Word Happenings Briefly Told
The Japanese cabinet ends positive emigration promotion and will focus on emigrants abroad. An International Paper Company expedition will search Labrador for pulpwood. A golfer survived an eagle hawk attack on the Toronto Hunt course. Canada hosts many U S military pensioners with 1422 recipients totaling 601850 dollars yearly. Vancouver freight cargos contain lead for arsenate production. Major Mario de Bernardi set speed records in a hydro aeroplane test at Venice Lido. Tom Moore returns to Ottawa from Berlin after attending an International Labour Office meeting.
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Mario de Bernardi
Venice Lido
Royal Aero Club of Italy
Castoria advertised as safe remedy for babies
An advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria as a gentle, pure vegetable remedy for colic, constipation, and diarrhea in infants. It claims easy dosing, a pleasant taste, and a free book on baby care, advising doctors for real sickness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher
Baby pattern No 1174 for short coat jacket bonnet set
The pattern offers a baby’s short coat with optional cape, a short jacket with set-in sleeves, and a bonnet. Describes a yoke coat with round collar, cape for warmth, and a rever bonnet neckline with small plaits. Cut in one size, uses about 2 1/2 yards, price 2 cents.
Visits Eight Countries In Nineteen Days
London man David Kittel completes a 4000 mile European tour in 19 days visiting eight countries. He left September 18 from London, reached Cologne the same night, then traveled through Germany Silesia and Czechoslovakia to Vienna and Budapest. He crossed the Alps at 14090 feet and returned via Switzerland Paris and final flight to London.
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Sust
Kent
David Kittel
Steppe
Croydon
London
Cologne
Germany
Silesia
Czechoslovakia
Vienna
Budapest
Dolomite
Venice
Rome
Alps
Switzerland
Paris
Baby's Own Tablets Praised by Mothers in Ontario
A letter from Mrs Zepherin Lavoie of Three Rivers Quebec extols Baby's Own Tablets for regulating baby digestion and promoting plumpness. The ad cites relief from constipation indigestion colds teething pains and sleep issues and notes the product costs 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zepherin Lavoie
Three Rivers
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
Vernon March Finishes Canadian National Memorial Group
Vernon March, aided by his brothers and sister, works at his Farnborough Kent studio on the 17 foot sculpture Victory and Liberty. The piece will crown the 60 foot granite arch of the Canadian National Memorial in England.
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Vernon March
Farnborough
Kent
England
Canadian National Memorial
Selling Automobiles Over the Counter
A report from Herman Schuette to the United States department of commerce notes cars are sold over the counter in a Paris department store. Buyers may pay one-fourth cash and the rest in twelve monthly installments, with models chosen by power, color, and preference, reflecting standardization and rapid industry evolution.
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Paris
United States Department of Commerce
Herman Schuette
Automotive Trade Commissioner
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Gains Dominion Fame
Nationwide fame for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil spreads across the Dominion. The remedy is praised as highly effective for sore throat lame back and other inflammation related ailments. It is usable topically and as an internal remedy.
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Thomas
First Class Apes Travel to Vienna for Youth Treatment
Eleven anthropoid apes arrive in Vienna from Nice aboard the Simplon Orient Express with attendants. They go to Dr Serge Voronoff's clinic for gland operation to restore youth for octogenarian Austrians seeking more years. Also notes Peace River railway inaugurations in Alberta and a South Africa battle anecdote about a wealthy American banking link.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Nice
Europe
Serge Voronoff
Unearth Olid Water System Revealed at Alushta Crimea
A water system in order and able to carry 300000 gallons, believed built by Genoese colonists eight hundred years ago, was uncovered by workmen at Alushta in Crimea. Minard's Lintment for Distemper.
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Alushta
Crimea
Claims New Device Will Eliminate Static
Major General George O. Squier announces a monophone design to carry radio into homes over telephone or electric light lines. He says the three tube receiver will clear wave bands and use existing power lines without interfering with service, controlled by buttons with no dials.
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George O. Squier
U.S. Army
Radio Commission
General Squier
Minard's Liniment Cited Amid Health Notes From Ecuador
In Guayaquil Ecuador once a major yellow fever hotspot no cases have appeared since 1919 after US scientists introduced elimination methods. The musing also notes politicians forgetting terms of office and comments that poverty, while not a crime, drives much misfortune.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
United States
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Eases Barrington Woman
Mrs. Victoria Richardson of Barrington Nova Scotia reports severe body pains headaches and fatigue monthly and credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound after using a bottle sent through Faton’s and later more. She now feels well enough to resume all work and social activities and recommends the remedy to friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Victor Richardson
Barrington
Nova Scotia
Back Pain Relief Report From St Thomas User
Mrs Johnson of 49 Moore Street St Thames reports relief from dull back pains and long standing weakness after four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and use of Sanative Wash. She notes feeling better than in seven years and recommends others try the remedy.
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St. Thomas, Ont
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Huge New Airships To Visit Dominion
Britain builds two large airships with 10 passenger capacity and 70 mph speed. Sir Sefton Brancker says experimental voyages will run from Great Britain to Canada next year via the Azores, with Canada the first Dominion to see the craft. If successful, ships may join London to Melbourne mail route. travel times to Australia could drop from 17 to about 7 1 2 days.
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England
Canada
Dominion
Great Britain
Sefton Brancker
Azores
London
Melbourne
Australia
India
Sir Sefton
Britain
Capetown
South Africa Praises Aviator Bentley For Solo 8100 Mile Flight
Lt Bentley completed an 8100 mile solo journey in a tiny moth plane, flying from London to Cape Town in 28 days. The feat surpassed earlier long flights by Lindbergh and Cobham, drawing a rousing Wynberg welcome as The Star documented the record.
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Wien
Lindbergh
London
Cape Town
Wynburg Airdrome
Africa
Bentley
The
Star
Johannesburg
Pierre van Rynefeld
Cairo
Cape
Alan Cobham
My Father in War Medals and Victoria Cross Talk
A Scottish girls dialogue contrasts two fathers boasting medals and honors from wars. One claims the King personally pinned the Victoria Cross, while the other insists his father earned many medals and a rare wooden leg, both asserting bravery in battle.
Remarkable deer in Yosemite bears a rhino horn growth
A curious deer in Yosemite National Park has a horn like a rhinoceros protruding from its upper jaw, between nose and eye. The tame animal sheds its antlers and the horn annually. A separate incident reports a pigeon in Sabden, England that was mutilated and unable to fly, but hopped home along rooftops.
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Yosemite National Park
Sabden
England
Shortness of Money Sparks Coin Change
In a brief Viennese quip, Muskete notes a waning sum as he recalls needing to change a ten shilling note yesterday but lacking any coins. The exchange humorously reflects financial tightness and small-denomination scarcity.
Peace River Pioneer District Call To Canadians
Premier Gardiner urged Canadians to move to the Peace River area rather than the United States. He spoke to the Ottawa Women's Canadian Club about northern development in Quebec Ontario British Columbia and the prairie provinces, saying there is a future to inspire young men to settle the north.
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Peace River
United States
J. G. Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Ottawa
Gardiner
Quebec
Ontario
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Pioneer District
Thrift-minded Scot Travels NYC Subway With Kids
A Scotsman with two small children enters the Brooklyn Bridge station in New York. He exchanges a dime for two nickels at the fare booth and asks if the laddies incur any charge. The booth attendant replies no. He guides the two children under the turnstile and instructs them to get off at 72nd Street and wait for him.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Glass School Opens in Steg Hitz Suburb
A glass house school to welcome children in Steg Hitz Germany features 24 classrooms with glass walls and roof on slender iron beams. Architects and doctors say abundant sunshine boosts vitality and learning. Worms threaten child health. a worm exterminator is marketed as remedy. France shows few farms larger than five acres.
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Germany
Steg Hitz
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Vicks
Labrador
International Paper Company
St. Johns
Toronto Hunt
Harry Hugenheim
United States Treasury
Vancouver
Central America
Buenos Aires
Tom Moore
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Berlin
International Labor Office
League of Nations
N. U
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
TafAiory
Winnipeg
Union
NeDerwot Ave
Department Store
Pembina
Battles
South Africa
Ogden
Unearth Olid Water System
Minard
Father Tae
Scott
France
Buckley's
W. K. Buckley, Limited
Mutual St
Toronto
J. H. Munro
St. Nicholas Seal Co
W.N.Y
Brooklyn, NY
U.S.A
Poisson
Mount- Royal East
Montreal
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