Marquis Wheat Fame Reaches Argentina War Hero Seed
The piece highlights Marquis wheat, credited with feeding troops in the great war and spreading from Canada to the United States and now Argentina. It notes 3 900 bushels shipped and 2 004 bushels embarked, praising farmer Saunders for selecting the crop in 1902 and pondering Argentina’s reaction and potential honors.
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Buenos Aires
Team Jaw 2
Canada
Argentina
Pero
Mr. Saunders
Ottawa
United States
Juan Garay
Ships With Funnels Popular In Transit Nostalgia
The Detroit News notes public fondness for ships with multiple funnels even as Cunarder Saturnia uses oil burning funnels without smoke. It recalls rail and road history where form outweighed function and public taste favored familiar, picturesque silhouettes over modern efficiency.
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Brougham
Detroit News
Beechwood Stopgap Sombre Trade Tale
A timber merchant contemplates market gloom when a quiet young man asks for a small piece of beechwood to mend a bridge. The brief encounter reveals caution and restraint, with the merchant offering supply in logs or planks though the customer seeks only a modest amount.
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Sto Mn
Where the Difference Lies
London newspapers mock the notion by J. S. McKinnon of Toronto that Canadians fail in Britain due to lack of titles. The debate notes that the real difference is a title’s economic value, a rise in hotel bills, a distinction not widely sought today.
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London
J. S. McKinnon
Toronto
Britain
Toronto Globe
How Continents Are Made
Geologists describe forming continents as cycles of rising and sinking land. The Gobi and Sahara deserts illustrate terrains now well above sea level. Today parts of the North Pacific bed are rising, possibly creating the next continent.
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Gobi
Central Asia
Sahara
Africa
Dancer’s Headphones Aim to Silence Music in London Club
Prof A M Low of the Wire Wee League proposes a test at the Attomobile Club in London using inductive head phones for each dancer. The system would transmit music from a hidden room so spectators hear nothing yet dancers keep perfect rhythm. He says it could spare hotel guests from jazz noise during dances.
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A. M. Low
Wire Wee League
League
Attomobile Club
London
Low
The
Daily Express
Development of the acrostic crossword puzzle origin
The acrostic crossword emerged from Venantius Fortunatus Clementianus born in northern Italy circa 535 A.D. He wrote verses whose first and last letters read vertically to add two poems and used internal letters to form a cruciform pattern. His poems were lost for centuries and rediscovered in 1603 by Christopher Brower in a St Gall manuscript.
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Venantius Honorius Clementiances Fortunatus
North
Italy
Christopher Brower
St. Gall
Switzerland
Canals Built by Chaldeans Across Centuries
Relief unearthed shows King Uc-Engur in adoration before the Moon God while an angel carries a water vase. The repeated imagery is believed to symbolize multiple main canals used for irrigation by the Chaldeans more than forty centuries ago.
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Uc-Engur
Adventurous Silk Road Merchants Trek Across Deserts and Mountains
Long before the Christian era Chinese silk merchants endured the perilous journey along a rough desert road in the Gobi and across desolate mountain regions. Their perilous trek replenished bazaars of Bagdad and Tyre and inspired a tale rivaling legends of Araby and Cashmere.
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Gobi
China
Bagdad
Tyre
United States Trade Leads In Twelve Month Import Surge
Canada imported over 70 million dollars more in goods from the United States in the twelve months ending January last than in the prior year. Major increases include hinder twine chemical products cottons fruits glass grain hides metals meats passenger automobiles and silks.
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Canada
United States
Ontario bacon exports rise at swine breeders meeting
The Ontario Swine Breeders Association heard that Canada was the sole supplier to the British market with rising bacon exports. The Dominion boosted exports last year by more than seventy-five million pounds compared with the prior year.
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Canada
Ontario
Dominion
Population growth in British Columbia 1921 606 600
The 1921 population of British Columbia stood at 534 000 and has risen to about 606 600, according to the latest figures. This shows a significant increase in the province’s residents over the period.
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British Columbia
Optimism And Pessimism In Leaders And Writers
A philosophical piece notes Isaac F. Marcosson’s view that great leaders tend toward pessimism after hardship, while balanced optimism and realism guide action. It cautions both pessimists and optimists to report truthfully and act intelligently, avoiding distortion.
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Isaac F. Marcosson
Marcosson
Howe
Monthly
Moonlit porch scene sparks nickel surprise
On a front porch a young couple sits under a moonlit glow. The man sighs and expresses a wish for money to travel. She slips her hand into his, then returns inside, leaving him aghast as a nickel lies in his palm.
Sleeping Sickness Rises Among Schoolchildren
British medical authorities warn of a persistent rise in sleeping sickness among school children and its serious after effects on conduct and character, signaling rising public health concern.
The Invention of Fahrenheit Thermometer By Gabriel Fahrenheit
The article recounts Gabriel Fahrenheit born in Danzig who faced poverty and moved to Amsterdam. He devised a mercury thermometer by replacing spirits with mercury and set the scale between water’s freezing and boiling points, creating a lasting standard for temperature measurement.
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Fahrenheit
Gabriel David Pahrenheit
Danzig
Plecea
Amsterdam
War Widows Remarrying in England After World War
Nearly 100000 war widows have remarried in England and their pensions mostly cease. An official notes exact figure to October last as 96500. A remarrying widow forfeits pension but gains a gratuity. A private under 45 enjoys 35 pounds 15 shillings gratuity. Pensions for ex service widows total 248367 cases by March last.
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England
Ministry of Pensions
Canadian exports exceed imports for February says statistics
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports February exports at 87,512,147 dollars versus imports at 70,903,980 dollars. For the year ending February 28, exports total 1,297,744,683 dollars while imports reach 911,107,055 dollars. A note adds no risk of pumpkin flavor in watermelons even when grown in the same field.
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Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Medallion Awarded by Radio For Lifesaving Feat
Sir Henry Thornton awarded to Mrs. K G Polyblank the Royal Humane Society medal for saving a child in Long Lac Ontario in 1925. The presentation occurred by radio from Ottawa as Mrs. Polyblank listened at her O'Brien Quebec home.
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Sir Henry Thornton
Canadian National Railways
CNRO
Ottawa
K. G. Polyblank
Long Lac
Ontario
Estimate of Mr. Danning as Liberal Leader in Canada
The Canadian Times correspondent portrays Mr. Danning as a bold Liberal rising in Western Canada with potential Ottawa influence. He would, if joining the King Government, gain regional backing and speak for prairie provinces with authority, while winning business support in Toronto and Montreal despite Protectionist tensions.
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London Times
Danning
Canada
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Dunning
Saskatchewan
Toronto
Montreal
Camouflage Across Creatures From Chameleons To Insects
Nature provides camouflage to offspring through color and form. Chameleons blend by changing to green or brown, leopards and tigers vanish in grasses, lions adapt when desert bound, while leaf and stick insects mimic twigs and leaves so perfectly that they evade predators until they move.
Misadventure at Paris Language School Pays 100 Francs
A U.S. businessman bursts into a Paris language school and pays 100 francs to learn a phrase for delaying a taxicab. After a quick lesson the man learns the word Passi vite, tests the pronunciation, and thanks the instructor before leaving.
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Paris
United States
Parisienne
Ancient City Found On Moscow Outskirts
Russian archaeologists uncover remains of a fifth century B C city near Moscow. Iron arrows knives glass bracelets bone combs and gold and silver jewelry were found along with primitive pottery designs. The main occupation appears to be cattle breeding with hunting minor. Traces of an ancient Kremlin were also excavated.
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Moscow
Java Arrow rescues 14 from drifting Taishin Maru No. 3
Japanese tanker Java Arrow rescued 14 men from the drifting Taishin Maru No. 3 in mid pacific. The crew reported severe deprivation with no water for five days and consuming rats and cats as survival methods over the prior 20 days.
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mid-Pacific
Land of Opportunity in Saskatchewan Draws Young Detroit Farmer
A Detroit-born farmer wrote from Fishing Lake Saskatchewan to friends in Detroit praising the province’s opportunities. He reports buying a farm and threshing 1,200 bushels of wheat last year, arguing success requires hard work and citing examples like Charles Duniting and J. C. Mitchell. The Regina Leader notes many are answering the call to homestead in Saskatchewan.
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Fishing Lake
Sask
Detrei
Saskatchewan
Bian
Charles Duniting
J. C. Mitchel
Dahinda
Regina
Brighter Public Houses Campaign Aims at Respectability
In Britain the Leeds licensing justices report success for the brighter public house drive. Pubs now host wireless concerts and women's teas with bread jam and cakes each afternoon to reduce drinking of strong liquor. Sir George Cockburn says the aim is to educate owners so they feel it is shameful to see drunken customers, encouraging families to visit calmly. Bowling greens and flower gardens are added at some Leeds pubs.
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Britain
Leeds Licensing Justices
England
Sir George Cockburn
Justices
Leeds
London Cockney Wit Story From Jimmy Glover
A Montreal Star quip recalls a London driving anecdote where a van blocks a taxi and two drivers trade witty lines. The auburn bearded van driver and the taxi man trade ribbing about beards and reflections, highlighting streetwise London humor from the era.
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Jimmy Glover
London
Montreal Star
Prince of Wales Praises Scottish Labourers on Canadian Ranch
The Prince of Wales addressed London’s Highland Society banquet wearing a Royal Stuart tartan. He recalled touring Africa and joked about a kil ted regiment among Bechuanaland’s troops. He then noted his 4000 acre E P ranch in Alberta employs four men, all Scots.
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Prince of Wales
The
Highland Society
London
Africa
Bechuanaland
E.P
Alberta
Canada
British Farmers For Alberta Arrive in Edmonton District
Officials of the land settlement board report 1000 to 1500 British young single men will travel to the Edmonton district in the coming months for farming work and experience with the aim of becoming farmers themselves later.
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United Kingdom
Edmonton
Land Settlement Board
Ontario apples voyage to Sierra Leone raises demand
The Ontario department of agriculture reports a shipment of Ontario apples sent late last December arrived in perfect condition at Sierra Leone, West Africa. The governor received them and forwarded to local bodies likely to create a demand for the fruit.
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Ontario
Ontario Deprement of Agriculture
Sierra Leone
West Africa
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