Mixed Farming Seen as Solution for West
Premier Dunning told Moose Jaw listeners that the homestead farmer outshines absentee owners and that mixed farming, not large scale or long distance farming, is best for Western Canada. The Financial Post notes the same, emphasizing close attention to details, hard work, and local units with capable lieutenants as key to profitable, smaller farms supporting population growth.
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Premier Dunning
Moose Jaw
W. BR. Motherwell
Nelson
West
Western
Canada
Financial Post
Laids
Dates From Sahara Desert And Railways Reach Vast Oases
The article notes trains penetrating into the Sahara and tanks crossing the waste. It describes large oases like Oned Rohr with 54 oases and 1.5 million date palms. The railway ships 12,600 tons of dates to lands without date palms, while palm products feed people and nomads. France studies palm cultivation and wells to extend oasis farming.
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Sahara
Ious
Oned Rohr
France
Drilv Colonis
Hedges For Every Place and Purpose
An article on choosing hedge types for urban and rural settings. It covers privacy, windbreaks, and deterrence, highlighting California Privet, Cotoneaster, Rugosa roses, lilacs, and hardy alternatives like Privet varieties and Barberry. It notes suitability, pruning, and winter resilience with a 1920 Dominion Horticulturist report as a resource.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
China
Dominion Horticulturist
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Columbus Stamps Spark Spy Glass Curiosities
Picture Columbus With Spy Glass shows stamps of St Christopher and Nevis as British possessions. The text laments ignorance of astronomical love for Columbus and notes Columbus died long before the telescope was devised, marking a playful historical misalignment in the issue.
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Leeward Islands
Columbus
St. Christopher and
Newis
Zachariah Haussen
Barr
Sea Otters Live In Pairs Not Massive Gatherings
A curious feature notes sea otters never form large gatherings but live in pairs. The remark highlights their exclusive pairing behavior and social structure.
Fragmented Phrase on Language and Mistrust
A historical clipping notes that the live word count in English is under 19 000. It also presents a proverb-like remark about a miser loved by neighbors as mice torment a cat, implying social commentary.
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Jore
A Modern Magician Professor A M Low Inventions
Profile of Professor A M Low described as a leading young inventor with about 130 inventions including wireless controlled aircraft and torpedo, synchronized camera, audiometer, and tube trains. Highlights his humor and a magnetic billiards joke using a hidden electric magnet to pocket balls.
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A. M. Low
Professor Low
Potatoes Next Year Benefit From Healthy Planting
The Kentville Experimental Station superintendent says early selection of potato fields next year avoids mosaic and leaf roll, boosting yields by 25 to 50 percent. Tests show healthy hills yield 228 bushels per acre versus 136 on mosaic affected hills, and leaf roll free soils yield 347 bushels versus 194 on diseased plots.
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Kentville, Nom
Kentville
Soldiers fall out as church repairs limit parade
Soldiers march to a church the regiment halts in the square. One wing of the edifice is under repair so about half the regiment can enter. The captain orders the sergeant to dismiss the men who do not want to go to church and then march the rest.
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Regi
Continent
Chicago
Pimzie
Stella
Indian
Pacific
Snookums
Fairy
Ceylon
Dentist Faces Gas Dilemma With Unresponsive Patient
A youth sits in the dentist chair wearing a striped shirt and checked suit with a vacant stare. The dentist fears giving gas, asking how to tell when the patient is unconscious. The prompt payment of debts is noted as a lacking virtue in many men.
Must Discontinue Old Custom Beyond the Jordans
A Circassian community recruited by the British for police duty follows the old practice of marriage by capture. A male felon abducted a wealthy Circassian widow from Damascus near Transjordania, proposed marriage in Kerak, but the woman refused. King Abdullah ordered the arrest of the would be groom and banned the custom citing friendship over money.
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Jordans
Damascus
Transjordania
Rules for Women in Business by Mrs MacDougall
New York businesswoman Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougall predicts women will run all businesses within a century. She offers rules to speed the change including dressing comfortably without losing charm, accepting boss corrections without tears, discussing abstracts, sticking to agreements, and saying no at the right time.
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Alice Foote MacDougall
New York
Forest preservation beyond timber interests noted
A national warning argues forest health matters to the whole country not just timber holders. The piece stresses forestry supports agriculture, public revenue, transport, and employment. wiping out forests would devastate livelihoods and national interests.
Chinese Aerial Routes Link China With New Airways
James Slevin promotes Setah and Great China Airways to connect major Chinese centers within a year. The first summer route will run from Tienstin to Urga, carrying mails and express packages, under arrangements with the Chinese Government's commercial aeronautical department.
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Setah
Great China Airways Company
James Slevin
China
New Provincial Egg Plant At Lethbridge Rapidly Used
Since opening on June 1 the Provincial Government egg marketing plant at Lethbridge has processed about 25 000 dozen eggs. The facility reports heavy patronage and high demand for its services.
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Lethbridge
Your Teeth and the Gum Dilemma in Modern Life
Rea Prector Meee argues chewing gum wastes energy and harms teeth. The essay notes ubiquitous gum discard harms carpets and floors and urges redirecting gum use to benefit oral health and stomach function.
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Society For the Prevention of the
Alf
Lord Carnarvon Gifts to Museums Revealed
The will of Lord Carnarvon beques th one object to the British Museum and another to the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The New York piece is a fragment from a remarkable glass vessel of the eighteenth dynasty dating to about 1500 B C. The British Museum receives a finely carved wooden portrait of a high Egyptian official linked to Ohizeh chapel services around 3500 B C.
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Lord Carnarvon
British Museum
Metropolitan Museum of
Unity in Industry Across Borders
A Canadian business authority said in an interior town that unity among industries strengthens effort and can influence public works. He urged cooperation as a universal principle, noting decades of practice finally catching up with the saying in Ashcroft Journal.
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Ufe
Ashcroft Journal
Adventurers Return With Sea Lion Skins Worth 16000
One of three outfits from Vancouver roped a sea lion raid at the Queen Charlotte Islands. They returned with about two thousand pup hides while discarding adults scarred from battles. Estimated value of the catch is 16000. others remain on the hunting ground.
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Vancouver
Queen Charlotte Islands
Advertising lights on Broadway impress Londoners
In London a discussion on Broadway advertising features a Yankee praising electric signs as he cites a Wrigley gym display spanning a block with 250000 bulbs. The Londoner notes the display’s conspicuousness and questions its subtlety.
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London
Broadway
Wrigley's Gym
Kan Sun
Okanagan Sees Record Motor Tourist Traffic This Summer
More motor tourists have traveled through the Okanagan this year than ever before. All towns now offer camping sites that attract motorists from across the Northwest.
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Okanagan
Northwest
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Benaiser Ones
Sahara Desert
Hedge
Longchamps
Paris
Mannikins
Wireless
Ment
New Yorker
Alberta
Rea Prector Meee MD
D.D.S
Pittsburgh
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