Canadians Embrace Immigrants From Many Lands
A presidential oration extols Canada’s growing immigrant intake. It praises Anglo-Saxon cordiality and urges welcoming diverse groups including Scandinavians Polish Czecho-Slovaks and Hungarians as essential to national progress and citizenship. It stresses patience understanding and Christian charity.
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Ottawa
Canada
Steffanzon
Paderewski
Czecho-Slovakia
Huss
Kossuth
Canada’s Share of World Resources
Canada, with about one half of one percent of the world population, yields notable shares of global commodities. It supplies 9 percent of cobalt, 88 percent of asbestos, 85 percent of nickel, 32 percent of pulpwood, 20 percent of lumber, 20 percent of cured fish, 18 percent of oats, 15 percent of potatoes, 12 percent of silver, 11 percent of wheat, 11 percent of barley, 4 percent of gold, and 4 percent of copper.
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Canada
Fate as Judgment in a Man's Trouble
A remark on fate frames a man facing consequences for actions deemed improper. It suggests fate serves as a personal reckoning for misdeeds and the ensuing trouble.
Government to grant facilities for Lady Astor bill
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin announced government readiness to grant facilities for Lady Astor's measure prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to those under eighteen. A traveller recalls a field in Europe where a woman was yoked with an ass, noting such scenes occur here too though she sometimes leaves him. A selfish person who lives only for himself is often the only mourner at his own demise.
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Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
Lady Astor
Europe
Canada’s Exports Rise Across Major Sectors
The report shows Canada’s exports increasing sharply across automobiles pulp and paper rubber textiles and chemicals from early 20th century figures to 1929 and 1830s levels. Manufacturing exports now account for about 54 percent of total export trade.
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Canada
Charities Find Revenue in Old Newspapers For Paper
Charities collect old newspapers as a revenue source since ink removed pulp yields good book paper. Manufacturers have paid up to thirty dollars a ton recently, with supply short. Collecting waste paper also aids forestry, as six tons saves an acre of forest.
Crime statistics for England 1921 show declines and shifts
England’s 1921 crime report highlights fewer drunkenness cases 1 383 versus 98 606 in 1920 and 204 088 in 1913, a drop in violence offences to 966 from 1 107, and prison intakes at 46 871 compared with 166 289 in 1913, noting poverty influenced crime levels.
Nerviline Promises Quick Relief For Colds And Aches
Mothers turn to Nerviline as a trusted remedy for sudden sickness, colds, sore throat, chest tightness, sprains, cramps, and stomach upsets. The long standing household staple claims value in both internal and external use and is priced at 35 cents.
Railway May Push North Into British Columbia
A Vancouver report says Canadian Pacific Railway plans to expand northward by survey from Spirit River Alberta to the inter provincial boundary at Pouce Coupe and into Pine Pass British Columbia. The CGE line from Prince George to Pouce Coupe may be considered but the government has no plan to complete it.
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Vancouver
Victoria
Canadian Pacific Railway
British Columbia
Major Drysdale
Spirit River
Alta
Ponce Coupe
Pine Pass
Pacific Great Eastern
Prince George
Pouce Coupe
Polish Exports to Germany Remain Nearly Half of Trade
Despite frayed ties, Poland ships at least 49 percent of its total exports to Germany, mainly food, coal and timber. German imports make up about 15.6 percent of Poland’s total imports, a figure boosted by indirect inflows via Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, while Germany primarily exports machinery to Poland.
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Poland
Germany
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Canada Gifts Buffaloes to Auckland Zoo
Auckland plans to establish a zoological garden on 17 acres and has been promised three buffaloes from Canada to form the nucleus of the city collection. The transfer will bring one male and two females to the New Zealand city as part of the wild animal exhibit.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Department of the Interior
Husband Could Not Leave Wife Alone Amid Weak Heart
Those feelings of faintness and dizzy spells show a weakened heart and a disordered state of the nerves. The article describes the husband’s reluctance to leave her side as her condition worsens and stresses the impact of heart trouble on her nerves.
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills Endorsement
Mrs C Vanhorn of Eckville Alberta reports heart trouble a year ago with fainting fits and night awakenings. After using Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills she improves and no longer feels faint. Price 50 cents a box, available from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto.
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C. Vanhorn
Eckville
Alta
Milburn
T. Milburn Co. ,Limited
Toronto
Saskatchewan Honey Output Seen Up for 1923
Saskatchewan officials expect a larger honey harvest this year as 300 beekeepers push production. Fourteen apiaries yielded 9632 pounds last year at 688 pounds each, while the rest averaged about 200 pounds per apiary. The 1922 total was about 12 tons.
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Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Sugar Lump Helps Preserve Cream In Heat
A small lump of sugar is reported to aid in preserving cream during hot weather. Micard's Liniment is claimed to relieve burns and similar conditions.
Largest Canadian cattle shipment sails from Montreal
The steamer Irishman recently sailed for Birkenhead carrying 1,165 store cattle, most from Ontario, each weighing about 1,100 pounds, making it one of the era’s largest shipments from Montreal.
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Montreal
Birkenhead
Ontario
Wringing in Hot Water Before Furniture Cream
A claim notes that wringing cloths in hot water and wiping furniture before applying cream yields a very high polish that resists finger marks.
Discovery of Stainless Steel Inventor and Early Struggles
The inventor Harry Breartey, a Sheffield native, conceived stainless steel while studying the effects of explosions on gun barrels and large gun inner tubes. He forged erosion resistant steel later called stainless steel, used in cutlery and many tools. Early blade production faced disbelief from major cutlery houses who doubted forging and rust resistance.
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Sheffield
Harry Breartey
Eric Geddes
Healthy Children Sleep Well and Stay Cheerful
The ad promotes Baby's Own Tablets for restless crying infants and sickly children. It claims the tablets ease constipation colic and indigestion while improving sleep. It markets the product as safe for newborns and free from opiates, sold by dealers or mailed at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
British Seaplane Pilots Plan World Flight Route
Captain Harwood Steele announces a world encircling flight by a British seaplane under the Legion of Frontiersmen. The route would start in England and pass through France, the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, Asia, Kamchatka, the Aleutians, Bering Sea to Alaska, then Canada and Newfoundland before Iceland and back to England. Pilots include Norman Macmillan and G F Mallins.
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Legion of Frontiersmen
Harwood Steele
Montreal
Steele
England
France
Mediterranean
Egypt
India
Asia
Kamchatka
Aleutian Islands
Behring Sea
Alaska
Vancouver
Canada
Calgary
Winnipeg
Port Arthur
Toronto
Quebec
Halifax
Newfoundland
Iceland
Orkney Islands
Norman Macmillan
M.C
Af.c
G. F. Mallins
Ex-Kaiser Signs Berlin Jeweler Deal for Gold Cigarette Box
The ex-Kaiser continues dealings with German tradespeople placing an order in Berlin for a gold cigarette box featuring a gold stork perched on the side, bending its neck to pick out a cigarette.
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Berlin
Mother Grave's Worm Exterminator praised as safe cure
A historical notice promotes Mother Grave's Worm Exterminator as a reliable remedy for a child troubled with worms, claiming safety and effectiveness for young patients.
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Mother Grave
Canada chemical production 1922 totals and exports
In 1922 Canada produced chemicals and allied products valued over £00,000,000 with exports around $25,690,000. Labor statistics indicate a 5 percent rise in chemical industry employment while overall production shows growth and stabilization.
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Canada
Savings in Canadian banks rise to over 1.2 billion by March 1923
The growth trend continues from the declining months of 1922 with Canadian chartered banks reporting total savings deposits of 1,219,295,721 by end of March 1923, roughly 140 dollars per person in the Dominion.
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Dominion
Wonders How She Endured It Ends With Tanlac Praise
Mrs. Wao of Hamilton Ontario credits Tanlac for ending long lasting stomach disorders and sleepless misery. She says prior illness caused severe pain, vomiting, and nervous distress but Tanlac improved her health within weeks. Advertises Tanlac sold by druggists with claim of over 37 million bottles sold.
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Tanlac
Hamilton
Artificial diamonds produced by chemist in England
An English chemist mixes paraffin spirit bone oil distillate and metallic lithium in a cast iron tube and heats the compound in a reverberatory furnace to form artificial diamonds identical in composition to mined gems. The process is lengthy and costly and yields very small stones that cost more than mined equivalents.
Elevators Flourishing as Western Canada Builds New Units
Western Canada sees 200 plus country elevators go up this year costing several millions. At the head of the lakes, 6,000,000 dollars will be spent on new terminal elevators and enlarging existing facilities.
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Canada
Fragment of Advice on Friendship and Dishonor
A blunt remark contrasts candor with severing bonds of friendship, emphasizing harsh truth as a test of loyalty and the costs of betrayal in intimate ties.
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Contribution of Canada
DR. Chase
Retael Co. Lad
Carter
A & B. iPit
Canadian Pacific
Alberta
B.C
J. D. Kellogg
Micard
Minard’s Liniment
Mrs. Connor
Mrs. Wao. Connor
Hess St
Hamilton, Ont
Dominion Express
Wrigleys
Dall
Kendall
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