Made in Britain train to boost Canadian trade campaign
Canada plans a year long promotional train titled Made in Britain to showcase British goods in western Canada. Organizer Mr Lipelrue of the Canadian chamber of commerce says exhibitors will pay for car space and displays, with six exhibition cars carrying British manufacturers and Canadian towns marketing products at railway stations.
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Canada
Ise
Canasia
Brat
Brita
Atlantic
Ldpelrue
Canadea Chamber of Commerce
Panama
Lindowood
Derbe
Manufac
Telegraphing Photos and Wireless Transmission Advances
A New York to London telegraphing photos demonstration shows photographic transmission over six hundred miles. Officials predict future telegraphy will wire pictures and later enable wireless photon transit. A follow up two month demonstration is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Photon Bs Wireless
Promind Sinn
Skeleton finds from Napoleon era unearthed at Alexandra site
English troops uncover two skeletons and bone fragments identified as French soldiers from Napoleon's Reyp expedition during Laudine excavations at Alexandra. Remains handed to the French consul and will be transported for ceremonial interment in the sarcophagus where other company bodies lie.
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Alexandra
Rave
Napoleon
Reyp
Radium Aims to Power Moon Travel Says Nordtam
Paris observatory head M. Charles Nordtam declares radium could propel a man to the moon in a projectile. He predicts immense motive power far beyond conventional explosives and notes guidance required to steer the craft upon lunar reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radium
M. Charles Nordtam
Paris Observatory
Fules Verne
Radim
Gays M Nordman
Census shows India population and religious makeup
The report details India's total population at 515.15 million with Hindus 217.59 million Muslims 6.65 million Buddhists 10.0 million and others. agriculture employs 69.6 million while industry employs 23.9 million. Census officials note lessons for India from Canadian methods.
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Indie
Perso
India
Hinds
le India
City of London real estate values rise in auction prospect
A damaged 19th century report notes land in a central London square mile near law courts, with corner plots on Cannon Street Victoria Street and Upper Thames Street valued at high per acre rates. It cites a total city square mile value around 1.25 million pounds and lists prices for properties on Austin Friars King William Street and other sites.
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Langon
Law Courts
Cannon Treet
Quer
Victoria Street
Upper Thames Street
Bread Street
de Lane Marsalliat
Tondon
West End
Westminster
Austin Friars
England
King Wiliam Street
Canadian Exhibits Draw Attention At Fairs Despite Embargoes
White notes Canadian displays attract crowds at fairs in New York and Illinois and prompt reconsideration of embargoes. Syracuse and Springfield invite Canada to exhibit. Wilson reports many invitations from local firms. Arrivals from the United States fall, while western Canada shows little movement. Settlement of a mountain Indian reservation may halt southern immigration temporarily.
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White
Canada
New York
Iilinoss Art
Minnesota
Syracuse
Springfield
Witson
United States
A?ing Mountain Indian Reservation
Sumner
Fox pups found valued at eighty thousand in Nova Scotia
A Rawden farmer hunting in Wagds Han county Nova Scotia found six fox pups two patches and four blacks in a den beneath an old log barn. He kept them as pets until a neighbor said it was illegal to keep them. Afraid of penalties he released the foxes. Experts valued the pups at about eighty thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Han’ County
Teamworth
Community Church urged to unite groups for common good
A Canadian Welfare note argues that a community church should unite diverse ethnic and social groups into a single strong body. It calls for the church to serve wider needs education recreation public facilities and social centers, becoming the moral power source of the neighborhood.
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Rome
Ontane
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Dakotas
Iowa
Scotland
Ireland
England
Europe
Ispiri
Chamber of Commerce
Bath Rowe
Uuto
Wireless gramophone tugs on distant ships sparks Marconi note
The third officer aboard the steamship Hixwad Scot reported wireless Gramophone and God Save the King heard during a Buenos Aires voyage. Signor Marconi doubted but said such echo over long distances is possible. Separately, Canadian Salt Company officials announced salt strike in Windsor Ontario wells with a $5000000 factory investment.
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Hix
Buenos
Fitch
Signor Marconi
Marconi
Pawhey
Southampton
Dodson
Canadian Skall Company
Windsor
Ont
Will Survey and Chart the Ocean Expedition Plans Seafaring Survey
The account outlines a long term ocean survey and charting mission starting with Antarctic soundings and extending to the Atlantic and Pacific routes via Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town. Twelve scientists, six officers and eighteen sailors commit for seven years seeking 125000 dollars in private funds with no government grant yet.
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Stackhouse
Trinidad
Rio de Janice
Cape Morn
Montevedio
Buenos Aires
Cape Tow
Tristan da Cunah
Cape
Antarctic
Sir D. Masson
Sandwich Islands
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Cape Town
Mauretus
South Africa
Maretius
Zanzibar
Zanziar
Seychelles
India
Bombay
Singapore
Hong Kong
China
Japan
Empire commission to hear evidence across Canada tour
The Dominion trade commission plans August and September hearings with 230 men selected to testify at various points in the tour. O’Hara says major boards of trade back home assist in preparations covering imperial trade, railways, statistics, patents, and empire development funding to stimulate loans and imperial cooperation. The piece also notes political skepticism about naval efficacy and submarine threats.
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FTC
O'Hara
England
Dottson
Scneider
Empire
Empire Development Board
Dominion butter analysis finds majority genuine across Canada
Dominion analysts tested 240 butter samples from November to January and report 316 genuine, 18 practically genuine, and 6 adulterated. In Quebec, 28 samples all proved genuine, despite earlier claims that margarine was offered for sale.
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Dominion
Canada
Quebec
Women Detectives to Wear with Suffs
Women detectives are employed to sit in the ladies' gallery at debates, with one or two assigned by Scotland Yard to respond to suffragette intrusions. They are described as attired in distinctive dress for easy identification.
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Commons
Scotland Yard
Ladies’ Gallery
Prisons Plant Forests and Boost Waste Land Reforestation
An article reports convict labor planting forests on waste lands in New South Wales and Canada. It notes 28 000 trees planted at Tel, 90 successfully established plantations, and calls for expansion to create profitable land use. It mentions Ontario and Quebec forestry efforts and the need for municipal and national support.
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Tre
New Sear Wales
Simnila
Canada
Guelph
Ont
Ofnada
Ontario
Quebec
Deme
Dominion Forestry Branch
Indian Head
Unique features at Ball in Aid of the Blind
The Sayy J hotel in London hosted a Cinderella Ball for the blind with a 1200 cap and tickets at 26 10.500 for a single seat amid high demand. C Arthur Pearson led the campaign for the National Institute for the Blind. Midnight to breakfast, no tangoes, a waltz and ragtime dances complemented a lottery with luxury prizes including a 3000 automobile and expensive gowns. Mrs Cosmo Hamisto attracted notice in an ornate sleeveless flowered dress with cut cuffs and fourfold trousers.
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Sayy J
London
C. Arthur Pearson
National Institute For the Blind
Bam
Cosmo Hamisto
Empress Die in Ancient Tokio Amid Silent Crowds
The article explains Japanese imperial law forcing the dowager empress to die in place and the corpse then moving with full ceremonial to Tokyo to lie in the palace. Troops lined streets and disciplined crowds stood in silence, revealing the transfer of a deceased empress.
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Tokio
Armstrong Whitworth Claims Safe 13-Ton Aircraft For World Flight
The Armstrong Whitworth Company announces it has solved an aviation secret. Miner Giing, a member of the Balloon Society of Great Britain, claims a 13 ton air craft designed by Giing and Glendenning will sail around the world without danger and stay aloft five days without resupply.
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Armstrong Whitworth Company
Giing
Glendenning
Balloon Society of Great Britain
Gas Burners Set for Hudson Bay Navigation Upgrade
Government steamers Minto and Bonaventure will deploy automatic gas burners in Hudson Bay and its straits to aid navigation. Bellaventure Durley Chene Charon Sieba will sail from Hall during summer to carry supplies for extension works at Port Nelcom.
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Minto
Hudson Bay
Bonaventure
Bellaventure
Durley Chene
Charon
Sieba
Hall
Port Nelcom
Canadian Amateur Wireless Rules Tightened for Dominion
Government imposes radiotelegraph restrictions on amateurs and vessels to prevent interference with official and commercial stations. Licenses set annual fees from $2 to $50, with penalties up to fifty dollars fine or three months imprisonment. Operators must monitor the Stop signal and cease transmitting, and ocean vessels require ready power and continuous watch hours.
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Dominion
Canada
Eless
Naval Service
Naval Service Department
Intensive farming pays Swiss style success on twenty acres
A young farmer named Martin transformed a twenty acre tract into a high yielding, scientifically managed operation. He bought poor land for 1250 an acre, built a dyke to prevent wash, uses irrigation, and profits from early, premium crops and value-added bio products. The county pays him not to compete, and the agriculture department offered 2200 a year to demonstrator, which he declined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Martin A Young
Department of Agriculture
Convict Made Goods Flood U.S. Markets
Harey Hawes of St Louis testified before a Senate manufactures committee on a bill to ban importation of convict and pauper made goods. He cited U.S. output valued at 24 million dollars and foreign convict production at 560 million, arguing prison labor underpaid in the United States and no wages abroad, with prison goods undercutting American labor.
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America
Harey Hawes
St Louis
Senate
Hawes
United States
Postage Increase on Newspapers Announced
The Post Office Department will raise newspaper and periodical postage to fund railway subsidies. The current rate is a quarter of a cent per pound, with proposed charges of one cent per copy for mail delivered by letter carriers and one quarter of a cent per copy where no letter carrier system exists. The memorandum to publishers comes from Postmaster General La P. Peletiér.
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Post Office Department
Hon
la P. Peletiér, Posupaster General
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Lane
Pubic
the Community Church
Commission
Germat
Percy
Sir Percy
Germany
Admiral Colomb
France
Naval Department
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