Canada Eyes Strong Growth in Trade and Agriculture
Canada has faced hard postwar years yet shows stronger trade gains and a USD 200 million favorable balance. Exports reached 1.07 billion with agriculture, wood and paper leading, while vast growth in Vancouver and Montreal port activity signals shift to Canada’s own seaports.
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Canada
Dominion
United States
Montreal
York
London
Liverpool
Hamb
New York
St. John
Vancouver
Pacific Coast
Hudson Bay
Quebec
Hali
Russian inventors tout death ray feats after Grindell-Matthews
Reports from Russia describe multiple experiments with electrical rays. An engineer in Kiev claims 110 volts 50 amperes can light a distant cigarette and melt lead at 85 feet. A government instructor says he lit a lamp at 6 feet 6 inches and halted a dynamo. A naval electrician recalls a ray that kept cigars lit on a cruiser and later burned a canvas tent at 98 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grindell-Matthews
Russia
Kiev
Naval
Old MePadd and Young MeFadd Swap Collectors
A dialogue where an older self asks if the younger self collects anything and the younger replies with rare specimens while the older notes their value. The exchange hints at preserving memory and ideas as collectible thoughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MeFadd
Treasure Recovered From Laurentic Wreck After Six Years
Divers recover 250000 pounds of gold bars from the Laurentic liner sunk in 1917 near Lough Swilly. The long effort of six years has finally yielded the full treasure believed to total 7 million pounds in gold and silver bullion.
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Lough Swilly
Irish
Davy Jones
Rocker
Pools of Solomon Water System in Jerusalem Restored
Roman engineers built three pools eight miles from Jerusalem to supply the city with forty million gallons. After centuries of neglect the pools springs and aqueduct only needed cleaning and lock repairs to reestablish an excellent water supply.
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Solomon
Jerusalem
Welsh Language Worships Flourish Across London
London hosts at least thirty Welsh language worship sites where services are held. The presence reflects strong Welsh-speaking communities and organized churches spanning multiple districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Castoria Endorsed By Physicians Worldwide
An old advertisement notes Fletcher's Castoria as a safe substitute for castor oil with over 30 years of trusted use. It promises teething relief for children, contains no narcotics, and carries the manufacturer’s signature as proof of proven directions.
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Fletcher
Best Immigration Agents Report From Canada to Britain
Mrs. Charles H. Thorburn of Ottawa, honorary commissioner for Canada, led a delegation to the British Exhibition and Canadian Government delegates at Geneva for the International Labor Conference. She reports to the Minister of Labor and praised Tom Moore, president of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, as the sanest labor leader at the conference.
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Canada
Great Britain
Charles H. Thorburn
Ottawa
Geneva
Thorburn
Tom Moore
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress
Putnam's Corn and Wart Ex Tractor Ad
An old advertisement touts Putnam's Corn and Wart Ex tractor as a simple painless corn remover. It promises quick relief for a quarter, with a note to refuse substitutes and to buy at all dealers.
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Putnam’s
Canadians Return From US In Four Months
Immigration figures show 18 870 Canadians returned from the United States during April to July. Of these 16 166 were Canadian born, 1 646 British subjects with Canadian domicile, and 1 058 listed as Canadian citizens. Total Canadian immigration rose 17 percent from the prior year, with 64 023 immigrants from all countries, including 23 248 from the British Isles and 23 770 from other nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
British Isles
Trials of indigestion common errors and remedies
The article warns against treating digestion as a machine and overuse of purgatives. It urges controlled diet, adequate nourishment to build blood, and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as the remedy. It notes blood quality affects digestion and appetite and offers purchasing details from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Williams
Experience Of Air Passenger On Napier D H Express
An air passenger on the Napier D H express from Paris to London observed six distinct storms below as the plane flew above the channel. The traveler described a brilliant sunlit aircraft amid black rain clouds with white cloud tops reaching 13 000 to 20 000 feet, calling it the most wonderful sight ever seen.
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Paris
London
Channel
Miller's Worm Powders End Worm Infestations
Advertised remedy claims to quickly clear stomach and bowels of worms in infants. It promises prevention of recurrence by acting on the system and repairing organ injuries caused by worms, restoring soundness.
Air Pilot Max Tuxes Awarded Bravery Medal
President Ebert honors Air Pilot Max Tuxes of Hamburg for a daring North Sea rescue last January. He landed on an ice cake to reach a stranded stoker left aboard a wrecked motorship, a man who was half starved and near despair.
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Ebert
Max Tuxes
Hamburg
Tuxes
North Sea
Astronomer Plans Southern Cross Sky Mapping Mission
Dr. W. J. Hussey of the University of Michigan expects to begin within a year a project to map the southern cross region and complete a list of double stars south of the continent. He plans a 27 inch telescope at Naval Hill near Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, aiming to add about 1800 new doubles brighter than ninth magnitude.
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W. J. Hussey
University of Michigan
Naval Hill
Bloemfontein
Orange Free State
Kopje
Hussey
Lehigh Undergraduates Tour Canadian Mines
Thirty two students from the School of Mines at Lehigh University Bethlehem Pa visited Toronto and Northern Ontario mining towns on a five week motor tour covering 3509 miles. They travelled from Toronto to North Bay Cobalt Porcupine Kirkland Lake Sudbury and other mining towns and returned via Sault Ste Marie. The tour formed part of the mining curriculum with credit for attendance and participation.
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U.S. University
Canada
United States
School of Mines
Lehigh University
Bethlehem
Toronto
North Bay
Cobalt
Porcupine
Kirkland Lake
Sudbury
Ontario
Vikings of the Air Indomitable Spirit of Adventure
A historic ode praising aviation pioneers and pilots who advance flight science through brave, ongoing experiments. The piece credits the indomitable human spirit and cites Whitman and the London Telegraph to honor pioneers pushing aviation toward mastery.
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Indomitable Spirit of Adventure
Whitman
London Daily Telegraph
Dairying Expert Confesses Joke About Jerseys and Pigs
In E W Howe's Monthly a dairy expert boasts of pure breeds while admitting a blunder at a daily congress. He challenges a practical dairyman on Jersey versus Red Jersey, and the farmer replies that one is a cow and the other a pig, illustrating a humorous misstep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
E. W. Howe
One American Among Eighteen Great Learners Honored
Eighteen eminent contributors to learning are chosen for statues for the new University of Washington library building. Benjamin Franklin is the sole American on the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Takamine's Adrenaline Discovery and Oxen Forecast
The text explains that adrenalin crystals used to revive the collapsed are derived from a small gland atop the kidney. Takamine, a Japanese medical scientist, discovered the substance. It notes that 50,000 oxen are required to supply crude material for one pound of the product.
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Takamine
Fingerprint Collection Grows at Scotland Yard
A report notes Scotland Yard has assembled a collection nearing 280 600 fingerprints for criminal records. The vast archive supports identification work and investigative procedures across cases handled by the department.
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Scotland Yard
Rail line progress praised by Sask. trip party
F. J. James reports good road bed and rails along the Hudson Bay Railway from Port Nelson to Kettle Rapids after inspecting mines and travel routes with O. D. Hill J. A. Campbell and Charles Campbell. The party notes the railway’s condition and locals claim injustice from incomplete work amid whale sightings in the bay.
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F. J. James
Coutry
Hudson's Bay Roar
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Charles Campbell
Pas
Rex
Bingo
Wekusko
H.B.R
Kettle Rapids
Campbell Brothers
Port Nelson
James
Vancouver Welcomes Major MacLaren and Flying Party
Major A Stuart MacLaren and his party, famed for their aborted world flight attempt, were met with a rousing welcome in Vancouver aboard the Canadian fisheries protection cruiser Thiepval. Officials, veterans, officers, and families saluted the British airmen. MacLaren recalled his lean arrival in 1911 and praised Canada’s aid and the Thiepval’s help.
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A. Stuart MacLaren
Vancouver
Flying Corps
Gillant
Major MacLaren
England
West
Canada
Dominions
Lodge warns of atomic power risk to mankind
Sir Oliver Lodge warns that even a mass of matter the size of a fist could lift a fleet from the sea and place it on a hill near Manchester. He cautions that science should not unleash atomic forces, saying humanity is not ready to wield such power and could doom the race.
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Oliver Lodge
Manchester
Oliver
Largest dock project under way at Calcutta
The world’s largest dock is being built at Calcutta. The first section requires excavating 40,600,000 cubic feet, while the wet dock portion has already yielded about 31,000,000 cubic feet of digging.
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Calcutta
Mars Prophecy Warns Of 1926 Electric Storm From Mars
Miss Belle Bart of the American Academy of Astrology states Mars remains a cosmic mystery and predicts a 1926 April electrical storm affecting select regions. She cites future opposition events in 1932 and 1944 for electromagnetic effects and claims radio will reveal life on Mars.
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Miss Bart
Mars
Belle Bart
American Academy of Astrology
Earth
Neptune
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Space
Muscular Rheumatism Subdued by Remedy
A sufferer with muscular rheumatism finds relief by rubbing the affected region with Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil until improvement is secured. The ad asserts the medicine's potent virtue surpasses full estimation.
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Thomas
Eskimo Leader Mlavinik Dies on Mackenzie River Delta
Mlavinik head man of Eskimos at Mackenzie River delta and ally of the white administration died this summer on the delta. He hunted trapped traded with a schooner on the Arctic and acted as interpreter for the Mounted Police. He aided in the capture of two Eskimos hanged for the murder of Roman Catholic priests and served as interpreter at their trial.
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Mlavinik
Mackenzie River
Mackenzie
Edmonton
Arctic Circle
Slavinik
Arctic
Mounted Police
Germany reports invention of breathing‑restricting aerial gas
A gas designed to prevent anyone from ascending above 6000 feet has been reported as invented in Germany. The claim notes the gas blocks ascent by causing difficulty in breathing at height. No further verification details are provided.
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Germany
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Women
Letters from Hemford Nova Scotia and Glen Allen Alabama praise the remedy for weakness bearing down pains and post childbirth recovery. Women urged to write for a free private text book on ailments peculiar to women.
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Glen Allen
Alabama
Lydia Binkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Castoria
Britain
Minard
Dandruff
Dr. Hussey
The
Akes
McLaren
City
Eskimos
Mackenzie River District
Hemford
N. S
George S. Crouse
Hemford, N. S
1540
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