Canadian universities praised for global influence and growth
A October celebration marks the centenary of the University of Toronto and the golden jubilee of the University of Manitoba. The piece extols Canada’s young but high achieving higher education system, noting medical, engineering, and agricultural advances and the major role education plays in Canada's development and prosperity.
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Canada
University of Toronto
George IV
University of Manitoba
Weil
Igher
Enada
United States
North America
Hockefeller Foundation
Medical College of the
Harvard University
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
McGill
Montreal
British Isles
Metill
Medical College of Toronto University
F. G. Lanting
Dominion
West
Prairie Provinces
Education
Belief in Animal Thought Debated by Paris Delegates
Delegates at the International Congress for Psychic Research in Paris debated whether animals can think or if clever training accounts for apparent thought. Charles Richet, congress president, suggested it would be daring to claim humans are entirely different from animals and foresaw a future link among biology physiology and metaphysics.
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International Congress For Psychic Research
Paris
Charles Richet
Congress
Latest Radio Invention A Wireless Tuning Box
Bowden Washington formerly of the United States Navy and Wilson Aull Jr patent a portable tuning box for radio sets. The unit is carried or placed on a chair and controls the receiver without any wires or mechanical links to the main set. Operators can tune from a convenient spot, enabling the main set to be hidden and forgotten until tube replacement or maintenance is needed.
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Bowden Washington
United States Navy
Wilson Aull, Jr
Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim’s Aerial Past and Colonial Bungalows
The text notes Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim who flew during wartime and owned a personal aeroplane, despite Austrian-linked name and a 1599 marriage ending in her husband’s death. It mentions British colonial bungalow origins from the Hindu term bangla and hints at the electric chair as a deterrent, plus a stray line on Raja’s Linimect.
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Lowenstein-Wertheim
St. Raphael
India
Canadian Poet Honored in Stratford Shakespeare Verse
Halifax girl Mary Setonm is named in the merit order for English poems in a Shakespeare verse competition by the Poetry Society to aid the Memorial Theatre fund at Stratford on Avon. The contest draws global entries with many languages. Frank Beresford of Wolverhampton, England, won first place in the English Poems Section.
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Halifax
Mary Setonm
The
Poetry Society
Memorial Theatre Fund
Stratford On Avon
Frank Beresford
Wolverhampton
England
Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor Ad
An old advertisement warns against cutting corns with a shared razor and promotes Putnam's Corn Extractor as safe quick relief. It claims infection and death may follow using contaminated knives, urging readers to buy the product for painless corns calluses and sore footlamps, priced six cents at dealers.
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Putnam
Odd Butterfly Farm in Kent Sends Butterflies Nationwide
Englishman L. W. Newman runs a Kent butterfly and moth farm shipping thousands of specimens across the country. A Yorkshire site at Burniston near Scarborough also raises diverse species. The Kent display includes exotic races and Indian silk moths in late summer.
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L. W. Newman
Kent
England
Yorkshire
Burniston
Scarborough
Newman
Urniston
Dr Williams Pink Pills cited as cure for anaemia and rheumatism
A Ontario reader lauds Dr Williams Pink Pills for applying to scarlet fever aftercare rheumatic pain and facial twitches in her son and anaemia in her daughter. She endorses the pills as a blood builder and tonic and notes they are available at 50 cents per box from Brockville. The piece ends with a quip about how pedestrians who move slowly are called deceased.
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Dr. Williams
Medicine
Mall
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, On
Good-bye Asthma Remedy Promises Quick Relief
A promotional note extols Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as a swift aid to asthma sufferers, claiming immediate help and a return to life free from attacks. The tone urges readers to rely on the remedy to escape the chronic threat and regain normalcy.
Inventor Antoine Saxe and the Saxophone's Origins
Antoine Joseph Saxe, born in Belgium and Paris, developed several reed instruments around 1840. The saxophone bears his name and traces to his early instrument experiments in Europe.
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Antoine Joseph Saxe
Belgium
Paris
Saskatchewan Newspaper Men Convene in Regina for 1928
The eleventh annual Saskatchewan Division convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association drew strong attendance and enthusiasm. Regina was chosen as the 1928 meeting site with speeches by S. N. Wynne and praise for the division, highlighting Dolores Dornan’s work and officers like T. H. McCullough and S. R. Moore.
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Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association
Regina
Saskatchewan
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
S. J. Dornan
Alameda
Regina Board of Trade
Toronto Type Foundry Co
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Management
Weekly Newspaper Association
McCullough
Weyburn
T. H. McCullough
J. Latta
C. R. MclIntosh
M.P
North Battleford
S. R. Moore
Swift Current
E. Garrett
Watrous
N. Wynne
Yorkton
G. W. Smalwood
Kinistine
T. E. Scriver
Wolseley
H. G. Shelldrake
C. J. Allbon
Asquith
S. N. Wynne
Canadian Association
Mr. Wynne
British Columbia Association
Sunspot Belief Links Crime to Cosmic Conditions
Moscow professor Alexander Tchijevsky argues sunspot activity influences human temperament and crime. He predicts judges will weigh meteorological and astronomical conditions at the crime time as guilt factors, claiming solar activity alters nerves and impulses and can affect behavior.
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Alexander Tchijevsky
Moscow University
Tehnjevsky
Moscow Psychological Laboratory
Tablet Unveiled for Col Ham by Women's Press Club
In Montreal the Canadian Women's Press Club unveiled a tablet to Colonel George Henry Ham founder and friend of the group. Miss May S Clendennan presided at Windsor street station, Canadian Pacific Railway, noting his services and memory.
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George Ham
Canada
Montreal
Canadian Women's Press Club
May S. Clendennan
Colonel Ham
Windsor Street
Canadian Pacific Railway
George Henry Ham
Canadian Women’s Press Club
Latest Contribution To Science Of Advertising
A glorified magic lantern projects photographs and signs onto clouds. The laboratory device uses a powerful search light, lenses, and a slide holder mounted like a cannon. It can project images five miles onto a cloud bank with color changing effects from a revolving screen.
The Oil For the Farmer
A bottle of Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is advertised as a versatile domestic remedy. The ad claims it helps children with colds and croap and adults with pains while offering use instructions for sick cattle and urging households to keep a bottle on hand.
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Thomas
Wheat producing costs across North America
North American data show the highest wheat production cost at a Minnesota town reach 62.23 dollars per bushel. The lowest cost appears at the home town of ex Premier Greenfield in the Peace River district at 54 cents per bushel.
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United States
North America
Minnesota
Greenfield
Peace River
Minardo's Liniment for Asthma Gratitude Adage
An old advertisement line proclaims Minardo's Liniment as asthma relief alongside a reflective sentiment Gratitude is the fond recollection of the heart. The brief insert blends a product claim with a moralizing motto.
Sodium Sulphate Plant to Rise near Fusilier Saskatchewan
A report to Commissioner T. M Molloy notes a new sodium sulphate plant north of Fusilier west of Kerrobert with capacity near 70 000 tons yearly. The power plant is operating and drying buildings are being equipped. Two grades will be produced, coarse for paper and fine for glass and dye industries.
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Saskatchewan
T. M Molloy
Bureau of Labor and Industries
W. H. Hastings
Bureau
Fusilier
Kerrobert
C. Heathcote
Taking No Chances Arnold Scotchman Funeral Instructions
A dying man named Arnold Scotchman instructs his wife to invite friends to his funeral and to return to the house for whiskey in his memory, as he will not be there. The piece ends with a sales pitch for Dr Thomas Electric Oil, touted as a cheap portable remedy for common ills.
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Arnold Scotchman
Jean
Thomas
Peruvian Fine for Lighting American Matches Sparks Trade Claim
A Peru law bans lighting American matches with a potential fine of 20 dollars. The move follows a claim that a Swedish match company holds a monopoly on matches sold in Peru.
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Peru
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Credit Corporation
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TESTO
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Women’s Press Club
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