British Settlers In Canada Prove Good Immigration Agents
British settlers who moved to Canada last year under the selected family scheme report strong success and praise for farming opportunities. Letters to UK immigration agents describe improved wages, independence, and friendly Canadian communities, with two families detailing homes and welcome receptions in Alberta towns.
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Canada
Agis
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Great Britain
Henry Murelje
Dawls
Alberta
West Linton
Peeblesshire
Scotland
Mr. Murchie
Glasgow
Jack Miner named naturalist faces visitor woes at Kingsville
Margaret M. Cook recalls Jack Miner of Kingsville Ontario a famed naturalist whose bird sanctuary draws visitors from around the world. He laments interruptions to his home rest as cars crowds and curious guests invade his private dwelling and gardens. He rejects admission fees postcards or sale of his book insisting no money change hands at his home. He seeks plans to restore privacy for his family while continuing to welcome the public's interest in his birds.
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Margaret M. Cook
Jack Miner
Kingsville
Ontario
Jack Minor
Mrs. Miner
Miner
Canada
Schoolboy Giant Cyr Willsher Claims Britain’s Tallest Youth
Maldon Essex proudly cites Cyr G Willsher as a likely tallest schoolboy in Great Britain. At 15 years 1 month he stands 6 ft 5½ in with a deflated chest of 42¾ in and inflated 45 in, weighing about 275 pounds. Sworn statements from local residents back his remarkable measurements.
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Maldon
Essex
Cyr G. Willsher
Great Britain
England’s crime tale as law and order shift
Quote from Lawrence Veisler in World's Work claims Britain’s crime woes shifted from the populace to the administration of laws. He argues England’s institutions, not its people, drove the changes, making it among the most tightly enforced criminal systems worldwide.
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England
Italy
Spain
Record of Extraordinary Ages in Persian Census
Investigators report a 146 year old woman and her 117 year old son living in Mochin near the Alwand Mountains during Persia's first census. The era’s oldest man, a Turk named Zaroogha, is 150 and widowed since marrying at 142.
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Persia
Mochin
Alwand Mountains
Zaroogha
Unmoving Residents in Farmingdale Maine Hold Fast to Homes
Miss Theresa Ballard, 83, has never moved from the house her grandfather built in Farmingdale. Nearby, Miss Helen Cox, age 1, has lived all her life in the home where she was born in the same Maine town.
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Farmingdale
Theresa Ballard
Helen Cox
Average Farm Wages In Canada 1925
The summer 1925 wages for farm helpers averaged 40 dollars per month for men and 22 dollars for women. Board values were 23 dollars for men and 19 dollars for women, giving total monthly wages and board of 63 dollars for men and 42 dollars for women.
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Canada
Queer Survivals Of Past London Stores And Shops
The piece notes enduring London scenes from centuries ago. It mentions dining near literary figures on Haymarket and Frybourg tobacco shop with its long entry, and a Strand grocer kept in place for 300 years. It observes a modern city still lacking a butcher shop despite two million daytime workers.
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London
Samuel Johnson
Haymarket
West End
Frybourg and
Tryers
George al
Strand
No Bridge In Venice Promised By Mussolini
Premier Mussolini told the senate that no bridge will be built to spoil Venice Old World beauty and that his feet will be the first to cross the line to the station. The government denied any plan to enlarge the railway bridge to admit trolleys or cars into the city.
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Venice
Mussolini
Senate
Rome
Alimony Ordered in Ninilchik Native Divorce
Tribesmen in Ninilchik Alaska ordered Charlie Big Eyes to pay alimony consisting of one bull moose properly butchered ten mink skins five gray fox pelts or one silver pelt and one hundred salmon in season to his squaw in a tribal divorce case.
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Charlie Big Eyes
Ninilchik
Alaska
Railroad Wisdom Phrase Recalled in Civic Reflection
A historical newspaper notes the proverb Dont judge the railroad by the cigars sold on its trains to critique branding versus service quality and prompt broader civic discussion.
Expeditions to Polar Lands and Ancient Realms Loom This Summer
A surge of scientific ventures this summer includes polar hunts for the North Pole and explorations of the cradle of mankind in Asia. Count Prorok, Roy Chapman Andrews, and the Mason-Spinden team plan major archaeology and paleontology digs in Africa, the Gobi, and Maya cities.
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North Pole
Asia
Greenland
Egypt
Kish
Mesopotamia
Count Prorok
North Africa
Roy Chapman Andrews
Gobi Desert
Central America
Malay Peninsular Weird Land Says Railroad Surveyor
Garreth Wells describes the Malay Peninsula as a land where nature is upside down with creatures and behaviors that defy belief. He notes absence of seasons, birds nesting in one tree while moulting in another, and a landscape largely untraveled by humans.
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Garreth Wells
Malay Peninsula
Mr. Wells
Peninsula
Canada Britain Trade Shows Strong Growth in 1925 26
Canada’s trade with the United Kingdom rose over three years. For the year ending January 1926 imports reached 163 million dollars, up from 147 million the prior year. Exports totaled 497 million dollars, up from 388 million in the previous year.
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Canada
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Porch party guest book and kindness thoughts
A guest book at a porch gathering becomes a window on who attended as Sonny explains mothers record last signatures. The passage notes a mileage book as a traveler’s end at the last page and ends with a reflection that consideration for others is a fine charity.
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Sonny
Alaska the New Playground of the Pacific Coast
The article extols Alaska as a tourist haven linked to the Canadian coast via the Inside Passage. It highlights totems, Yupik and Raven figures, the Sam McGee cabin, and gold-rich Yukon streams. Skagway is named as gateway to White Horse Pass and famed beauty spots.
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Canadian National Railways
British Columbia
Alaska
Vancouver
Prince Rupert
Pacific Slope
Canada
Pacffc
Raven
Sam McGee
Robert W. Service
Yukon
Skagway
Canadian National Steamships
White Horse Pass
Sea Water Contains Iodine In Sea Water and Diet, Iodine Is Essential
The piece discusses iodine's presence in sea water and seafood, its role in thyroid health, and the public health use of iodine to prevent goiter. It notes that dilute iodine is essential while concentrated iodine is poisonous and mentions seaweed and oysters as iodine sources, with commentary on diet and potential benefits.
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Middle Atlantic Fisheries Association
New York Herald-Tribune
Keen Pedestrians Among Royal Family Members
Princess Mary and her brothers enjoy long walks with ease and common outings in London. The King and Princess Mary share strolls in Buckingham Palace grounds while the Duchess of York limits walking to Hyde Park with the Duke of York. Lady Elphinstone visits occur with accompaniment. Lord Strathmore and his daughter are not keen walkers.
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Mary
London
Buckingham Palace
Princess Mary
Duchess of York
Hyde Park
Audley Street
Lady Elphinstone
Duke of York
Lord Strathmore
Tibetan Standards Critique Western Beauty Queens Says Rin-chen-lha-mo
Tibetan-born author Mrs. Louis M. King in her book We Tibetans claims Western beauty fails Tibetan standards. She notes Western facial features such as large noses ears and prominent eye sockets as unattractive by Tibetan norms.
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Louis M. King
Rin-chen-lha-mo
Some Animals Do Not Sleep
A brief discussion notes that many animals rest during the day to stay hidden, while they move at night and doze rather than sleep. It states whales supposedly do not sleep and that sleep is impossible in the depths of the sea, where safety from predators cannot be found.
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Mr. Murchie
Richard W. Morgan
Alberta
North Wales
Ponoka
Mr. Morgan
Owestry
England
Land Settlement Branch
Royal Hotel
Princes of Wales
Canada
Huge Japanese bomber joins aerial forces
A newly built all metal four engine bombing plane is being added to Japan's air arm. It requires a train of seven freight cars to move it from factory to the airfield. The aircraft carries five machine guns and can hold one and a half tons of bombs and torpedoes. Its speed is about 200 kilometers per hour.
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Japan
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Automobile Industry
Thomas A. Edison
United States
Malay Peninsular
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