Gas tax rise and League council picks reported world brief
The piece notes a five cent per gallon gasoline tax in Ontario for next year. Spain Venezuela and Persia win three non permanent League of Nations seats. A British Columbia telegraph office is destroyed by fire. Japan accepts the Anglo French naval pact in principle after a cabinet meeting. A Burdett Alberta wheat farm reports record yields and destroyed season records. Manchester hosts tobacco trades exhibition with Canadian leaf prominent.
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Spain
Venezuela
Persia
Council of the
League of Nations
Alicearm
B.C
Japan
Great Britain
Burdett
Alta
Manchester
England
Wonderful Mother Praises Baby's Own Tablets
Mrs. Griffith of East Hamilton Ontario extols Baby's Own Tablets after giving them to her six week old baby. She says the tablets kept her children healthy and safe with no other medicines used. The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville offers them at 25 cents a box by mail. Giant grasshoppers five inches long prey on small animals in the Congo.
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Ebaby
Mrs. Griffith
East Hamilton
Ont
Canada
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
The
Congo
Glasgow Banquet Highlighted by Royal Guests and Leopard Skin
A Glasgow Town Hall banquet impressed Canadian delegates with wall paintings and historic toasts. The event honored city hospitality, included Gaelic music and a pipe major’s leopard skin gift, and featured thanks to organizers and staff for a 32 day European tour of Canadian Farmers Party officials.
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Glasgow
Roderick
St. Mungo
Clyde
Queen Victoria
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
King George
Queen Mary
Prince of Wales
Great Britain
England
Scotland
David Mason
Corporation
City of Glasgow Police
Gray
City of Glasgow Police Orchestra
Canadian National
Globe Travel Bureau
Weir
Europe
Groff
Canada
Strachan
Canadian National Railways
Winnipeg
W. A. Wilson
Canada House
John L. Harvey
Turnham
Whitby
Arkeil
Wilson
Harvey
Arkell
Dan Johnson
Brownie
E. W. Brown
Johnson
Frank England
New Calgary Albertan Plant To House Modern Press
The Albertan Publishing Co announces a new Calgary building, 75 by 120 feet, three storeys, with Alberta tapestry brick and Tyndall stone. It will cost about $200,000 plus equipment, housing presses, intertype and linotype machines, editorial departments, radio studio, and a community room. The facility includes two elevators and is designed for a full modern newspaper operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albertan Publishing Company
Calgary
Canada
Albertan Publishing Co
Dio
Indian racer Rosie Kimbasket dies at Pacific Exhibition
The windward valley mourns as Rosie Kimbasket, an Indian rider, is killed during the squaw race at Canada's Pacific Exhibition before 5,000 spectators. Her horse tripped on ground wires, throwing her full length onto the track where she later died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosie Kimbasket
Windermere
Kootenay
Oldest love letter in world housed at British Museum
A Brick inscription in the British Museum bears the world’s oldest love letter proposing marriage to an Egyptian princess. The piece is memoir noting royal interests and a curious Tower of London Beef-eaters dress linked to Henry VIII's wish for a stout appearance.
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British Museum
Tower of London
Henry VIII
Friction Match Invention Of 1827 Described
The friction match first made in 1827 used splinters of wood dipped in fused sulphur and tipped with a mixture of antimony sulphide chlorate of potash and some adhesive gum.
Uncle Eben Quotes On Old Song About Joy Riding
The figure recalls the song Home Sweet Home as written long before people understood joy riding. The remark ties a rural memory to a musical line, highlighting how a simple tune carried broader social echoes.
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Uncle Eben
Tea leaves warn of climate shifts and packaging claim
The piece notes tender tea leaves are highly sensitive to climate changes. It asserts Red Rose Tea is packed only in aluminum to preserve strength and flavor, with every package guaranteed to be in perfect condition.
Tourists Should Be Informed on Local Laws Card Plan
A proposal urges visitors to receive a card with full particulars on highway rules liquor laws and other matters for which they should be informed as guests of the province. It argues punishment for unawareness is unfair and a card system would ease compliance the more you look back the faster you don't go.
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England -Ireland
France
Belgium
Heame
Penniand
Eee Regina
Aer
Phoma
Portage Ave
Land Building
Pacific Bidg
Vancouver
Mulney
Canadian’service
Ontario
John Melling
Fenner
Geome
T. Milbera Co. Limited
Teronte
Ww. N. U
Farmers’ Marketing Tour
Calgary Albertan
Linotype
Commercial Printing Department
Western Farm
Greenock
Britain
Finis
G. F. Gemeroy
G. M. Bell
M. Walker
Derby Regiment
India
Workman’s
Gycerine Pume Soap Co Wn
Filments
Glycerine-Pumice Soap Co., Limited
Victoria, B.C
Bardens
Charles
Plu
Stocking & Yarn Mills
Dept. 17
Orillia
Indianapolis Cancer Hospital
Indianapolis
Ind
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