Britain Builds Giant Rigid Airships With Onboard Fighters
The London Chronicle reports Britain is laying keels for large rigid airships to hover above clouds. These craft will carry a dozen or more small fighters, launchable from high altitude to dart at enemy planes and raid sea commerce. American and British designs emphasize aerial harbors, fast fliers, and ships carrying aircraft, with seagoing carriers and two hangars enabling aircraft deployment.
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Britain
Great Britain
London Pally Chronicle
Valle
Grits
Renae
Italy
United Hisien
Livestock Market Feeds May Gain in Canada Exports Rise
May brought good stock demand and higher prices despite heavy receipts. Strong interest in finishing stock for British markets and seaboard demand supported cattle and hogs, with exports to Great Britain and the US rising markedly from early 1922 levels. Prices varied by market with top calves steady to up, and lambs easing as supplies grew.
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Canada
Dominion Livestock Branch
Seaboard
Canadian etcher Robert Fallon Logan Returns from Paris Visit
Manitoba born painter etcher Robert Fallon Logan, long praised as a leading Parisian etcher, returns to Canada after touring the West. He notes strong optimism about Canada's harvests and future. His Burgundry eight etchings were bought by the Library of Congress. Pont Marie is at the Chelsea Art Institute. Les Motineux Vaillancourt acquired by the French Government for the Luxembourg Gallery.
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Robert. Fallon Logan
Paris
France
Canada
Mr. Logan
Manitoba
West
Dogan
Library of Congress
Washington
Les Motineux Vaillancourt
Luxembourg
Immigration clause used by many Europeans and others
Citizens say residents of Mexico Cuba Newfoundland Central or South America for one year can enter the United States without quota limits. In recent times many Mexicans and Canadians have crossed the border under the clause, boosting crossings into the country.
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Mexico
Vasada
Newfoundland
Cuba
Centra
South America
United States
United
Japanese Parks Run Count and US Similarities
A rough estimate notes a batch running 160 144 060 times annually, while observing Japan’s national parks and comparing their scope to those of the United States. The text highlights parallels in park diversity and scale between the two nations.
Determined To Stop Bootlegging In Furs
M B Jackson chair of the British Columbia Game Conservation Board returns from Winnipeg where western provinces plan enforcement of origin province fur laws on shipments. Dominion Government to back with legislation and uniform royalties to end bootlegging and stamp fur transactions coast to coast.
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M. B. Jackson
M.L.A
British Columbia Game Conservation Board
Victoria
Winnipeg
Jackson
Dominion
Canada
Canada Exports Meat Surge in Early Year to Britain and U S
Canada’s five month meat exports show strong gains over last year. To Great Britain 19 556 cattle 5 057 300 pounds beef 42 138 400 pounds bacon 1 294 000 pounds pork and 29 500 pounds mutton. To the United States 21 874 cattle, up 12 519 from a year ago.
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Toronto
Montreal
Winnipeg
Great Britain
United States
Canada
Opium Suppression Urged as World
Moves to Enforce Hague Pact
Sir John Jordan, British Minister in Peking, warns China’s opium output could rebound to pre suppression levels. He notes India’s exports fell from about 100,000 chests yearly to around 10,000, with most going to the East Indies, and calls for broader Hague Convention reach to include Turkey, Persia, and Switzerland to curb the drug trade. He asserts honest enforcement could solve the opium problem tomorrow.
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China
John Jordan
Peking
India
East Indies
Turkey
Persia
Switzerland
Sir John
Canadian Agricultural Exports Surge Since 1900s
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service reports exports of vegetable products and grain rose from 38,066,600 in 1962 to 317,000,000 in 1922. Animal products climbed from 61,175,000 to 106,460,000. In 1902 agriculture was 19 percent and animal products 31 percent of exports. by 1922 agriculture reached 43 percent and animal 14 percent. Agricultural goods now nearly half of Canada’s total exports.
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Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Ottawa buys Alberta coal for Ottawa freight yards
The Ottawa Journal reports Alberta coal can be delivered to Ottawa freight yards for 12.80 dollars per ton, about four dollars below the current Pennsylvania anthracite retail price. Brig General Hughes, head of penitentiaries, received a wire from Edmonton quoting the 12.80 price for Ottawa and Lingston.
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Alberta
Ottawa
Ottawa Journal
Hughes
Penitentiaries
Edmonton
Lingston
Settlers Call for Women to Found New Community
Victoria reports urged by settlers that the Toba River country north of Powell River would be a paradise for women willing to share pioneer duties. Investigators say the greatest need is women settlers to inspire men and maintain order, ensuring real settlement.
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Toba River
Powell River
Victoria
Italian Bible of Borso d Este Sold to Milan Manufacturer
The famous Borso d Este Bible valued at 250000 dollars, once owned by the late Emperor Karl of Austria, was bought by a wealthy Milan maker after outbidding an American banker. Illuminated by 15th century artists, it is seen as the finest of its kind by antiquarians. Karl sold it in Switzerland to a London antiquary who sold it to the present Italian owner.
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Borso d'Este
Karl of
Austria
Milan
Switzerland
Karl
London
Italy
Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Reports 1922 Profits
The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway reports 1922 as the best year in its history with net earnings of 712505 dollars, up from 181778 the prior year. Gross income reached 4361651 dollars while total expenditures were 3649146 dollars.
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Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway
Ontario
Longevity Outlook Warns About Average Build
Doctor Eugene Lyman Fisk argues longevity favors those under the average weight. He claims the ideal build peaks around age thirty and maintaining close to that build throughout life improves life expectancy.
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Eugene Lyman Fisk
Students and Professor Swap Jokes Amid Classroom Banter
A biology student tells a quip about rabbits and anecdotes provoking laughter, while the professor questions the term. A misheard phrase about keeping quiet is noted as a light moment in class, reflecting ordinary campus humor.
Forest stewardship pledge warns of job losses
A quote emphasizes that protecting forests sustains employment and warns that careless acts can kill forests and end jobs. The speaker asserts collective responsibility and urges careful behavior to preserve long term economic and environmental health.
Giants of the Red Deer Valley Dinosaurs Draw Tourists
The Red Deer Valley in Canada yields immense dinosaur bones from the Bad Lands near Edmonton and Belly River formations. Geologists note three million years of history with carnivorous and herbivorous species, some armored, some sea reptiles, and the Royal Victoria Museum in Ottawa houses the finest carnivorous skeleton. The Canadian Pacific Railway promotes tours to Dead Lodge Canyon and One Tree Trail reaching the valley from Calgary toward Medicine Hat.
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Canada
Calgary
Red Deer Valley
The
Kings
Red Deer
Gulf of Mexico
Arctic Ocean
Edmonton
Belly
Som
Red Deer River
Dead Lodge Canon
Royal Victoria Museum
Ottawa
Dominion
Canadian Pacific Railway
Medicine Hat
Dead Lodge Canyon
All British Inventions by the Morning Post
The Post Office Engineering Research Department developed an instrument predicting underground cable failure while maintaining normal service. It also replaced heavy trunk lines with lighter wires, reducing weight from 600 to 40 pounds per mile. The department aided Allied victory with all British, non-imitable devices.
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Morning Post
Engineering Research Department
The
Post Office
London
Post Office Research Department
London Spectator
Canadian Grain Preference Noted at Chazy Farm
The Heart's Delight Farm at Chazy New York, with eleven thousand acres, is famed in America. A recent visit reveals spring grains under cultivation mostly originate in Canada. Oats and barley come from Guelph and spring wheat from Ottawa. The O.A.C. No. 104 variety from Guelph is being tested.
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Heart's Delight
Chazy
New York State
America
Canada
Guelph
Ottawa
O.A.C
Silver Rush Sparks Dawson Yukon Discovery
Midnight in Dawson City Yukon Territory sparks a silver lodge discovery at Happy Creek forty miles south. News of the find floods dance halls and gambling rooms as water routes to Happy Creek fill with rowboats canoes and launches. Prospectors rush to claim claims and fortunes rise with rumor of rich ore.
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Dawson City
Yukon Territory
Happy Creek
Yukon
Hoppy Creek
Prime of a man and a woman's feathered rumie
A remark on gendered perceptions of age and beauty contrasts male praise with female critique, noting how a man is praised for being in his prime while a woman faces derisive scrutiny that unsettles her confidence.
World halves mirrored by rival halves
A fragment reads a philosophical line about division and balance, stating that one half of the world ought to be what the other lacks or mirrors. The text presents a reflective, paradoxical idea rather than a specific event or person.
Postmarking Machines Efficient at Nine Cents a Minute
Electric letter postmarking machines operate at the rate of 0.9 dollars per minute, offering rapid handling of mail. The claim notes high efficiency and potential cost savings for large mailings.
The Afghan Bathed at Birth and Death at Meritage
An enigmatic note describes The Afghan as bathed at birth at Meritage and at death with no proof offered. It mentions The Lord Joveth as a cheerful giver of advice but provides no corroborating evidence. The fragment reads as a poetic or cryptic aside without clear context.
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Joveth
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Air Ministry
Robert F. Logan
Citizens For
Natural Resources Bulletin
Young Oswald
London Morning Post
T. H. Keays
Easter
the Clarion, Kindersley, Sask
Columbia
Emperor Karl of Austria
Thornton and Beatty
Canadian National Railways
Sir Henry Thornton
E. W. Beatty
C.P.R
Incorporated Association of Hotels and Restaurants
West End
Middlesex
Bucks
Herts
Surrey
Blackpool
Douglas
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