Car Mentor Richard Pike Helps Refugee In Escape Plot
Daniel Pike in a tense scene at a hotel garden refits a broken car while Horace Creech fumes over an arranged alliance. A Russian bandit fugitive pleads for help as Pike conceals him under the car to evade carabinieri and preserves a fragile chance for Ethel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Voorhe
Ethel
Mariano
Herr von Grotierhagen
Europe
Horace
Pike
Kokomo
Mattheene
Almeric
Lady Creech
Daniel
Dolly Gray
Herr von Grol’erhagen
von Groberhagen
Berr
M’sieu
von Grollerhagen
Doc
Damiel
von Greillerhagen
von Grollerbagen
Eart
Simpson
Pite
Carabinieri
Homme de
Twenty-First Crop at Experimental Winnipeg
Angus McKay, superintendent of the Indian Head Experimental Farm, reports on progress as he travels to Chicago and Guelph for stock fairs. Wheat yields average about 22 bushels per acre, with overall results below promise. The farm ships 160000 pounds of grain to Ottawa for distribution, much returns to western farmers. Plans call for large scale crop rotation expanding from half to eighty acre plots, on 682 acres under cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Angus McKay
Indian Head Experimental Farm
City
Chicago
Guelph
Dominion
Ottawa
Indian Head
McKay
Great Bell Farm
Dominion Government
MacKay
North Country Railway Expansion Aims Northward
Edmonton observers discuss Alberta and Great Waterways railway plans to extend from Edmonton to Fort McMurray along the Athabasca then toward Peace River Crossing. The extension, to be surveyed next year by a northern explorer, would open vast territory with a charter expected at the next legislature session. Construction would start as soon as the current Fort McMurray line is finished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Country
Edmonton
Alta
Alberta and Great Waterways Railway
Fort McMurray
Athabasca
Peace River Crossing
Ren’tlemen
French Mail Steamers Ready for Canada Subsidy Plan
Paris dispatch reports the Compagnie Transatlantique will run special mail steamers to Canada under the Franco Canadian treaty. The service receives a subsidy of 3,000,000 francs, funded equally by Canada and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Paris
Compagnie Transatlantique
Canada
France
Brantford Claims Title The Telephone City
Brantford Ontario asserts its claim to be The Telephone City citing Bell experiments from 1874 to 1876 and a Paris Brantford test that transmitted voices over a distance. The city plans to honor Bell with the Bell homestead memorial by 1912 and notes the Lorimer Automatic Telephone’s Brantford development.
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Brantford
Ontario
Alexander Graham Bell
United States
Prof. Bell
Bell Homestead
Walter S. Allward
Toronto
Edinburgh
Scotland
Alexander
Canada
Tutela Heights
Boston
Bell
Brantford Expositor
Paris
Graham
The Crank and His All-Encompassing Reform Drive
The Crank is described as a collector of causes with a single motive of sweeping changes. He champions new religion clothing diets and reforming every ordinary custom with equal zeal. He rejects instinctive wisdom in mankind and the value of tradition claiming true wisdom is newly revealed to only a few.
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London Times
Card Sharps Secret Table Device Exposed
A London gambling den yielded a remarkable mechanical aid for card sharping a table with a hidden top drawer and secret passage. A spring mechanism moved chosen cards to a concealed exit where a confederate retrieved them unseen. The device was described by London Tit-Bita as a feat of covert deception.
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London
A Good Cough Fixture Remedy Promises Fast Cure
A home made cough remedy free from opiates uses two ounces glycerine, half ounce Virgin Oil of Pine compound, and eight ounces whiskey mixed in a large bottle. It is claimed to break up a cold in twenty four hours and last a family a year. Virgin Oil of Pine compound is produced by Leach Chemical Co Cincinnati Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Longevity Curiosities and a Century‑Spanning Witness
A dialogue opens with a blunt exchange about insults then shifts to Longevity. Miss Louisa Courtenay’s Notes of an Octogenarian is cited as a curious installer of longevity. In a will case, a witness claims a brother died 1150 years ago, with documentary evidence showing a father’s late marriages produced a son appearing ages later in court.
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Louisa Courtenay
Bellemen-Rker
Waa
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By Booth Tarrington
Harry Leon Wilson
American Press Association
Chapter
Mr. Pike
Appomattox
Dodds
Neha
Ima Noa
Weil
A. W. Chase
Wm. Smith
Revelstoke
B. C
Edmanson, Bates & Co
Yukon
Ryrie Bros., Limited
Yonge Street
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