Calgary Initiative Aims to Canadianize Foreigner Classes
Calgary runs English classes for adult newcomers under the city’s technical education program. Eleven Berlitz based groups, nine instructors, and 407 attendees in the season show progress in language civics and social integration. Students from many nationalities perform recitations songs and speeches to conclude the program.
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Coaries Stokes
Ceada
Canada
Westermost Prairies
Atlantic Seaboard
Blackkand
Universal Association of Workers
Calgary
T B. Kidner
Alberta
Dominion of Canada
British Empire
Retain Freedom White Paper on Serfdom in German East Africa
The governor's white paper replies to a Reichstag demand to abolish serfdom by 1920. It argues abolition on a fixed date is dangerous, supported by Dr Solf and the National Liberals, with native birth after 1905 already free. About 185,000 serfs exist, dwindling and expected to vanish in fifteen years.
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German East Africa
Reichstag
Centre Party
Solf
East Africa
Zanzibar
Saskatchewan Wool Growers Policy Aims To Boost Market
The Saskatchewan department of agriculture will act as selling agent for woolgrowers this season. Wool shipments in carload lots must be sent to Regina in June and will be sold free of charge to farmers, who pay shipment, local freight, grading, twine, and sacks. The move supports bulk marketing and wheat-farming regions. About 600 flock owners were surveyed, from one to ten thousand head, and a bulletin will be mailed to all wool-growers.
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Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Regina
Dominion Experimental Farms publish 1913 grain results
Bulletin No. 4 summarizes the season's important results from Dominion Experimental Farms across Canada. It details varieties that perform best in different provinces, notes Marquis wheat advantages, and guides growers on varieties to plant and production methods. Copies available from the Publications branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.
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Dominion
Canada
Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
Cambridge to Admit Ramanujam as Advanced Study Student
Cambridge prepares to welcome Ramanujam, a brilliant Indian mathematical genius. Though his solutions come by flashes of inspiration and lack formal demonstration, he will not pursue a degree but study for two years to develop his gifts.
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Cambridge
Ramanujam
Limit Bag of Wild Ducks In Ontario Legislature Vote
Ontario island game committee limited the bag to 20 ducks per season in Dr. Anderson’s bill opposing a 100 bird cap. J O Reaume announced plans to seek federal action to ban export of wild fowl. Anderson says the measure targets pet hunters and wholesale slaughter near St Caal flats and Rondeau park on Lake Erte.
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Island Game Committee
Ontario
Anderson
South Essex
J. O. Reaume
St Caal Flats
St Rondeau Park
Lake Erte
Cancer research meeting abandons radium cures
A major meeting of the Americas Society for the Control of Cancer heard foremost surgeons declare radium treatments largely ineffective with cures estimated far below success. They urged surgical removal when possible and characterized progress as slow but hopeful in identifying cancer causes and improving treatment.
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Americas Society For the Control of Cancer
William Yayo
Rochester
Minn
Wood
Columbia University
Nto
Tre
Mayo
J. Collins Warren
Harvard Cancer Commission
Treaty Renewed Between United States and Great Britain
The 1908 arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain was renewed by ratifications at the state department. Secretary Bryan and Sir Cecil Spring Rice signed for their nations. the treaty remains in effect for five years from ratification. The British proposal to extend life until one year after notice was not adopted.
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United States
Gre
Britain
State Department
State Bryan
Great Britain
Cecil Spring Rice
Cross Atlantic in 15 hours prophecies by aviators
Claude Grahame Waite predicts a 15 hour Atlantic crossing in a luxurious aerial Pullman with dining and sleeping facilities within twenty years. B Hucks supports rapid progress noting 140 mph speeds and a sixteen passenger flight recently reported from St Petersburg.
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Claude Grahame Waite
Atlantic
B. Hucks
St. Petersburg
Hucks
American Wants Seat Among Lords
The article discusses whether Lord Fairfax, an American citizen, may be barred from sitting in the House of Lords. Fairfax has previously run for a seat and is a candidate again for a Scottish peer seat. His potential election may fill the late Earl of Leven's seat, but it will not settle his eligibility, though it will force a legal challenge.
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Lord Fairfax
House of Lords
Scotland
Earl of Leven
Fairfax
Railways map out large Manitoba prairie expansion for year
The 1914 railway program outlines extensive construction across Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan. CPR grades 15 miles beyond Moose Jaw extension with steel planned. 25 miles more from Sterling East expanding to 75 miles east of Sterling toward Weyburn. GTP lines near Prince Albert Brandon branch BC main line to finish. CNR work on Peace River line Onoway north, and extensions from Oliver to North Battleford areas with several branch projects underway.
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Mary
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Moose Jaw Southwest
C.P.R
Sterling
Sterling, Sask
Weyburn West
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Crow's Nest Pass
Kettle Valley
Ce C.P.R
Monitor-Kerobert
Monitor-Kerobert Line, 25 Miles Suffield
Weyburn
Coronation
Bassam
Saskatchewan River
Brandon
British Columbia
Canadian Northern Railway
Peace River
Onoway
Oliver
North Battleford
Calgary- Lethbridge
Flrose
Alsask
Gravel
Are the Prairies Permanent
The article argues prairies are no longer treeless in Canada due to Forestry Branch planting of over 24 million trees. It notes a Saskatoon branch nursery to meet demand, counters past theories about treelessness, cites Native fires as a historical cause, and foresees forest recovery on the prairies with artificial reforestation.
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Canada
Dominion Forestry Branch
Indian Head
Saskatoon
Prairies
Alberta
United States
Manitoba
Forestry Branch
Gullfests Feed on Piles of Port Arthur Fish
Flocks of gulls swarm over the nuisance ground at Port Arthur where winter and spring birds feed on dumped herrings. The mild fall left fish rotting and unsalvageable, forcing wagonloads to be hauled away as salting facilities were inadequate to handle the heavy catch.
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Port Arthur
First Ruthenian Church Dedicated in Toronto
A basilica style church dating to the fifth century, imported from Galicia, was dedicated in Toronto by Bishop Buda of Winnipeg. The church, claimed as the first of its kind on the American continent, costs about £40,000 and has Austrian and Polish membership.
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Toronto
Buda
Winnipeg
Galcia
Mobile coast defence batteries mounted on rail cars
French military authorities propose coast defence on mobile batteries mounted on railway trucks to cover long coastlines with economy. The system saves cost versus permanent batteries, allows rapid redeployment, and keeps plans secure since no permanent works reveal salient points. Guns to date include howitzer patterns in 7.87 inch 6 inch and 40 inch sizes with armored turrets and armored ammunition cars. An observation tower extends about 40 feet above rail tops on the car used in manoeuvres.
Suez Canal Deepening Reaches 29 Foot Depth Across Length
Announcement states the Suez Canal now runs at a uniform depth of 29 feet from Port Said to Suez after years of dredging begun in the 1880s and six years of finalizing work. Proposals for further dredging to 30 feet are under consideration while Panama’s sea level route remains deeper and wider but shorter in length and cost.
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Suez Canal
Orient
Port Said
Suez
Panama Canal
Remount Lease Placed With National Livestock Exchange
Hon. Colonel Sam Hughes empowers the National Livestock Exchange to lease 65 000 acres in townships 20 21 and 22 west of fourth Meridian sixty miles north of Medicine Hat for remounts. The lease pays two cents per acre annually and requires at least 1509 halfbred dams remounts yearly after 1916. Horses to age three and a half years for military supply. price not to exceed 250 per head. Britain may pre empt on the same terms. fifty fillies and fifty colts kept annually for breeding.
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Sam Hughes
National Livestock Exchange, Limited
Fourth Meridian
Medicine Hat
Red Deer River
Government of
Canada
War Office of
Great Britain
Exchange West
Colonel Hughes
Party Visits New Island Near Bonin Islands
A party from the steamer Chefoo reports a newly formed island near the Bonin group off Japan. The mass of ash and pumice sits at latitude 24.17 N, longitude 141.29 E with white cliffs and a three mile sea of pumice.
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Bonin Group
Japan
Chefoo
Crown Prince of Japan to Study at Oxford After Summer
The growing number of Oriental royals educated at Oxford or Cambridge will soon include the crown prince of Japan who is to be sent to Oxford after the summer vacation. There are already two sons of the King of Siam at Oxford.
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Oxford
Cambridge
Nxt
Crown Prince
Japan
Canada’s Interprovincial Highway Plan Gains Momentum
The Dominion Highways Association pushes an Atlantic to Pacific road with provincial and federal backing. Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon Motor League endorses the project at Regina and Moose Jaw, with plans to upgrade the Regina Moose Jaw segment and align routes near Swift Current toward detailed provincial cooperation. Transit and truck farming are expected to benefit from the road.
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Dominion
Atlantic
Pacific
H. J. Wilby
Dominion Highways Association
Canada
Saskatchewan Motor League
Regina
Saskatchewan
United States
States
Lake Superior
Detroit
Port “Uron
Atlantic Ocean
Wilby
Sault Ste. Marie
Fort William
Dommon
Provines
Swift Current
Moose Jaw
Moose van
Quebec censor board screens 40000 feet daily
Since its May 1 inauguration last year the Quebec board of censors has examined over 2000 miles of moving pictures. About 40000 feet are passed, rejected, or blocked each day, with improvements shown as fewer films are condemned annually. Approved films are exchanged with other Canadian boards as reciprocity.
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Quebec Board of Censors
Boards of Censor
Wealthy Homeless Englishman Seeks Historic Castle Sale
A man described as perhaps England’s richest offers 500000 pounds for a famous historic castle or manor as a residence. He targets Warwick Castle Penhurst Place and Arundel, and seeks 30 to 40 bedrooms and ample frescoed architecture. He hopes the Duke of Northumberland brokers Abbury Park sale.
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Bat
England
Warwick Castle
Penchurch Place
Kent
Lake of Norfolk
Arundel
Duke of Northumberland
Abbury Park
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Siberia
Marsh
Calear
Therselves
Germany
Saskatchewan Department
Coast Defence
New Island
Pacific Coast
Auebec Board of Film Censors
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