty years, there are no jails, and every resident belongs to a church. A passerby jokes about an address on cleanliness.
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Nihau
Hawaiian Islands
Walking With No Windshield Shortens Drive
An exchange notes a person taking up walking as ordered by a doctor and finds the experience awkward at first without a windshield. The dialogue hints at a practical hurdle in an unusual setting.
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Algy
Electrified farm exhibit at Stockholm exhibition
An illustrated exhibit titled The most electrified farm will be a key attraction at the Stockholm Exhibition of Arts Crafts and Home Industries. A demonstration farm will feature electric milking in stables and fields, automatic feeding, electric threshing, heated pig floors, automatic incubators, and automatic lighting in hen houses. A movable aluminum pipe irrigation system with rotating sprays aims to boost crops by about 33 percent, drawing attention from agricultural experts worldwide.
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Stockholm
Turning Grain Into Milk From Lethbridge Feeding Tests
Ten purebred Holstein Friesians at the Lethbridge Alberta experimental station show an average revenue of 213.61 per head against a feed cost of 109.99 and a return over cost of 103.62 for one year. Calves from the cows offset depreciation and upkeep, with the ration including alfalfa hay corn silage oats and barley meal bran bone meal salt and beet molasses plus 132 pasture days.
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Lethbridge, Alberta
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Scientist Garvin mocks spiritualists at Washington luncheon
Francis P. Garvin, noted chemist, criticized Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge for their spiritualist arguments at a Washington luncheon. He compared their reasoning to Walsh White in a quip about proof of the dead walking, ending with a regional joke.
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Francis P. Garvin
Institute of Chemistry
Washington
Arthur Conan Doyle
Oliver Lodge
Walsh White
Canadian National Railways appoints new Western official
The manager of Cana dian National Railways Colonization and Agriculture Department in Western Canada has been named Assistant Director of the same department with headquarters in Montreal.
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Colonization and Agriculture Department
Canadian National Railways
Western
Canada
Montreal
Grading Improves Canadian Wool Exports and Quality
Canadian wools gain recognition at home and abroad as highly desirable. Under Minister W. R. Motherwell the past fiscal year saw nearly 3.5 million pounds graded, slightly higher than the prior year. Grading boosted the annual clip and market prep, with storages showing well rolled, dry fleeces and few rejects. Western wools proved stronger and lighter in shrink, while domestic wools pleased buyers in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
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Canada
W. R. Motherwell
United States
Oil firms seek older men to run California stations
A California oil company prefers hiring men over 60 for its filling stations, calling it good business not charity. Management says older workers are more courteous, careful, proud, and reliable than younger staff, amid widespread employment challenges for men over 50 and a hint for other station owners who often employ younger workers.
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California
Survey parties subdivide Peace River district for homesteads
In the Peace River district two survey parties under the Surveyor-General subdivide a large area of new land to speed settlement. The Interior Department topographical work aims to provide suitable plots as rapid settlement proceeds in fast growing locales.
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Peace River District
Surveyor-General
Department of the Interior
Air mail expansion highlights Canada's progress and outreach
Canada extends air mail to Winnipeg Calgary Edmonton with new nine hour Winnipeg Calgary service and five and a half hour Regina Edmonton route. The network now covers 1126 miles with lighting and high efficiency above ninety percent."}
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Winnipeg
Calgary
Edmonton
Canadian Post Office Department
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Ontario
Canada
Moncton
New Brunswick
Windsor
Fort McMurray
Alberta
Athabasca
Mackenzie Rivers
Aklavik
Arctic Circle
Regina
Chic Paris Crepe Silk Frock with Plaited Bodice Detail
The blue green crepe silk gown features a unique front drape and circular back flare, with a one sided jabot and bow trim to minimize width. Available as Style No. 3300 in sizes 16 through 42 bust with a 25 cent pattern price from Pattern Department.
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Paris
Deafness Estimate Noted In Population Claims
A claim that one person in every 200 in the United States is deaf is mentioned. A quoted remark about buying fish and oil leads to purchasing a sixpence tin of sardines with change kept. Pages Gaies Yverdon.
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United States
Gaies
Yverdon
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Dominion Experimental Station
Morden
Tree Island
Tree Islands
W. N. U. 1829
George
Lethbridge Station
J. S. McGowan
California Oil Company
Mars
Norway
Colwood Park
E. W. Beatty
C. Brynjolfson
Uplands
Cal
Harold Lineham
B.C
Colwood
Dentists
Chicago
Cheops
John
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Annebeile Worthington
McDermot Ave
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