Royal air service set in Belting empire regulations
The Belting empire outlines a royal air service as a distinct military branch. It standardizes rank precedence across naval and nonmilitary personnel, permits civilian entry at equal status, and details pay, uniform features, and a new eagle insignia.
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Royalaval Air Service
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Naval Air Service
Royal Navy
Pilvers
Royal Mar F Joes
Toya Naval Reserve
New French Lew Taxes Foreigners in France Owing to Tax Change
A French tax reform prompts foreign residents to consider leaving France or transferring assets abroad. US financier admires potential residence changes while others plan to move to nations with tax exemptions. Bankers fear broader effects as the law shifts tax burden, raising prices for farmers and vital goods. The measure aims to ease direct rates for farmers but increases overall costs.
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France
Vaill
Ita
Ste
Prussian interior ministry debates late-night opening rules
In a state of alarm the public fears a town shutdown at 11 p.m. Prussia weighs police law changes to allow venues to stay open past 11 only in special cases such as hotels with urgent needs and proper evidence.
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I Legion
Ministry of the Interior
Sheep Grazing Rules Repealed In Alberta District
At the urging of the interior minister the council rescinded grazing prohibitions enacted in 1884 and 1883 for portions of Southern Alberta. The move cites conflicts with February 18 1916 regulations allowing leases to keep owners and defines a district bounded by the Milk and St Marys rivers to the west, South Saskatchewan to the north, Assiniboia's boundary to the east, and the international line to the south.
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Alberta
Ted
Fly
St Mary's
Child labor in New York factory investigations reveal abuses
Hearing before the New York State Factory Investigating Commission exposed child labor conditions. George Hall of the New York Child Labor Commission displayed samples of items made by children as young as 13 and 14, earning as little as 6 to 10 cents per hour and working after school until late at night.
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New York State
George Hail
New York Child Labor Commission
Childress Tenemen
Mr. Halleh
Hall
German land purchase to boost Rosser area growth
A German company bought land near Rosser Manitoba aimed at founding a colony and employing about 12,000 in construction. Reports describe shale deposits near mouton Alberta and further discoveries across British Columbia and Alberta, including ore, gold and oil finds, plus a brass plant in ReeElif. Indigenous opposition cited as a major obstacle.
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Rosser
Man
Dominion
Ontario cattle show promoter seeks US exhibition access
A Ontario stock promoter requests government action to ease US restrictions on Canadian cattle at exhibitions. Representations argue US rules hinder Canadian exhibitors, with tuberculosis testing and lack of compensating benefits noted. The move mirrors a similar rule on the US side and follows Canadian breed interests.
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Ontario
United States
Canada
Radium effects on crops stir cautious optimism
Reports from England describe radium residues improving growth in soil textures and boosting wheat, barley, radishes, and carrots. Experiments suggest stable soil benefits lasting hundreds of years, though skeptics recall past failed experiments. Also highlighted is Mme Kudasheva the Cossack rider forging a perilous journey across Asia under royal interest.
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England
Lord Resse
Radium cancer treatment and parcel post in Berlin
The article reports on radium cancer therapies promoted by German physicians led by Professor Burm and mentions the Roentgen method curing women. It also discusses the parcel post system extending in Berlin, with no university checks and increasing traffic, originally capped at eleven pounds. officials say it is paying its way and fulfilling its mission.
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Burm
University of Berlin
Bier
Berlin
15000 Awaiting 2 Bling Michael Jordan Estopped
Michael Jordan who left Ireland in 1847 is being run by John T yer New York who announces that 5000 awaits him from an Irish estate His mother's maiden name was Helen OGrady Renew Elevator Lease Cabinet accepts Grain Growers Grain Cite for the Blind Manitoba elevator system lease renewal after an injury at St Patrick's Hall Boston.
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Ireland
John T
Wall Street
New York
Helen Ogrady
Michael
Montress Inni
St Patrick's Hall
Manitoba
Unset Seas in London at Earl's Court Sunny Spain Exhibit
London hosts an under sea pavilion by Dr Sibert’s kioskhydro with a Queen’s Court lake and a vast marine display. More than 20 000 aquatic creatures from the North Sea Atlantic and Mediterranean are in London tanks including 500 fish six feet long and an equal number of large eels. A Canadian newsboy tours Paris selling the London Daily Mail while Patsy Ryep from Edmonton tries to walk around the world for a $6 prize amid food hardships.
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Constanc Squimalt
London
Spain
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Queen's Court
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Atlantic
Bolckea
Italy
Paris
London Daily
Wandering Glacier Shifts British Columbia Harbor Again
The restless Grand Pacific Glacier moves along the sea slope west of Skagway muttering a change of territorial grip. Prof Lawrence Martin and an International Geological Congress party note the harbor shift as the glacier appears to favor British Columbia at times, then relocates back toward Alaska, prompting authorities to fear eventual permanent settlement and naturalization.
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Skagway
Alaska
Canada
Columbia
Alaskan Panhandle
British Columbia
Lawrence Martin
International Geological Congress
Tie
R. Brock
James New
Brock
Lawrence
John Crowther Explorer Dies After Arctic Ordeal
Peterhead-born John Crowther, famed ice master and navigator to explorer Stigt Smith, died in Glasgow. He guided a yacht mission that struck ice in 1881, leaving 25 men stranded a year in Franz Josef Land. On a dog’s help from Peterhead to Nova Zemb, food and survival were secured until rescue.
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John Crowthers
Glasgow
Crowther
Stigt Smith
Kira
Franz Joseph Land
M. Robert Steplen
Peterhead
Mr Leigh
Smith
Steven
Leigh'smith
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Bob
Nova Zenba
Animal
Railroad Death Toll Highlights ICC Warning on Safety
Interstate Commerce Commission data show 10 130 people killed and over 190 000 injured on U S railroads in the just-ended year, underscoring that rail travel is deadlier than war and prompting officials to press for stronger safety steps despite limited progress. Over 210 000 killed and 2 000 000 injured in the past quarter century reveal the ongoing human cost and stress the need for reforms.
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U.S
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Commission
Wisk
Wolfe statue memorial gains Duke of Connaught support
Movement to erect a Wolfe memorial church gains backing from the Duke of Connaught and IRA. Canon Scala’s project is moving ahead with new committees forming in Canada and England. a bishop leads England’s local efforts. Postmaster General Hebhouse notes British postal rates to Canada remain through December. Lethbridge to host an interior department miniature irrigation farm at Henderson Park to study water allocation for hay and crops.
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iHebhouse
To House
United Kingdom
Canada
Lethbridge
Department of the Interior
Henderson Park
Gold Reserve Tower and War Indemnity History Revealed
A long report details Germany’s postwar views on using the Thirty Million Marks indemnity kept in a gold tower. It notes clerks and troops ensuring the coins remain secure, with calls to repurpose the fund for humanitarian ends and to avoid repeating past wars.
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Germany
France
Canada to advertise water powers at Panama Exposition
British engineers will inspect Winnipeg River water powers as Canada showcases models from Atlantic to Pacific at the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. Gibson Catlett will paint a 85 by 9 feet depiction in Winnipeg's Canadian building, illustrating Dowman's view of all water powers. Association of British Engineers may visit Winnipeg to study western provinces' power potential amid shifting homestead figures and land patents.
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Canada
Panama
San Francisco
Atlantic
Pacific
Gibson Catlett
Pronto
Dowman
Association of British Engineers
Big Prices For Autograph Letters In London Sale
Autograph letters and historical documents sold in London feentry fetching 5600 dollars for a Beau Brummell letter series and 69 related items. Burns manuscripts drew 3600 dollars for pieces including The Humid Petition of Brust Water to the Duke of Athole and The Sechle Sequer’s Debhter described by Burns as one of his best poems.
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London
Beau Brummell
Tom Moore
Samuel Rogers
Leigh Huot Drummell
Bobbie Burns
Journey J Foster Stackhouse Antarctic Expedition Sets Sail
Journey J Foster Stackhouse plans a December sail from London for a British Antarctic voyage seeking 1 100 miles of coastline surveys and oceanographical data possibly matching the Challenger. The mission may total over 150 000 miles with return by end of 1919 and includes new Panama Canal routes. The same era sees Canada cut army service corps strength as militia refines establishment and transfers open to officers.
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J. Foster Stackhouse
London
Three wireless stations planned at Hudson Bay entrance
The government and navy launch a major summer program to place three wireless stations at the entrance to Hudson Bay, with two lighthouses to form a continuous communications line from Port Nelson and Port Churchill. Construction will begin later, while surveys and mapping proceed aboard government vessels.
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Port Newson
Post Churchill
Nelson
Fort Churchill
Nottaway
Miata
Malltax
Hudsom Bay
Port Nelson
Rene Artnet
Montreal
Census on Birds in United States Aims at Counts
The Department of Agriculture plans a nationwide census of birds to measure populations of specific species in defined areas. By comparing figures with existing data, officials hope to assess federal and state protections and whether insectivorous birds are rising or falling. Farmers lose money yearly to insect pests, and bird conservation is seen as vital to controlling this loss.
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United
Department of Agriculture
Department
Warning to Immigrants Circular Issued by Immigration Dept
A government circular warns immigrants that the department will refuse admission not only to nonagricultural entrants but also to laborers and domestics. It states that even with a promise of employment, a foreign worker may be rejected if the job could have gone to a Canadian unemployed in the same trade. The policy shows the department’s stance on protecting Canadian workers.
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Ottawa
EA. Lancaster
ULP
Indenay
Gothine
Apartment of Immigration
Declaris
Legory
Canada
Imperial Teachers Conferen Heads To London Meeting
Hon KA minister of education invites imperial teachers to meet in Caxton Hall London with the Imperial Conference date set in Torom o 1816 and a per person travel cap not exceeding 150 dollars. Government housing arrangements to cut costs. Residences provided by Toronto University.
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Onteo
Toromo
Pioneachershel
Caxton Hall
London
Hughes
Omaro
Toronto University
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