The Wymuths Take Charge at the Girls Home
Helmi arrives at the Girls' Friendly Home under the Wymuth rule and is admitted to a private retreat. Mr and Mrs Wymuth emphasize discipline and education while Helmi recalls her aunt, Miss Abbie Moore, and awaits aid from Mrs St John. The board expects result from the first case since the Wymuths took over.
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Wymuths
Hell
Christ
Helmi
Miss Rodgers
Mrs. St. John
Ond
Helm
Heims
Heli
Saint Paul
Hber
Winnipeg
Abbie Moore
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Aids Expectant Mother
Expectant mother in Chatham Ontario reports rapid relief from headaches and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with renewed energy, successful washing duties, and a healthy five month old baby.
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Chatham
Ontario
Camel
Lydia E. Pinkham
Curver
Harvey St
Antarie
The New Girl Helmi Faces Pressure at the Boarding House
Mrs. Wymuth presses Helmi Milander to share her story as the girls at the boarding house listen with keen interest and suspicion. Helmi resists, while nightly prayers become a cover for probing questions and creeping coercion.
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Helmi
Hetmi
American golf pro Alex Smith and the Scot Duncan dining tale
A humorous cross Atlantic tale follows Alex Smith and George Duncan during their visits to Scotland and New York. Duncan wears Smith's stockings and clothes in New York, while Smith in Scotland witnesses Duncan pay half the dinner bill. The piece ends with an ad for Mother Graves Worm Exterminator urging worm prevention for children.
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New York
Scotland
Alex Smith
George Duncan
Smith
Duncan
Testing Big Seaplane And Baltic Flight Venture
The Westminster Gazette reports the British ministry is testing a 3,000 mile seaplane flight in the Baltic with experimental flying boats for naval and commercial transport. It mentions possible use of metal aerial ships as scouts for the fleet. The article also notes that the eye moves under six muscles.
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Westminster Gazette
Baltic
Gazette
New Home Ready Prince Of Wales To Take Up Residence
The Prince of Wales will move into Marlborough House soon after returning from Canada. The house, built by Sir Christopher Wren for the first Duke of Marlborough, has housed royal members and later King Edward VII. The Prince will occupy a small portion on the first floor with garden views and a reading room for correspondence. Queen Alexandra’s boudoir and four state rooms remain unchanged.
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Dence
Marlborough House
Prince of Wales
Canada
Christopher Wren
Duke of Marlborough
Edward VII
Queen Alexandra
Queen Victoria
Osborne House
Isle of Wight
Duty on American publications shifts to 25 percent
Canada declares 49 American periodicals dutiable at 25 per cent, switching them from free entry as magazines to unbound novels under the general tariff. The change, cited in formal terms, follows a ruling that these periodicals are largely fiction with few descriptive or current topic articles.
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Department of National Revenue
Canada
United States
Five Curious Lakes on Mangishlak Peninsula
The article describes five Caspian Sea lakes with unique features a salt crust crossing by foot a round rose hued lake with scented water caused by seaweed and medicinal Minard's Liniment. It also notes rapid paper production after cutting three trees near a mill at 7.55 am pulping them into paper by 9.34 am and sales by 4 pm.
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Mangishlak Peninsula
Caspian Sea
Aids Settlement In West Aims to Build New Communities
The Canada Colonization Association, a Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiary, reports that in the first half of 1927 it placed 401 families on 97,941 acres of land in Western Canada. The remark about social norms follows noting that cash buyers attract more attention than aspirants.
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The
Canada Colonization Association
Canadian Pacific Railway
Western
Canada
Sixty Plate Dinner Sent by Air to Reno Rancher
A St Francis Uodel in San Francisco received an order for a sixty plate dinner to be delivered by aero plane to W. H. Moffit a cattle rancher near Reno Ney. TelephonE arrangements from the Moffit ranch arranged forwarding by express aero plane with electric heaters a head waiter and two aviators to serve.
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Reno
San Francisco
St. Francis
Doctor’s praise for Williams Pink Pills endorsed by Dr Andrea Amici
European physician Dr Andrea Amici, physician to the Papal household, endorses Williams Pink Pills as superior to other tonics for anemia, neurasthenia, and related disorders. The pills are sold by mail for 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Andrea Amici
Williams
Amici
Willams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Key Word of Jesus Heart's Inner Chamber
A compact meditation on how great teachers chose defining words. The piece notes many historical figures and their guiding words, concluding that Jesus offers a single, powerful word to the inner life: love.
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Buddha
Zoroaster
Menu
Confucius
Moses
Plato
Socrates
Epictetus
Antoninus
Jesus
O. B. Frothingham
Signature Spur in Church Sermon Echoes Ancient Egypt Doubt
A congregant wrote the word Fool on paper and handed it to an usher during a sermon. The minister read it aloud then mused on an unusual signature and noted that ancient Egypt’s sacred lotus was actually a water lily.
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Ancient
Egypt
Buried Meteorite May Hold Platinum at 600 Feet
A drill broke 600 feet underground in Canyon Diablo Arizona during a test boring. Scientists consider the break a possible sign that a massive meteorite lies beneath Meteor Crater and mining men expect platinum finds. experts warn of dangerous potential impacts if such a meteorite were to strike Earth.
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Canyon Diablo
Arizona
Coon Butte
Meteor Crater
Neil M. Clark
Popular Science Monthly
Chicago
New York
Africa
Royal visitors tour King George’s Windsor farm
North American farmers toured King George III’s model farm at Windsor learning how Buckingham Palace dining uses dairy vegetables pork and poultry. They saw prize jer seyS cows shorthorns and Sussex poultry and noted the farm operates on an economic basis with profits directed to palace upkeep.
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North America
King George’s
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
King George
Victoria
Queen Alexandra’s Photo Collection Noted for Royal Portraits
The article notes Queen Alexandra’s interest in photography and a bound collection of photos she took or collected of European royalty across more than fifty years. It mentions her keen eye for a good image and the late monarch’s enduring passion for the camera. It adds a curious aside that toads absorb water through their skin.
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Alexandra
Europe
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