Canada urged to boost emigration with strong publicity
The Stratford Beacom Herald quotes Lord Beaverbrook urging Canada to advertise aggressively to attract capital and new settlers. He compares Canada to Australia in publicity and notes Britain faces higher costs and longer voyages to Australia, urging a decisive munitions style campaign to promote Canada’s natural resources and cheap power.
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Montreal
Canada
Dominion
Trafalgar Square
London
Australia
Prairies
Britain
George
Stratford
Beacom Herald
Novel Device Fights Caterpillar Plague On Railways
Rail officials unveil a device using two steam pipes mounted to the engine front to blow caterpillars from the rails. A road inspector observed the carcasses and noted millions destroyed. The pest previously caused slippery rails and delayed schedules on the Alberta and Great Waterways Railways.
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Alberta and
Great Waterways
First Modern Bicycle and the Draisine's Origin
The 1816 draisine by Baron Karl von Drais is noted as the progenitor of the modern bicycle used by a forester. It featured two equal wheels, a front bar for steering, and propulsion by feet on the ground. A monument to Drais marks his grave at Karlsruhe, Baden.
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Baron Karl von Drais
Baden
Tké
Drais
Karlernhe
Fragmentary Exchange At Night In City Street
A brief dialogue captures a maid addressing a man outside a door asking for ten cents for a bed. The mistress replies with a practical remark and a joking dare to inspect the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ili
Not So Thick Magistrate and the Youthful Witness
A magistrate questions a boy about a stone thrown, probing its size with humor. The boy compares it to air volume, noting a rough equivalence to thirty thousand cubic feet of air weighing about one unit. The exchange blends wit with legal inquiry in a courtroom fragment.
Holding Power Of Nails Investigated By Forest Labs
The Forest Products Laboratories of the Department of the Interior study nail holding power across wood species and nail types. Six hundred tests have been conducted with specialty equipment to determine which nails suit each wood, with continued work planned to cover all Canadian commercial woods and optimize strength and cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Products Laboratories
Department of the Interior
Paper on Reclaiming Damaged Banknote Stock
The Forest Products Laboratories seek to recover clean pulp from condemned currency instead of burning it. Their experiments test refining normal stock and washing to reclaim the linen paper used for bank notes, aiming for a commercially feasible process with potential major impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’ Street
Montreal
Ottawa
Fire Department
Finance Department
Mint
Forest Products Laboratories
Department of the Interior
Department of Finance
Meteorologist Seeks Record Rainfall on Kauai
A meteorologist chasing a site exceeding Cherrapunji 424 inches finds a Kauai location with a central peak persistently clouded. Government gauges show an average 455 inches of rain annually for eleven years on the island.
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Cherrapunji
India
Kauai
Hawaii
Hase
Quack Quips In Irish Coachman's Duck Tale
A doctor and his Irish coachman drive by a duck pond. The coachman jokes that ducks hate humans, calling them to notice the birds mockingly quacking. The physician asks why, and the coachman replies the ducks never harm anyone but mock them with quacks.
Mental deficiency prevalence cited for Britain population
An antiquated statistic claims that about one in every 200 people in Great Britain is mentally defective. The remark reflects historical terminology and attitudes toward mental health.
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Great Britain
Dangers of Over Exercise in Human Development
The piece argues that excessive early physical development harms long term health. It notes no organ remains static, full development triggers degenerative processes, and professional athletes often have short careers due to surpassing safe limits. Published by Brandon Sun.
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Brandon Sun
Guarding Good Literature and the Sacred Torch
A London Morning Post reflection on readers who cherish books and the quiet guardians who preserve culture. It honors the unseen people in libraries, chapels, and tenements whose love of literature keeps the sacred torch alive across generations.
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Fox Trots
Zéraniums
London Morning Post
Buffalo Herd Rebuilding At Wainwright Park Alberta
Canada’s buffalo herd at Wainwright Park Alberta regains strength after 2000 head slaughter last fall. Calf calves number between 1000 and 1500 since spring, with total herd expected at 7000 to 7500 after round up of buffalo roaming within a 159 square mile fenced area.
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Canada
Wainwright Park
Alberta
Starting an Avalanche in the Alps Triggers Sled Bell Noise Skeptical
The text notes how even trivial sounds like sleigh bells or a whisper can trigger avalanches in the Alps. It recalls a past caravan swept away by sliding snow and ice possibly started by sound from the belts. Stone barriers have been placed high on mountain slopes to protect travelers.
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Alps
Mummy Bone Paints Among Historic Pigments
A noted historic pigment is created from mummies by grinding mummy bones with embalming bitumen. This rare material reflects ancient Egyptian craft and later pigment trade practices. The procedure shows how mineral and organic decayed matter was reused for artistic color.
Crime as disease says Miss Pearl Hart
Miss Pearl Hart of Chicago, a rare female criminal lawyer, argues crime is a disease and a choice. She urges early school age mental and psychological screening and targeted treatment to prevent crime rather than punishment, citing congenital defects and the need to consider the human element.
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Pearl Hart
Chicago
Miss Hart
Pennsylvania
Sea air brought to London in large cylinders for dancers
Hundreds rush to the seaside as scientists ship ozone cylinders to the Savoy Hotel ballroom. Twelve cylinders, each 2000 cubic feet of compressed sea air, arrive with eight filled at Bridlington and four at Weston-super-Mare, intended to boost dancers' vitality in hot weather.
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London
Savoy Hotel
Bridlington
Yorkshire
Weston-super-Mare
Bristol Channel
Water Power Keeps Mill Running in England
Hoghton boasts perhaps the only cotton mill in England operated by water power. The three story building houses 100 looms with thirty weavers and assistants. Droughts threaten power. in hot summers workers sometimes see only an hour and a half of work. Water has beaten steam and electricity for this mill.
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Hoghton
England
Milk Production and Feed Regimen at Rosthern Experimental Station
Six cows in Rosthern Saskatchewan produced an average of 12 726 pounds of milk per milking period from 302 to 413 days. Fat percentage ranged from 3.46 in a heifer near 15 000 pounds. Roughage included silage sunflowers turnips and rye grass with grain of oat chop bran oil meal barley chop. meals calculated at one pound per 30 pounds of milk. Costs per hundred pounds ranged 75 to 99 cents.
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Rosthern
Saskatchewan
Why Birds Go South Scarcity Drives Seasonal Migrations
A western scientist explains that insects’ scarcity due to approaching winter, not cold weather, pushes birds south as frosts arrive. Seed and flesh-eating fowl endure year round to the Arctic. Migrations hinge on food supply and inherited glacial-age habits. the tern makes an 11,000 mile polar flight and the golden plover moves from Arctic summers to South America via Nova Scotia before crossing 2,400 miles to Brazil.
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Arctic Circle
Polar
Arctic
South America
Nova Scotia
Brazil
French inventor Appert and the canning industry
The article notes Francois Appert’s early idea of preserving foods in hermetically sealed tins for sailors. It highlights how his invention later helped reduce waste of surplus fruit vegetables fish and meats and that the U S canning industry now exceeds a billion dollars in annual output.
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Francois Appert
United States
Pure white bear captured alive in Victoria
A pure white bear, first of its kind captured alive, arrives in Victoria and will be housed at Beacon Hill Park. The Urusus Kermodei bear, native to Gribble Island north of the Queen Charlottes, was captured by Indians and brought to Victoria by provincial police and is said to be worth thousands of dollars.
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Vancouver Island
Victoria
Beacon Hill Park
Urusus Kermodei
Gribble Island
Queen Charlottes
Library holdings at British Museum listed by language
The library at the British Museum holds 27000 volumes in Chinese 12000 in Hebrew and 13000 in other Oriental languages.
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British Museum
Exploits Of The Western Cowboys
A reflective piece praising rodeo culture and Western sport. The author contrasts British softness with steer wrestling daring, urges Englishmen to embrace physical courage and athletic achievement, and calls for women to value fitness over financial status.
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British Empire
England
Atlantic
Colonies
The Art of Stopping in Discourse and Writing
A reflection on the difficulty of ending speech or text. Montaigne noted speakers who cannot stop, craving a proper period while still talking. Listeners often signal closure, yet orators keep going, aided by audience cues when they have said all they intend.
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Montaigne
New York Times
Bargain Swap Leads to Stray Beating of the Bargain
An Aberdonian and a Yorkshireman meet at a horse fair and move to a tavern. After several drinks they agree to exchange ponies. The Aberdonian declares he has the beat of the bargain as both ponies are now dead and their shoes are removed.
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Bill
Aberdeen
Pooy
Seed Potency Claim In Tomatogrower Seed Trial
An ounce of tomato seed will yield in one generation 1,500 ounces of seed, or enough to produce 1,000,000 tons of tomatoes.
British Empire spans quarter of habitable world land
The empire covers about one fourth of the world's habitable land surface, totaling roughly 13,406,103 square miles.
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British Empire
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Hollanders
Hofman ‘Brothers
Quebec
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Western Cowboys
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