Great Dry-Dock Lift for Warships Near Montreal
A massive self docking dry dock designed to lift ships up to 25 000 tons arrives at Maisonneuve on the St Lawrence. The device, a bolted sectional structure, sinks to the basin floor then rises with the vessel secured between hardened walls for repair. Crews of fourteen men operate the lifting system using water-filled chambers and electric winches.
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St. Lawrence
Maisonneuve
Montrea
Duke of Connaught
Atlantic
Cape Breton
Fawr Tollee
Pour
Minties Navy
After Huge Diamond Meteor Mining Opens at Meteor Mountain
A vast Arizona operation claims to mine a buried meteor believed to be a solid diamond worth millions. The hollowed peak forms a 600 foot deep bowl across a mile, with fragments and expert opinion suggesting a single massive diamond in the meteor core.
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Meteor Mountain
Arizona Desert
William Crooks
Postmasters General Combat Mail Order Frauds Across Borders
Canada and the United States postmasters general unite to curb mail frauds by get rich quick schemes. Authorities warn upsurge of Canadian fraudsters, many driven from New York and Chicago seeking ripe fields. A Chicago carpenter aged 110 named Marshi died in 1802 Germany emigration then at four. At 50 he quit alcohol, at 195 he stopped tobacco. Samuel McDowell dies in Winnipeg after a truck crushes him. he was a passenger aboard the vehicle when it skidded and a wheel passed over him.
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Canada
United States
New York
Chicago
Marshi
Germany
Samuel McDowell
Winnipeg
Canada Faces Tin Shortage Amid Rising Demand
From being a top tin producer, Canada has become an import country as domestic supply fails to meet demand. Officials cite inadequate home production and growing consumption driving imports to cover the gap.
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Canada
Fossil Riches of Western Canada Impress Sternberg
Charles H. Sternberg arriving in Ottawa with over 20 000 pounds of fossils for the Victoria Memorials museum praised Alberta as a richer country than any he has known in 40 years of exploration. He highlighted duck billed and triceratops skeletons with remarkable sizes and counts.
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Charles H. Sternberg
Western
Canada
Ottawa
Victoria Memorials Museum
Sternberg
Alberta
Red Deer
Golden Seal Use and Value in Peruna Remedy
The article notes Golden Seal is a teefal medicine gathered by Marz people in summer and valued for dyspepsia and as a general tonic. Thousands of bushels are used yearly in the Peruna formula, explaining widespread consumption of Peruna for catarrh.
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Marz
Nis
Small Manitoba towns form winter hockey league schedule
The Winter hockey league is formed by Shoal Lake Minonedosa and Strathclair with a schedule drawn up. A note urges attention to infectious diseases and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for colds and to reduce disease risk. The ad claims the remedy is safe for children and contains no opium, sold by all dealers.
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Shoal Lake
Minonedosa
Strathclair
Burns era sales pitch and peculiar phrasing
A convoluted promotional missive attributed to Burns urges readers to live by a brighter path. It promises to ease daily burdens for those in darkness or gloom and invites readers to “Ask us” for Sunl and related items, though the text is obscure and stylistically odd.
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Burns
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Hamiota
Man
Brandon Furrie
Brandon
Rosser Ave
O.H. Tench
Crandall
Acetylene Construction CO
A. Heisterman
14Th St
Nerse Essiem
Romptly
Sechred
Ris
Oc Bers
Aoom
Marion & Marion
Lee
Washington
Band of Hamilton
GEO Law
W. A. Speers
Eastman’s
Kodaks
Edison
Phonographs
Victor Gramophones Records
Williams
B. R. McNaught
Hamiic
Buffalo
L. S. Taylor
Sam
W Wright
Jane
F. C. Sparling
Geo. Sheardown
Win, Johnson & Son
Thomas Lemon
Imperial Oil Co
R. Bailey
Rietor
Hamida
Stewart & Eby
Tieneral
Ottawa Uinoo
Davung
Temler
Ariw
Hiser
Lucas
Othee
Umice
Tnspector
Obice
Wiesipor
Naneb Dertik
Hamiota Flour Mills
Hotel Cecil
L. Beaubien
Best Hotels
Pupli
Baek Sham
Schord
Hamiota Bakery
Santa Clause
The
Hamida Bakery
J. Stinson
He Cho Cae Ee
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