Airplanes Offer Great Advantage for Central Australia Exploration
Explorer Leo Walmsley argues aerial surveys will vastly surpass ground trips, enabling rapid rough mapping, river and desert boundaries, water sources, and vegetation cues. He cites quicker swamp view, fewer delays from malaria, and broader area coverage, noting military precedent for air reconnaissance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francia Birtles
Central
Australia
Leo Walmsley
ALC
FRGS
Birtles
Women gain equal status after war effort gains
A London Daily Expressreflection notes that twenty years ago women faced chattel status and barred careers in law and riding in public. The piece claims wartime effort and front line sacrifice helped dismantle these disqualifications and advance women's rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily Express
Bitumen Trade From Dead Sea Fueled by War Time Flows
Bitumen is collected from the Dead Sea in Palestine and handed to a U S citizen resident in Jerusalem for export under a special permit. Most of the output was shipped to Germany to produce gloss for patent leather during the conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
Dead Sea
U.S
Jerusalem
Germany
Wireless Sets Sold at Toronto Police Auction
Four wireless apparatus sets seized by Toronto police in 1917 were among unclaimed items auctioned. The equipment was confiscated from foreigners to prevent enemy access to potentially useful information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
The Laggards Milly Men Live Faster Lives
A witty remark from the New York Sun compares men and women on aging noting women reach thirty far later than men. The quote reflects social views on gender and lifespan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Seed Control Act Safeguards Seed Purity for Farmers
The Seed Control Act, enforced by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, ensures seed purity and quality. In 1926 inspectors visited 7,725 dealers across nine provinces, finding 782 violations. 747 were accidental or non-negligent. Samples are sent to the seed laboratory, certificates issued, and prosecutions pursued when warranted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Dominion Seed Laboratory
Ireland
Irish Department of Agriculture
Money Found in Shoe Upends Bayonne Cobbler
A Bayonne New Jersey cobbler Frank Seville retrieved a five thousand dollar wad from a toe of a repair shoe. The stash included one thousand dollar bank note and forty hundred dollar bills. The owner, a Polish woman, claimed the money soon after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Seville
Bayonne
Seville
Pedigree Sheep Die After Fall Into Hidden Well
Seventeen pedigree sheep owned by J. B. Dimmock of Mendham Priory Norfolk died after one sheep fell into an old well in a field. The rest followed in a chain reaction, stepping on the covering and plunging to their deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Dimmock
Mendham Priory
Norfolk
No Change in Palestinian Life Spans Millennia
Mrs Henry Faucett touring Palestine says Arab and Native Syrian populations show no fundamental change in 3000 years. They wear the same clothes and use the same wooden ploughs as in Abraham era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Fawcett
Palestine
Abraham
Transportation and fuel drive civilization in crisis
A Chicago Evening Post editorial argues that transport and fuel are the primal bases of civilization, warning that Western states burn corm for fuel while Russia faces mass deaths from lack of it, underscoring the need for reliable transit and distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Africa
Chicago Evening Post
War Between Nations Seen as Unthinkable Says Editor
The St Louis Post Dispatch quotes President Harding and argues that war between the United States and England is unthinkable and that war between any two nations will eventually be regarded the same way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
United States
England
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
England Rail Stations Use Large Roof Letters for Guides
English railway stations display town names in large white letters on the roof to aid signals. The feature serves as a visible guide for travelers and crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Loneliest Spot in the British Empire Revealed
Captain Galloway of the Pacific liner Carcerado says the Falkland Isles are the loneliest place, noting a lone golf course and piano, a cinema in town hall, and a government printer driven mad by isolation. He recalls the piano ashore from the Good Hope and Von Spee squadron memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Empire
Galloway
Carcerado
Falkland Isles
Good Hope
von Spee
Falklands
By-Products From Apples At Annapolis Nova Scotia
Discovery of a method to extract valuable by products from waste apples in Annapolis Nova Scotia. Process yields syrup suitable as a base for other concoctions and deposits of calcium malite or sugar sand. Before the war Germany bought malic acid from Quebec. the new process could spur a Nova Scotia apple by products industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Iron from rust fuels modern civilization
In a Philadelphia Public Ledger excerpt Edwin F. Siosson notes iron is always in oxide form and rust. He cites that blast furnaces produce 72 million tons of iron annually and a quarter returns to rust, underscoring industry’s dependency on extracting iron from its ores.
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Egypt
Assyria
Edwin F. Siosson
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Bees Kill Team of Horses Near Chicago Farm
Bees stung to death a farmer’s two horses at Morton Grove near Chicago after a hive was knocked over by a farm hand. The farmer escaped as the bees attacked the team. water from a hose drove them off but both horses died from the stings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton Grove
Chicago
Women Enter The Profession Of House Underter
A note on new vocations for women highlighting the rise of professional house underter roles. The brief points to shifting gender norms and opportunities in domestic service work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unter
Livestock Improvement Push Expands Purebred Bulls Distribution
The Dominion Livestock Branch intensifies scrub bull elimination in beef and dairy stocks from Ontario to Saskatchewan. Since 1913, 2963 bulls were distributed to newly settled districts, including 795 Shorthorns and 217 Ayrshires, with Alberta contributing 318 and Saskatchewan 295 in the past year.
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Ontario
Saskatchewan
Dominion Department
Dominion Livestock Branch
Jersey
Guernsey
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
Quebec
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Prairie Provinces
Look Em Over Her Mother
A Detroit News short dialogue notes a mother testing her daughter's suitor about supporting a large family. The punchline reveals twelve potential dependents, highlighting comic pressure in a marriage proposal scene.
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Beau
Detroit News
Giraffe Population Decline Spotlighted in Africa
The piece notes giraffes fading from parts of Africa where large herds once thrived. It observes a drop from eighty animals per herd to around twenty, marking a shift toward rarity and concern for the species' survival.
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Africa
Illusion Shattered on London Stage by Hiccups
A London Passing Show reports a stage hand causing the illusion to fail as a livin statue suffers hiccups. The manager contemplates lowering the curtain while performers salvage the act.
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London
Nameless Hero Remains to Return to Ottawa
The Halifax Herald editor advocates bringing the mortal remains of an unknown Canadian soldier from France to Ottawa. The piece links memorials in Europe to Canadian sacrifice and urges a wartime act of grace by transferring the body to Canada for reburial in the capital.
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United States
France
Halifax Herald
Europe
Flanders
Artois
Picardy
Canada
Great Britain
Italy
Ottawa
Lloyd George's Intuition Guided War Efforts
The Montreal Journal of Commerce lauds Lloyd George as a decisive leader whose war-time intuition never wavered. It highlights his unshaken belief in Allied victory and his keen, accurate understanding of German strategies as noted by contemporaries like Lord Milner.
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Lord Milner
Montreal Journal of Commerce
Life Elixir From Local Foods Reported By Kiev Professor
Dr Sadowein of the University of Kiev claims a life extending elixir from soured cow milk cheese made from sheep milk and white bread. He cites a mountain village near Temir Khan Shura in Daghestan with eighteen centenarians among 120 residents, said to eat these foods exclusively. The piece notes migration from famine regions and mentions butternut bark used as a cloth stain. It ends with a domestic call to buy locally as a home rule party comprised of women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadowein
University of Kiev
Temir Khan Shura
Daghestan
Russia
Prince Will See Wrestling in Japan Upon Arrival
The Prince of Wales will visit Japan next spring during the peak wrestling season. The New York Times notes the sport’s national significance as champions rise and fall. A new Tokyo venue Kokugikan stands as a monument to the art, though critics say Japanese wrestlers overeat and flout Western training rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales
Japan
New York Times
Tokyo
Belgium Glass Making Shapes Nation’s Identity and Trade
Glass making has long been a cornerstone of Belgian industry. Before the war it was a source of wealth and today it helps rehabilitate the country. Belgium leads in glass exports and supplies window glass, mirrors, and table glass to many nations worldwide.
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Belgium
How to Buy a Motor Car
Sir Robert Buckle spoke at a Thamese Conservancy meeting in London. He said they were purchasing another motor car and that the previous one, bought two years ago, had run about 10 000 miles and was sold for slightly more than the purchase price.
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Sir Robert Buckle
Thamese Conservancy
London
England
Britain’s Last Man in France Heads Home
About 100 Royal Fusiliers exhuming bodies of British soldiers in France to bury them in overseas cemeteries prepare to return to England. The unit, the Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment, is the last British force remaining in France.
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France
England
Royal Fusiliers
City of London Regiment
Depth of Sunken Lake Remains a Mystery
The Great Sunken Lake in the Cascade Mountains is described as the world’s most deeply sunken lake. It measures fifteen miles long and four and a half wide with the water surface at about 2,000 feet below the surrounding terrain. however the depth of the water itself is unknown.
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Cascade Mountains
Prices Spurring Discontent Among Sellers and Buyers
The Atchison Globe notes that while public opinion is mixed on many issues, both sellers report prices too low for their goods and buyers complain prices are too high for necessities, reflecting broad market tension.
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Atchison Globe
Buy From Local Merchants In Your Own Town
It pays to patronize home industry and buy from merchants in your own town. The message urges supporting local businesses and sustaining the local economy.
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The
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Falkland Islands
Jas. Stoddart
the Globe, Tugaske, Sask
Earl
Victoria Murray
Earl of Dunmore
Whiteley Hey
Macclesfield
Cheshire
Victoria
Lloyd George
Kiev
Prince
Glass
Britain
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