Blind Institute advances crafts and sewing for self support
At the University of Toronto physics building the annual meeting of the National Institute for the Blind highlighted new programs. Leather work and masseurs registers expand blind handicrafts while piano tuners progress. twenty nine Toronto news vendors earned weekly from nine to thirty five dollars. Concentrated industries now operate in Halifax Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg Vancouver with about 140 employees. First year output valued at nine thousand dollars, rising to about four hundred ten thousand this year.
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EL A. Lakers
University At
Toronto
England
United States
Canadian Institute
Patrona
Baldwin Street
American Foundation
Poly Credit Radial
T.T.C
Capt. Baker
Halifax
Ottawa
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Gypsies In New York and Their City Life
A historical note describes fifty wandering gipsy tribes in New York City living on ground floors in unpartitioned spaces. They set up tent like interiors with bright fabrics and rugs, call the main room a living area and an office for soothsayers, and eat on a spread cloth. They avoid beds and sleep on floor planks with cushions, while health officials and truants officers challenge their traditional ways.
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New York
Neighbors Inferred By Child And Boarder Chat
A boy describes new neighbors with blunt humor about smell and appearance. At the diner table a boarder asks about breakfast and learns the food is chicken every morning served in the shell. A moral about losing friends versus snubbing the rich loaner aligns with cautionary wit.
Japanese Girls Embrace Beauty and Learning in Kyoto Schools
In Japan, girls pursue charm and beauty alongside education. An A.Y.W.C.A. secretary notes a Charm School for skin and hair, plus an interior decoration course for teachers. Typewriting rises, with graduates typing 49 words a minute for 16 minutes, and two students secure posts at Kyoto Imperial University amid daily after‑hours practice.
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A.y.wc.a
Japan
Koba
Swan
Kyoto Imperial University
Man eating shark confusion at seaside exhibit
A shark was shown at a south coast watering place with a rough sketch and sign admitting a man eating. Two locals pay and wait, asking when the man will begin to eat the shark. The exhibiter explains no man will eat the shark, sparking disbelief and a comic exchange.
New Square Dial Clock Tests at London Stations
A tested electric clock with a square dial and no hands shows time via two rising panels of digits. As minutes pass a new panel lowers and hours update similarly, all controlled by a master clock. Readability at distance suits railway stations. time appears as in timetables, such as 12 30 at 12 230.
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London
Stenographer Trial Offer Sparks Boss Dialogue
The boss asks for a stenographer with no slang while a candidate agrees to a trial. He suggests starting dictation or warming up with cigars before tackling the day’s bad news.
An Exclusive Shop Refuses Return for Inconvenient Boots
A refined shopkeeper tells a customer that those who must walk do not shop there after she complains the boots are uncomfortable and cannot be walked in. The exchange underscores the shop's rigid policy and wit.
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Madame
Pouting Becomes Perverse Behavior In Later Life
A terse remark links childish mood to adult term saying pout ing evolves into perves as a negative descriptor of behavior.
Smaller Cities Offer Greater Happiness in Less Dense Areas
The Toronto Star argues that happiness and prosperity do not rise with population, noting only four US cities exceed a million and praising town planning to maintain community values. It suggests ten cities of a million could outperform one mega city and emphasizes accessible workplaces and homes.
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United Saates
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
Toronto Star
Gruff English Doctor Probes Hearing Of Girl
A stern school physician from a neighboring town tests pupils in England using a watch to check hearing. He taps the girl’s wrist and presses the watch to her ear, yet the child remains silent. Frustrated, he notes the watch seems not to be working, then mutters about the old device.
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England
Kiddle
Capital punishment through the ages and today
The article traces how English law once listed hundreds of capital offences and notes a 1820 London case of a forged cheque leading to execution. It then states now five capital crimes exist in Britain with murder, rape, arson, burglary, and highway robbery still punishable by death, though rarely for all but murder, and mentions abolition in several US states.
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London
United States
Time for Action on Hudson Bay Railway and New Port
W F Maclean in Parliament urges immediate government action on completing the Hudson Bay Railway and establishing a new port. He argues Montreal’s supremacy would face no ruin and pledges Canada should back Maritime Provinces, Belt grain flows via Halifax and Saint John, and avoid delaying the project further.
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Hudson Bay
Montreal
Vancouver
Victoria
New York
United States
Monteal
Panama Canal
Halifax
St. John
Maritime Provinces
Globe
Winnipeg
Algoma
W. F. Maclean
Doctor C H Bunting on lymphoid resistance gap
Dr. C H Bunting of Madison told the Atlantic City convention of the Association of American Physicians that males aged fifteen to thirty are more susceptible to acute and infectious diseases than females. He cited tests showing young men twice as susceptible as young women due to lower lymphoid resistance in males.
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C. H. Bunting
Madison
Wise
Association of American Physicians
Atlantic City
Bunting
Amazing plant in Thibet mountains grows tall
A New York World visitor notes a remarkable yellow sorrel found at high altitudes around 15 000 feet in Thibet. The plant lies buried in snow until June then shoots up to several feet in weeks, visible a mile away like candle flames on the moor.
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Thibet
New York World
Compensation For Left Handed People
A scanned excerpt argues left handed individuals are smarter due to fuller brain use. It cites a schoolmaster and mentions historical figures such as the Pharaohs Caesars Alexander the Great and Charlemagne as left handed.
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Alexander the Great
Charlemagne
Rockefeller Foundation Spends Millions in Early Health Drive
The 1925 annual report credits the Rockefeller Foundation with spending 9.1 million dollars across its departments to bolster public health worldwide. It notes work with eighteen governments against hookworm and malaria and cites advances such as larval poisoning using Paris green to curb malaria vectors.
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Rockefeller Foundation
International Health Board
China Medical Board
Medrcal
George E. Vincent
Americas
Brazil
West Africa
United States
Mississippi
Paris Green
United States Public Health Service
Tulip Trade Rules Keep Haarlem Growers Rich
A Haarlem tulip guild enforces a strict rule against buying or selling bulbs outside the guild. Fresh tulips travel from Haarlem to markets abroad, with the bulb harvest yielding about 26.6 million dollars in exports last year.
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Fletland
England
Japan
America
Haarlem
Estimating World Animal Species Through History
Scientists have long debated the total number of animal species. By 1830 Gunther estimated about 75,588 known species, with later explorers adding yearly. Insects alone were tallied at a quarter-million by Sharpe in 1905, who believed he had found only a tenth of the total.
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Gunther
Sharper
Dearborn Independent
Wallop to give up US citizenship and take Lords seat
Oliver Henry Wallop of Sheridan Wyoming, rancher and heir to the Earldom of Portsmouth, announced on returning from England that he will relinquish United States citizenship and take his seat in the House of Lords.
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Oliver Henry Wallop, Sheridan
Wyo
Earl of
Portsmouth
England
United States
House of Lords
Back Yard Hen Shelter Cited By Wise Neighbor
A fable sets a contrast between folly and prudence as one neighbor chases hens away and another offers a secure area for them to lay. The wisdom of providing shelter over disruption is implied through the observed actions.
Attractive Bathing Beauty Contest at Rotary Meet in Victoria
The thirteenth annual Rotary International district convention drew 1,100 delegates to the Empress Hotel Victoria. Fifty-three Pacific coast Rotary Clubs entered a Bathing Beauty contest at Crystal Gardens with Miss Vancouver Dorothy McRobie winning first prize and Mrs. Harry Miller Victoria second. Victoria welcomed delegates with a citywide celebration as 8,000 residents cheered the Princess Louise arrival bringing 550 Seattle delegates to the event.
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Crystal Gardens
Victoria
B.C
Rotary International
Empress Hotel
Pacific Coast
Vancouver
Dorothy McRobie
Harry Miller
FE. Wolfe
Seattle
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Why Sixty Seconds Makes One Minute
The text explains how humans adopted a sixty based time system from Babylonian counting. It traces minutes as one sixtieth of an hour and seconds as the sixty divisions of a minute, showing how the decimal system differs from traditional clock reckoning.
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Great Britain
Barber Misreads Science Club As Football Team
Sir Oliver Lodge recalls visiting a small American town where a barber mistook a learned scientific society for a football team. The anecdote spotlights lingering misperceptions of scientists in some quarters.
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Oliver Lodge
United States
S Clentine Association
Chicago Daily News
Self-made man remark at Amherst reception sparks debate
At an Amherst reception President Olds quipped that some self-made men are right and some wrong. He cited a man boasting no schooling after age nine. A scholar replied that at least the fault lies with his wife. The Detroit Free Press notes an ancient reference to the brain and mentions stewed prunes as oddly placed commentary.
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Olds
Amherst
Detroit Free Press
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