British Empire Exhibition Planned To Be Greatest World Has Ever Seen
The British Empire Exhibition to be held in London at Wembley Park in 1924 will feature permanent structures built by governments across the empire. Progress is rapid with vast halls under construction, including the United Kingdom industries hall and the Australian pavilion funded for a quarter of a million pounds, as railways and heavy equipment move materials across the site.
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London
Wembley Park
Duke of York
Daily Telegraph
J. W. Simpson
Maxwell Ayrton
KE. O. Williams
British Empire
United Kingdom
Trafalgar Square
Carlton Hotel
Northumberland Avenue
Commonwealth
Canada
South Africa
New Zealand
India
West Africa
Empire Stadium
McAlpine and Sons
Watkin
Edward Watkin
Eiffel
Baker Street
Wembly Park
Metropolitan Railway
Marylebone
Great Central Railway
Wembly Hill
Wembley
London and North Western Railway
Alperton
Whistling Marmots May Be Broadcasted to Radio Fans
A proposal before the national park service could bring a 200-watt receiver and transmitter near Glacier National Park to broadcast the whistling of marmots. About 1,000,000 marmots live in a dense northern Montana colony within fifty miles of the park, with a chorus audible miles away on still nights and a potential coast to coast reach.
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Rocky Mountain
Rockies
Montana
Record Butter Shipment Leaves Vancouver in Massive Cargo
A single vessel carried 54,354 packages of butter in a Vancouver week, with 46,394 shipped by local exporters and 8,960 by western houses. The total weight reached about 3,606 pounds and the value is around $1,150,000. Also notes the Rig Veda as one of the oldest literary compositions.
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Vancouver
Platinum as a potential hard money basis for Russia
A Detroit Free Press item argues Russia has long stored platinum as a possible money metal but warns even if Russia controlled platinum for a century the value would remain far below US gold reserves. It notes annual platinum output around 10.6 million dollars and Russia would need about one billion dollars in gold for a stable monetary system.
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Europe
Russia
United States
Detroit Free Press
Prehistoric Drawings Suggest Pleiades Seen From Heights
Ancient cave art may depict the Pleiades with ten stars per group. Professor Bigourdan reports to the French Academy of Sciences that these drawings show ten stars, while usually seven are visible to the naked eye. The note questions whether early humans knew about extra visibility from mountains or if star brightness has changed.
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Bigourdan
French Academy of Sciences
Humorous Quip Sparks Ministry Jest Over Roast Chicken
A jovial country minister dining at a farmhouse makes a facetious remark about the chicken entering the ministry, provoking a witty reply from the family’s bright youth. A separate note notes that hot liquids can be frozen by applying pressure alone.
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Boston Transcript
Nerves of Today and the Call for Early Care
A physician warns that modern life over stresses the nervous system, causing neurasthenia insomnia and nervous breakdowns. He likens nerves to a recharging battery and urges early action with exercise and periodic rest to prevent lasting damage.
National asset argument for scenery and beauty in public spaces
In a St Thomas Times-Journal editorial, President Harding’s Yellowstone anniversary comment frames scenery as a national asset. The piece expands to include everyday landscapes from roadsides and rail journeys, urging removal of ugly advertising hoardings to preserve pleasant scenery and town value.
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Harding
Yellowstone Park Reserve
United States
Yellowstone
Grand Canyon
Yosemite
Niagara
St Thomas
World’s Wonder Waterway Begins At Fel senau
A grand canal project aims to link Rotterdam with Basel via the Rhine and European channels to Geneva and Neuchatel. Construction starts at the Rhine end with a vast tunnel planned beneath Geneva to allow 700 ton ships to pass. Thirty locks between Geneva and Neuchatel would lift the canal surface about 200 feet above the lake.
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Felsenau
Germany
Rotterdam
Holland
Basle
Switzerland
Rhine
Europe
Geneva
Neuchatel
Gentle Cleveland Woman Chooses Bus Over Tip
A polite Cleveland woman arriving in New York gave a station porter a dime as a tip. He threw it on the ground in anger, but she explained that it was all the money she had. Her gesture led to a compromise and she decided to take the bus rather than walk two miles.
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Cleveland
New York
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Russia under Bolshevist rule ruined and unproductive
The London Times condemns Bolshevism as a force that robs Russia of all to give nothing in return. It contrasts Bolshevist rule with free production and notes the regime’s enslavement of the country for now. A separate aside quips that apes have a shorter thumb and most French briar pipes originate in Corsica.
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Russia
London Times
It pays to patronize home industry
It pays to patronize home industry. Buy from the merchants in your own town.
New Farming Areas of Northern Saskatchewan Potential Wheat Country
Readable survey notes vast northern Saskatchewan lands north of North Battleford and Prince Albert, with millions of acres, favorable climate, water bodies, and soil. Explorers report potential for large scale farming, cattle ranching, and diverse crops in Pembina Valley, Meadow Lake, and Lacia Range, alongside established still-remote settlements.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan River
Hudson's Bay Company
North-West Territories
Department of the Interior
Dominion
Peace River
North Battleford
Prince Albert
Churchill Rivers
Manitoba
Clearwater
Pembina
Meadow Lake
Canada
Lacia Range
Roy Fabrni Elected Manitoba Division President
Roy Fabrni of Gladstone Manitoba was chosen president of the Manitoba division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association at the final session of the short course and conference of publishers in the Agricultural College Winnipeg. C H Saults Winnipeg was reelected secretary.
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Roy Fabrni
Gladstone
Man
Manitoba
Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association
Agricultural College
Winnipeg
C. H. Saulta Winnipeg
Saults
J. A. MacLachlan
Virden
Roy Ashwin
Publishers
Regina
Bruce Campbell
W. A. McLeod
Department of Agriculture
Bruce Walker
Dominion moves to preserve Canada’s wild buffalo herd
The Edmonton Bulletin reports the Dominion Government aims to protect the last wild buffalo band in the far north, arguing sentiment and utilitarian value justify preserving the species for future leather and meat markets.
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Dominion
Canada
Edmonton Bulletin
More Gold Salvaged From Sunken Steamer Laurentic
The British have recovered more than a million pounds sterling in gold from the Laurentic wreck after divers and the Racer crew returned to Derry Harbor. Salvage may continue before autumn when weather off Lough Swilly halts operations. The liner sank in 1917 four miles off Donegal carrying an estimated 10.6 to 15 million in gold bars.
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White Star
Admiralty
Racer
Derry Harbor
Lough Swilly
Donegal
Ireland
Lumber Exports Shift to Orient Markets From British Columbia
Orient demand now absorbs about 90 percent of Pacific Coast lumber that formerly went to the prairie provinces. So strong is the need from Asia that five percent of the Pacific Coast militia is reportedly sold out a month ahead.
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China
Japan
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Pacific Coast
How to Insult a Bolshevist
The piece notes that calling a Russian Bolshevist a radish is a sharp insult. It explains the term as a Trotsky invented jab, targeting someone who is red only on the outside.
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Trotsky
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Pleiades
F. C. Norris
the Mercury
Elkhorn
Bolshevists
Corsica
Hague
Daillai News
R. Faheni
Weekly News
Orient
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