Paris Scholarship Boost Seals Peter Anson Fate
Peter Anson wins the Paris National Exhibit scholarship after a crucial exhibit titled Inspiration. He shares the news with Camilla, his wife, who must face living apart during his Paris studies while supporting his dream and managing her own ambitions.
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Camilla
Hoyt
Peter Anson
Peter
Avis Werth
Peter Sylvia Todd
Grove Mateoni
San
Avis
Pete
Fager Youth
Heartsick
Land of Hope
Professor Drake
Paris
Ann Carter
Peter—Anson
Paris scholarship awarded to Peter Anson
Avis learns first of the result after a committee vote with Danforth calling the decision. Peter Anson wins the Paris scholarship by a narrow margin, with Flight by Nels Nelson as his strong rival. Avis hopes aloud, and Uncle John confirms the vote was decisive.
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Avis
Peter
John Danforth
Peter Anson
Paris
John
Nels Nelson
South Seas
Stop the Elevator Incident in Montreal Store
A Montreal department store scene ends with laughter after a woman cries Stop the elevator saying she has been pinched. The elevator stops on the next floor and she flees while a girl tells her mother she bit her because the woman stood on her foot.
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Montreal
Apple crops in Quebec seen stronger than expected
Quebec crop prospects improve with a heavy expected harvest of Duchess Transparent and Wealthy varieties. In London a new directory lists the Smiths occupying 14 columns.
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Quebec
Duchess
The
Smiths
London
New Directory
False Teeth Hold Fast with Dr Werner's Powder
Advertisement claims Dr Werner's Powder makes dentures fit, stay secure, and comfortable all day. It touts world leading dentists endorsing the product and suggests availability at drugstores.
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Dr. Werner
Progress In Surgery And Local Anesthetics
In the last twenty years advances in local anesthesia have enabled major operations without general anesthesia. Spinal injection can block sensory and motor nerves below the injection point, allowing surgery below the waist even in patients with heart or lung disease where general anesthesia is risky.
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H. H Bashford
The Rhyming Optimist Poem Embraces New Day
The poem celebrates To day as a fresh start with dawn's blessing. It invites shedding old sorrows and tyranny, leaving a gift of renewed hope. Each line urges readers to march on and be glad, as today frees the spirit with springlike promise.
Centenary Birthday Cake Celebrates Melbourne Victoria
A massive cake marking Victoria’s centenary in Melbourne used ten tons of state products including four and a half tons fruit three quarters ton almonds and 36 000 eggs. The cake was cut into 250 000 pieces sold in sealed boxes with 100 gold sovereigns hidden inside and a chance to win a $500 coin souvenir. A 50 foot high replica cake with 100 candles stood near the Birthday Cake building in the city center.
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Victoria
Melbourne
Australia
Soybeans and Corn Make Better Silage Mixture
Dominion Agriculture pamphlet notes ensilage improves when soybeans are combined with corn in a one to three ratio. Crops can be grown together or grown separately then mixed at filling. separate harvesting eases work and improves blending.
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Peter
Paris
Avis
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Colored preacher uses melted iron metaphor in sermon
A colored preacher describes the "bad place" to a congregation. He compares white hot molten iron running from a furnace to ice cream in the place he has in mind, drawing a sharp, vivid image for listeners.
Weekly Helpings Of Duty And Faith For The Reader
This column presents exhortations from religious figures and authors. It urges doing God’s will with cheerful heart and finishing His work, and stresses duty to family members with honest, noble effort. Includes quotes from John 4 34 Jean Ingelow and Thomas Carlyle.
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John
Jean Ingelow
Zadruga Trims Cost Assembles Self Built House
The Kujungjuch zadruga of Leova Brda Herzegovina built a new family house with their own quarry stone wood lime and pegs. Only eight dinars or 16 cents were spent on glass for the windows.
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Kujungjuch
Leova Brda
Fotcha
Herzegovina
Proved False Claim Shakes Relativity Theory
Professor Emmanuel Carvallo publishes in Revue Scientifique asserting Einstein’s relativity is false. He contends Michelson’s light speed invariance is unproven, citing 200,000 U S experiments by Miller, and independent tests by Ernest Esclangen of the Paris observatory.
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Emmanuel Carvallo
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Carvallo
Revue Scientifique
Michelson
United States
Miller
Ernest Esclangen
Paris Observatory
Maclean Chief Restores Duart Castle After Century Quest
Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, the 26th hereditary chief, marks his 100th year and a half century as clan head. Eighty three years earlier his father took him to Duart Castle ruins in the Hebrides, where he vowed to restore the stronghold. Sixty three years on he fulfilled the pledge as Duart returned to Maclean ownership after being captured in the 1840s.
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Fitzroy Donald Maclean
Clan Maclean
Hebrides
Duart
Mull
London Daily Telegraph
Friday the 13th ships cancel sailings from Montreal
The article notes no passenger liners sailed from Montreal on Friday July 13 and that the same superstition kept ships from sailing to Canadian ports in the Old Country. It also mentions Calgary as the largest city in Alberta.
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Montreal
Canadian
Soviet Arctic Wheat Boom Reaches Yakutia Region
Yakutia in northeastern Siberia becomes a principal Arctic farming site for spring and winter wheat. This year 188000 acres of spring wheat and 20000 acres of winter grain were planted, building on 67,000 acres in 1922 and 188000 last year. Potatoes are grown as well.
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Arctic Circle
Yakutia
Siberia
Norway
Canada
Kolima River
Circle
New Dragonfly Plane Inspired by Dragonfly Flight
Austrian aviation expert Ramund Nimfehr unveils a new flying machine named Dragonfly touted as airworthy without screws or propellers. It allegedly requires minimal motor impulse and fuel, glides like a bird, can remain nearly stationary in the air, and is claimed to be crash proof.
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Ramund Nimfehr
Nimfuehr
Roosevelt rededicates Panama Canal to all nations in peace
President Roosevelt, dining with Panama’s President Arias, announces the canal is held in trust for peaceful commerce by all nations. He calls the waterway a cross roads of the Americas and emphasizes its role for world trade. Tests indicate light rapidly weakens all paper grades.
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Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Pacific
President Arias
Panama
Americas
Egg Prices Plummet in Irish Free State
Report says eggs are selling for half a cent each in the Irish Free State, signaling a dramatic drop in consumer prices and potential relief for households facing rising living costs.
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Irish Free State
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Allen A. Parcher
Glenalmond
Rhyming Optimist
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Thomas Carlyle
Por Glass
Maclean
Calgary
Province of
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Aare
Canapar
Appleford, Parenszseers
Hamilton, Ontario
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