Baker's Stand Ends Night of Blood and Return to Fort Endurance
Alan Baker defeats the red beard bandit leader with the Browning clearing the passage for his escape. He then grimly resumes control of the machine gun as waves of attackers fall before his aim. Joyce and Father Claverly prepare for the voyage home while tensions rise with Superintendent Williamson and Elizabeth Spaulding at the pier in the aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buzzard
Joyce
Alan
Jimmy Montgomery
Alvan
Father Claverly
Saskell
Williamson
Elizabeth Spaulding
Tryig
Alan Baker
Endurance
Elizabeth
Swan Nest
Haskell
Eu Tong Sen the Hongkong Tycoon Builds Ten Mansion Home
The article profiles Eu Tong Sen, Hong Kong drug merchant and vast landowner, believed richest in the Far East. It notes Repulse Bay mansion nearing completion as part of his practice of building homes, wealth, and a Europeanized lifestyle with hundreds of servants, yachts, cars, and overseas wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hongkong
Victoria
EU Yan Sang
Money Commissioner
Tin and Rubber
Singapore
Straits Settlements
Far East
Repulse Bay
Canton
EU Tong Sen
Ford Buys Edison Boyhood Home for Dearborn Move
Henry Ford has purchased Thomas Edison’s boyhood home in Vienna Ontario near St. Thomas and will move and re erect it at the Ford Historical Settlement in Dearborn Michigan. Ford and party dined at the Vienna Hotel where legends tell of liquor and fights in days past, as owner W C McDonald unearthed old coins around the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Alva Edison
Vienna
St. Thomas
Ont
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Michik
Ford
Mr Edison
Capt
Samuel Edison
W. C. McDonald
Rabies Cure Study Draws Mexican Health Officials
The Mexican Department of Health will study a traditional Sari Indian rabies remedy handed down in San Blas Sinaiola. Francisco Vega will travel to Mexico City to demonstrate the vegetable preparation said to replace serum injections. Egypt reports its strongest winter tourist season in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Health
Francisco Vega
San Blas
State of
Sina
Mexico
Egypt
Quivering Nerves Ad For Energizing Medicine
An advertisement targets women stressed by children noise and daily burdens. It claims 98 of 108 women report benefit and promises extra energy to make life seem worth living again. The tone emphasizes relief and renewed vitality.
Man Builds 70mph Washtub Toy Car in Georgia
Tom Donaldson of Hapeville Georgia runs a crude toy automobile at 70 miles per hour in a washtub with a four cylinder motorcycle motor. The craft is 60 inches long and produces 34 horsepower. Built for fun by the 23 year old mechanic using automobile parts water pipes tin roofing and a boat steering gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Donaldson
Hapeville
Georgia
Donaldson
Fish collecting voyage yields strange specimens
William H. Brunskill returns from Australia and the South Seas with a curious aquarium haul including fish with noses, orange tail fins that move, two-bodied fish sharing one head, and color-changing varieties. The note ends with a proverb about trying new things and the potential regret that follows discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
South Seas
Aquarium
Mocha Junket with Whipped Cream Cherries
A dessert recipe combines mocha and coffee junket with milk and egg white. Whip two cups cream with cherry juice, fold in stiffly beaten egg white and sugar, with diced maraschino cherries. Serve atop the chilled junket for a creamy chocolate finish.
Little Helps For This Week
A devotional note urges restraint in judgment and patience toward others. It cites Romans 14 13 and laments petty words that harm learning charity while noting how ill temper and discontent can be contagious and hinder moral progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. R. Havergal
Oatmeal Coconut Cookies with Orange Zest
Cream shortening and sugar. Add well beaten eggs. Fold in oats coconut and orange juice with rind. Sift flour baking powder soda salt and cinnamon. Stir into milk then drop by teaspoon onto greased sheets. Bake 380 to 400 degrees F. Nuts or candied orange peel may substitute for coconut.
Early Palestinian Farmers Unearthed By Yale Expedition
Dr. George Grant McCurdy of Yale at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia claims Palestine hosted farming 20 000 years ago, twice as old as Neolithic farming. He shows long headed, stooping planters and primitive sickles from the expedition, noting grain was first cut with sharpened flints on crooked sticks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine
George Grant McCurdy
Yale University
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia
Grant
Christian Science Monitor
One crop farmer and the risk of mood in hard times
The author contrasts a one crop farmer who buys all food and operates a food factory with a self supplying farmer who raises his own, arguing the latter faces less hunger risk. In hard times the self sufficient farmer gains a crucial assurance of survival.
Co operative effort yields huge shipment of New Zealand hides
The first fruits of a cooperative effort among the Canadian government the New Zealand government the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and the Montreal New Zealand trade commission arrived as a large shipment of New Zealand hides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Montreal
New Zea
Land Trade Commission
Names and street lore in Nova Scotia and Victoria
The piece notes debates in the House of Commons over renaming ridings to Evangeline in Nova Scotia and recalls Victoria's Bird Cage Walk being renamed Government Street. It argues preservation of old names reflects cultural memory and history as shown by the Sherbrooke Record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Nova Scotia
Adam
Medical Care For Indigent In Moose Jaw
The Medical Association of Moose Jaw will cover unemploy ed and indigent sick with city funding of 200 dollars per month. City council approved a month to month plan and a doctor agreement will be drawn and signed by all city doctors. Distributions will be equal among Medical Association members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moose Jaw
The
Medical Association of
Medical Association
Paris Council Votes to Breed Cats Against Rats
Paris municipal leaders approve a plan to create a farm that breeds and trains cats with exceptional strength and cleverness to curb a rat plague. City officials worry ordinary cats would be overwhelmed by the rodents. An American firm also proposes metal housing in Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Britain
Liver Stimulant Promoted By Carter’s Lattice Pille
An ad-like snippet touts Carter’s Lattice Laver Pille as a liver stimulant. It claims to remedy low spirits and bowel issues by safely stimulating the liver without harsh calomel. The text reads like a patent medicine pitch with promotional language and dubious efficacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ine
Agan
Tricken
Fort Endurance
Sumset
Mackenzie
Pedneault
Bill Hardsock
Hardacock
Rall
Pedmeault
Hardsock
Bill Lnoked
Thal-Azzah
Baker
Bill
Ottawa
Gove
Hamelton
Cambridge
K. S. EU
Money Exchange
United States Postoffice Money Order Department
Malay Peninsular
Buars Edison's
Ontario
Michigan
William
Byron
Uliem Byroe Mf
Wey
Mecca
W. NN U
Loa
Mexico City
Lydia E. Pinkham
William H. Brunskill
Betty Barclay
H. S. Sutton
New Zeland
ST. Charles
the Historical and the Memorial
Sherbrooke
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!