Canadians Have Great Heritage and Growing Dominion
A public talk notes Canada’s only 24 percent of arable land under cultivation and urges population growth. It highlights a western expansion with new grain land from The Pas to Peace River, the need for intensive farming and trained people, and the opportunity to build a strong nation through gradual national cooperation.
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Dominion
Canada
Pas
Manitoba
Peace River
Alberta
Fortune From Fees in Canada Mines Prompts Notable In Incorporation Lie
A Canadian mining tale shows promoters unable to pay a $500 incorporation fee. One member used stock in the Hollinger mine to cover the charge, and the lawyer held the stock. The stake later soared to over $30,000, underscoring how fortune travels via mining stakes and clever deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Wallingford
Hollinger
Financial Post
Unprepared Comedian Misses Empire State Express
A Broadway comic famed for sociability planned to take the Empire State Express to Buffalo at 6 a.m. for a weeklong engagement. He told his valet to wake him at 7.30 a.m. after a Sunday night benefit, but after a late party he woke at 11 a.m. and berated the valet who explained it was after 3 o'clock when he returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wso
Empire State Express
Buffalo
King George Likely to Ship Out on Mediterranean Cruise
King George faces a bronchial illness that likely forces him to leave London soon for a Mediterranean cruise aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Despite denials of an imminent voyage, News of the World repeats that air pollution in London will push the monarch to holiday away from smoke-filled city life.
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George
London
News of the World
Controversy Over Ancient Horse Engraving Sparks Debate
The question of a bone engraving of a horse pits Sir Arthur Smith Woodward who claims it is 50 000 years old against Prof W J Solias who calls it a hoax by Haywards Heath schoolboys. Solias cites a museum assistant’s statement that the drawing was a classroom joke.
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Driton
Geological Society
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward
Haywards Heath
Arthur
W. J. Solias
Oxford
Hayward's Heath School
Dunce May Become Famous Says Professor
Dr A F Tredgold tells Bedford College Women’s Sanitary Inspectors that backward pupils may later become famous. He cites Newton and Darwin as examples, arguing late mental development and hidden common sense help the dunce succeed, while scholars may lag.
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Bedford College
Newton
Darwin
Isis
Matter Of Self Defence In Walking Decline
Commentators overlook that people ride for self defence as roads fail to offer safe pedestrian pleasure. Walking, an art that brought health and joy, is fading with modern mobility. Older folks miss it. youth see progress only on tires and iron rims.
How To Escape Old Age Joke Advice From Dr Morgan
A Detroit Free Press joke attributes humorous, exaggerated tips to Dr Bob Morgan of Chicago on avoiding aging. The quip suggests smoking all day, drinking raw whiskey, no exercise, sleeping in airtight rooms, heavy red meat dinners, daily patent pills, and not marrying, presented as a dinner party anecdote.
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Bob Morgan
Chicago
Dr. Morgan
Detroit Free Press
Surgeon Sir John Bland Sutton on sewing lessons from nature
Sir John Bland Sutton, the British surgeon, suggests Adam and Eve learned to sew by watching the tailor bird spin its nest. He notes surgeons seek perfect wound stitching material and study birds plants insects and animals for clues to the right substance.
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John Bland Sutton
Cows Must Be Properly Fed Says Scottish Farmer
The Scottish Farmer warns that cows fed deficient rations draw on body reserves for milk, risking a decline in production as reserves exhaust. It notes many cows are forced through improper feeding each year.
Combatting The Gopher Pest
Prof W W Jackson of Manitoba Agricultural College endorses strychnine as the best overall gopher poison noting it is cheap and effective on wheat or oats and early spring is ideal. He mentions prairie chickens are immune, spring conditions influence bait uptake, and compares smoke cartridges and calcium cyanide as alternatives with safety concerns and limited suitability.
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W. W. Jackson
Manitoba Agricultural College
Chicago’s Massive U Shaped Stadium Opens For 100000 Seated Parades
A vast Chicago stadium covers over seven acres and seats 100000. Its U shape allows unbroken parade entrances. The open air venue can be flooded for winter ice skating, enabling year round use.
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Chicago
No Cedar In Lebanon Forests Denuded for Modern Use
Morn ing paper reports Lebanon has lost its cedar trees except a tile grove. The once mighty Biblical era forests are said to be stripped to supply golf club shafts shingles for Long Island homes and cedar chests for kitchenette apartments.
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Lebanon
Long Island
How Long Should Fifty-Year-Olds Work
A London Daily News survey asks how many hours a man of fifty should work. Respondents span Smoot to Poincare, Lodge to Inchape and Loucheur, with views from sixteen hours a day to eight hours, noting fatigue, purpose, and variation by occupation.
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London Daily News
Smoot
Raymond Poincare
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver
Lora Inchape
M. Loucheur
Admiral Sims
Willing to Pay the Price at Yale
At Yale University about 35 percent of students earn their way through work or aid. They won nearly half the honors for the school year ending last June, illustrating that a student who seeks an education has a real chance of success.
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Yale University
London talks advance on Canadian Celanese company role
A London dispatch says negotiations are well advanced to place much of the capital in a new company named Canadian Celanese Limited. The firm will acquire for Canada the Dreyfus patents and processes tied to artificial silk manufacture. A Manchester chemist has found a cheap black dye that does not rot cotton goods.
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London
Canada
Dreyfus
Celanese, Limited
Manchester
England
Snowshoers Conquer Quebec City in International Meet
Over 2000 snowshoers from 47 clubs gathered in Quebec City for the International Convention. Canadian honors came in three world championships and other races. Torchlight processions and parades lit the old city as bands banners and flags highlighted the weekend. Clubs from Lewiston Auburn Montreal Drummondville St Hyacinthe Valleyfield Sherbrooke Three Rivers and Quebec City participated.
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Quebec City
Quebec
Montreal
New England
Old City
Duquette
Lewiston
Auburn
Maine
Quebec Province
Drummondville
St. Hyacinthe
Valleyfield
Sherbrooke
Three Rivers
Esthonia’s Leap to Freedom and Rapid Prosperity
Madame Anno Kallas, wife of the Esthonian minister in London, reports from America on a Baltic republic that freed itself in 1915 after centuries of serfdom. She says land reform, universal suffrage, strong education, and rapid prosperity followed, with no feminist movement or entrenched isms taking hold.
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Esthonia
Little Republic
New Republic
Madame Anno Kallas
London
America
Madame Kallas
Esthenia
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Australian pioneer ships first wife home in coffin on second honeymoon
A pioneer settler bound for England on his second honeymoon fulfilled a promise to his first wife who died years earlier. Her lead coffin was stored in an attic in Australia until the voyage, when it was loaded with luggage labeled not required on voyage, and sent to England for burial.
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England
Australia
Consequences Of Mistakes By Lord Dewar At Show Address
Lord Dewar, eminent scientist, spoke at the London International Poultry Pigeon and Rabbit Show on errors. He warned that mistakes vary in effect from legal to medical to religious domains, noting a judge’s error becomes law whereas a doctor’s error is buried.
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Lord Dewar
London
High Court In Appeal
Montreal Star
Bears Harmless, Hunters Push Bear Hunting Close Season
At the Ontario Hunters' Fish and Game Protective Association annual meeting in Toronto A F Cooper of Toronto sponsored a resolution asking the provincial government to impose a closed season on bear hunting. He dismissed bear attack stories as bunk and said bears avoid people and disappear if encountered in the bush.
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Ontario Hunters’ Fish and Game Protective Association
Toronto
A. F. Cooper
Bunk
Public figure contrasts two statesmen at university
A well known public man last week summarized the stance of two statesmen of opposite parties who were at the university together. A possessed all the virtues and no friends, while B had all the vices and no enemies. A new sun dial with half minute accuracy on a standard glock face has been perfected in Austria.
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Austria
Improvement in Cereal Experiment Introduces New Testing Plan
The Dominion cereal division under L H Newman adopts a new method to speed up variety development. Newly created plant families are propagated at branch farms for observation before broad selection. After several generations the best progeny undergoes pedigree testing to identify superior varieties, aided by the red row system at Ottawa and branch farms.
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Dominion Experimental Farms
L. H. Newman
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Newman
Ottawa
New Plant Varieties Noted by Canadian Horticultural Council
At Ottawa headquarters the plant registration bureau of the Canadian Horticultural Council approved several new varieties for recording. Named entries include Crerar geranium from the central experimental farm and Vanguard strawberry noted for early ripening, along with Viking raspberry Logarne thornless loganberry and Macdonald rhubarb. Additional new primula dogwood apple two peach trees a dhalla and more flowers will undergo triad garden testing to advance Canadian horticultural quality.
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Horticultural Council
Canada
Daily Dozen Keeps Them Fit in Manchester
An octogenarian club of cotton workers keeps a daily routine dubbed the dozen to stay vigorous, while elders like Lord Inchape age 73 lead large shipping firms with vigor. Lord Balfour 77 remains active in tennis and world affairs as Thomas Hardy 45 persists as a poet. Lora Oxford at 70 continues to perform with surprising energy, challenging younger colleagues who doubted his finish after leaving premiership.
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Manchester
Lord Inchape
Lord Balfour
Thomas Hardy
Lora
Oxford
Something to Wait For
In a hospital in Scotland a nurse asks about current operation and learns a golf ball caused a near fatal incident. The orderly explains the anxious figure in the hall is the golfer waiting for his ball, not a relative.
Ontario to introduce personal driving permits for motorists
Hon. George Henry, minister of highways, told the Canadian and Ontario Safety Leagues convention in Toronto that a system of personal driving permits for all Ontario motorists would be instituted before the year ends. The statement highlighted planned reforms and the government pledge to regulate driving standards across the province.
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Ontario
Hon
George & Henry
Toronto
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Prodder
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