Seventy-Year Pioneer of Western Canadian Farming
Samuel Larcombe of Birtie Manitoba marks seventy with a record of thirty years in farming winning over three thousand prizes including the 1917 world wheat title at Peoria. His success in vegetables and roots for the Canadian Pacific Railway exhibits boosted Western Canada’s farming image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Larcombe
Birtie
Manitoba
Western Canada
Littlevon
Larcombe
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion
Canada
Drought threatens cattlemen and empire notes in brief
World happenings brief outlines drought in British Columbia forcing cattlemen to sacrifice half their stock. The King approves Sir Harcourt Butler as Burma lieutenant governor. St Pauls Cathedral faces repair costs of 100000 pounds. Captain John Ross dies at 73 after piloting Maid of the Mist for 33 years. Duke of Devonshire joins royal honors commission. Soviet trade curbs amid good crops. Calgary marks high score at Ontario Rifle Association. Britain pays 77400000 pounds in unemployment benefits. relief figures excluded. Great War Veterans meet minister over imperial department inefficiency. Soviet note protests wartime Dardanelles. Honduras allocates 220000 dollars to German merchants over war losses.
Jack Stewart the Canadian rail pioneer and empire builder
Mr. T P O Connor recalls General John W Stewart known as Jack Stewart for his rapid wartime railway contracting in Canada. From a ten shilling start in Assynt he rose to millionaire status through railways docks and tunnels and earned wartime honors while remaining loyal to his Gaelic heritage and Highland roots. He is praised for his service in the Great War and proposed as a future peers seat for his empire work. Recognized as a leading worm exterminator Mother Graves Worm Exterminator aids many children.
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John W Stewart
T. P. O'Connor
London Sunday Times
Canada
Jack Stewart
Assynt
Sutherlandshire
New Quebec
Quebec
Scotch College
Montana
Downing Street
Lloyd George
Stewart
Mr. Lloyd George
War Office
Jack
House of Peers
The Strike Problem
Richard Spillane argues that strikes are consequences, not the core issue. He contends the solution lies in addressing underlying causes and using a blend of industry, common sense, and the Golden Rule to move society from agrarianism to industrialism.
KEEP CHILDREN WELL DURING HOT WEATHER
A health notice advises mothers to protect infants in hot months from cholera infantum diarrhoea and stomach troubles. It promotes Baby's Own Tablets from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario, noting occasional use prevents issues and quick aid when illness strikes.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Cotton Base For Tower On Sandy Soil
The article describes using cotton as a base material for foundations on sandy ground. It recounts the Leasowe lighthouse construction between the Mersey and Dee where a cotton shipwreck’s washed cotton mixed with sand supported a massive stone tower that withstood severe storms.
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Leasowe
England
Mersey and
Dee
Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil for nerve and back pain
An ad style note urges readers to apply Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil to ease neural pain or lumbago and claims rubbing it in calms the nerves and promotes rest. The text also mentions Inca warriors decorating horse saddles with enemy heads and describes a secret embalming process to remove bones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
German Press Under New Order in Prussia
The Ottawa Journal notes a German Republican Government order forcing provincial Prussian newspapers to align with official demands or lose advertising revenue. It argues this preserves autocracy under new auspices and warns that changing labels cannot alter human nature or political spirit.
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Prussia
German Republic
Russia
Ireland
Edith Cavell
Ottawa Journal
Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry Endorsed
Mrs. Ervin W. Stairs of East Water ville New Brunswick says she raised ten children and always used Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry for summer complaints with success. She recalls cholera fears four years ago and notes it helped neighbors and her own children with blood in urine. She warns to demand the original product from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervin W. Stairs
East Waterville
N.B
Dr. Fowler
Placid Physician Predicts Europe Europe, Asia Earthquake Doom
Dr M A Nobles, a physician geologist and Syracuse University graduate, foresees within 30 days a global earthquake cataclysm destroying Southern Europe Northern Africa and Asia. He locates the eruption near Budapest amid 70 nearby volcanoes and says North America west of the Rockies will vanish while Canada remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Africa
Asia
Budapest
Nobles
Farmer seeks reliable worker at Intervale Road
An advertisement from a Kansas farmer in The Home Recorder seeks a dependable farm hand. Criteria include honest work, fair wages, three meals and a bed, no dancing lessons, and a wake up by 5 am. Apply at Steve Wiggin Place, Intervale Road.
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Kansas
Home Recorder
Steve Wiggin
Intervale Road
Short quips and quotes from an era column
A fragmented collection of streetwise humor and pithy maxims including a tramp’s reply about a future for five cents and a lady’s offer of a quarter, a note on Napoleonic bias toward short men in leadership, a line about avoiding gossip through behavior, and a nostalgic product mention for Burns liniment.
Heroic Sea Story From Montreal Aboard the Corinaldo
The master of the steamer Corinaldo reports the loss of second officer Angus J. Glasgow who was washed overboard in a gale on August 4. He refused rescue and ordered the boat to save two sailors, both saved, while he drowned in view of his ship. Yellowstone region described as 62 miles by 54 miles.
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Montreal
Corinaldo
Angus J. Glasgow
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Orid
Winnipeg
Birtle
British Columbia
Harcourt Butler
Sir Reginald Craddock
Burma
St Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
John Ross
Niagara Falls
Duke of Devonshire
Foreign Trade Department
F. Ho Lem
10Th Regiment
Calgary
Corporation of the City of London
Ontario Rifle Association
Toronto
Great Britain
Focal Boards of Guardians
Great War Veterans’ Association
Victoria
H. S. Beland
France
Italy
Dardanelles
Straits
Anatolian
Honduras
Republic
Chase
Dr.Chase
Eait Railways
John Stewart
Richard Spillane
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Minard’s
Liniment
Releves
Neuraigia
U.S
Continents
M. A. Nobles
Syracuse University
United States
Rocky Mountains
Holloway
Supreme Council of the Church
Napoleon
Minard
Yellowstone
Parks
Dominion Express
Eee
America
RH Clay Glover Co., Inc
West 24Th St
New York
U.B.A
Wrought Iron Range Co of Canada, Limited
King St. W
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