British and World Notes From A Busy Era
Reported financial figures include 110000000 for a horse thief cost and a 1000000 publicity fund for British Industries Fair between February 21 and March. A New York aviator reported a stolen plane during dinner. Germany and Sweden agree to abolish passport visas. Germany Luxembourg and Porty 1 see travel easing from Sept. 1. A French luxury aviation camp hosts a new five motor hydroplane achieving 2100 horsepower and 99 mph on its maiden water takeoff.
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Federated Malay States
New York
Bair
London
Birmingham
Clara Vor Kassipolyan
Gyorok
Rumania
Germany
Sweden
Luxembourg
Paris
Paul Garneau
Quebec
A. Gosert
France
Our Lady of the Air
Portugal
Ft Fe
Cintra
Samuel Meigareo
Joaquin di Silva
Tinguldin
Michoacan
Romania
United States
Britain Bays From Canada Exports Rise to UK
Canada’s exports to Great Britain increased by 107,554,885 dollars in the year ending July 31, rising to 512,064,822 from 404,509,957 in the prior year. UK imports from Canada reached 163,349,513, up from 154,457,625, in the twelve months ending July 31, 1925.
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United Kingdom
Great Britain
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Reiew
Leaky Pipe Task Stumps Janitor In Indianapolis
A tenant in an Indianapolis flat called a janitor to fix a leaky pipe. The janitor admitted uncertainty about the procedure but offered a hopeful plan to locate the leak, expressing humility and determination in a humorous, self deprecating way.
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Impossible
Indianapols
Honey Industry Shows Rapid Growth in Western Provinces
Progress in bee culture appears strong in Alberta Manitoba and Saskatchewan with record honey outputs and dramatic crop growth. A single Alberta beekeeper surpassed 1924 provincial wax totals in 1925 while Manitoba honey production tripled in three years and Saskatchewan 1924 output vastly exceeded 1918 levels. In Alaska reindeer ventures near Bethel and Seattle advertising note 225 live reindeer rented for shipment. More than 1 000 references mention canned smoked and tied fob items to be sent northward.
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Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Seattle Bee
United States
W. M. Tupper
Bethel
Kuskokwim
Adeete
Seattle
Navy cape frock ensemble pattern description
The text outlines a navy cape and street frock design with a separate flattering cape, long tie collar, and a straight frock with a tailored collar, long revers, and a wide belt with a large buckle. Sizes 16 and 18 years, yardage details and price for the fashion book are given. The piece emphasizes good taste and home dressmaking practicality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Radio Stations Protest Canadian Radio Expansion
Radio stations in the United States preempt Canadian wavelengths to block new Canadian stations. The claim was made at a New York meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters by A. R. McEwan, radio director of the Canadian National Railways.
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Canadia
United States
National Association of Broadcaster
New York
A. R. McEwan
Cannian National Railways
World's Largest Cable Lands at New York
The world’s largest cable, 2 400 nautical miles long and capable of handling 2 500 words a minute between the United States and England, has been landed at New York. The Colonia, the largest cable ship, brought it ashore for the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company, completing a three months’ task.
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United States
England
New York
Colonia
Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company
Too Late Sophia and Grandfather Dinner Exchange
A tense family scene centers on Sophia eight and her grandfather during a dinner. The grandfather dismisses her attempts to speak while later softening as he asks what she wanted and she replies with a playful jab about an eye in the salad being eaten by him.
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Sophia
Grandpa
Earl
East Kootenay Power Plans $1 Million Steam Plant
The East Kootenay Power Company announces a $1,000,000 project to build a four unit steam plant on the Alberta side of the Alberta British Columbia boundary at Crow's Nest. Construction is set for this fall to process coal from nearby mines in Stewe Neat Pas.
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East
Post Office Orders Drastic Postal Defense Plan
The Postal Service unveils a drastic defensive order to guard mail trains and property, directing all employees to defend mail against bandits even at the risk of their lives. The Chicago holdup, valued at 135000, reportedly inspired the move after a high level conference with postal experts.
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United States
Chicago
Newt
Tiny Mary Ferguson Lawton Heads Across Atlantic Aboard Empress of Scotland
Five year old Mary Ferguson Lawton of Winniper travels alone across the Atlantic aboard the Empress of Scotland. Accompanied by her trip companions captain R G Latta and purser J Walker Bartlett, she will live with her uncle RW Feat in Woodstock Ontario after her mother’s death. The voyage is framed as a photography pose rather than fear of the sea.
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Atlantic
Mary Ferguson Lawton
Winniper
Mixx Lawson
R. G. Latta
J. Walker Bartlett
RW. Fe
Woodstock
Ont
Holland Made Tulip Popular and the Boom for Bulbs
The tulip spread from Turkey to England via Vienna during Queen Elizabeth's later years and the Dutch helped popularize it. In the tulip mania era bulbs reached high prices with 120 specimens reportedly selling for 0,500 rosins, prompting intervention to curb bulb growing as it grew unchecked.
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England
Vienna
Elizabeth
Holland
Former Crown Prince Returns to Potsdam Amid AntiRepublican Cheers
A disjointed clipping notes the former German crown prince arriving near Potsdam at a palace linked to his ancestry, amid cheers from anti republicans. The piece hints at government transfers affecting his property and mentions a cryptic dialogue, ending with a quirky domestic comment about a single girl asking a single man if he snores.
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Man AntiRepublicans
Crown Palace
Prtedrich Wehelm
Posi
Prestrick the Great
Pets
British Film Plan Aims To Break American Monopoly In India
A British led campaign intends to spend 4 900 600 dollars to open new Indian markets by building 300 English language theatres across major cities. Funds come from Aga Khan Maharajah of Anwar Pattal Bikanti Jaipur Kashmir, though donors deny profit motives. A grim note on child sale claims Hungarian peasants sell children due to poverty with prices around £3 19s for youths thirteen plus.
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America
India
Aga Khan
Maharajah
Anwar
Pattal
Bikanti
Jaipur
Kashmir
Tunday School Lesson Ary Tember 36
Golden text urges patience and faith in Jesus as perfecter. The devotional reads Psalm 106 1. Pupils discuss allusions from Longfellow Shakespeare and Sangster. References to God’s care, life and death, and the Lord’s Supper as spiritual sharing. Quotes from McConnel and Langer frame suffering and perseverance across centuries.
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McConnel
Huessan
Lawrence Langer
Manitoba Grown Hemp Exhibit Displays Local Fiber Goods
A display in Main Street Toronto showcases Manitoba grown hemp and flax products by LA Keys Fibre Mills. The exhibit features green hemp straw, flax fibre, hemp samples, rotted hemp, upholstering fibre, and various cords, felts, and oakum, highlighting the range from flax to hemp products.
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Toronto
Harris Turn
Dlax
Main Street
Keys Fibre Mills
Mac
Plucky English Nurse Ventures Into Central Africa
An English nurse and medical missionary based at Zouba on Lake Nyassa travels to a leper colony in Central Africa with Moorgrass serum believed to cure dread diseases. She faces dangers from leopards and hippos, asserts fearlessness, and notes the region’s volatile crime climate as she travels with a small frontier medical team.
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Central Africa
Penn
Staffordshire
Zouba
Lake Nyassa
Hans
Armie
Cement output in Canada rises sharply in year
The Dominion bureau of statistics in Ottawa reports cement product value at 2,020,239 dollars, up 61 percent from last year’s 1,253,471 and 34 percent above 1922’s 1,503,528. Cement plants producing bricks blocks pipe and artificial stone showed a capital investment of 2,594,796 dollars.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Ottawa
Canada
Keep Animals On Roof A Lima Shop Dealer Killed
A Lima shop dealer was killed when a cow fell through the roof into his dining room. The article notes animals are kept on rooftops in Pera, with cows sometimes living their lives on a roof before being brought down. The text also includes a series of odd quotes about population growth and a Moa joke.
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Lima
Pera
The Value Of a Farmer From Crane Petersen
The Value Of a Farmer argues Canada gains from immigration as farmers contribute income and property value. It cites Irving Fisher on productivity and notes railways depend on settler traffic. Calculations show per-farmer revenue and national capital tied to human effort, urging welcoming policy and investment to boost assets.
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Canada
Irving Fisher
Canadian Railways
Dominion Railway
Prairie
Uch
Prairie chicken season closes under Manitoba order in council
Manitoba government announces a season closure for prairie chicken partridge and related game across the province. The open duck shooting period continues to November 30 with a two birds per day quota from September 15 to October 1, then forty per day thereafter.
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Manitoba
Free Press
Best of Argument Told by Father Vaughan in America
An anecdote recounts Father Vaughan answering a boastful American in St Louis who mocked English rivers as sleepy. Vaughan replies that American rivers are confined to their beds, implying them equal to or worse than English rivers in vitality.
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Herward Vaughan
America
St. Louis
Taming Elephants and Their Feeding Challenges
The article notes tame elephants in the Orient, many used as beasts of burden, eat substantial quantities of food. A full grown elephant in domestic life consumes about 1000 pounds of green fodder and up to 25 pounds of uncooked rice daily. The piece emphasizes the big challenge of proper elephant feeding.
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Orient
Bird Appetite Myth Debunked By Bird Feeding Facts
The piece argues that the phrase a bird's appetite misleads, noting many birds consume several times their body weight at each feeding. It highlights how even small eaters show surprisingly large intake, with occasional observations of red birds and other species, underscoring the intensity of avian feeding behavior.
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Bays
Lothina
Caress
Winnipeg
Coton
McDermot Ave
Tehe
Potsdam
Mr. Yoon
Blg Flock
Sin Princes
U.S
Ally Reith
Can‘eda
Abe
Montreal
Mr. Reith
Nas
Eltham
Kent
Tunday
Jesus
Herub
Angele
Shakespeare
Margaret E. Sangster
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