Great Interest In Developing Clubs For Boys And Girls
Rural Canada clubs for poultry calf and canning activities have expanded to thousands of members across provinces. The 1915 Dominion Parliament act provided ten million dollars for agricultural instruction, spurring school fairs and prizes. Manitoba Saskatchewan and other western provinces report strong growth with youth gaining practical skills for farming and future careers.
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Canada
Dominion
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Fire drill lesson to real lecture at Van Dyke school
Principal boasted pupils execute drills with speed. When asked how to respond to a real fire or to Henry Van Dyke arriving to lecture, the students replied in unison that they would rise, put away books, and orderly file out to the street without disorder.
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Henry van Dyke
Saskatchewan Plate Change Suggestion At Regina Meeting
Directors of the Board of Trade in Regina discussed potential improvements to auto license plates. They noted Manitoba plates are easier to read and remember, with hyphenated numbers, suggesting Saskatchewan consider similar changes.
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Saskatchewan
Board of Trade
Regina
Manitoba
Public executioner in Austria trims gloves after each sentence
In Austria the public executioner wears new white gloves for each capital sentence. He removes the gloves after the act and collectors often compete to acquire the ones used on dispatching noted criminals.
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Austria
Nervous Patient Seeks Help From Noted Specialist
A very nervous man visits a famed nerve specialist for treatment after admitting he drinks about four saucers of coffee daily. The doctor asks why he does not use a cup, and the patient explains the spoon would jab his eye.
Treaties With Russia Prove Unsatisfactory
Foreign Minister Karnebeek told the Netherlands Parliament that England Germany and Norway were disappointed with Russia’s commercial treaties. He said Russian production was unimportant barter was impossible economic conditions were worsening and the gold supply was falling. He doubted opening diplomacy as the Soviet government had not sought recognition.
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Karnebeek
Netherlands
England
Germany
Norway
Russia
Clemenceau Drafts His Life As Armistice Fête Abides
In Paris on the Armistice anniversary, Georges Clemenceau sits in his Rue Franklin flat composing the first chapter of a memoir that will chronicle his career. The Tiger, still alert and vigorous, expects three years to finish, yet if he dies unfinished, he orders the fragments burned.
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Paris
Rue
Franklin
Georges Clemenceau
Cdid
Charlies Quint
Major Montague Digby Establishes Brighton Pig Farm
Major Montague Digby, cousin of Lord Digby and a familiar figure in social circles, starts an extensive pig farm near Brighton and opens a shop at 41 Ebury Street, Victoria. He introduces a horned instrument to kill pigs instantly, claiming it spares neighbors the distressing screams from throat-cutting.
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Montague Digby
Lord Digby
Brighton
Ebury Street
Victoria
Major Digby
Banded Birds Killed During Long Distance Travel
Hundreds of banded migrants were captured months ago by game guardians for study. The first banded mud hen, tagged at Kinistino Saskatchewan, was killed near Rochester New York while migrating toward salt water via the Great Lakes. Other banded birds have been shot in the far south and across the Central States.
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Kinistino
Saskatchewan
Rochester
N.Y
Great Lakes
Brandon Winter Fair Set For March 6 To 11
Brandon Winter Fair directors decide the annual fair will run from March 6 to 11 with plans to make it the best ever. A new fireproof building is expected to attract exhibitors and special nightly attractions are planned in the arena.
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Brandon
Elevator Extension at Fort Wik Aims for 2,000000 Bushel Storage
Work has begun on a 2,000,000 bushel elevator extension to the North Western Elevator at Fort Wik Ontario owned by Sellers interests. The company has purchased a large adjacent site to add grain storage bins. Humor interlude about two men asking for money interrupts the report.
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Fort Wik
Sellers Interests
Decline in Sask milk cow numbers in 1920
Statistics from the Department of Agriculture in Saskatchewan show the province had about 2 0 fewer milk cows in 1920 than the previous year. The drop stems from severe stock feed shortages and winter hardships that forced sacrificings and losses from disease as animals were run down.
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Gsg
Department [of Agriculture For
Saskatchewan
Wild Lands Tax in Saskatchewan Local Districts
The Wild Lands Tax Commissioner reports in Saskatchewan on land assessed under The Wild Lands Tax Act for the year ending April 20, 19M. Total acreage 469,969 with assessed valuation of 4,751,123 dollars. Valuations rely on inspector surveys of lands in local improvement districts and cultivation areas.
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Wild Lands Tax Commissioner
Department of Municipal Affairs
Saskatchewan
Guns Stolen From Victoria Barracks Irish Guards Suspected
The Daily Mail reports multiple machine guns and rifles were stolen from Victoria Barracks Windsor where the Irish Guards are quartered. The theft is described as highly remarkable and authorities suspect soldiers of the Irish Guards escaped to Ireland with the arms sent to an unknown destination.
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Victoria Barracks
Windsor
Daily Mail
Ireland
Quote on Prize Worth and Effort by Bishop Welldon
A quotation attributed to Bishop Welldon states that the value lies in the effort rather than the prize, emphasizing virtue in striving. The line frames achievement as earned through persistent work rather than the reward itself.
Australia’s Empty Places and the British Fleet
Quoted remarks by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Australia’s position within the British Empire. He argues that as long as Britain can guard Northern Territory shores, Australia stays secure, but warns that empty lands are a danger and calls for attracting Italians to northern territories to offset population gaps.
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Australia
Britain
Germany
France
Austria
Commonwealth
Rome
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Prince of Wales in Bombay greeted with tumultuous enthusiasm
Reuter's despatch describes the Prince of Wales arrival in Bombay and a four mile procession through the city marked by warm reception. A splendid military cortege lined the route with British and Indian troops as a public holiday drew inhabitants into the streets to greet him.
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Reuter
Prince of Wales
Bombay
Man with springbok horns May Be Sent to Europe
A native with horns like a springbok has been brought to Johannesburg from the Rand, South Africa. Horns began to develop at age nine and continue to crow despite regular cutting. In all other respects the man is normal and medical interest suggests he will be sent to Europe.
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Johannesburg
Rand
South Africa
Europe
Newspapers Used as Parasols in Sumatra Fields
Each year Sumatra imports hundreds of tons of old newspapers. The papers are laid over rubber and sugarcane fields as parasols to protect tender roots from the equatorial sun and heat.
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Sumatra
Prairie Provinces See Corn Belt Rise In Western Canada
Saskatchewan Sheep Breeders urge restoration of the coyotes bounty to curb sheep losses west of Swift Current and in the Qu Appelle Valley. Officials will present provincial agriculture ministers with data on sheep deaths while Western Canada enjoys record corn yields and hopes to shift the corn belt westward aligning with the wheat belt.
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Saskatchewan Sheep Breeders’ Association
Swift Current
Qu’ Appelle
Regina
Minister of Agriculture
Western Provinces
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Stone Church Front Moved In Buffalo
A Buffalo engineering feat described in Popular Mechanics details moving the entire front of Central Presbyterian Church. Fifteen jack screws lifted and slid an 8 foot thick by 78 foot wide stone slice weighing about 1000 tons forward 30 feet in two days using synchronized quarter turns.
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Popular Mechanics
Buffalo
N.Y
Central Presbyterian
Prospects For Trapping In Northern Saskatchewan Open Season
Trapping season begins with good outlook for furs in Northern Saskatchewan. Fred Bradshaw, game guardian for the province, reports revived activity and positive prospects for hunters and trappers.
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Saskatchewan
Fred Bradshaw
Quote about progress and fear of judgment
A reflective line notes that always worrying about others opinions hinders progress and momentum. It emphasizes that constant concern over what others will say stalls personal growth and action.
Gatineau Region Proposed as World Playground and Park
The Gatineau district in Quebec is praised as a future world playground with vast natural parks, resorts, and motor roads. It highlights untouched wilderness, potential hotel development, tourist revenue, and notable sites like Paugan Falls and Chealsea area, stressing the need for adequate accommodations to attract visitors.
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Canada
Ours
Gatineau
Catskills
Olympus
Camada
Detective’s Postal Cards Reveal Forty Four Year Secret
A Jersey City detective recalls a vacation in 1907 and explains how postal cards from Atlantic City and Ocean City arrived recently after fourteen years. The mystery of where those cards were kept remains unsolved, possibly by the Postal Department.
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Jersey City
Atlantic City
Ocean City
U.S. Postal Department
Foch Chauffeur Car Stopped by Arlington Trees Rush
Marshal Foch arrived for Unknown American Soldier ceremony at Arlington. His carriage entangled in a car jam near Union Station and to reach the amphitheatre, secret service men cut down decorative trees along the sidewalk to permit a right angle turn and access the cemetery on schedule.
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Marshal Foch
Arlington
Union Station
National Cemetery
Secret Service
Saskatchewan Rhodes Scholar Wins Open Oxford Law Scholarship
John A. Weig a lecturer in law at the University of Alberta has won the Rhodes Scholarship for research at Oxford. This marks the first Canadian to win the prize in this field since a Saskatchewan winner in 1914. The award is the highest honor in law offered at Oxford University.
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John A. Weig
University of Alberta
Weir
University of Saskatchewan
Farm Loan Board Lends 8.25 Million to Saskatchewan Farmers
The Farm Loan Board of Saskatchewan has loaned eight and a quarter million dollars to farmers in the province, but thousands of applications remain awaiting processing.
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The
Farm Loan Board of Saskatchewan
You can always tell a bachelor by the buttons
A quip notes that a bachelor’s attire reveals more through intact buttons than missing ones. The line playfully contrasts grooming detail with relationship status.
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van Dyke
R MU
Clemenceau
Binks
Bishop Welldon
Great Northern Territories
Prairie
Quebec
Chelsea
Kingsmere
Farm Point
Blue Sea Lake
Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
Paugan Falls
Paugan
Niagara
Pangan
Gatineau District
Foch
Marshal
Saskatchewan Rhodes
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