C N R Plans New Alberta Branch Lines This Year
The Canadian National Railway seeks Parliament approval to build sixty eight miles of new lines in Alberta. A key cutoff between Breton and Clover Bar east of Edmonton would shorten routes and cut travel times. Additional lines would serve colonization and development, including a link from Ashmont to Bonnyville, with broad land potential and improved transport for farm produce.
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Bonnyville
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Ruling Monarch can Revoke Victoria Cross Rights
The article explains the sovereign’s power to revoke or restore the Victoria Cross and its pension. It notes 3101 total VC awards by 1914 and 479 during the war, with the cross valued for moral significance and original pension limits now higher in exceptional cases. It cites cases like Private Willea of the Kilfe Brigade and the Gough family earning multiple VCs.
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Kile Prigade
Canada
O'Hea
Danville
Ile
Lord Roberts
Lieut. Roberts
KRG
Colenso
Crouch
CC. JL
Gough
H. Ds. Gough
Culone J. E. Gough
Chic slipover blouse and skirt pattern details
Winnipeg Newspaper Union presents a fashion page featuring a chic slipover blouse design with a V neck over a vestee and set-in pockets. It notes braid trim on View A, button adornment on View B, fabric yardages, sizes 18 to 44, and prices for patterns and the accompanying fashion book.
Co operative dairies dominate Denmark’s dairy industry
Danish Tidende reports that only 260 of Denmark’s 1,600 registered dairies are privately owned, with the rest organized as co operative dairies. About 16 hundred dairies produce butter for export and co operative butter export associations handle a large share of sales. The British Co operative Wholesale Society runs Denmark export operations.
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Denmark
Tidende
British Co- Operative Wholesale Society
Britain
Improvement in Hog Breeding in Quebec Province
The Dominion Live Stock Branch reports strong success in hog breeding work and postives signs from hog grading demonstrations. Commission agents and packing companies praise field work and urge deeper efforts as hog quality and prices rise about one dollar per hundred weight on average.
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Dominion Live Stock
Quebec
Commission
Wild note authorizes punishment for boy Sammy
A Pike county mother writes to a teacher granting permission to beat her son whenever needed, insisting on brutal discipline and rejecting the father's authority. In class, a student humorously answers a question on food preservation with isolation as the method. The passage also notes Lope de Vega as the prolific Spaniard writer of 1800 secular and 400 religious plays.
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Pike County
Sammy
Tim
Lope de Vega
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern information from Winnipeg Union at 175 McDermot Ave describes a Banff Windermere highway motor journey across the Canadian Rockies. It highlights wilderness, automobile camping, bungalow camps, service stations, and guaranteed accommodations for a leisurely survey of the area. Taxation in London shifts preference from cars to horses, with one firm adding sixty horses to its fleet.
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Banff
Windermere Highway
Banff-Windermere
Canadian Rockies
Remarkable skating feat at Banff Winter Carnival
Spectators at the Banff Springs Hotel Rink enjoyed a remarkable skating stunt during the Winter Carnival. The Banff Carnival was a great success this year and promises Banff as a leading western amusement resort with the new hotel wing and winter season expansion.
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Banff Springs
Banff
Westorm
Viscount Grey Analyzes the British Character and Empire
Viscount Grey explains how the British Empire grew from island conditions climate and race. He argues the island fostered liberty and order while practical action and continuity built imperial reach, with power distributed across classes to prevent tyranny. The speech emphasizes nationality resourcefulness and a balance of liberty and order guiding Britain’s global influence.
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Viscount Grey
Brish Isles
Auto Competition Is Not Affecting Horses
Manitoba statistics show over 260000 horses in the province with sustained demand in Winnipeg. More than Tad Hight delivery and S00 dray horses operate in the city, proving horses remain vital despite the rise of motor transport. Managers report high sales and strong market for light draught types amid ongoing deliveries to suburbs.
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Manitoba
Doebbin
Winnipeg
Wireless Telephone Use At Savoy London Sets Record Calls
American traveler Jobo W. AWarrigan staying at the Savoy reports two long wireless calls to New York with a two hour gap, costing $700. The hotel now equips every room with New York Pennsylvania Maine and Connecticut directories and adds a second listening instrument to improve audibility. The Savoy handles about six calls daily to New York and maintains a dedicated line to the London switchboard for American service.
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Jobo W. Awarrigan
London
Atintic
Savoy
New York
Pennsylvania
Maine
Connecticut
Earch
Coming of age customs across cultures in infancy betrothal
The passage describes that among various African and Asiatic peoples girls were betrothed in infancy and kept hidden until marriage. An elderly woman guarded them to prevent approach by men. Upon reaching a certain age they would be allowed to come out and marry, with remnants seen today in chaperones and coming out parties in society.
No Sleep In London Hotel The Light In My Bedroom
An old countryman returns from London in a bad mood after the hotel kept a light burning all night in his room. His wife wonders why he did not blow it out, learning it was in a bottle. The joke shifts to a cartoon of names and a drug store pun, ending with a note on ancient Babylonian credit.
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London
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