Train Schedules and a London Meat Strike Excerpt
A historical notice lists trains and times between Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, and other points, including connections and sleepers. The piece also covers a London meat strike where butchers protest substandard meat, demand American or British imports, and gain representation on the Smithfield meat committee, then endorses fishing as a cure for nerves and urges thrift stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Manchuria
South Africa
Brazil
America
Britain
Smithfield
John Bull
Saar Valley Coal Destruction Shapes French Demands
Details the German wrecking of coal mines in the Valenciennes and Lens districts and its impact on France. It explains the depth of shafts, flooding, and required pumping, and contrasts prewar production with postwar losses while noting France's limited Saar Valley claim and Germany’s broader aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saar Valley
Germany
France
Valenciennes
Lens
Praiseworthy English Strike Draws Food Ministry Visit
In England the Smithfield meat market butchers abandoned stalls and marched to the food ministry in a rare, public applauded protest against the strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Smithfield Markets
Food Ministry
Farmland Gains From Glass Houses In Guernsey Example
W W Marsh and Roger Sullivan discuss intensive farming on a 15 000 acre Guernsey island that supports 40 000 people with four crops a year in glass houses. The system uses 1 000 miles of glass houses, growing potatoes beans tomatoes and grapes for export and domestic sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald
W. W. Marsh
Iowa
Roger Sullivan
Democratic’ ‘Party
Ilinois
Marsh
Guernsey
Wisconsin
Puffing Brick Ships Headed for San Francisco Launch
Two 7,500 ton oil tank ships built from puffed brick concrete are ready for launch in San Francisco. The bricks are heated to puff like popcorn, ground to dust, mixed with cement, and reinforced with steel rods. Forms hinge to rise and be replaced after pouring another hull, promising 40 percent lighter walls and rapid production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
King Alberts Training Reveals Hidden Paths to Kingship
The article recounts King Alberts secret self training in Boston and Belfast docks with disguises and journeys. It notes his rise from low command to army service and a Brussels to Ostend locomotive run, plus railroading studies under James J Hill and missions in Ireland and Congo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert
Belfast
Brussels
Ostend
James J
Hill
Ireland
Congo
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THE
Glasgow House
Crystal Dairy, Ltd
Dominion
Ford
Chevrolet
Gray- Dart
Maxwell
lHegular Zoe
the Bell Hardware, Ltd
Dreamland
Medicine Hat Lime Works
P.Q. Box
Canadian Paacific Railway Company
Medicine HA
Alta
Trans-Canada Limited
Seo Pacific Express
Crow’s Nest
Imperial
Vancouver Express
Retlaw-Lomond
Lethbridge-Aldersyde
Toronto Express
Nane’v & Calg
Montreal
Vanie
V & Calg
Kootenay Ldg
Vane't
Aim
Toronto
Retlaw
Lom
Aldersyde & Leth
Nane
St. Paul
Wpg
Y & Vanc'r
M. Jaw
Leth
Y & Vane'r
the Imperial
Y & ‘Vane'r
Soo Pacific Express
Y & Vane
Crow's Nest Express
Kootenay
Medicine Hat
Et Office
Medicine Hat. News, Limited
Alberta
N. Terrill
Scientific American
King Alberts
Boston
Post
Panama
Uniderweir
B. V.D
Zoelbe
Silver
Glasgow
Edwards’ Shoe Store
Rialto
MOE Alverta
Pone
Stalis
Merchants Bank
the Merchants Bank
Montrealey
Medicine Hat Branch
A. Belcher
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