Diphtheria Is Preventable Across North America
Dr. Seymour promotes vaccination and toxin antitoxin plans as the sure path to prevent diphtheria. He cites Canada and the United States data, urges timely immunization after three months, and notes the safety of toxoid and Schick testing as authoritative proof.
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Canada
M MM Sermout
Saskatchewan
United States
Seyour
North America
America
Prince Edward
Eland
Buffalo
New York City
Connaught Laboratories
University of Toronto
Britain and Canada eye joint farm labor training extension
Cabled London reports indicate the British Government will cooperate with Canada to extend training schools for British unemployed to work on Canadian farms. Canada would share proportionally in the extra costs. F C Blair of the Canadian Department of Immigration visited the schools and may base a proposal on his report.
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London
Canada
F.C. Blair
Department of Immigration
Ink swallowed by child prompts chalked reply
In a domestic moment a child named Dan reportedly swallowed ink. The mother asks what to do and is told to write with a pencil as a remedy. The vignette highlights a quirky family scene centered on a scribbling solution.
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Papa
Dan
Wireless device guides ships through fog avoid rocks
A new wireless system enables vessels to navigate dense fog without striking submerged rocks off the coast, reducing danger at sea.
Accuracy In Time Keeping On Railroads Sparks Regulation
A study shows 17 different time standards across 17 cities and rail centers. Conductors rely on cheap alarm clocks and merchants gave free watches with purchases. Unreliable clocks from towns and factory whistles lead to risky operations on 125000 miles of track.
Jewels Bind Books In Historic Volume Tales
A jewel bound Omar Khayyam bound in gold and opals sailed on the Titanic, now lost. A Frankfort museum holds a similar gem bound volume with twenty one opals. A Continental copy of Romeo and Juliet features four hundred stones in gold settings forming hearts and flowers. An illuminated American edition of the poems of Keats is valued near £2000, bound in morocco with thousands of colored leather pieces and over a thousand stones, including a pearl miniature.
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Atlantic
Omar Khayyam
America
Frankfort
Ints
Morocco
Costliest Map In World At Paris Louvre
A London paper notes a map of France in the Louvre rivaling the world’s costliest pieces. Carved on jasper, towns marked by gems, rivers as platinum strips, 87 departments shown in precious stones. Made in Russia as a gift to France amid the Franco Russian Alliance. one square metre, valued around £250,006.
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San Francisco
Louvre
Paris
London
France
Russla
Grenadier Guards Raise Height Again to Six Feet
The Grenadier Guards had lowered the minimum height to five feet ten inches in April 1925 due to a shortage of six-foot recruits. The standard has now been restored to six feet as the force resumes full recruitment.
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Grenadier Guards
Grenadiers
Car linked to Archduke Ferdinand tragedy skids after sale
The 1914 motor car that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo is reappearing in headlines as a dealer buys the vehicle and, during a passing attempt, its skid leads to four deaths among its party.
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Archduke Ferdinand of Austria
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Norwegian sailor crosses North Sea alone in open boat
A Norwegian seaman sailed solo across the North Sea in a 25 foot open boat. After two days the craft started leaking and for eight days he bailed water every three hours to stay afloat.
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North Sea
Beware of the man who never did anything wrong
A proverb-like line cautions readers about trusting someone who has never faced error or consequence. It suggests that everyone can err and that perfection is unrealistic.
Reindeer Wealth for Canada Urged by Big Game Hunter
Captain Henry Toke Mann argues Northern Canadian reindeer herds could become a major national asset. He cites Alaska success, notes Eskimo survival depends on preserving reindeer, and warns Arctic depopulation from 2000 Eskimos in 1890 to about 200 today due to contact with civilization. He emphasizes domestic meat quality and rapid herd growth with proper care.
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Canada
Henry Toke Mann
Hiudson’s Bay Company
Mann
Cucceas of
Dames
Lemon Brothers
Alaska
Canadian Arctic
Arctic
Mackenzie River
No Bald Men In Asylums Claim
A 19th century talk at the British Association for the Advancement of Science reports Professor H. T. Fleur arguing bald men are more sensible and that reduced hair growth might redirect thyroid activity affecting brain growth, suggesting an accessory factor in human brain development.
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British Association For the Advancement of Science
H. T. Fleur
Divorce Evil Comment by Canadian Social Hygiene Leader
Dr Gordon Bates General secretary of the Canadian Social Hygiene Council speaks at a Labor Forum on social problems decrying the growth of divorce in society He notes American papers have altered their Births Deaths and Marriages heading to Births Death Marriages and Divorces citing Los Angeles and Detroit papers as examples.
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Gordon Bates
Canadian Social Hygiene Council
Los Angeles
Detroit
China Opens to Cigarettes as Factories Expand
China rapid social shift seen as Canton industrial hub adopts modern fads. The rise in smoking fuels demand, prompting three new match factories with up to date machinery to handle the growing Canton market.
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China
Canton
Men See Save by Breaking Into Jail
A provocative remark notes that for some men the only path to saving money is through crime by entering jail. The comment presents social critique and does not detail a specific incident.
Health Of Our Live Stock Report Shows Gains In Slaughter Costs
Dominion Veterinary Director General Dr Geo Hilton reports for the year ending March 31 1526 fewer compensation payments for slaughter in trouble cases than in any of the prior five years. Glanders losses fell to 3255 from 15722, bovine tuberculosis eradication continues, demand for tubercle free cattle and dairy products rises, and hog cholera costs modestly up from recent years. The Ottawa Publications Branch offers the full report free.
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Dominion Veterinary
Geo. Hilton
Ottawa
Poorer Classes In France Enjoy Radio
The poorer districts on the outskirts of Paris show the strongest radio enthusiasm with families gathering around crystal sets in squalid huts. In contrast wealthier areas rarely have two adjacent houses with aerials, as government policy discourages listening amid fears of German propaganda.
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Paris
France
Germany
Century since Volta death sparks Como exhibition
A hundred years after Alessandro Volta's death, plans for an international exhibition and congress are proposed in Como Italy. The event, to run between May and October 1927, would feature wireless technology, a field Volta could not have imagined.
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Volta
Como
Italy
Ten London cows milked twice daily in city shed
Ten cows kept in a London shed are milked twice daily producing about 160 quarts of milk. When moved to the country they appear ill at ease, unused to the green grass underfoot.
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London
Hidden Motives Behind The Constant Complaints
A commentator notes that some people fixate on the negative, seeking out the worst in situations while others overlook caution. The author suggests cynicism can mask insecurity and drives persistent fault finding.
Rheumatism Now Seen as a Major Menace to Health
A London gathering of doctors, industrialists, welfare workers, and workers under the Citizens' Council of the Federation of Medical and Allied Services proposes an industrial clinic to combat rheumatism. Sir Thomas Horder warns it is a serious threat to efficiency, not just a disease, urging prevention and proper aspirin use.
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Citizens’ Council
Federation of Medical and Allied Services
London
Thomas Horder
Sir Thomas
Fourteenth Century German New Testament Fragment Found
Parchment scraps in a Bensheim archive reveal torn real estate deeds patched with strips from a German translation of the Gospel of Luke. The work, likely from the Lorsch cloister, dates to the 14th century and reflects a historic German biblical text from a once wealthy German monastery.
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Bensheim
Lorsch
Germany
Wheat Yields in Canada Rise in 1926 Dampened by Decline in 1925
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1926 spring wheat yield at 385,045,060 bushels and fall wheat 20,769,009, totaling 405,814,000 bushels for all wheat, down from 411,375,700 in 1925. Prairie provinces produce 381,274,000 bushels, up from 382,959,000. Manitoba and Alberta show gains.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Alberta
Siberian fish quarried from frozen streams live after thaw
In Siberia workers extract fish from solid ice as a quarrying process. Once thawed, the fish are found alive and can be sold. The practice highlights unusual methods used to harvest aquatic life amid extreme cold.
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Siberia
Immigration Conference For Maritimes Leaders In Montreal
A meeting of Maritime premiers convened in the Windsor Street Station board room in Montreal to discuss immigration with focus on the Maritime Provinces. Invited by E. W. Beatty, the session included A. V. Sale of the Hudson Bay Company and Hudson Bay Overseas Settlement, and railway officers. The photo lists Premier Rhodes of Nova Scotia, Beatty, Premier Stewart of Prince Edward Island, and Premier Baxter of New Brunswick.
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Windsor Street
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Maritime Provinces
E. W. Beatty
A. V. Sale
Hudson Bay Company
Stanley
Hudson Bay Overseas Settlement
Premier Rhodes
Nova Scotia
E W. Beatty
The
Stewart
Prince Edward Island
Baxter
New Brunswick
Improved Alfalfa Growing Methods In Ontario
Ontario researchers report alfalfa yields 72.75 tons per acre versus 15.8 in mixed clover and timothy over four years. Ottawa Experimental Farm notes soil, drainage, and acidity crucial, with inoculated, hardy Canadian seed and nurse crops aiding establishment. Free publication details seeding and inoculation methods.
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Ontario
Ottawa
I. S. Hopkins
Dominion Field Husbandman
Hopking
Head shapes vary across nations say experts
Sir Bertram Windle of the University of Toronto states that English skulls show centuries of cross-breeding and lack a fixed type. He notes brain size does not determine intelligence, citing Bisma rck and Gambetta to illustrate that large brains do not guarantee higher intellect.
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Arthur Keith
London
Bertram Windle
University of Toronto
Bertram
Bismarck
Gambetta
Christianity Growth in Japan Sees Thousands Converted
Over the past eight years Christianity has expanded its presence in Japan with about 10,000 new converts. Presently there are more than 29,000 Japanese Methodists, not counting adherents from other creeds.
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Japan
Seasonal influenza peak timing over 36 years observed
Records spanning 36 years show influenza cases peak around the ninth or tenth week of each year and dip to their lowest levels near the 35th or 36th week, illustrating a consistent annual pattern.
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Art Over America
Keats
Russia
Czar
Maritimes
Department of Agriculture
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