Adversity Teaches Canada Hard Lessons On Economy and Union
In hardship, Canada learns vital truths about debt, unemployment, and governance. A Royal Commission studies transport. disputes over provincial versus federal authority rise. Calls grow for a comprehensive B N A Act review to streamline jurisdiction and reduce taxes.
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Railways of Canada
Federal Treasury
Joseph of Old
Canada
United States
Privy Council
B.N.A
Taxpayers Pressure Budgets to Control Spending
Citizens push for tighter oversight as budgets grow beyond expectations. Officials defend allocations while watchdog groups urge transparency and public involvement to curb excess.
Hard Times Reflected in Frugal Rural Living
A vivid vignette shows households trading ashes for soap raising dogs and hogs growing weeds and vegetables and brooms catching fish with a four dollar rod building schoolhouses and sending children away to learn finally sending a boy with a forty dollar gun and nineteen dollar dog to hunt ten cent rabbits.
Worm Exterminator Promoted for Child Health
Advertisement claims worms in children cause convulsions and death and promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as protection. Mentions belief that a full moon weakens radio signals.
Bicycle popularity grows in England and Europe
The bicycle rises in use across England and Europe with factories meeting renewed demand after years of low sales. Bedford stands out as England’s bicycle town with a high ratio of bikes to residents, likely due to flat surroundings. Copenhagen and The Hague rely on bikes, and Berlin streets fill with bicycles during commuting hours as outskirts factories house thousands of workers using the affordable transport.
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Bedford
England
Copenhagen
Hague
Berlin
Hunted Foxes Exhibit Remarkable Ingenuity
Hunted foxes and hares show notable clever tricks including running along railway lines on metal rails. The behavior seems to deice scent by moving in a stream body, with the cold rails mimicking cold water and reducing scent detection.
Fashion Hint Dyeing Old Skirts To Update Length
A reader explains a plan to extend short skirts by lowering hems and redyeing the dress after bleaching. Using Diamond Dyes, she achieves smooth, even color fastness and claims the results look like new, praising the product for saving money and providing gorgeous colors.
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G.C
Lewis
Quebec
Demand For Heavy Horses In Eastern Canada
Eastern Canada shows ongoing demand for quality heavy horses says H F Gorrell of New Dayton Alberta after selling a carload in Montreal. Extra good animals sold well while average westerns brought only fair demand. Dr J D Kellogg asthma remedy praised for benefiting incipient and chronic cases with genuine product available widely. Cottage industry grows in making artificial flowers in Czecho Slovakia. Stars brighter than the sun by 5000 to 10000 times noted.
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Canada
H. F. Gorrell
New Dayton
Alberta
Montreal
New Vitality from Dr Williams Pink Pills
Mrs W P Fitzpatrick of Mary Sask describes severe anemia with exhaustion and weakness. After seven boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills she regained strength, can work, climb stairs without puffing, sleeps well, eats well, and looks renewed. The pills claim to build red blood and aid nervous fatigue. Available at druggists in a 50c glass container.
Dental pioneer Dr James L Williams dies at 79
Dr James Leon Williams, renowned dental scientist and inventor of an artificial teeth system, died recently at his home in New York at age 79. He helped link Piltdown skull teeth to humanity, proposed three universal tooth types, and practiced in London and New York after starting experimental dentistry at 17. He served as associate editor of the Journal for Dental Research and wrote on Shakespeare Gray and Irving.
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James Leon Williams
Riverside Drive
New York
Sussex
England
Williams
Embden
Maine
London
Sir Arthur Keith
The
Dental Supply Co
Journal
For Dental Research
Shakespeare, Gray and
Irving
Edison Granted Patent for Nickel Plated Diamonds
The Patent Office issued a patent to Thomas A. Edison for an apparatus that electroplates nickel on diamonds to mount them in grinding tools and phonograph needles. The invention aims to improve tool rigidity and diamond mounting, with Edison’s signature on the patent drawing.
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Edison
United States
Patent Office
Thomas A. Edison
Sir Robert McAlpine on myths of early rising
Sir Robert McAlpine, an eminent British physician, denounces the myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise. He favors hard work over early rising and notes he has not gotten up to breakfast ten times in thirty years. He is 85 years old.
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Philips
Phillips
Lade
Canada
Robert McAlpine
Sir Robert
World end seems unlikely says Tolman Ward
Scientists argue mathematical evidence challenges the heat death scenario and suggest the universe may not end. Dr Richard C Tolman and Morgan Ward of California Institute question prior calculations about radiation and thermodynamics.
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Richard C. Tolman
Morgan Ward
California Institute
Hanson Alleged as First U S President in Early Claim
The article discusses John Hanson of Maryland as the first U S president, a claim set forth in Seymour Wemyss Smith's posthumous book. Smith argues Hanson was elected eight years before Washington and served one year, citing documents and private correspondence.
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Johan Hanson
Maryland
George Washington
United States
John Hanson
Seymour Wemyss Smith
Smith
Hanson
Washington
Rope Bridges Across Jhelum and Chinese Rivers
The piece describes nerve wracking rope bridge crossings over the Jhelum River in India and similar Chinese bridges. It notes two twisted vegetable fibre ropes forming opposing slopes and a wooden sliding block enabling quick crossings.
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Jhelum
India
China
Simple Remedy For Bad Stomach Gives Swift Relief
A brief remedy advises avoiding strong medicines and meals after, using three or four Bisurated Magnesia tablets to neutralize stomach acids. It claims most stomach distress is unnecessary and promotes Bisulated Magnesia tablets as safe, inexpensive relief available from druggists.
Tapestry in Bethlehem Church Slashed During Guard Absence
A priceless Christ tapestry at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was slashed by a knife when police guard was absent. The church, a pilgrimage site for Christmas visitors, received the tapestry as a 1874 gift from France.
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Christ
Bethlehem
France
First stainless steel by Faraday and growth of Scottish tweed
The article notes that the first stainless steel was created by English physicist Michael Faraday. It also reports that nearly 90 firms are now active in Scotland's Scotch tweed industry.
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Michael Faraday
Scotland
Gold Mine In Sweden Becomes World Third Largest
The official Swedish statement through Count Albert Ehrensvard notes a lake buried mine in the Skellefte district that annualy yields over eight million dollars in gold. Engineers have secretly advanced more than forty shafts since 1918, with byproducts of silver zinc and arsenic funding operations. Sweden may rise to a leading gold producer.
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Sweden
Count Albert Ehrensvard
Paris
Count Ehrensvard
Skelleften
Baltic Sea
Bouden Wunder-Water
English Cricket Team Plans Canadian Tour in August
A six weeks tour of an English eleven to Canada was arranged after a trans Atlantic call between Sir Julien Cahn and Toronto district cricket council secretary R W Sharp. The team will visit Montreal first and conclude in British Columbia in August.
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Canada
Sir Julien Cahn
R. W. Sharp
Toronto and District Cricket Council
Sir Julien
Dominion
Montreal
British Columbia
Miller Worm Powders Sold As Pleasant Remedy
Advertises Miller worm powders as harmless tasting like sugar and effective at clearing worms. Claims vomiting may occur from cleansing action but indicates no harm. Includes stray quip about family roles and manners reflecting lighthearted column humor.
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Miller
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Manchuria
Sayre John Hanson
St. c. Is
Borden
St. Charles
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