Capitalists and Virtues Contrast in North American Progress
The piece argues thrift, hard work, prudence and integrity build industries and wealth, praising capitalist co operation with labor. It cites Walter P. Chrysler and John R. Booth and notes capital and labor drive progress in Canada and agriculture, cautioning against blanket hatred of capitalists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Lambert Payne
Ottawa Journal
Walter P. Chrysler
John R. Booth
Ottawa
Chrysler
Booth
Payne
London Passenger Trains Reach Seven Main Terminals Daily
The British Railways Press Office reports over 7,000 passenger trains use London's seven main line terminals each day, averaging five trains per minute. Britain has nearly twice as many passenger and freight trains per mile as France and more than five times those in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Railways Press Office
London
Britain
France
United States
Port Arthur
Leaves Post Lieutenant Rivers Smith to rejoin Royal Navy in England
Lieutenant S G Rivers-Smith relinquishes aide-de-camp duty to the governor general at Ottawa and heads for England to return to the royal navy. He left one year before his term ends after guiding Lord Tweedsmuir on a 10 000 mile Northwest and British Columbia tour. His successor is Lieut R Scott of the royal navy. A giant pearl nine inches long was found in a Philippine dam, notable for science rather than commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. G. Rivers-Smith
England
Royal Navy
Lord Tweedsmuir
Rivers-Smith
Ottawa
Northwest
British Columbia
Lieut. R. Scott
Post Office Delivers 20 Million Letters Daily
The British general post office handles about 20 million letters every day in addition to parcels, highlighting the vast scale of mail delivery operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British General Post Office
Filing Of Fingerprints Promoted By Royal Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police promote voluntary fingerprint filing by the public to aid identification in misfortune and investigations. Two cases mention deceased men identified through prints, one linked to Port Arthur assault records and Polish relatives, the other a Belleville resident linked to Ottawa, plus a service station burglary in Lindsay where a glove tear led to arrest.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
W. W. Watson
St. Boniface
Man
Steve Kozicki
Port Arthur
Immigration Department
Poland
Belleville
Ont
Ottawa
Thomas L. Madill
Lindsay
Torbitt Elementary School Opens in Ilford England
An ultra modern 1000 pupil Torbitt Elementary School opens in Ilford with two halls a film projection room wireless speaker system and a tiny tots department. Built in 1 year at nearly 200000 pounds it features a subway directly into the grounds ramps for perambulators and university graduate class masters.
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Ilford
England
Torbitt
Will Not Be Published Novelists Poison Recipes Stay Secret
Miss Kitty Shannon reveals she obtained ten Borgia poison recipes in Italy for a novel but publishers fear the material. A bank in London holds the recipes for safety, and the author says some poisons will remain secret while she plans to destroy them.
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London
Kitty Shannon
James Shannon
R.A
Miss Shannon
Italy
The
Daily Sketch
Rome
British Columbia Poet Audiences in Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement profiles Audrey Alexandra Brown of British Columbia praising her poem The Tree of Resurrection and other pieces for untouched fashion and melodic rhythm. The reviewer notes haunting imagery in White Bride and The Wen digo and strong past recollections in The Roman Sentry at Pompeii and The Tree of Resurrection. A concluding line reflects on a man’s size being measured by what angers him.
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Audrey Alexandra Brown
British Columbia
Times Literary Supplement
Pompeii
King George V Intervenes in Military Commissions
The King personally signs commissions in all three services and reviews court martial judgments before promulgation. He often intervened to help officers in financial trouble by recommending transfer to less demanding units, with at least one brigadier general on the army list resulting from such intervention.
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George V
Buffalo Courier- Express
Well Qualified Applicant Seeks Valet Post
An old general asks if a job applicant can be a valet for his glass eye wooden leg wax arm and false teeth. The applicant boasts six years experience in a motor car factory assembling department.
Farm Machinery Imports Jump in Canada September
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada September imports of farm implements and machinery at 1,738,849 dollars, up from 800,522 a year earlier. For the first six months of the current fiscal year imports total 10,799,275 dollars versus 6,081,160 in the same period last year.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Whale louse and Russia millennial pledge tale
A small jointed animal related to freshwater shrimp parasitizes whale skin and is called the whale louse. The text also notes a stark Russian phrase about allegiance to the millennium or facing a firing squad, indicating a satirical or loaded citation.
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Russia
Hydros Visit Ottawa Highlight Scottish Hotelers Tour
Twenty two Scottish hotelkeepers and wives toured Ottawa visiting Parliament and Chateau Laurier after a tour organized by the Scottish Travel Association and Hotels and Restaurateurs’ Association of Great Britain. They toured and dined with Canadian National Railways hotel department and noted romantic hotel names such as the Bailie Nicol Jarvie Aberfoyle and Duke of Gordon Kingussie.
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Scottish Travel Association
Hotels and Restauranters’ Association of Great Britain
Ottawa
Parliament Buildings
Chateau Laurier
Canadian National Railways
Hydros
Peebles
Skelmorlie
Agadale
Machrihanish
Duke of Gordon
Kingussie
Bailie Nicol Jarvie
Aberfoyle
Walter Scott
Rob Roy
C.N.R
Canadian Nurses Entering U S Limited by Border Rules
National Nurses Association releases a letter from Bar James Houghtering noting steps to curb Canadian nurses entering the United States to seek employment. The protest to Labor Secretary Perkins prompted Houghtering to say border officers will not issue visitors permits to allow nurse job seekers, aside from temporary visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Houghtering
United States Immigration Commissioner
National Nurses’ Association
United States
Association
Perkins
New York State
New York
Houghteling
TV Am
Hungary Posts Egg Prices In Post Offices To Fight Middlemen
In a bid to shield peasants from price gouging unscrupulous middlemen, the government of Hungary has begun posting daily egg prices in post offices across the country. The move aims to increase transparency and stabilize local markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungary
Westminster Named London’s Most Dangerous Borough
Statistics on road accidents rank Westminster as the city's riskiest borough while Stoke Newington tops as the safest area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
London
Stoke Newington
83 Year Old Woman Defies Rheumatism With Kruschen Salts
An 83 or 84 year old woman recalls a rheumatism battle begun in 1931. She credits Kruschen Salts with easing pain and stiffness after years of suffering and difficult sleep. The note explains uric acid deposits as common pain causes and claims strong liver and kidney action from the remedy.
No Harm From Dog Food Mix Up in New Jersey Call
Stanley Ditzel of West Orange Town Hall reassured a caller that no harm would come after a dog owner fed her husband patties made of canned dog food by mistake. The woman, unnamed, worried about potential illness.
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Stanley Ditzel
West Orange
New Jersey
Board of Health
Mr. Ditzel
Statue of Christ A Island Symbol Erected by Eskimos
A life size Christ statue on Christ the King Island faces Russia from 900 feet high ground. Erected by 190 Eskimo Catholics led by Father Bernard Hubbard with details revealed in New York by Felicity Barnwell, widow of sculptor Samuel Kitson. England reports 70,000 pubs with 28,000 rebuilt since 1935.
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Christ
Russia
Bering Sea
Lonely Christ the King Island
New York
Felicity Barnwell
Samuel J. Kitson
Kitson
Bernard R. Hubbard
Nome
England
Elephant in survey found with unusually slow heart beat
A single elephant examined in a survey showed a heart rate of 22 beats per minute, signaling an exceptionally slow pulse for the species.
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Appleford Paper Products Limited
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