CPR Policy Offers Farmers Land Debt Relief and New Terms
President Beatty outlines CPR plans to cancel existing farm debts for some 30,000 Western farmers and reissue agreements over 34 years with payments guaranteeing more than 7 percent of purchase price annually. The piece argues immigration, reciprocity with the United States, and cooperative marketing as key to Western Canada’s future growth and stability.
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Beatty
CPR
C.P.R
Europe
Canada
Atlantic
Ottawa
United States
Vast Trans Pacific Cable Linking Canada to Australia
The project required immense time labor and expense to build the intercontinental cable. A massive cable laying steamer was constructed for the task. The longest span is 3 560 miles from Vancouver Island to Fanning Island near the equator. The total length runs about 9 000 miles touching Fiji and Norfolk Islands then reaching Australia near Brisbane before crossing to New Zealand.
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Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Vancouver Island
Fanning Island
Mid- Pacific
Equator
Fiji Islands
Norfolk Island
Brisbane
Grain shipments reach over five million bushels westward
Dominion Grain Inspector reports more than 5,000,000 bushels of grain shipped from Edmonton to Vancouver this season. The total exceeds last year’s shipments by 2,225,000 bushels, indicating stronger western movement of grain.
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Edmonton
Vancouver
Dominion Grain Inspector
Chicago Man Makes Long Jump From Bail to Jail
A Chicago man who jumped bail in 1912 has finally been captured and placed in jail, ending a decades long flight from authorities. The case highlights ongoing efforts to track down long-term fugitives.
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Chicago
Encouraging the Land: A Farmer’s Humble Gamble
Clerical friends traveling through a stony, gravelly field stop to question a farmer about his work. The farmer cheerfully answers that he tills to encourage the soil and to see what lies beyond, a simple, hopeful quip about perseverance.
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Toiler
Harper’s Magazine
Alberta Farm Youth Training Week Scheduled This Month
The fifth annual university week for farm youth in Alberta will run this month. Accommodation is planned for 200 boys and 150 girls aged 16 to 25 from farms. The six day programme includes instruction in various sites including agriculture.
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Alberta
Joint Stiffness Goes Pain Subdues Across Treatments
A medical swath of reports notes joint stiffness easing and swellings shrinking while pain declines as various remedies are tested, highlighting a liniment with broad satisfaction among patients.
Nerviline Relief Claims Quick Deep Penetration
Nerviline is described as highly penetrating and fast acting for swelling stiffness and inflammation. It allegedly soothes pain at its source and offers warm relief, recommended for rheumatism lumbago neuralgia and colds. Sold for 35 cents at dealers.
Proposed Alpine Resort Work Commences on Grouse Mountain
North Vancouver begins an ambitious Alpine resort project on Grouse Mountain plateau. The plan allocates 250000 for chalet wagon road motor road and hotel with 100000 to be spent within two years. The hotel will be near the city offering toboganning snowshoeing skiing and other winter sports with a large car parking area.
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Grouse Mountain
Vancouver
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promoted As Nerve And Blood Tonic
An advertisement claims Dr Williams Pink Pills restore health for pale cheeks and nervous symptoms. It cites Horace Cuphill of Woodward's Cove NB who details initial weakness and numbness improving after four boxes, and states pills are available from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont for 50 cents a box.
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Dr. Williams
Williams
Horace Cuphill
Woodward's Cove
N.B
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Russia's new income tax targets merchants and speculators
Under the new law in Russia monthly incomes below 1 250 000 000 rubles are untaxed. Above that six percent applies and rises quickly. Anyone earning over one hundred dollars monthly in Canadian money pays eighty percent of the excess. The measure aims at profiteers amid shortages exploiting scarcity. It is claimed many incomes run into trillions of rubles monthly.
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Russia
Manitoba Dairy Production Sets New Yearly High
Manitoba dairy output rose to record levels in 1922 per the Dairy Commissioner’s annual report. Creamery butter from 44 creameries reached 10,559,601 pounds, up 2,009,496 pounds from 1921, with total dairy product value around 12,434,223 dollars and creamery selling receipts near 3,695,800 dollars.
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Manitoba
Dairy Commissioner of
Winnipeg Colonel Buys Shorthorn for Overseas Show
Col H A Mullins of Winnipeg purchases a two year old shorthorn steer weighing 1140 pounds. The animal will be sent overseas to participate in major livestock centers across Great Britain. It exceeds the average three year old by more than 250 pounds and demonstrates Western Canada export quality.
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British Isles
Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
West
United States
Great Britain
Western
Canada
Catte
Col. H. A. Mullins
Girl doubts fortune teller who misses rich marriage cue
A skeptical girl challenges a fortune teller who fails to predict that she will marry into wealth, testing the clairvoyant’s accuracy and her own hopes.
Forest Preservation Appeal to Protect Timber Wealth
A call to citizens to safeguard forests and cutflammable practices this year. The appeal urges responsible use of timber as a national wealth and a legacy for unborn generations, urging fair play and vigilance against needless destruction.
Vancouver Port Ranks High As Dominion's Largest Grain Hub
At the Vancouver Merchants' Exchange annual meeting Col. W. R. Dockrill reported last year the Foremost Seaport of Dominion became Canada's biggest port and the continent's second largest grain port by tonnage. Vancouver entered 16,641 vessels, shipped 161,000,000 feet of lumber, and moved 14,460,009 bushels of grain. The port surpassed Montreal in ocean going vessel tonnage and is highlighted as a principal British Empire port facing the Pacific.
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Vancouver
Canada
Pacific
Merchants’ Exchange
Col. W. R. Dockrill
Montreal
North Pacific
Colonel Dockrill
Pacific Ocean
Campers urged to buy durable folding camp stove
The Troy Foundry and Machine Co promotes a compact durable camp stove that folds like a suitcase and burns any fuel. Used by campers motorists prospectors canoeists trappers and outdoor enthusiasts. Send a postcard to Bank of Hamilton Building Toronto for full details.
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Troy Foundry and Machine Co
Bank of Hamilton
Toronto
Cocoanut Ginger Gems from Household Hints
A recipe outlines making coconut ginger gems using butter sugar molasses eggs and milk, with flour cinnamon ginger and raisins. Mix cream beat fold in egg whites and milk solution, bake in gem pans, fill centers with jelly preserves and nuts, then frost thickly with coconut frosting.
Old fashioned ginger molasses cookies method
Recipe lists shortening or lard different measures ginger cinnamon water cloves sugar flour molasses soda salt raisins. Melt shortening in hot water and mix with sugars and molasses, sift dry ingredients, add raisins, chill, roll, cut shapes bake fifteen minutes and decorate with frosting.
Wildlife Surges Reported in Jasper Park Canada
Reports from Jasper National Park superintendents indicate a rapid rise in big game numbers due to sanctuary conditions. Buffalo Prairie guides struggle for feed as elk deer and caribou graze heavily. as many as one hundred elk observed feeding at a time, with sheep and goats also plentiful.
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Jasper National Park
Canadian Rockies
Alberta
Buffalo Prairie
Remarkable Asthma Cure by Dr Kellogg’s Remedy
A man with years of asthma relief after using Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy. He claims the inhaled smoke or vapor provides lasting relief and urges sufferers to obtain it through local dealers or wholesalers.
Canadian Pacific Excursions to Pacific Coast
A promotional note invites readers to travel with Canadian Pacific to the Pacific Coast. The trip includes the Rockies with stops at Banff Lake Louise and Glacier, plus resort hotels or bungalow camps. Summer excursion tickets run May 15 to September 30 to Vancouver Victoria and other Pacific Coast points with stopovers and return limits until October 31.
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Pacific Coast
Canadian Pacific Rockies
Banff
Lake Louise
Glazier
Vancouver
Victoria
Canadian Pacific
Germany to honor churches that aided war effort with bells
The republican government will reward churches that allowed their bells to be melted for munitions in the war of the former monarchy. Freight charges will be waived on shipments of new bells to replace those surrendered during the conflict.
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Germany
Not Used To It A Beggar Refuses Water
A lady offers a beggar water and he declines saying he has an iron constitution and water would rust it. He explains his need to maintain his strength despite thirst. The exchange highlights humor and social contrast in a brief vignette.
Uses of Cactus Expand Beyond Water Storage
The article notes cactus value as a water reservoir and silage, adds South Africa’s method to produce industrial alcohol from prickly pear juice, and Cuba’s claim of making high quality rubber from a cactus juice.
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South Africa
Cuba
Eight Popes Named Urban First to Reign 222 to 230
The record notes eight popes bearing the name Urban with the first Urban ruling from 222 to 230. It highlights the sequence and time frame of early papal leadership under the Urban name.
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Urban
What's Wanted list of needed inventions by Sir William Bell
The British Institute of Patentees publishes a What’s Wanted book with Sir William Bell’s ideas. Items include bendable glass, non slipping wet road surfaces, a furnace reclaiming 95 percent heat, a process to make flannel unshrinking, a noiseless aeroplane, an easy to pilot aeroplane by youth, lightweight motor engines, friction reduction methods, tide utilization, phosphorus recovery from vulcanized Indian rubber for reuse, easy pipe cleaning, a temperance drink with shelf stability, and talking moving pictures.
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British Institute of Patentees
Sir William Bell
Miller's Worm Powders Promote Health in Children
Miller's Worm Powders claim to ease worm infestations and improve stomach liver and bowel function. The advertisement asserts children show quicker appetite and overall relief as treatment starts, regardless of initial stomach condition.
New Seed Drill Uses Sub Feeder for Ground Seeding
J A Mitchell of Lawson Saskatchewan has invented a sub feeder drill that seeds underground. The device replaces half the subs in a grain drill with blocked holes to double seed output. Mitchell claims his drill can seed a 70 inch grain space from 114 inches, compared with 20 inches for standard 20 inch shoes, and he has tested it on 75 acres of summer fallow.
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J. A. Mitchell
Lawson
Sask
Department of Agriculture
Mr. Mitchell
Mitchell
Sunday School Teacher Ernest Defeats Philistines
A brief cryptic item notes Ernest Dunno waking from a daydream and refusing to follow bush league teams as the passing show in London covers a perplexing sports or cultural moment.
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Ernest
London
Milburns Heart and Nerve Pills Help Chatham Woman
Mrs. James Burleigh of 248 King Street East Chatham Ontario writes that Milburns Heart and Nerve Pills relieved years of heart palpitations and nerve troubles after a doctor warned her heart was very bad. She reports improved sleep strength and lasting relief after about three months of use. Price 50 cents a box at dealers or by mail from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario.
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P. G. Murdoch
Portage la Prairie
Man
Dr. Chase
James Burleigh
King St. E., Chatham, Ont
Milburn
T. Milburn Co., Limited
Toronto
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Edmanson, Bates & Co. Ltd
North Vancouver
W. L. M. King
Bradley Molasses
Ginger
Putnam’s Corn
Putnam's
Minard’s Liniment
Minard
Dominion
Canadian Depot
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