Wonders and Monsters Across the Global Tide
The piece muses on human curiosity and strange aquatic monsters from Ogopogo to Cady the sea serpent and Loch Ness. It notes reporters chasing sightings in Canada France Scotland and Brazil, cites skeptical scientists, and recalls Alley Oop as a reminder of earlier wonders.
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Ocean
Vancouver Island
Fas
Quebec
France
British Columbia
Scotland
Brazil
Burns
Loch Lomond
Loch Ness
Tweed
Loch Ness Monster
Alley Oop
Oxford University Ellesmere Island Expedition Leaves England
Edward Shackleton organizes the Oxford University Ellesmere Island expedition to depart England in July aboard a Norwegian sealer. Supported by the Canadian government and the Royal Geographical Society, the mission aims to explore and survey unknown interior regions of Ellesmere Island, about 600 miles from Canada's Arctic coast, led by Dr. Noel Humphreys.
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Oxford University
England
Edward Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton
Ellesmere Island
Royal Geographical Society
Canada
Arctic
Noel Humphreys
Prices for apples like London costs in distant lands
A provincial note contrasts apple prices across regions, noting apples cost about the same in London and the Soudon desert as in parts of Columbia. The writer finds the pricing system perplexing, with no quick remedy, and reflects on the mismatch between abundant local apple production and distant higher costs. A side note recalls a pumpkin dish using baked apple stuffing.
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London
Soudon
Columbia
Mars
Remarkable bowel remedy from The Milburn Co in Toronto
An old market notice describes a tonic for diarrhoea dysentery and stomach pains. It claims to calm frequent stools settle the stomach and brace the weakened system. Advertised as on the market for 88 years the product is from The T Milburn Co Ltd Toronto.
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T. Milburn Co. Ltd
Toronto
Train Promises Railroads New Lease Of Life
The article argues the streamline train could renew railroads with a new enterprise and labor, promising better value for travelers. It notes eighty two passengers and fuel efficiency, urging bold changes like diesel engines, aluminum use, and crew training to achieve progress and prosperity.
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Tracy
New York World-Telegram
Letter From A Man Of 90
A ninety year old man writes that after three years of Kruschen Salts he has not had another inflammatory rheumatic attack. He describes prior bedridden pain, ongoing stiffness in the hands, and praises Kruschen taken each morning before breakfast. The ad claims Kruschen dissolves uric acid crystals causing rheumatic trouble and flushes them from the system with a small daily dose.
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Krischen
Tam
J. R. G. Kruschen
Unusual Hobby Brings World Top Match-Box Tops to Light
A description of Major Pat A Becketts collection of 22 000 match-box tops occupying three rooms at Ye Old Ploughe Inn Speen Buckinghamshire. It covers first designs and world progress colorfully. ex King Alphonso visited admiring the display. Also a note on grasshoppers moulting life cycle with five molts.
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Loraniuener
Khartoum
Pat A’beckett
Alphonso
A’beckett
Ease Pain Headache Relief from Aspirin Tablets
An advertisement touts rapid headache relief using a scientific aspirin tablet that dissolves in two seconds after moisture contact. It claims swift pain control for neuralgia rheumatism and neur osi and cautions buyers to choose Bayer branded aspirin to ensure authentic quick relief.
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Ain
Ark
Bayer
Aspiria
Midget City Clinic Exposed at Chicago World’s Fair
Scientists and medical men are invited to study the mystery of why the midget never grows up at a larger midget city within the Chicago World’s Fair. Nate Eagle, managing director, says the colony will be four times bigger and gather the largest number of little people of all ages and both sexes ever seen at one place.
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Nate T. Eagle
Australian Poet Adam Lindsay Gordon Honored at Westminster
The national poet of Australia has his bust placed in Poet's Corner Westminster Abbey becoming the first British Dominions poet so commemorated since Tennyson. A memorial volume by Mayor Douglas Sladen outlines Gordon life from mounted police to parliamentarian and famed steeplechase rider, ending with his suicide after losing a land case and publishing his last book Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes.
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Adam Lindsay Gordon
Australia
Westminster Abbey
Tennyson
Douglas Sladen
Gordon
Pariament
Gardons
Hallhead
Aberdeenshire
Hay production costs at Dominion Farms vary across provinces
The average hay cost at Dominion Experimental Farms in the Prairie Provinces is $5.99 per acre or $6.23 per ton for 144 tons per acre. Costs differ by farm, ranging from $5.93 per acre at Swift Current to $11.19 at Morden, and per ton from $4.47 at Brandon to $8.42 at Indian Head.
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Dominion
Prairie Provinces
Swift Current
Morden
Branedon
Indian Head
X Ray Camera Reveals Bones Knitting In Motion
Doctor Arthur C Pillsbury of the University of California perfects an x ray motion camera. It compiles a series of interval photographs to reveal bone knitting in a broken limb. The device extends the principle used to photograph unfolding flowers. The first x ray motion picture showed interior rose growth, filmed over seventy two hours with intermittent exposures. Doctor William D Coolidge designed a special x ray tube to prevent damage to specimens.
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Arthur C. Pillsbury
University of California
Pillsbury
William D. Coolidge
Coolidge
Bible records births on Tristan da Cunha island
The British Museum bought an 1831 American Bible from the Glass family detailing William Glass and his Tristan settlement marriage and the births of 16 children. It notes descendants among the island’s 700 residents and traces to Annie Glass, a granddaughter of Glass.
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Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic
Cape of Good Hope
British Museum
William Glass
Tristan
Glass
Annie Glass
Gardener Wonders About Lettuce Troubles
A correspondent laments unclear lettuce problems in the garden and jokes about consulting a salad recipe book for guidance.
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