Death Toll of Industry Calls for National Action
The 1910 report of Canada's Department of Labor records 1,380 fatal and 2,697 non fatal industrial accidents. Railways show the highest fatalities with 281 deaths and 332 non fatal cases, prompting comparisons with the US and Britain and urging stronger public health and safety measures to protect workers nationwide.
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Department of Labor
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Department
Britain
Dominion
Workers urged to give matter serious consideration
The Saskatoon Phoenix urges workers to reflect deeply on the issue at hand, calling for careful scrutiny and thoughtful consideration by those involved.
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Saskatoon Phoenix
Industrial Commissioner Seeks Factories for Medicine Hat
Charles E. Brown, Medicine Hat Alberta industrial commissioner, arrived in Spokane to recruit factories. He plans to inspect about 60 plants, add 12 this year employing 100 to 150 workers each, and report to ratepayers who will decide on site, gas donations, water works, and a streetcar line. He backs the home buying campaign and will travel as far as Indiana.
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Spokesman-Review
Spokane
Washington
Charles E. Brown
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Indiana
Forestry in Europe: Hesse forests yield and fire risk
In 1908 the Grand Duchy of Hesse had 182263 acres of productive forest with 69 percent hardwood and 31 percent conifer. Lumber output reached 4575000 cubic feet, with $754000 spent on salaries and road work and $1161831 gross income from lumber and firewood. Forest capital of $52665354 earned 2.21 percent interest. fires are rare where intensive forestry is practiced.
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Grand Duchy of Hesse
Europe
Fruit a tives claim headache cure in 1909 Ontario ad
W J McComb reports terrible headaches from stomach and liver trouble eased by Fruit a tives. He says glasses and specialists failed, then the product cured headaches indigestion and restored health, selling in boxes and trial sizes from Fruit a tives Limited Ottawa.
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Truwrox
Ont
Jan.agth
1909
Toronto
W. J. McComb
Fruit-a-tives Limited
Ottawa
Toledo Museum of Art Opens In White Marble Greek Ionic Style
A distinguished gathering witnessed the dedication of the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo Ohio. The building features white marble in Greek Ionic design and cost over 400000 dollars. An inaugural exhibition features contributions from nearly all major private collections in the country.
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Toledo
Toledo Museum of Art
Former convict Charles Maust to face murder trial
Guthrie Oklahoma January 17 The case of Charles Maust alleged to be Ben Cravens an outlaw who terrorized Oklahoma was called for trial Maust identified as Cravens while in Missouri state prison and brought back to stand trial for the murder of Assistant Postmaster Alvin Bateman at Red Rock in 1901
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Guthrie
Okla
Charles Maust
Ben Cravens
Oklahoma
Missouri
Maust
Cravens
Alvin Bateman
Red Rock
SALVIA Hair Grower Promises Quick Restorative Cure
Pingle offers SALVIA the Great American Hair Grower with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure dandruff stop hair loss and itching scalp within ten days. The product is sold by Pingle Druggist in a large bottle priced at 50 cents with the word SALVIA Latin for sage on every bottle.
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England
Pingle
January milestones from 1641 to 1911 and a 1802 incorporation
This digest lists notable historic dates and births including Marquis de Louvois born 1641 and died 1691, Montesquieu born 1689 and died 1755, the 1797 US-Canada weekly mail start, Detroit incorporation 1802, Amos S Blake born, German Empire proclaimed 1871, Bulwer-Lytton dies, Daniel Webster statue 1900, and Henry Cabot Lodge re-elected 1911.
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Marquis de Louvois
Louis XIV
Baron de Montesquieu
United States
Canada
Detroit
Michigan
Amos S. Blake
New England
Brookfield
Lord Edward Bulwer Lytton
Daniel Webster
Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Winter Meeting of Texas Fruit Growers Opens in Houston
The Texas State Horticultural Society began its winter session in Houston on January 18 and will continue through tomorrow. A leading feature is a conference on the need for experimental horticultural work in Texas led by Dr. Youngblood, director of the Texas experiment stations.
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Houston
Texas
Texas State Horticultural Society
Youngblood
Texas Experiment Stations
Birth anniversary of William T. Foster founder of Reed College
William Trufant Foster born January 18 1879 in Boston Massachusetts. He graduated Harvard 1901 and taught at Bates College for two years before joining Bowdoin College as English instructor in 1904 and professor in 1905. He studied at Columbia Teachers College during 1909 10 and earned a PhD in education and sociology.
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William Trufant Foster
Reed College
Portland
Ore
Boston
Mass
Harvard College
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Peru to Erect Battle Monument Marking 1812 Site
A meeting in Peru Indiana on January 18 formed the Mississinewa Battle Ground Association to mark the 1812 battle site where an American force led by Colonel Campbell fought Miami and Delaware Indians on December 18, 1812.
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Peru
Ind
Mississinewa
Taft Plans Two Day Trip to New York and New Haven
Special to News Taft will leave Washington tomorrow for a week end visit to New York and New Haven. In New Haven he attends Yale Corporation meeting and the Chamber of Commerce banquet. In New York he plans several events including a Bar Association meeting and the Society of Genenee dinner.
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Washington, D.C
Taft
Capital
New York
New Haven
Yale Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
New York City Bar Association
Society of the Genenee
Another Old Resident Gone
A rival editor woos a woman of uncertain age yet sound means marries her, prompting the editor to retaliate by leading a column head about her wedding titled Another Old Resident Gone.
Cure a Cold with Bromide Quinine Tablets Ad
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. B. W. Grove’s signature on each box. The regular Tennis Dance will be held in the Opera House on Thursday next January 25. This item mixes medicinal ad copy with a local event notice for readers.
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B. W. Grove
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