Diamond Dyes Promise Rich Brilliance and Easy Use
The ad touts Diamond Dyes for vibrant black and other colors using pure anilines for depth and fastness. It claims the blue package dyes silk and wool to professional standards, while the white package covers all fabrics including blends.
Diamond Gift Sparks Public Anniversary at Blackie's Club
Al Stone the singing waiter becomes master of ceremonies at Club Bombo after secretly orchestrating a third anniversary celebration for his wife Molly Winton. Molly, loved by John Perry, performs while Al's devotion to their child Junior shines in a quiet, radiant moment that unsettles Molly.
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Blackie Joe
New York
Marcus
Molly
Blackie’s
Grace
John Perry
Bombo
Perry
Molly Winton
Miss Winton
John
Junior
Phillips' Milk of Magnesia for Excess Stomach Acid
An advertisement extols Phillips' Milk of Magnesia as a quick, harmless remedy for excess stomach acid and indigestion. It claims fast relief within hours, urges readers to avoid crude methods, and notes the product has been prescribed by physicians for 50 years with full directions on each bottle.
Mother Graves Worm Exterminator Ad
An advertisement touts Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a remedy to combat intestinal parasites in children. It claims the product strengthens youngsters by driving out worms and restoring vitality.
Birds record flight feats by banded Arctic tern and robin
United States Bureau of Biological Survey guides 1,400 amateur ornithologists in leg banding. A marked Arctic tern traveled 10,000 miles in three months from Red Island Labrador to Natal South Africa. A robin covered 2,100 miles from Crystal Bay Mina to Pachuca Mexico in eighteen months.
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United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Red Island
Labrador
Natal
South Africa
Crystal Bay
Mina
Pachuca
Mexico
Moon Myths From Various Peoples
The Dakota Indians claim the moon waning is eaten by mice. Polynesians say it is devoured by spirits of the dead. Kaffirs believe it wanes when it hides its forehead from view due to a headache. Eskimos imagine the moon rests briefly when fatigued to eat and recover.
Saskatchewan Travelling Libraries Reach Rural Districts
The Saskatchewan Bureau of Publications distributes sturdy wooden boxes housing 40 to 500 books to rural communities. After application, libraries are sent at government expense one way, readers cover return charges, and 62,500 books and 1,250 libraries are in circulation.
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Saskatchewan Bureau of Publications
Baby's Own Tablets touted as safe bowel aid for children
A Victorian style advisory notes mothers must guard child health with Baby's Own Tablets from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. The laxative claims to ease constipation, indigestion, colds, fevers and teething pain, with safety for young children and pricing at 25 cents per box. Includes a Fortune Teller joke and light humor about debts.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
International Amputation Club form push at veterans convention
At the St Paul veterans of foreign wars annual convention Canadian Robert Burns head of a Winnipeg amputation club with over 1000 members urged uniting arm and leg loss veterans from Canada the United States England France and allies under one banner to prevent being forgotten and to strengthen postwar support.
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United States
France
St. Paul
Robert Burns
Winnipeg
Burns
Little Helps For This Week
A compact devotional note citing Psalm xvi 11 and quotes by Wolfgang Deisler and Jean Paul Richter. It emphasizes finding joy in God within daily life, bearing God within us, and planting eternity in the heart for serenity and light.
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Wolfgang Deisler
God
Jean Paul Richter
Anglo American Comity Shapes British Peace Policy
The Philadelphia Ledger notes Prime Minister MacDonald favors a steady shift toward close Anglo American cooperation. It argues such comity would make Britain and the United States arbiters of world peace, capable of dictating its basis.
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MacDonald
America
United States
Philadelphia Ledger
Education For Labor Inauguration Urged In Winnipeg
R. J. Hall of Swansea urged introduction of workers educational classes similar to programs in Great Britain Australia New Zealand and South Africa at a Winnipeg conference with leading educationalists Labor leaders and government officials. Hon R A Hoey the provincialMinister of education suggested his government might support the idea.
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Great Britain
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
R. J. Hall
Swansea
Wales
Winnipeg
Hall
R. A. Hoey
Proposed Nicaraguan Canal Survey Heads to Jungle
The 183 mile canal proposed through tropical mountains and forests from the Atlantic to the Pacific will depend on reports from 400 engineers who were ordered to duty in the Central American jungle to survey the route for the $1,000,000,000 project.
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Pacific Ocean
Warnings On Radium From British Empire Cancer Campaign
At the sixth annual meeting presided by the Duke of York Sir Thomas Horder cautioned that the National Radium Fund could foster unfounded belief in radium as a cancer cure. He urged restraint and noted rising cases where radium shows promise, while questioning staff qualifications at some fundraising institutions and suggesting training funded by collected money.
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Duke of York
Thomas Horder
Prince of Wales
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Sir Thomas
Toronto Mail
Empire
Mixed Brooklyn Population Described and Corn Remover Label
A Brooklyn population over 2 300 000 includes residents from all European and South American nations and many other continents. Holloway's Corn Remover is presented as safe to use and effective for hard and soft corns.
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Brooklyn
N.Y
Europe
South America
Holloway
Three Things Never Seen in Town Highlight Oddities
A local column recalls three unlikely sights: an undertaker at a funeral, a Black woman driving a car, and a parrot that can truly talk, framed as curious notes on progress and social change.
Essayist Finds Two On Three Hundred Pounds A Year
An essayist notes that two can be on three hundred pounds annually but omits to specify what two are. The remark highlights a linguistic puzzle about value and income without naming the missing two elements.
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