World Happenings Briefly Told In The News
Vancouver port doubles last year grain handling. King Alfonso abolishes jury trials in Spain. Eighty percent of harvesters from Britain stay in Western Canada per CN officials. Earthquake losses to Japanese navy estimated at 106,000,600 yen. Unemployment warned not to flood coast for work. Miss Margaret Craig dies at 51 in Montreal. 160th Halifax assembly anniversary noted. Japan quake toll official: dead 103,000 injured 1,235,000 missing 235,000. Simplicissimus banned in France. copies seized. Imbros and Tenedos islands handed to Turkish authorities by Greece per Lausanne treaty.
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Vancouver
Alfonso
Spain
Great Britain
Canada
Canadian National Railway
Taka- Trabe
J. D. McNiven
Washington
France
Imbros
Tenedos
Dardanelles
Greece
Turkey
Dr. Pierce Honored For Fifty Years Of Herbal Remedies
A distinguished citizen Dr. R V Pierce is celebrated for three notable successes. His Golden Medical Discovery is advertised as a blood medicine and stomach alterative that purports to beautify skin, raise blood flow, and clear pimples. The ad urges readers to ask their druggist or send 10 cents for a trial package to Dr. Pierce's Laboratory in Bridgeborg Ostario.
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R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Bridgeborg
Ostario
History of Electric Light
Smithsonian pamphlet chronicles 123 years of incandescent and magnetic arc lamp development. It notes global adoption, with about 150 million incandescent lamps in the US and similar numbers abroad, due to diverse researchers and practical engineers solving daily lighting needs.
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Smithsonian Institution
United States
Natiora
Old Folks Need A Mild Bowel Tonic
An article promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills as a mild remedy for constipation in elderly readers. It appeals to aging individuals seeking relief and emphasizes safe occasional use.
Dr Hamilton's Pills For Constipation
Dr Hamilton's Pills are promoted as an active yet mild remedy for habitual constipation. The ad claims thousands of users, both young and old, see prompt bowel regularity and improved health with daily use. Sold for 25¢ at all dealers.
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Dr. Hamilton
University of Toronto buys factory for insulin production
The University of Toronto acquired a building to be devoted entirely to insulin manufacture. The Banting discovered cure will be produced in Canada for commercial quantities, becoming the only Canadian facility of its kind. The product will be sold worldwide.
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University of Toronto
Banting
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Denmark
Guard the Baby Against Colds With The Tablets
The ad promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a mild laxative that keeps the stomach and bowels regular. It claims good digestion helps prevent colds and promotes health, happiness, and good nature in infants. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Portable electric lantern lights patent new design
A new portable electric light with a patent resembles an old oil lantern. The battery sits at the bottom replacing the oil reservoir while a glass globe protects the lamp. It stays steady through jolts and jars and burns long. when the battery runs out it is quickly replaced.
Improvements in Poultry Shipments to Eastern Canada
Developments in poultry shipping to Eastern Canada meet approval from Alberta officials and dealers. J. H. Hare, Alberta Poultry Commissioner, states that improvements warrant optimism for future business and that recent shipments have been satisfactory.
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Canada
J. H. Hare
Alberta
Easstern
Coal Output Up in Alberta for First Half of 1923
Figures from the preliminary mineral production report show Alberta produced 2 312 991 tons of coal in the first six months of 1923, up from 2 258 296 tons in the same period of 1922.
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Canada
Alberta
Waiting for a dead man's shoes remark
A remark questions someone walking around on his uppers while waiting for a dead man's shoes, implying opportunistic or precarious conduct in a loaded metaphorical sense.
Colds Stopped In Ten Minutes Remedy Ad
A vintage advertises Catarrhozone as a rapid cure for colds coughs and catarrh. It claims pine essence from Blue Gum Australia antiseptic inhalation and fast relief with a two month guarantee. Priced at $1.00 full, trial 50c, available via druggists or mail from Montreal.
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Australia
Catarrhozone Co
Montreal
Bananas The World’s Essential Food Item
The Milwaukee Journal notes bananas form a major staple for a quarter of humanity. Native to the East Indies, they now grow in tropical regions with minimal care and rapid spread. Each plant yields one bunch in a few months, nine hands per bunch, 10 to 15 bananas per hand, and only a few varieties are exported far.
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America
The
Milwaukee Journal
East Indies
Holloway's Corn Remover Ad Claims Root Removal
An advertisement promotes Holloway's Corn Remover as a remedy that removes corn from the root and invites readers to try it to prove its effectiveness.
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Holloway
Dominion premiers avoid excess to ease Imperial Conference strain
In London the Dominion premiers inform hosts they cannot endure all planned hospitality during the Imperial Conference and will attend only a small share of banquets. The menus will be toned down, the Daily Mail notes, recalling 1907 when leaders fell ill from over-banqueting at the event.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Botha
South Africa
Dr. Leade
Starr Jamieson
Cape Colony
Man with Asthma Seeks Relief Through Doctor Kellogg Remedy
A man afflicted with asthma longs for death to end his suffering but hopes for relief from Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy. The ad promises complete relief if used faithfully, claiming asthma will become a thing of the past.
Platinum Nuggets Worth Big Money In Early Metal Discovery
Platinum is found with other metals such as gold and chrome-iron in small grey particles and occasionally as valuable nuggets. A 25 pound platinum nugget would be worth over 36 000 dollars at current prices.
Hearst Music Publishers Plans New Winnipeg Head Office
Hearst Music Publishers Limited announced in Winnipeg that options for a new head office building are secured and branches will expand to Chicago Philadelphia Boston Pittsburgh St Louis San Francisco Toronto New York Montreal Vancouver and Melbourne The firm formed by Manitoba men has built a continent wide distribution of songs with 1923 dividends totaling 60 percent cash and 45 percent stock Joseph X Hearst serves as president and MD with John W Wilton as vice president and other officers including Gordon A MacLean John Anderson Andrew Lloyd Carl Fink W H Galbraith William Dempsey and Everett Evans.
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Hearst Music Publishers, Limited
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Toronto
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
San Francisco
U.S.A
Montreal
Vancouver
Canada
Melbourne
Australia
Great Britain
B. Feldman & Co
London
Joseph X. Hearst
John W. Wilton
M.P.P
St. James
Gordon A. MacLean
John Anderson
Andrew Lloyd
Carl Fink
W. H. Galbraith
Hartney
William Dempsey
Killarney
Man
Everett Evans
N.Y
Castoria Advertisement Claims for Constipation Relief
Classic advertisement extols Fletcher's Castoria as a 30 year remedy for babies and children. It touts relief from constipation, colic, wind, feverishness, and diarrhea, plus stomach soothing and natural sleep without opiates, authoritatively bearing genuine signatures.
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Fletcher
Canada Exports Autos Rise Amid Strong Trade Figures
Canada leads the British Empire in car exports as branch U S factories aid shipments under favorable tariffs. Ten months to August show growth with 61 543 cars exported yearly and U S demand driving parts shipments valued at 744 000 to Australia and 362 551 to New Zealand.
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Canada
United States
States
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
British Empire
Very Kind of Her Lady
A brief: a passerby offers work cleaning carpets two doors away in a street scene. The tramp thanks the speaker and acknowledges he might have bumped into trouble if warned off.
Boiler technology boosts output with massive 190000 pds water flow
The article notes a colossal boiler system capable of pumping 190 000 pounds of water per hour, highlighting its scale and industrial impact.
The Aim of Life and The Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Ad
A Boston Globe extract on life purpose stressing effort over bread winning. An accompanying advertisement promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil claiming external rubbing opens pores and internal use relieves throat irritation and bronchial issues.
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Boston Globe
Thomas
Ancestral Counts Grow With Generations Across Time
The piece argues that a woman's face bears the marks of nature requiring two parents and an expanding lineage. It traces ancestors: four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, 16 in the fourth generation, 32 in the fifth, about 1,950,000 in the twentieth, nearly 1,073,000,000 in the thirtieth, and a total of 5,362,794,214,046 in the fiftieth generation, an unnumbered multitude.
World Peace Builds Slowly Through Goodwill
Progress toward world peace comes from gradual adjustment of international discord. Nations cultivate reasonable ness and goodwill, not relying on fragile magical schemes like a coven ant league that collapses under strain.
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Kansas City Star
Don’t Waste Time Reasoning With an Angry Man
A terse maxim cautions against arguing with an irate person. It advises disengagement to avoid escalation and preserve calm in tense exchanges.
New Branch Lines Projected in Lethbridge and Cardston Districts
President Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railway announced at a Lethbridge Board of Trade function that the Kipp Little Bow branch would be built in 1924. The line runs through the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation district after flood repairs, with a Cardston delegation to consider an east west route serving the province's southwestern corner. An earth weight estimate of 6 quintillion tons is noted.
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Beatty
Canadian
Pacffic Railway
Board of Trade
Lethbridge
Kipp
Little Bow
Lethbridge Northern
Cardston
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Gillett
Japan
Methodist Church
McGill
Margaret Craig
Halifax
British North America
Electric Lantern
Minard
ATS Heu Es Ncrys
Eee
Hearst Music Publishers
Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Ca
Wrigleys
Baver
Capada
Haver
Nerficacitd
Bayer
Taviets
Wille
Ayer
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