Railroad Statistics Show Canada’s Freight and Payroll Scale
Canadian railways moved 66,626,000 tons of freight and carried 17,952,000 passengers last year. Total payroll reached 141,078,000 dollars for about 119,000 employees. Fuel cost was 14,705,092 dollars and water 893,700 dollars. Labor accounted for roughly 60 cents of every dollar in expenses. Revenue tonnage was led by mine products at 32,002,546 tons, agricultural 23.1 percent, forest 12.2 percent, animal 27 percent, and miscellaneous 29.8 percent.
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Canada
Canadian Railways
Canadian National
Canadian National Lines
Confidence the bedrock of society and its collapse
A long discourse argues confidence is the foundation of family, business, and national life. It warns that loss of trust erodes self-respect, initiative, and liberty, risking societal collapse as individuals turn into mere cogs in a machine. Strong entities include God, government, and economic systems.
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Fidence
Ihe
Potiep
Pet Hine
In Bed With Neuritis Winter Relief Story
A reader claims recurring neuritis kept her in bed every winter for three months, but after taking Kruschen Salts she improved from the first dose and has not been bedridden since. The ad asserts neuritis stems from impure blood and Kruschen balances internal organs to restore health.
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Santer
D. M
Mauretania Retires After 22 Years as Speed Icon of Seas
The Cunard liner Mauretania, retired after a storied career, set speed records from its 1907 launch, including a five day five hour ten minute transatlantic crossing. It logged about 1.5 million miles, carried 250,000 passengers, and helped troop movements in war, with 300 Atlantic crossings and around the world sixty trips.
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Cunard
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson
Wallsend
Newcastle-on-Tyne
England
Dowager Duches of
Roxburgh
New York
Havana
Carysfort Reef
Jupiter Inlet
Mauretania
Atlantic
West Indies
South America
Africa
Wheat regulation seen as necessary for Canada and dominions
In Montreal Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist and head of a royal commission on Canadian wheat, urged regulation of wheat supply amid flat Britain demand. He travels with Lady Stamp from Quebec to New York and cautioned against assuming dust storms in the United States would spur lasting Canadian acreage expansion.
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Canada
Dominions
Great Britain
Britain
Sir Josiah Stamp
Montreal
London, Midlands and Scottish Railway
Bank of England
Josiah
Lady Stamp
Quebec
New York
United States
Weekend Quest for Fastest Plane Sparks Global Tour
Reports from London indicate Capt. T Campbell Black plans a weekend trip to Canada as the first of four proposed weekend flights. The aims include testing a new rapid transport craft, with subsequent legs to Capetown the Orient and an unnamed destination, seeking the speed record.
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T. Campbell Black
Canada
London
Capetown
Orient
Mount Ararat Landfall Description Amid Food Recount
Mount Ararat is described as the landing site of Noah's Ark after the great flood, with the peak rising more than three miles above the surrounding terrain.
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Mount
Araret
Blind Ontario girl shines at education convention recital
Lucille Lemp a tiny blind and crippled girl from Tavistock Ontario performed at the Ontario Education Association convention in Toronto. She played harp recited a poem wrote a business letter on a Braille typewriter and demonstrated geography using a relief map to show how home instruction aids physically handicapped children.
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Lucille Lemp
Tavisetock
Ontario
Ontario Education Association
Toronto
Lucille
John K. Lemp
Ontario Department of Education
Laucille
Petrified Forest Discovery Reported Near Teflis Russia
Professor Vinogradov of the Tifis forestry institute announced a discovery on the Adshar mountains slopes near Teflis Russia. The find includes petrified trunks of numerous species, some of gigantic size, dating from a prehistoric age.
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Adshar
Teflis
Russia
Vinogradov
Tifis Forestry Institute
Teeth count myth linked to Aristotle and gender
A longstanding belief traced to Aristotle claimed women had four fewer teeth than men after he counted the teeth of a housekeeper and a male servant. The anecdote suggests a centuries old myth about dental differences between genders that persisted for generations.
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