Cardston Temple Plans Highlight Mormon Ceremonies and Rooms
The article describes a forthcoming Cardston temple in Alberta serving as the first Canadian Mormon temple on British soil. It outlines baptism for the dead, endowments, sealings for living and dead, and distinct rooms like garden, world, terrestrial, celestial, sealing, and holy of holies, plus council rooms for Alberta and Taylor stakes.
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South
Alberta
Salt Lake
Canada
Smith
Cardston
Asia
Garden of Eden
Mormon Church
den of Eden
Cardston Temple
Taylor
The Alaskan Boundary Dispute Clarified
A historical note outlines the Canadian Alaskan boundary issue and estimates the frontier length at about 3 507 miles along the coast as part of territorial delineation.
Bonsecours Market evokes historic Montreal’s busy open air fairs
Ancient Bonsecours Market in Jacques Cartier Square draws crowds on market days. Vendors offer vegetables poultry rabbits and even red foxes while observers note live animals and open sales reflecting 19th century civic life in Montreal.
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Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Hon
J. Ferrier
Verrier
Aids
Linn
Trudeau
Molson
Laroque
Currie
Charles Dickens
Death of Captain O. G. V. Spain in Toronto
Toronto mourns Captain O G V Spain a famed naval authority on coast defence and marine service. A veteran of Minotaur campaigns in 1882 and Dolphin actions at Suakim he earned the Khedive bronze star. He later led Canada's eleven ship armed cruiser fleet and held posts including Dominion Police commissioner and wreck commissioner.
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Toronto
O. G. V. Spain
Canada
Khedive
Spain
Suakim
East Soudan
Dominion Police
Lighthouse Board
Marine Service
Rooster Detained After Free Ride to Guelph
A red game rooster rode a G T R train from West Toronto Junction to Guelph perched on the engine pilot and crowed as the train left the yards. It arrived exhausted and cindered, found by a crew member in Guelph who restrained the exhausted bird.
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G.T.R
Toronto Junction
Guelph
GTR
Wolfe Memorial Church Proposed in Battlefields Park
Rev Canon Scott of Quebec proposes a Wolfe memorial church atop the Avenue des Braves in the new Battlefields Park. Designs by R A Cramp include late Gothic features and a lofty interior with flying buttresses. Funds estimated around one hundred thousand dollars with support from England and Canada including Archbishops and noble sponsors.
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Wolfe
Battlefields
National Battlefelds Commission
Canon Scott
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Ste. Fore
St. Charles Valley
Avenue Des Braves
Laurentian Mountains
St. Charles
R. A. Cram
St. Alban’s Cathedral
England
Canterbury
Osler
Regius
Oxford
Lord Halifax
York
Con. Wolfe
Diocese of
Duke of Newcastle
Winchester
Lord Stanhope
St. Alphege’s Church
Greenwich
Eng
Canadian exam answers amuse with odd historical errors
A Canada wide report notes amusing exam responses in history tests. Students mix up events and figures such as Braddock and Pope, confuse papal interdicts, and misassign global roles, revealing humorous misunderstandings from the recent papers.
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Canada
Braddock
Lloyd George
Bosworth Field
Mary
Frontenac
Alware
Robt. Rogers
Henri Bourassa
W. H. Taft
Sir John A. Macdonald
General Booth
C.P.R
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
Welland Canal
Neptune
Great Lakes facts on depths widths and drainages
The article compares the five Great Lakes by depth width and drainage. It notes Lake Michigan’s depth twice that of Superior, Ontario’s lead in drainage, and the general elevation differences from Superior to Ontario. It also cautions against overboard moments in shallow Erie and Ontario.
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Lake Superior
Lake Ontario
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Superior
Lake Huron
Lake Erie
Huron
Michigan
Erie
Ontario
Resignation tale proves a love for Dufferin wins students
A Toronto educationist James L. Hughes refused several reasons to transfer a boy to Dufferin School. The couple cite tracks, teachers, and loyalty as excuses until they reveal they first met there. Hughes taps the table, grants the transfer, and approves the request.
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James L. Hughes
Toronto
East End
Dufferin School
Hughes
Rats Found In Farm Barn Near Carman
While removing an oat stack on a Manitoba farm near Carman Wilson Roblin and his hired man using pitch forks killed eighty six rats. Carman lies sixty miles west of Winnipeg and the incident is seen as evidence that without drastic effort the pest could spread across Western Canada.
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Carman
Man
Wilson Roblin
Mr. Roblin
Winnipeg
Canada
Not All Pure Maple Adulteration Reported in Maples
Irland Revenue bulletins reveal extensive maple product adulteration. Of 128 syrup samples, 6 were genuine while 82 maple sugar samples showed 86 adulterated cases, indicating widespread mislabeling and quality concerns in the market.
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Irland Revenue Department
Sizing Up Voters Tests Tact in Kingston Election
Government members endure hard lessons in reading people as candidates brace for job hunting days. The Kingston scene recalls Mr. W. F. Nickle who, after winning the Liberal seat, meets a man eager to be guard at the pen. When asked age, the man replies he is thirty six with two voting sons and a wife, prompting further curious exchanges.
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W. F. Nickle
Kingston
Salmon Pack Figures Signal Lean BC Season
Northern British Columbia canneries report a lean year with sockeye pack totaling 180000 cases, far below the sixteen year average of 750000. Puget Sound canneries show a better season, while Fraser River output reaches 600000 cases versus 1000000 in 1911.
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British Columbia
Puget Sound
Sesson
Tasmania's Record 1911 12 Season Output
Tasmanian production totals from 1911 to 1912 include 654615 bushels of wheat 1504659 of cats 432364 of peas 1565944 of apples and 62164 tons of potatoes across the season.
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Tasmania
Local mushroom lore guides foragers in Toronto
The Toronto Star Weekly piece outlines common edible species and foraging spots from meadow mushrooms near pastures to morels in Queen's Park and riverfront dumps. It explains identifying features, cautions against poisonous lookalikes, and notes peak picking with seasons extending into November and even December.
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Queen's Park
Trinity College Grounds
High Park
Ronto
Riverdale
Clarence Square
Epicures
Veriert Tyre
C.M.C
Toronto Star Weekly
Delver to Figures: New Municipal Rates Book Exacted
H J Lytle prepared a county town auditorship manuscript printed at Lindsay. The volume contains over two hundred thousand calculations with rates from one mill to nine and ninety nine hundredths. Lytle mentally rechecked proofs, but doubts fame and profit. Only one copy may sell locally, perhaps none in small towns.
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Lindsay
Audhtor
H. J. Lytle
Iveness
Nuns Choose Leper Colony Life Near Canton
Three young Montreal nuns have left to live in a leper colony on Sheklung Island near Canton. A separate hospital has been built to care for four hundred Chinese women with leprosy, with Father Conrardy and a small staff.
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Montreal
Sheeklung Island
Canton
Pather Conrardy
Derby Race Ends With Wright Falling in King Edward Ale Prize
Tom Wright the heaviest Derby resident raced 50 yards at Burton-on-Trent against George Fairburn, an elderly Burton man. The prize was a bottle of King Edward ale. Wright fell and Fairburn won easily.
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Tom Wright
Derby
Burton-on-Trent
George Fairburn
Burton
Edward
Wright
Alabama's first woman game warden earns respect and headlines
Miss Norma Frederic Gibboney, appointed by Governor Emmet O'Neal, serves as Alabama game police chief, defying jokes from pothunters as she carries a revolver and shotgun. A renowned marksman, she explains her mission to protect birds and ecosystems, plans to live on a log cabin site, and remains a prominent southern figure with notable genealogy.
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Norma Frederic Gibboney
Miss Gibboney
Emmet O'Neal
Alabama
United States
Biarshes
Alpha
Mobbile Bay
Dog River
Moile
South
New Orleans
Zack Taylor
Patrick Henry
Virginia Sheltons
Notable Authors and Figures Mentioned in Erratic Memoir Notes
The fragment references Mrs Elsie Clews Watson of New York and her book The Old Fashioned Woman, with Mayor Gaynor quot ed on its title, plus mentions of Miss Elizabeth Berdwin and Miss Susie Hoot Rhodes Mirartan, a League of American Women member, all tangled in a jumbled historical recollection about anniversaries and social figures. The text also cites a Backett Harbor resident and a supposed com memoration of the War of 1812, but details are unclear and inconsistent throughout.
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Elsie Clews Watsons
New York
Gaynor
United States
Secentix
Elizabeth C Berdaw
Mera Fagh Wraser
Granny Vie
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Wolfe Church
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Hero
Maddie
the Great Lakes
Mighty Young
King’s Deer
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Mra
Susie Hoot Rhodes Mirartan
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