World Happenings Briefly Told In 1920s Style
Japan plans 166 million dollars in railway upgrades over 12 years. A bomb injures 13 worshipers at a Bombay saint tomb. House of Commons approves 199 thousand for radio telegraph service and radio ships. 2,500 buffalo to Northern Reserve. 900 of 1,686 Home Bank shareholders pay double liability, about 804 thousand dollars. Shipping Act amended. reg regulations for settlers to crown lands hinted. Sweden and Austria ratify war illegality treaties. similar treaties with other nations. Dawes plan reparations payments total about 7.7 million dollars on hand after British addition. Delegates from multiple nations attend Pan Pacifi Conference in Honolulu. A physicist notes a million people talking could produce enough heat for a cup of tea in one and a half hours.
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Medical College
Bombay
House of Commons
Home Bank
Sweden
Austria
Norway
Finland
Denmark
Poland
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Canada
Hanolulu
United States
Mexico
Peru
Australia
Panama
China
Philippines
Salvador
Mark Historical Spot BC To Commemorate Island Gold Rush
The BC Historical Society will mark Leech Town as a historic site near Vancouver Island. Members will travel to place a tablet at the former mining centre, with relics and old photographs from Leech town and miners pan ning the river on display in the Provincial Library.
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BC. Historical Society
Leech River
Vancouver Island
BC Historical Society
Victoria Times
Leech Town
Colonial Office
London
John Hosie
Kennedy
Hosie
Leechtown
Dr Williams Pink Pills Boosts Blood and Nerves for Many
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood enriching tonic for anaemia. It features a testimonial from Mrs Gregory J Murphy of East Ship Harbour Nova Scotia who says the pills revived her strength and then helped her daughter. Readers are urged to buy a box or send 50 cents to Brockville Ontario for two boxes and a free booklet.
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Gregory J. Murphy
Harbor
N.S
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Mennonites Acquire Oxley Ranch in Northern Alberta
Northern Alberta Mi n Mennonites purchase the Oxley ranch near Stavely through the Canada Colonization Association. They plan mixed farming and have expanded holdings in Alberta over the past two years following earlier settler success.
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Alberta
Soviet Order Prompts Chess Name Change in Russia
A Soviet government order calls for renaming chess pieces with proletarian terms, abolishing Kings Queens Bishops Knights and similar titles. The joke quotes Mr Grump and Mr Larzee remarking on the plan and on proverbs about wit and wisdom.
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Russia
Tinting Lips With Diamond Dyes Offers Easy Color
An old advertisement promotes Diamond Dyes for lip tinting and fabric coloring. It claims simple cold water mixing, no streaking, and lasting tones with warm bowling water. The ad invites readers to request a free Color Craft book and color cards from Diamond Dyes in Windsor Ontario.
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Dept
NSO
Windsor
Ontario
Alberta Salt Mine to Expand Daily Capacity to 45 Tons
Diamond Dyes reports Alberta Salt company at McMurray will add two more grain ers this summer, boosting daily production from 23 to 45 tons. Brine is pumped from a well passing through two salt beds, top bed 100 feet thick at 685 feet depth. A second well will be installed this year. The table salt produced is described as of superior quality.
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Alberta Salt Company
McMurray
Exceedingly smart daytime frock pattern No 1559
The pattern describes a daytime frock with an inverted plait at the front, a panel bodice, belt at the side, convertible collar, and sleeves that can be long and gathered or loose. Sizes 38 to 44 bust. Size 40 uses 2 1⁄2 yards of material. Price 20 cents. pattern book price 1 1/2 cents.
Building Buddhist School in Japan Draws Attention
A Winnipeg notice outlines pattern orders for a Buddhist school project in Japan. The description mentions patterns, sizes, and addresses as part of the order process for establishing the study center.
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Japan
Dunlop Endurance in Canadian Newspapers
A Canadian tire firm asserts newspapers are the best advertising medium. Dunlop has run 33 uninterrupted years of Dunlop tires ads in Canadian papers, arguing Canada is a newspaper reading country and the daily press is where advertisers stay.
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Canada
Dunlop
Pure Pare
Atlantic salmon tagged to trace movements travel long distances
The Department of Marine and Fisheries marks many Atlantic salmon with silver dorsal fin tags to track routes. A tagged fish released at Burns Point Nova Scotia in June traveled up to 1200 miles to the Moise River Quebec if following shorelines. A farm acre by the Atlantic City boardwalk is valued at over 1.9 million dollars with truck produce grown there.
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Department of Marine and Fisheries
Burns Point
Port Maitland
Yarmouth Country
Nova Scotia
Moise River
Quebec
Ocean
Atlantic City
Educational Facilities Should Be Extended
A Victorian editorial argues for expanding educational facilities to give all children a fighting chance. It notes that many from humble backgrounds rise to prominence while many promising youths fail due to poverty and barriers to secondary and university education. Scholarships alone are insufficient to remove economic obstacles. St. Thomasines Journal.
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Shakespeare
London
Gallant
H. G. Wells
George Bernard Shaw
Ca Strongis
Till
St. Thomasines Journal
Mixed farming cited as better investment than oil stocks
W T Passey of Magrath Alberta touts mixed farming with Jersey cattle on a 60 acre irrigated farm. He keeps purebred Jerseys and milks three cows earning about 150 dollars in milk and cream per pail. A land parcel in the Magrath district recently sold at 60 dollars an acre, a peak price in years. The Marrath report notes most land lies in summer fallow ready for spring cropping.
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W. T. Passey
Magrath
Alberta
Constomers
Bali
Lerd
Masrathe
Marrath
American Settlers to Take up Manitoba Land
North and South Dakota and Minnesota farmers plan land settlement in Manitoba this year. John R. Ryan of the Canadian Pacific Railway in St. Paul reports about 3,000 inquiries already this year versus 306 last year. He says interest from American farmers in Canada this year exceeds 1912 and 1913 levels.
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Dakota
Minnesota
Manitoba
South
John R. Ryan
Canadian Pacific Railway
St. Paul
Ryan
Canada
Mr. Rean
Dominion government pays millions in 1925 salaries
The Dominion Government paid 74 602 100 to employees in fiscal year 1925 246 an increase over the prior year. Permanent staff received 12 570 163 and temporary workers 14 163 157 while the previous year totals were 40 516 110 and 15 961 589 respectively. The employee count rose from 28 855 in April 1925 to 29 154 in March 1926. Separately the Comission Securified Corporation acquired control of Canadian plant and timber limits of Provincial Paper Mills Limited including a Port Arthur plant at the head of Lake Superior.
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Dominion
Bareau
Comision Securified Corporation
Provincial
Paper Millis Limited
United States
Port Arthur
Lake Superior
Conan Doyle backs balloon jumping concept for pedestrians
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle showed interest in balloon jumping using hydrogen knapsacks. He warned against dangerous margins between weight and power and urged controlled strides over long leaps to avoid accidents.
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Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur
British Oil Firm Plans Calgary Office for Survey
The Anglo Persian Oil Company, mostly British owned, will open a Calgary office this spring to oversee a large oil exploration survey. A long abandoned Missouri Ozarks mine now yields over 1000 tons of iron daily.
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Anglo Persian OF Company
Calgary
Missouri Ozarks
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U.S
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