Reducing Automobile Slaughter Through Driver Accountability
A historical piece argues motor vehicle dangers rival rail deaths and urges license revocation for unsafe drivers. It cites New York and Massachusetts action, calls for broader adoption, notes improvements like automatic couplers in rail and safety training in plants, and advocates taming reckless drivers.
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United States
New York State
Massachusetts
France
H. H. Windsor
Poplar Mechanics
Farm Girls Warned By Toronto Club Leader
Miss Mary MacMahon president of the Canadian Business and Professional Women's Club of Toronto warns that young girls aged 15 to 20 should not come to the city for work. She argues if suitable home employment exists, companionship and surroundings at home are preferable to city life with drab lodgings poor meals and undesirable acquaintances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary MacMahon
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Toronto
Convention of
Business and Professional Women of America
Cleveland
Bieves
Miss MacMahon
Poultry Mineral Needs and Suitable Supplements
The article advises providing mineral matter to fowls in large runs or restricted flats. It discusses bone and shell forms, granulated bone, oyster shell for lime, and grit to aid digestion. Charcoal offers corrective digestive benefits and should be offered in a granulated hopper.
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Dominion
Manitoba Government Grain Elevators Ready for Fall Harvest
One hundred government grain elevators in Manitoba with average capacity of twenty five thousand bushels each total about 2 500 000 bushels. After summer overhaul they are in good condition and expected to handle roughly 5 000 000 bushels this fall mainly wheat. United Grain Growers Limited will operate ninety five elevators on lease, while five are leased by other grain companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
United Grain Growers’ Limited
Wheat Pool plan for 1922 crop at risk in Canada
A Winnipeg paper reports that plans to form a wheat pool to handle the 1922 Canadian crop are largely abandoned though not officially terminated. The Council of Agriculture may act at its next meeting. The setback stems from farmers' refusal to sign five year contracts, seen as essential to make the pool workable.
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Winnipeg
Council of Agriculture
Complex Chinese property deeds require broad syndicate signatures
In traditional Chinese land practice property is owned by syndicates and leases or deeds demand signatures from every member of the organization. This collective ownership means that multiple signatories are customary to validate agreements.
French Journalists Tour Western Canada After Riel Rebellion
A party of French journalists and their wives toured Western Canada in 1886 visiting Quebec Montreal Qu Appelle Batoche Cut Knife Hill Frenchman s Butte and Stony Mountain Penitentiary. They studied journalism in the west and viewed Poundmaker s prison experience before returning to France via Toronto Montreal Quebec and the Atlantic voyage.
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Riel
Quebec
Canada
Montreal
Qu'Appelle
Saskatchewan
Batoche
Cat Knife Hill
Frenchman’s Buttee
Manitoba
Stony Mountain Penitentiary
Poundmaker
Otter
Cut Knife Hill
William F. Luxton
Manitoba Free Press
West
Free Press
Liberal Party
Nor’ Wester
News Letter
Metis
France
Toronto
St. Lawrence River
Atlantic Ocean
Prehistoric village unearthed at Fort William by farmer
James MacLaren discovers a workshop site on Kaministiqua riverbank where eighteen flint arrowheads, copper hints, dark brown pottery fragments, and a possible fire stone suggest a distant era manufacturing center for flint implements. Authorities to be notified for further study.
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Fort William
James MacLaren
Dominion Archaologists
Mr. MacLaren
Adequate Rainfall In the North
Prof. R. W. Wallace, northern Manitoba commissioner, urged Rotary Club members in Prince Albert that farmers from dry western regions should move to areas with reliable yearly rainfall. He argued this would allow settling of moist regions before pursuing irrigation projects for arid districts.
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R. W. Wallace
Manitoba
Rotary Club
Prince Albert
Local merchants urged to buy in town economy
Patrons are encouraged to support home industry by shopping at local merchants, stressing that patronizing in town strengthens the community and keeps money circulating locally.
New Fish Cannery at Black Bay Near Athabasca Nearing Operation
The MacKenzie Basin Fisheries cannery at Black Bay on Lake Athabasca is nearly ready to operate. Officials expect to ship at least four thousand cases of canned trout before freeze up. Fifty tons of machinery plus other equipment have been installed. A portable sawmill has cut lumber for buildings. Twenty five horsepower motor boats toll the lake as tenders for thirty two dories. The main vessel under construction will be sixty feet long with a sixty five horsepower engine.
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Mackenzie Basin
Black Bay
Lake Athabasca
Facts About Dew and Its Formation
A summary of observations from London Answers noting dew is formed by night cooling and air vapor condensation. It highlights that dew is round, more on cultivated land, and evaporates after windy or hot days with westerly winds. It also notes plant leaf properties and the role of solar radiation in dew formation.
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London
Pitting Roots: A Cold Season Storage Method
The article outlines a pit storage method for roots or potatoes to endure winter. It describes site choice on a hill, trench dimensions, layering with straw and earth, and ventilation steps tied to seasonal changes. It cites F S Browne of Ottawa as the circular author. A separate note recounts a job applicant anecdote about an office boy lineup.
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F. S. Browne
Dominion Agrostologist
Ottawa
All Women Granted Vote in Dominion Elections
Announcement states all women in the Dominion will be allowed to vote in the next federal election. It notes the suffrage change applies broadly and adds that persons who object to voting rituals need not participate.
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Dominion
Local Sayings Offer Life Advice
A slice of homegrown wisdom urges patience in tempering emotions and a nudge to support local merchants. The quips playfully note the energy of anger and the common desire of people to obtain what they want, while promoting shopping locally.
Pension secured for widow of veteran after G W V A effort
The Great War Veterans' Association Saskatchewan Command won a pension for Mrs. Thomas E Traquair of Tyneside Saskatchewan amounting to eight dollars a month plus arrears of 1395 dollars and 12 cents after 17 months of persistent work. Traquair enlisted as a fit man but died in 1920 of encephalitis lethargica. his death was deemed service related thanks to affidavits and pressure from the G W V A and its Saskatchewan branch and Dominion Commands. The case underscores the association's view that widows and orphans deserve support when justice is proven.
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Thomas E Traquair
Tyneside
Sask
Great War Veterans’ Association
Saskatchewan
Traquair
Regina
Dominion
G.W.V.A
France
Flanders
Cook
Insectivorous Birds Protect Crops and Profits Across Canada
Dominion entomologist data show annual crop losses of up to 200 million dollars due to insects. Protecting birds such as the prairie horned lark robin crow nuthatch tanager warbler chickadee grouse and gulls could reduce damage from weed seeds cutworms grasshoppers and other pests, saving grain areas in Manitoba and boosting farming income.
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Dominion Treasury
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Iowa
Toronto
Sae
Norman Criddle
Dominion
Manitoba
Arthur Gibson
The Needle In Infancy And A Cockroach Signal Hold Up
The article traces early needle evolution from awl like tools without eyes to drilled holes for threading roots or thongs. It also reports a Canadian railway delay when a cockroach crawled into a telegraph instrument at a signal box, halting a train for about an hour.
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Manitoba Grain Elevators
Western
Stony Mountain
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ontario
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