Baldwin Defends Unemployment Insurance as Earned Benefit
Premier Baldwin argues Britain’s unemployment insurance is not a dole but a funded, compulsory scheme with employer, worker, and state contributions. He notes large overdrafts but says the program should function normally once reduced, urging Canada to study state health and unemployment insurance for adoption. Toronto Star
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Canada
Great Britain
Mr. Baldwin
Rome
Toronto Star
Prince Edward Gains Knight Title Amid Rich List of Names
The Prince of Wales, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, is noted as newly knighted in the Order of St Patrick. The piece playfully lists his many formal titles and ends with praise for his good nature and sport.
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Prince of Wales
Edward
Order of St. Patrick
Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
Earl of Chester
Duke of Cornwall
Duke of
G. S
G. F
Fragmentary Comic Exchange In A Boarding House Ad
Lite girl cooking overhears a newspaper ad setting a scene with children playing and residents arguing. The dialogue includes a mother scolding Johnny George Kate and Dick while a widow weighs love and a late husband. The fragment hints at a humorous domestic vignette about theft and police inquiry.
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Johnny
George
Kate
Valuable Work Of The Mounted Police
Constable R L Trolove of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived at Hailleybury Ontario with a demented Indian woman from Attawapiskat Post 206 miles beyond Moose Factory. The party endured a 21 day journey by canoe and rail along the Pagwa River to the Winnipeg line. The Mounted Police patrol vast frontiers, aiding dwellers, pursuing missing trappers and troublemakers, and policing northern regions. The force, boasting 53 officers 910 men and 360 horses at end of 1926, operates across Northwest Territories Yukon National Parks Indian reserves and seaports like Montreal and Vancouver, maintaining law and order and fighting drug traffic.
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R. L. Trolove
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Hailleybury
Ont
Attawapiskat Post
Moose Factory
Pagwa
CNR
Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
Mounted Police
Arctic
Canada
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Northwest Territories
Yukon Territory
Montreal
Vancouver
R.C.M.P
Dominion
Regina
The Art Of Royalty and its Necessary Training
The piece argues that the art of royalty, like painting or music, must be learned through assiduous training. It describes enduring dull company, avoiding boredom, and doing the right thing under pressure as core skills. It praises royalty's power to charm and to inspire emulation for good.
Amusing Stage Trick Draws Surprising Interruption
Ammigician plans to call a lady from the audience for a vanish and return illusion. A man in the stalls interrupts vowing to fetch his wife, then shrugs it off, showing casual disbelief as the act proceeds.
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Ammigician
Population of Japan rises by 940000 last year
The report notes a 940000 increase in Japan's population during the previous year. A reflective line suggests social ties and friendship dynamics influence perceptions of personal achievement.
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Japan
Depths To Plough Loamy Soil Affects Crop Yield
A four year study at Lennoxville Quebec compares shallow five inch ploughing to deeper seven inch ploughing on loamy soil. In rotation with corn oats clover and timothy yields were nearly identical for both depths. Corn yields averaged 11.06 bushels and oats 47.8 and 47.3 bushels respectively with a slight oats advantage for shallower ploughing.
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Lennoxville Quebec
J. A McClary
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Had Different Meaning Fancy Language
An English officer in an Irish regiment orders a recruit with a dirty face to be taken to the river and saved there. The sergeant returns saying the lad was a good swimmer or he would have drowned reaching the far bank. The officer then asks why he left him in the river, and the sergeant recalls the command to bring him to the water and save him there.
Portuguese engineer touts fuel substitute for long distance aviation
Senhor Ramon Ribeiro claims a substitute fuel for cabo line offers 80 percent greater efficiency than gasoline. The report notes his scientific claim amid a collage of varied world humor and unrelated quotes.
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Senhor Ramon Ribeiro
Old Home Week and the British Sense of Home
The piece reflects on John Howard Payne’s song Hone Sweet Home and the universal longing for one’s birth place. It notes Old Home Week in towns and Old Boys’ Societies in cities, and contrasts Anglo-Saxon empire wandering with a lasting devotion to homeland. It laments exiles far from kin and a shared imperial heritage distant stars and empire alike.
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John Howard Payne
Wardrobe Of Late Czar Family Preserved At Czarskoye Selo
The Russian government stores hundreds of gowns worn by the late Czarina and her daughters and numerous uniforms of the Czar and Czarevitch at Alexandrovsky Palace now Dvetskoye Selo. The collection includes Paris dresses, sable fur, and embroidery, with many regiments represented.
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Czarina
Olga
Tatiana
Maria
Anastasia
Czar
Czarevitch
Alexandrovsky Palace
Czarskoye Selo
Dvetskoye Selo
Nicholas II
Devil’s Pul pit tale explains Wales no devils
Tall tale from Wales recounts the Devil visiting Tintern Abbey and preaching to Cistercian monks. Locals say the Devil brandished his tail in a liturgical prank, was drenched with holy water, and fled across the river into England.
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America
Wales
Tintern Abbey
Thare
England
Ignorance and Health Tied, Dr Peter Says at Toronto Meet
Dr W W Peter of the American Public Health Association argues ignorance and ill health travel together. He notes China has 95 percent illiteracy and high child death rates while Germany has the lowest death rate with 1.8 percent illiteracy. England 2.5 percent, France 65 percent, the United States 7.5 percent, Japan 10 percent. Philippine children show 36 percent free of defects.
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World Federation of Education Associations
Toronto
W. W. Peter
American Public Health Association
China
Peter
Germany
England
France
United States
Japan
Philiippine Islands
Silence Crusade Idea Aims to Curb Noise in Paris
A French proposal suggests a weeklong silence crusade to reduce urban noise in Paris and inspire similar moves abroad. Advocates target loud voices and intrusive noise from doors, drills, fairs, and loud speakers, arguing laws could curb this modern mental torture and gain broad support.
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France
Paris
London
Mas
Manitoba Pool Reports Wheat and Grain Totals for Year
Total wheat deliveries reached 16 038 885 bushels and coarse grains 12 793 261 bushels, with all grains totaling 26 201 515 in 1925. To handle the crop the Pool will operate 55 to 60 elevators, 28 agencies were set up in 15 importing countries, and grain was sent to 60 ports.
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Manitoba
Girl Guides Tour Rockies Heads West From Toronto
A group of Ontario Girl Guides traveled through the Canadian Rockies by a special Canadian Pacific train departing mid July. They visited multiple camps during their western tour and waved farewell from the open-top observation car at Lake Louise station before continuing west.
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Lake Louise
Canadian Rockies
Ontario
Toronto
Canadian Pacific
Wettest Spot In America Henderson Lake Sets Rain Records
Henderson Lake near Vancouver Island recorded over twenty three feet of rainfall last year making it the wettest spot in North America. Other heavy BC sites include Lockport 251 inches Ocean Falls 176 inches and Vancouver 523 inches. The Premier Mine in Port land Canal district holds a major snow record with 39 feet.
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Death Valley
Great California Desert
North America
Menderson Lake
Vancouver Island
F. Napier Denison
Provincial Weather Service
Henderson Lake
Pacific
British Columbia
Lockport
Queen Charlotte Islands
Ocean Falls
Prince Rupert
Vancouver
Ukdlah Columbia
Portland Canal District
Homestead Entries in Western Provinces Show June Totals
Reported homestead entries across four western provinces in June totalled 808, with Manitoba 95, Saskatchewan 342, Alberta 370, and British Columbia 1. For the six months to date filings stood at 3,069, up from 2,884 in the prior year. Manitoba led with 7268 entries, Saskatchewan 1386, Alberta 125, and British Columbia 38.
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Dominion
Western Provinces
Manitoba
Askatchewan
Alberta
Pritieh Columbia
Kankatchewan
British Columbia
New Prize Fighter at Boarding House Arrives
In a quiet evening scene, a boarding house resident hails a new arrival as the latest prize fighter. A playful couple debate marriage and quarrel as another resident jokes about the newcomer's height and reach.
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Oliver
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