Inspiring Panorama of Western Canada Harvest in 1928
A mid September travelogue through Western Canada describes vast yellow grain fields, busy harvesters, and modern elevators. It portrays a bustling prairie economy with combines, binders, wagons, and trucks moving grain to rail, while Eastern workers and miners blend into the Epic of the West. The piece exalts sunny harvest days, progress, and the promise of prosperity.
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Western
Canada
Prairies
British Columbia
Prairie
New Wireless Apparatus Heats Bodies Without Contact
A new wireless heat method uses a short-wave vacuum tube to transfer power to a heated body without direct contact and to light lamps without a visible power source. High-frequency, high-power waves heat enclosed food via a glass tube hung from a metallic aerial. Doctors seek new electrical treatment methods for future heat therapy applications.
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil touted for respiratory relief
The advertisement praises Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as effective for fever and pulmonary troubles. It claims to correct respiratory disorders, reduce bronchial inflammation, and offers testimonials from users, urging sufferers to try the oil for relief.
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Thomas
New Use For Radio Waves Inactivates Milk Germs
A UC Medical College report cites Dr Karl Seidel of Vienna claiming intense radio beams of very short wavelength can kill germs in milk without altering milk molecules or flavor. A Paris compliment follows with a French wit in the crowd at the races.
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Medical College
University of California
Karl Seidel
University of Vienna
Paris
Sounds From The Deep And Hidden Worlds
A fragmentary meditation on unseen forces in nature and technology. It muses on inaudible sounds in aquaria, earthworms and thrushes, insect perceptions, and the discovery of electrons through wireless communication, hinting at a broader unknown world beyond human perception.
Dr Williams Pink Pills Bring Renewed Health for Mrs James
Mrs James of Brown's Flat NB reports severe weakness loss of appetite and dizziness improved after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She says heart palpitations eased and she is now able to do housework and enjoy life again. She recommends the medicine and notes it is available for 50 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont and a free booklet can be mailed.
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James Velves
Brown
Dr. William
Thad
Dr. Williams
Tam
Intelligent Congress Shipowner Seeks Government Aid
A satirical dialogue mocks government aid needs for shipping costs. It jokingly suggests reducing barnacle expenses by using cheaper barnacles or fewer of them. The piece then promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a safe remedy for children with worm symptoms and claims post-treatment digestive restoration.
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Congress
Afiicer
Kemal Pasha Forces Turkish Alphabet Shift
Dictator Kemal Pasha compels Turks to abandon the Arabic script and adopt the Latin alphabet. The move is presented as progress for Turkey, contrasted with the Irish Free State’s compulsory Gaelige policy, implying the Celt regresses while the Turk advances.
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Kemal Pasha
Turkey
Irish Free State
Hiward’s Linkment Quote Insight From Joseph Conrad
The fragment notes a line about delight meeting us unexpectedly in life’s streets and mentions Joseph Conrad who reportedly learned English at age nineteen. The remark blends literary reflection with a biographical tidbit.
Pimples Itched And Burned Badly Healing With Cuthura
A patient describes pimples spreading over the face and body that were hard red and festered. They itched and burned intensely causing scratching and painful eruptions over but the text degrades with garbled remnants.
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Cuthura
Notable Colonial Purchases and Early Island Deals
A historical roundup of early land purchases including Peter Minuit’s 1624 bargain for Manhattan and related exploits. It covers Simon van der Stell’s Bay Natal deal, the East India Company’s Bombay rights, Nantucket transfers in 1641 and 1659, and Roger Ludlow’s land swap with the Indians using wampum and assorted goods.
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Peter Minuit
Duterman
Man- Batten Island
Simon van Fer Stell
Capetown
Bay of Port Natal
East India Company
Charles I
Bombay
Infanta
Catherine
Portugal
Lord Stirling
Nantucket Island
Thom
Mayhew
Massachusetts
Roger Ludlow
Ludlow
Norway
Saugatuck
Connecticut
Veal Fricassee Style Fry From Betty Barclay
Veal steak half inch thick cut into serving pieces Dip in beaten egg with water then roll in toasted seasoned bread crumbs Heat hot fat in a spider Pan fry until brown Then cover with hot milk or sour cream and bake slowly for about an hour with lid off last fifteen minutes
Orange Sherbet Minted by Egg Yolk Custard Dessert
Beat yolks with sugar then add orange juice grated orange and lemon rind and hot water. Cook until thick, then cool. Whip whites with sugar until stiff and fold in. Chill. Line sherbet glasses with lady fingers, fill with orange mixture and serve.
Milk May Be Sold In Sheets From New Device
A Copenhagen inventor has created a machine that removes water from fresh milk, producing dry milk in sheet like tissue form. The sheets can be stored for years and reconstituted with lukewarm water, with plans to build a factory for sheet milk benefiting agriculture. Also mentions Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a multipurpose remedy for coughs colds sore throats sprains and wounds.
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Copenhagen
Locating Rome in a Continent Tour Gaffe
An American mother and daughter recount a wide continental tour. Upon return to their hometown a question about Rome triggers a memory of buying black silk stockings with white clocks. The humorous misdirection highlights travel anecdotes and shopper recall.
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Continent
Rome
Sadie
Polite conduct questioned as boy cites street peers
A teacher asks Johnny why he is less polite than Jimmy. Johnny answers that Jimmy lives on a street where all the other boys are bigger than he is.
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Johnny
Jimmy
Patents on Remedies Offer Strong Claims
Numerous old time cures are touted by unnamed advertisers, promising coin relief from Holloway's Corn Remover and Anard's Liniment. The copy touts personal opinion as a barrier to judgment and asserts the product’s strong effect in easing pains.
Exceedingly strange are the whys and wherefores of names
A reflective piece ponders why the letter Q is named as such noting its French queue meaning tail and that Q is an O with a tail. The text then shifts to a stark report on slavery stating enslaved people number at least four million across nineteen countries, with nearly two million in Abyssinia among a general population of 110 million.
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Abyssinia
Ex-Kaiser Recovers Farms Suit Sets Possible Precedent
Former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has won a suit for the recovery of two confiscated farms seized by the Government of the Union of South Africa in 1920. The case is seen as potentially establishing a precedent for recovering former imperial estates in other nations, notably Poland.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Union of South Africa
Poland
Worm Exterminator Promised to Save Children From Worms
A local notice warns that children risk convulsions or death from worms if untreated. It promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a protective remedy to ward off these distressing afflictions.
Women to be barred from underground mine work in Japan
Japan currently employs 42,992 women underground in its mines. New regulations prohibit any further women from such employment, signaling a policy shift and immediate impact on labor practices in the mining sector.
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Japan
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Minard's Ors
Liniment
Rockefeller
Learece
New Brunswick
Hiward
Joseph Conrad
Bayer
Imet
Nii
the Cool. Co
Betty Barclay
Delicio
US Veal
Ish Farmer
Thomas Eclectric
Holloway
Anard
Kaiser
Eveready
Canadian National Carbon Co
Calgary
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