English Teachers Visit Canada on King’s Sending Message
A party of 190 British school teachers touring Canada received a message from King congratulating the group on their study of Canada’s educational system and history. The monarch expressed confidence the experience would benefit the teachers and future instruction, and wished them a hearty welcome and God-speed aboard the Empress of Scotland.
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Britain
Canada
League
Great Dominion
Towns urged to embrace Town Beautiful crusade
A Western newspaper urges farmers and townspeople to beautify Western towns. It argues painted buildings clean yards and tree-lined streets attract shoppers and tourists, boosting business and pride. A call for public spirited citizens to launch Town Beautiful campaigns.
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Ths
Shakespeare
Railroad official unloads steers in Oklahoma car
A railroad official unloaded a car of steers in Oklahoma and watered them. He found there was not enough room for them in the same car. The report adds a note on facial features being linked to musical talent.
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Oklahoma
Poet Amy Lowell Dies Feels Magazines Ignore Poets
In Greenwich Village a dinner tribute to Amy Lowell recalls her quip about magazines growing rich yet offering little hospitality to poets. She recounts a tale of a poet who asked the office boy to drop his manuscript in the editor’s wastebasket when told the editor was out.
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Amy Lowell
Greenwich Village
Nerviline touted to subdue sore throat quickly
An advertisement touts Nerviline as a fast acting remedy for sore throat and colds. It claims strong pain relief, deep penetration, and superior effectiveness versus other products, urging readers to buy a 35 cent bottle.
Fastest Mail In the World To Chicago And Back
Lester D. Gardner of Avia tion hails the night air mail as the fastest service in the world. A letter started at five p.m. Wednesday for Chicago and returning at eleven a.m. Friday spent sixteen hours in the air, showing potential for full day and night operation across hundreds of miles.
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Chicago
Lester D. Gardner
Aviation
Postmaster-General
New
New York Telegram
Miller's Worm Powders Promote Safe Child Health
Miller's Worm Powders are a pleasant medicine for worm infested children and they will take it willingly. When directions are followed it will not injure the most delicate child and will swiftly rid a child of worms and restore vitality impaired by the parasites.
Homestead Entries Decline as Westward Settlement Proceeds
Historical data show Saskatchewan hosted 27,692 homesteaders in 1905 06 and 25,227 in 1910 11, the two largest years ever. By 1921, 2,729 homesteaders filed on Saskatchewan lands, reflecting a sharp drop from earlier peaks.
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West
Saskatchewan
Mothers Value This Oil for Sudden Croup Relief
Mothers who know how quickly croup can strike their children keep Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil on hand for prompt relief. Experience shows its usefulness for treating this ailment and its varied medical applications make it a valuable medicine.
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Thomas
Passenger Recounts Sleeper Car Message to Porter
A passenger recalls telling the sleeping-car porter a line at seven thirty and the porter confirms he did notify the passenger while she says the line was busy. The exchange evokes railway carriage chatter and period speech.
Second Missionary Journey Plans Revisit Churches
The lesson notes Paul and Barnabas plan a return visit to churches from their first journey to assess progress and share spiritual gifts. It recalls their hardships in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, and cites aims for renewed courage and steadfast faith.
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Paul
Barnabas
Matthew Henry
Antioch
Pisidia
Iconium
Lystra
van Dyke
Vancouver Port Emerges As Pacific Leading Hub
Vancouver now hosts forty two regular steamship lines with a gross tonnage last year of 14 473 518 tons. In five years the port has shown remarkable progress and is rated among the leading Pacific ports.
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Vancouver
Pacific
New Health for Suffering Women
A persuasive appeal promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic for weak women with anemia like headaches faintness and fatigue. Ada Harman of Virden Manitoba shares a testimonial after a stillbirth recovering strength appetite and color. Pills offered by mail or local dealers.
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Williams
Ada L. Harman
Virden
Man
Dr. Williams
Coinage of Gold Resumes in Russia by Soviet Mint
The Soviet mint has restarted the production of gold coinage in Russia. Officials announce renewed minting to bolster national currency and prestige amid ongoing economic adjustments.
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Russia
Alberta Tar Sands Shipped for Experimental Road Building
Thirteen carloads of tar sands from the Draper leases at Waterways were sent east in May and June for use in experimental road building at various points in the Dominion.
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Draper
Dominion
First Pacific Crossing Steamship Sailed From San Francisco
The record notes the first steamship to cross the Pacific set sail from San Francisco in 1867. A remark recalls a wife learning to drive after six wrecks, reflecting a bygone era of resilience and wit. Minard's Liniment for Dandruff is also referenced.
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Pacific
San Francisco
Healed Eczema on Hands after Cuticura Use
Lawrence Chauvin of West Chazy New York reports two years of eczema on his hands. After trying other remedies he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and was completely healed in about a month.
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Eczema
Cuticura
Lawrence Chauvin
West Chary
N. Y
Clay Products Production in 1924 Reaches Over Eleven Million
Preliminary statistics show domestic and imported clays valued at 11,071,429 dollars in 1924 for clay products in Canadian plants. The industry ran 219 plants with 31,716,255 dollars invested, employing 4,312 workers paid 4,441,279 dollars in wages.
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Bureau of Statistics
Records of Tennyson Poems Held by British Museum
The British Museum possesses twelve phonograph records of Tennyson poems in the Poet Laureate’s voice from the first phonograph brought to London. They will not be released for fifty years unless Lord Tennyson agrees to alter the conditions of his gift.
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London
United States
Tennyson
British Museum
Lord Tennyson
Rope Trick Myth Declared By London Paper
The Truth About Rope Trick notes film producers in India offer a reward for proving the famous rope stunt where a boy climbs an airborne rope and vanishes. Lord Lonsdale offered £1000 in India long ago, but no claimant emerged. the rope trick is described as a myth.
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India
Lord Lonsdale
London Sunday Pictorial
Signs Of Prosperity No Business Failures Recorded
Northern Saskatchewan in June shows no business failures across the region. J. C. Bell, clerk of bankruptcy district two, lists districts including Kindersley Kerrobert Wilkie Battleford Prince Albert Melfort Humboldt Wynyard and Saskatoon as unchanged. Half-year totals to June 30 show bankruptcies were less than half of the first six months of 1924. Mother Graves Worm Exterminator claims independent efficacy and success.
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Saskatchewan
J. C. Bell
Kindersley
Kerrobert
Wilkie
Battleford
Prince Albert
Melfort
Humboldt
Wynyard
Saskatoon
Britain to Keep Defences in Egypt Policy Basis
The Daily Express reports the imperial defence committee found it vital to keep adequate British forces on the Suez Canal banks and naval patrols on the canal. It states the Cairo garrison must be maintained as is, and the cabinet has accepted the report as the basis of policy.
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London
The
Daily Express
Committee On Imperial Defence
Ramsay MacDonald
Egypt
Suez Canal
Cairo
Ottawa Engineer Heads North to Study Tar Sands
S C Ells mining engineer with the Dominion department of mines travels to the Or t McMurray district for a five month field trip. He takes a drilling machine to obtain detailed knowledge of the tar sands deposits not previously available.
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Ort McMurray
S. C. Ells
Department of Mines
Ottawa
Dominion
North
Elis
Love Letters Return Questioned After Engagement Break
A girl asks why the love letters should be returned after breaking the engagement. The young man replies that he had letters written by an expert and paid well, hinting he may reuse them. The quote appears in the American Legion Weekly.
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American Legion Weekly
Addressing 21 Million Misaddressed Letters In Year
The Dead Letter Office processed twenty one million misaddressed letters last year highlighting mail inefficiencies. The text also asserts teaching Christianity to primitive peoples and claims Christianity should be preserved somewhere.
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United States
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