Remarkable Recoveries From Native Tuberculosis Remedy
A London physician reports on Umekababo a native plant cure for tuberculosis with fifty cases including a Birmingham engineer and a Geneva doctor case study. The narrative traces a patient in 1920 21 whose weight restored and sputum cleared after taking the remedy leading to work and continued health. Public and medical doubt is noted while praising observed recoveries and urging cautious public attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amekababs
B Fraser & Co
Pepys Road
Cottenham, Park
London
Ving
Birmingham
South Africa
P Land
Major Stevens
Geneva
Switzerland
Umekababo
Brompton Hospital
Downs Sanatorium
Sutton
Sanatorium
The
Coneves
World Happenings Briefly Told
Briefs from around the globe note aviation and military anniversaries, a wheat conference cost in London, civic openings in Kingston Ontario, census race data, the Cathedral of the Redeemer destruction in Moscow, Sir Harry Lauder’s 61st birthday and recent tours, and the Empress of Britain breaking Atlantic and Southampton to Quebec records with faster crossing times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada House
London
England
House of Commons
Ottawa
Kingston
Ontario
United States
Census Bureau
Cathedral of the Redeemer
Russia
Palace of the Soviets
Harry Lauder
South Africa
America
Father Point
Cherbourg
Southampton-Quebec
Bennett declines Geneva trip to represent Canada
Premier R. B. Bennett told the House of Commons that the government has not chosen a representative for Canada at Geneva for the League of Nations meeting. He said nothing would induce him to leave the country to attend Geneva or any other deliberative body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Geneva
League of Nations
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
Dried Egg Plant Emerges as Winnipeg Industry
The city of Winnipeg develops a dried egg plant, claiming fifteen million eggs per year as a new local industry. In Rio de Janeiro a new law requires all new automobiles to be inspected by the city, with a ten dollar inspection fee collected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Dress pattern with square yoke and elastic bloomers
Dress pattern description for a square yoke front dress with a center-front opening and attached collar, plus bloomers with elastic top and bottom. Includes size ranges from 2 to 6 years, length measurements, and a 25 cent pattern price paid in stamps or coins.
How To Order Pattern A Address Winnipeg Pattern No 5
Pattern guide appears to list ordering steps for Pattern A with an address in Winnipeg at 175 McDermot Ave. The entry notes the Pattern No. 5 designation and mentions the Newspaper Union. This card summarizes a terse instruction style and a literal postal address for pattern ordering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Delayed Mail Card Reaches After Nineteen Years in Transit
A postcard mailed May 30 1912 from Saint John New Brunswick to Strathmore Quebec reached Mrs M Ryan on June 24 this year, a 19 year delay. No postmarks exist except Saint John 912 and St Henry 1931, suggesting remailed after long wanderings. The card, addressed to Mrs Ryan’s husband who died four years ago, was written by his six year old nephew on a rainy day.
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M. Ryan
Strathmore
Quebec
Saint John
N.B
Ryan
St. Henry
Montreal
Best Hundred Books revise list with notable shifts
The Sunday Review readers revise Sir John Lubbock's Best Hundred Books. Old favorites like Christian Year and Last Days of Pompeii persist, while Wells rises for historical merit. The top ranks still include Bible and The Koran with Aesop's Fables eleventh, Shakespeare twenty sixth, Pilgrim's Progress thirty fifth, Dickens and Thackeray around sixty. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes closes the list with key modern works in a broad, period voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kors
John Lubbock
Old Avebury
Sunday Review
Steiles
Taylor
Keble
Lytton
Pompe
East Lynne
Yardy
Meredith
Shaw
Bennett
Galsworthy
Chesterton
Barrie
Wells
Lewman
Sherlock Holmes
Busy New York Second Hand Shops Reach Millions
New York second hand shops in all five boroughs totaled 514 million in sales across 936 stores with Manhattan alone approaching 10 million. Furniture led with 256 outlets moving 2.93 million in goods. pawn shops at 114 outlets handled 2.75 million. books from 30 stores 300 thousand. 65 dealers in used cars and equipment did 700 thousand.
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New York
Five Boroughs
Merchants’ Association
Manhattan
Wells and Shaw Urge Focus on Arid Reconstruction
H. G. Wells argues for arid reconstruction while George Bernard Shaw backs the plan. Both urge the pair to stop warring and devote time to the job of rebuilding rather than perpetual writing and talking.
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H. G. Wells
George Bernard Shaw
Fragmented tale of pursuit and danger in distant lands
An OCR fragment portrays a tense pursuit scene with characters Petty and his Scottie dog, a plan to escape, and threats from bandits and Chinese forces. The text shifts through disjointed phrases describing a nighttime flight, a camping blaze, and a looming confrontation as forces move toward a forested region.
Cargoes Arranged for Churchill Grain Exports Return Steel and Coal
Brig Gen R Paterson head of the On-to-the-Bay Association notes grain shipments from Churchill via the Hudson Bay route will be followed by return cargoes of anthracite coal and steel rails. He urges the Dominion Government to provide unloading facilities and for wheat pools to supply two cargoes, with Manion and railways minister coordinating temporary unloading arrangements.
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Churchill
Hudson Bay
R. Paterson
Paterson
Dominion
Manion
Corn Stalk Grows From Tree At Ureensourg Courthouse
In Indiana, a maple tree near the courthouse hosts a two and a half foot corn stalk sprouting from a crotch fifteen feet above ground. Owner Edgar Waters expects the stalk to bear corn. A quip about trains follows, reflecting local humor.
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Ureensourg
Indiana
Edgar Waters
Fine Flying Record In Arctic Mission Ends In Ottawa Return
Flight Lieutenant Dave Harding led a civil government operation routing 46 days in northern Ontario and Hudson Bay areas. About 4,500 Indians were paid under the treaty while a Dominion Census counted inhabitants. Ice fields lined Hudson Bay shores and porpoises were photographed at river mouths. A marked tide created dangerous low-lying coasts and exposed muskeg stretches up to ten miles inland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Harding
Ottawa
Ontario
Hudson and
James Bay
Severn River
Port Albany
Moose Factory
Hudson Bay
Pea
Woman pilot joins Labrador survey aboard Grenfell expedition
Mrs Joan Cotton pilots one of three xeropones amid a Labrador Coast survey by the Grenfell Expedition. She is the daughter of Prof J D Henry of Newfoundland and wife of Major Sidney Cotton, who flew to Iceland to aid Courtauld Men Talked More Women in Parliament trailed behind in the October-May session led by Lord Eustace Percy.
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Labrador
Grenfell
Joan Cotton
J. D. Henry
Newfoundland
Sidney Cotton
Iceland
Courtauld
Eustace Percy
Gazette
Duchess of Atholl
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Charles H Stevens
Worple Road
West Wimbledon
Pep
Aerasnalas
Peter
Anya
MU. Ise
Wie
Ihe
TLE
Swenta
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Helen Keller
Mateard
Pety
Scottie
Liew
Jed
Jonas
Ite the
Indies
Iesten FM
Hata Cape
Nina
Ava
Jed Stone
Noth
Dordens
Dimcult
Northern Air
Gandhi
Winston. Churchill
Reynolda
London Morning Post
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