Mystery of a staged ambush and a staged killer named Bart Caswell
Seymour pieces together the murder of a miner at a camp, doubting an ambush theory as Ruth Duperow explains how Russel Seymour posed as a mining expert. She identifies the killer and explains the staged disguise, noting a coroner and deputy sheriff confusion in Gold.
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Seymour
Miss
Ruth Duperow
Upele
Moira
Russel Seymour
Bart Caswell
Sweet Marie Creek
Working Girl's Experience With Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine
Arnprior Ontario woman 19 recounts three years at a factory leaving her weak and anemic with painful periods. After two years of decline she notes weight gain from 108 to 118 pounds and a “Vegetable Compound” improvement. She urges others to try the remedy and mentions her mother also using it.
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Arnprior
Ontario
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Willin
Miss Hare
Box 7
Sergeant tracks killer and fake Mountie in Canadian frontier tale
Sergeant Seymour hunts the murderer of Bart Caswell in the wilderness. He follows fresh horse tracks through brush, notes a 30-30 cartridge, and pieces together that the killer used Bart's mounted police uniform for a bold crime. Ruth Duperow grieves beside Bart as townsfolk cluster near a halted freight wagon.
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Sam Hardley
Seymour
Cacuz
Hardley
Miss Daperow
Bart
Caswell
Crusoe
Ruth Duperow
Moira
Ned
Bart Caswell
Kaw
Chance
Ruth
Ile
Kan
Halter
Duperow
Suspect Arrival Stirs Tense District In Crime Sketch
Seymour reaches a wary group where hostile glances mark him as a possible suspect in the crime. A stout man with a pistol asks who he is as the sergeant prepares to investigate.
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Seymour
An Air Pressure Railway of 1817
The South Devon Atmospheric Railway was an air powered line run by air pressure pushed through a central track pipe. Pumping stations every three miles kept supply. The Monklands and Kirkintilloch line used umbrellas to capture wind for propulsion and passengers had to push the return trip.
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South Devon
London
Monklands
Kirkintilloch
Unique Maine Bible Completed by Bible Society Members
The Bible Society of Maine finished a hand written Bible after about a year’s effort. More than 1,600 people contributed a page each, with maps and illustrations from others. Contributors ranged from a millionaire to a pauper and from a merchant to a housewife, including people of all faiths.
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Bible Society of Maine
Society
Innerton Sets World Record for Rapid Wheat Loading
The steamship Innerton reportedly loaded 27 500 bushels of wheat in 6% hours at Montreal, claiming a new world record for speed. Meanwhile the British air transport service carried 15 900 passengers over the past year with one fatality.
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Montreal
Innerton
British Air Transport Service
Roman Knight With Sword and Buckler Unearthed in Bulgaria
A peasant plowing near a Bulgarian village uncovered a marble tomb containing bronze armor, a shield, sword, spear, utensils, and an exquisite vase. Velkoff of the National Museum and Greek antiquities expert Popoff date the find to the pre Alexandrine period and suggest the knight belonged to a Hellenic coastal colony. The helmet bears Apollo, Pallas Athene, Poseidon, Minerva, Mars, and Zeus with a trident on an ear piece. Cremation followed the burial, implying the knight was a high personage.
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Bulgaria
Velkoff
National Museum
Popoff
Black Sea
Apollo
Pallas
Athene
Poseidon
Mineia
Mars
Zeus
Chinese Child Selling Testimony Near American Mission
An impoverished Chinese couple stranded while traveling through Hankow to Nanking sought aid at an American Church Mission after the wife fell ill. The husband owed money and claimed they must sell their child. Missionaries cared for the mother and provided funds, noting many similar cases, especially involving girls, reaching their doors. A separate note reports eighteen thousand doors in a shipment from Oregon to England.
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China
Hankow
Nanking
Oregon
England
Saskatchewan youth wins Burt McDonald camp scholarship
Albert Brown of Sas katchewan Tuxis at Camp Ah mek Algonquin Park earned the Burt McDonald general proficiency scholarship for all round camping ability after a two month camp attended by 200 boys and leaders from across the United States and Canada. He also received an Indian name in the Order of Gitchiahmek, named Apenindis meaning the self reliant one. Brown was the camp’s only Indian name recipient. donor Burt McDonald, a Regina resident, attended the closing banquet and congratulated him after silver cups were presented by Taylor Statten, camp director, at the Regina Leader's report. Brown qualified for 16 bars across swimming lifesaving canoeing campcraft woodcraft astronomy trees flowers citizenship public speaking diving boxing entertaining Indian life and riding.
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Albert Brown
Saskatchewan Tuxis
Ahmek
Algonquin Park
Burt McDonald
United States
Canada
Saskatchewan
Gitchiahmek
Regina
Brown
McDonald
Taylor Statten
Reforming the Calendar Thirteen Month Scheme Proposed by Harris
The American Meteorological Society backed a 13 month calendar advocated by Winnipeg pioneer J. W. Harris. He argues in 1919 writings for four week months, 13 months per year, and seven day weeks with an extra day as New Year’s Day and a Leap Year Day. He also proposes renaming months as First through Thirteenth to simplify time computation.
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American Meteorological Society
J. W. Harris
Mr. Harris
Harris
Diet Advice: Quick Thinning by Eating Less
A reader requests rapid thinning guidance and the reply suggests quitting eating, or at least eating less. It advises a bulky vegetable plan with cabbage cauliflower lettuce spinach and other greens to feel comfortable while thinning.
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San Francisco Bulletin
Sailors Believed Whale Crossing Bow Brings Ill Luck
English mariners held that a whale crossing before the ship’s prow signaled bad luck. The superstition placed caution on voyage prints and steered sailors toward wary caution during sea passages.
Maximum Size Of Hailstones In Weather Records
The article notes the largest possible hailstone size cannot be positively stated, but reports exist of stones weighing over a pound. Examples include Natal 1874 hailstones weighing up to a pound and a half, and 14 inch circumference stones in New South Wales 1847. It explains giant masses may form when smaller hailstones coalesce on the ground.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Natal
New South Wales
Cazoria
Spain
Celle
France
Baby's Own Tablets Promote Comfort for Ill Infants
When a baby is ill or cries without relief, Baby's Own Tablets are recommended as a mild laxative to regulate bowels soften the stomach and aid teething. The product claims to relieve constipation indigestion and fever without opiates and narcotics and can be safely given to newborns. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Oat
Noted Maharajah Of Travancore Dies In India
News from Madras reports the death of Sir Rama Varma the Maharajah of Travancore a leading Malayali state ruler. He was famed as a great English scholar progressive in outlook and kept ritual customs regarding meals and visitors. The crown passes to his sister’s son while his own son cannot inherit the title. Travancore covers 6720 square miles with about 3.03 million people. He resided in a palace at Trivandrum and his salute was 19 guns with two added in his honor.
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Madras
Travancore
Sir Rama Varma
Etill
India
Trivandrum
Eskimos Bring Frozen Game to Harwich in 1816
A January 1816 report notes Eskimo travelers presenting frozen game in airtight cases to Harwich England, marking the first known contact of the civilized world with frozen rockt.
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Harwich
England
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D. Goodbill
Foronte
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Banka Ham
W. Nul. Ue
Bayer
Tuxis
Winnipeg
MacDonald
Muleean
Prince
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