Agriculture Elevates to Profession in Canada, Study Urged
The article argues farming in Canada is a true profession requiring training and intelligent methods. It cites a shift from casual farming to scientific crop rotation and land care, noting many top farmers were city-born and trained, and highlights several international champions who transitioned from urban life to farming success.
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Canada
Tominion
National
Lfe
Saskatchewan
Seager Wheeler
England
Hii
Lloydminster
Alberta
Samuel Larcombe
Manitoba
J. C. Lucas
Cayley
Chicago
Stratford
Ontario
Maynard
Champion
Frank Collicur
Strange Method Of Counting Among Guiana Indians
The Indians of Guiana count by the hand and its four fingers. Five is a hand, six is a hand and first finger, seven is a hand and second finger. Ten is two hands, twenty is a man, forty is two men, and they continue by twenties. Forty six becomes two men a hand and first finger.
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Guiana
Men Should Not Walk Upright Says Brighton Surgeon
Brighton surgeon Dr H Gervis argues that walking upright causes varicose veins and many afflictions, claiming humans should revert to moving on all fours. He predicts a future where people become stationary, conveyed by mechanical means, ushering in a lazy era.
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H. Gervis
Brighton
Funny Answers From School Exam Stir Public Debate
A recent public school exam asked about impulses vowels citizenship duties and races of mankind. Students joked that vowels have no names and duties include not spitting on sidewalks and saving banana peels for ash cans. Nero was noted as a Roman emperor with a song titled Nero My God to Thee.
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Nero
Spaniards Idea of Wives Cited in Folk Saying
The piece notes a Spanish proverb describing an ideal wife as like a snail an echo and a town clock, urging independence from the home, restraint in speech, and moderate visibility. It explains the metaphor that she should not carry the house, not always have the last word, and should speak with measured regularity.
Italy Develops Rapid Hydroelectric Growth
Italy is developing hydroelectric projects at a rapid pace to supply cheap energy for industry. Production is rising quickly and transmission lines are planned to interlace the country, making power abundant in the near future.
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Italy
English Tax on Amusements
A judge jokes about a fine levied for beating a wife as part of the British tax on amusements. The prisoner quips about the pound, and the judge explains the shilling is the tax. The exchange highlights a moral vignette about statutory penalties.
Prairie farmers energized by Tree Planting Car tour
The Tree Planting Car toured Western Canada for five months under Archibald Mitchell, reaching 49 000 attendees at 369 lectures. It tied to the Better Farming Train in Saskatchewan, drawing 32 774 visitors who sought advice on windbreaks, parks, and planting plans.
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Canada
Canadian Forestry Association
Archibald Mitchell
Saskatchewan
Ms. Mitchell
Long Service Highlights Two Brothers at Kansas City Journal
Walter Withers age sixty two directs the mailing room and Frank Withers his assistant marks fifty three years of service at the Journal. Fifty three years ago Walter was a newsboy when circulation was five hundred and Kansas City was small. Frank A. Marshall notes no one remains who joined with them. The Journal Building site was an apple orchard when Walter began.
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Walter Withers
Kansas City
Frank
Frank A. Marshall
Journal
Walter
Frank Withers
Fair comment on newspapers and shopping advice from a reader
A Wichita Beacon reader critiques The New Republic's view of the Russian Soviet Government and urges fairness to local merchants. The note hints at mail order savings, local gowns, and caution about humor in men.
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Wichita
Langley Resigns. Noted Saskatchewan Figure Retires
The Calgary Herald reports Hon. George Langley resigns from government and the Saskatchewan Legislature, marking the departure of a prominent western reformer. A London native and homesteader, Langley built a successful farm, educated himself, and became a leading advocate of farmers cooperative efforts, later serving as president of the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company.
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George Langley
Saskatchewan
Canada
Calgary Herald
West
London
Saskatche
Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company
Air Route to the Pole Could Be Risky
The Montreal Gazette reports Amundsen plans to reach the North Pole by airplane, a riskier but shorter route than the historic balloon trek. It notes balloon flights drift without steering, unlike airplanes, and compares the peril to ocean landings.
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Amundsen
North Pole
Andree
Strindberg
Spitzbergen
Peary
Atlantic
Montreal Gazette
Germans Win Rail Contract With Argentine State Railways
Baldwin Locomotive Works and Middle town Car Co subsidiary of Standard Steel Car Co signed a joint contract with Argentine State Railways for railroad equipment valued at 13 million dollars. Eighty five locomotives and two thousand freight cars and spare parts to be delivered. Payment accepted as Argentine six percent treasury notes maturing in five years. American firms won the contract over two German corporations.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works
Middletown Car Co
Standard Steel Car Co
New Colonists Shape Thriving Canada Across Regions
An in depth look at how European immigrants from Germany Austria Hungary Scandinavia Jews Ruthenians Poles Galician Dutch Italians and others settled across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia. The piece notes demographics fertility farms education and civic participation with wartime shifts and postwar migration trends.
Insects Increase As Birds Decrease In Canada
The annual report for 1920-21 notes rising insect pests and a strong decrease in wild birds. N Gilmour, provincial game guardian, argues that fewer Canadian wild fowl correlates with greater insect problems, noting migratory birds cross borders and respond to international factors.
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N. Gilmour
Game Guardian
United States
Canada
Tempting Target at Public School Sparks Classroom Silence
A London Morning Post report describes a school headmaster named Bird facing mischief as students gaze at the ceiling. On the blackboard appears a line praising Bird with a quote misattributed to Shelley, prompting the master to ask who wrote it and a student to answer.
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London Morning Post
Bird
Shelley
Count Zaccaria Claims Czar Family Sought Refuge in Japan
Count Zaccaria testified before the chief of police that he has absolute evidence the Czar and Czarina escaped Bolshevik assassins and fled to Japan under Mikado protection. He asserts the imperial family remains alive despite graphic accounts of their execution.
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Count Zaccaria
Siberia
Rome
Naples
Czar
Czarina
Russia
Japan
Mrs Pankhurst Chooses Victoria as New Canadian Home
Mrs Pankhurst arrives in Toronto from the west and announces plans to become a Canadian. She settles in Victoria praising its sunshine and charm.
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British Columbia
England
Mrs. Pankhurst
Toronto
Victoria
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Willow Springs
Nick Tatinger
Hydro
Mitchell
Kansas
C. D. MacPherson
Daily Graphic
Portage la Prairie
Public Works Department
Geo. Langley
Wan
Europe
Mediterranean Sea
Morden
Winkler
Glencross
Kaiser and Vonda
Prairie Provinces
Unrsity
Winnipeg
Ike
Venice
Lake la Biche
Red Cross
Kili Te
B.C
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