Beatty urges hard work and health as keys to success
Edward W. Beatty, head of Canadian Pacific, promotes work, health, honesty, and courage as essentials for lasting achievement. He recalls his own rough start and credits a strict but inspiring teacher for instilling study, while stressing modesty as a rare virtue in youth.
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Edward W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Beatty
Shawbridge
Quebec
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs
Montreal
Toronto
Flour Dust as Explosive Hazard Warned in Pies and Cakes
A housewife’s flour can explode like gunpowder if dispersed in a room and ignited. In closed spaces, flour dust or other grain, meat, rubber, sugar, cork and paper dust ignite instantly, generating gas that bursts walls. Over 2.5 years, Canada and the United States saw about one hundred deaths and over ten million dollars in damage from dust explosions.
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Canada
Uited
Sailor's Will Hidden in Sea Disc Recovered in Netley
A will for William Skinner, lost aboard the Inde fatigable at Jutland, is found engraved on a brass identification disc recovered with his body. The disc bears his name rank and religion on one side and about 75 words of his will on the other, readable under a microscope.
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Somerset House
William Skinner
Jutland
Skinner
The World Grows Warmer Says Daily Mail
The London Daily Mail argues global warming is real and accelerating, noting milder winters in Europe and North America, shrinking glaciers from the Alps to the Caucasus, retreating polar ice, and a future shift toward palms and oranges as the climate grows warmer and drier. The piece cites Caesar era frost, Hudson's Bay records, and glacier retreat as evidence.
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Hemisphere
Europe
North America
Germany
Seine
England
Hudson's Bay Company
Aletsch
Grand Desert
Kaltwasser
Lotschen
Tinal
Caucasus
Antarctic
The
London Daily Mail
Indians Dying Off at Lake Athabasca Posts
Reports from the north country via Edmonton trappers say influenza is devastating aboriginal populations around Lake Athabasca. Fond du Lac population drops to about 400 with 74 deaths. bands from the Barren Lands, Chippewyan, Fitzgerald, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Bocher River and others are also thinning, likely to show a large total.
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Lake Athabasca
Edmonton
Fond du Lac
Chippewyan
Fitzgerald
Fort Smith
Fort Resolution
Bocher River
Widow of George Gould Objects to Divorce Customs
A Lakewood dinner party anecdote centers on Mrs. Gould who disliked divorce and comments on jewelry. A divorcee praises a wedding ring while noting changing styles. Mrs. Gould retorts that past rings were meant to last a lifetime. The exchange underscores attitudes toward marriage and fashion.
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George Gould
Lakewood
Mrs. Gould
Turn About is Fair Play
A well dressed man stops a house painter and criticizes his technique. The painter asks if he is a painter. The man replies no, he is a ball team manager who observes unsolicited advice from the bleachers.
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Boston Transcript
Long Distance Forecast From Bell on Underground Cables
A historical letter by Alexander Graham Bell dated March 25 1875 to English electric capitalists predicts future telephone networks. He envisions underground or overhead cables linking private homes shops and factories to a central office enabling direct citywide communication. He argues the concept is utopian now but likely the ultimate public outcome.
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Alexander Graham Bell
England
Kensington
London
Crowded Romanian Trains Struggle to Move War’s Aftermath
Romanian railways face severe overcrowding as Germans and Austrians seized most rolling stock. Conductors cannot collect fares, forcing passengers to ride on roofs, bumpers, and undercarriages. Fist fights and accidents are common as the system fails to cope with wartime demand.
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Rumania
Romania
Meanest man in London seeks free theatre admission
A notorious London figure presented a sorted visiting card at a theatre box office and was granted free admission due to a sparse audience. After the first act he returned, complained the show was rotten, and demanded his card back.
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London
Pearson’s Weekly
Nebraska man tops hero medal list after eloping with mother-in-law
A Nebraska man, who recently eloped with his toothless mother-in-law, now heads the field of candidates for hero medals. The unusual act has drawn attention to his bravery and the awards he seeks.
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Nebraska
Immigrants Enter Canada Largely as Agriculturists
The Saskatchewan government argues against winter relief for unemployed unless truly needy. The piece notes a harvest boom and many able bodied men will seek work on farms, with concern for proper assistance only for those genuinely unable to work. Immigration increases. many arriving as agriculturists and domestic workers.
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Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Winnipeg Tribune
Canada
Dominion
United States
England
Hebrides
Royal Irish Constabulary
India
British Columbia
Salvation Army
British Isles
Holland
Norway
Denmark
Scriptural place names cited in British maps prompt mock plea
A jesting remark about Lord Balfour and Palestine interference notes the many Scriptural place names used in England. An library search reveals Jericho and Paradise multiple times, Nineveh and Mount Zion three times, and named sites like Calvary Wood and Noahs Ark across counties.
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Balfour
Palestine
England
Jerichos
Worcestershire
Hebron
Joppa
Bethlehem
Jerusalem
Gideon
Herod
London Morning Post
New Use For Movie Camera In Railway Track Work
The moving picture camera is used to detect rail deformation as heavy trains pass. Enlargements show depressions under locomotive wheels, letting engineers gauge stresses. The kinema will aid railway engineers when laying new track.
First Line of National Defence Urges Budget Solvency
Lord Inchcape addresses the British budget committee urging solvency as the first line of national defence. He warns that overspending leads to borrowing against assets and eventual ruin, declaring we are at the parting of the ways and must reduce expenditure or face grief.
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Lord Inchcape
British Budget Committee
Americans Strikes Spark Concern Over Wasted Money
A Boston Transcript line laments widespread strike waste and broadcast costs in Europe, noting many Americans idle while a hard core keeps working yet faces scarce meals amid a tense economic outlook.
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Europe
The
Boston Transcript
Speaking likeness idea becomes motion picture chin action
A concept proposes a moving picture image of a woman focusing on her chin as the active element. The approach emphasizes facial motion and expression rather than full-face depiction to convey likeness.
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