Protecting The Farmers Savings From Promoters
Canadian farmers face risk from promoters of doubtful companies selling securities at low prices. Farmers should consult their bank manager before signing any papers, as bankers endorsement often signals legitimacy. The natural resources intelligence service stresses land cultivation as Canada’s great resource and warns against robbing farmers of earnings.
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Canada
Legtimate Bond Houdgen
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interior
Indian discovery of maple sugar and other native sweets
The passage credits Native Americans with discovering maple sugar and teaching the white man its production. It notes Indians made sirup and cake sugar, plus two other sugars from mescal root and western wild cane. Maple sugar is described as the most savory and valuable, produced laboriously amid limited cane supply.
Quiet Cemetery Resident Refuses Move
M. Charles Moyeaux clings to a home built in the centre of a new cemetery, despite encroaching grave space. The town mayor issues an expulsion order to compel him to vacate as the burial grounds expand.
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M. Charles Moyeaux
M. Moyeaux
M. Moyeux
Monks Create Early Morning Alarm Clocks
Monks invented alarm clocks to wake for devotions starting in the very early mornings. One monk would relieve another at the altars, ensuring continuous worship at all hours.
Suburban Liverpool Robin Named Jerry Defends Garden
A robin in a Liverpool garden has claimed the birdfeeder and drives away intruding robins. Garden owners nickname the bird Jerry and note it tolerates other birds but blocks any rival robin from entering the yard.
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Liverpool
Jerry
Proud Of Being Talkative In A World Of Chatty Women
A writer praises talkativeness as a social asset in chatty women and men. She argues chatter wastes little energy, fills dull time, and eases nerves, while noting that journalism and almanacs now supply most original content and jokes.
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a—Stratford Leacon-Heraki
Hard To Trace Relationship How a man became his own grandfather
The Addlestone parish magazine recounts a convoluted family tale. A man marries a widow with a grown daughter. His father courts and marries that daughter, making the father his in law and the stepdaughter his mother. The wife's son becomes his uncle and brother, while the stepdaughter’s son is both his brother and grandfather. The wife is his grandmother, and thus the husband of his grandmother is his grandfather, making him his own grandfather.
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Addlestone
England
Inlaw
Land barrier once joined two continents in Paleozoic age
Princeton University and Smithsonian scientists report fossils from Europe and North America show a continuous land bridge in the Paleozoic era, linking North America with Europe. Northern and southern fossil sets differed, indicating a once-separate marine life and a land barrier.
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Europe
Princeton University
Smithsonian Institution
North American
Richard M. Field
Department of Geology
Princeton
America
Newfoundland
Wales
Scotland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Atlantic
North
England
Prof. Field
Oslo
Making a Job From Need Helps Unemployed Turn to Self
A displaced woodworker, facing plant closure due to foreign competition, uses spare tools and wood to build a serviceable barrow and carts produce from a partner’s allotment. They sell vegetables locally and are gradually earning enough to buy goods from other growers.
Proposed Badge For Warship Is Rejected
The admiralty censored the Lloyd George badge chosen for the destroyer Vivacious to symbolize vivacity. Ships have famous badges, and past choices sparked controversy. The Vivacious will instead bear a squirrel as its insignia.
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Admiralty
Lloyd George
Berlin Radio Audience Estimated at 1.13 Million
In Berlin about 1,125,443 residents are tuned to the government's radio station each night, from a Greater Berlin population of roughly 3,000,000. The estimate reflects three listeners per radio set across the city.
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Berlin
Greater
Bangor seaman plans 60000 mile world cruise in Mariposa
Rudolph Philip Kochele of Bangor Maine sailed November 23 in a 20 foot canoe named Mariposa propelled by an outboard motor. He aims to circumnavigate the globe in three years covering about 60000 miles. The craft carries 900 pounds of gear and has airtight compartments to render it unsinkable.
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Rudolph Philip Kochele
Bangor
New York Harbor
Large Western Canada Livestock Shipment From High River
Roderick MacLeay of High River sent one of the region s largest livestock shipments from his Brooks ranch to Winnipeg stockyards. The load comprised 27 cars carrying 800 cattle averaging 1345 pounds, with the train head weighing 1 125 000 pounds.
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Canada
Roderick MacLeay
High River
Brooks Ranch
Winnipeg Stockyards
Ead
Progress Of The English Language Reaches 170 Million Speakers
A historical note surveys English as a growing global tongue estimated at 170 million speakers. It cites radio English teaching in Vienna and a decree in Austria making English a compulsory modern subject in higher grades. The language’s vast, diverse vocabulary and mix of linguistic roots are linked to Britain’s invasions, trade, and empire spread.
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Vienna
Britain
Magnet pulls 600 pounds of road debris from highway
A powerful magnet on a five ton truck removed over 600 pounds of nails tacks bolts and scrap iron from seven miles of the Yellowstone trail. The magnet four inches above the road lifted jagged metal pieces as the truck moved back and forth using current from seventy two locomotive storage cells. Many metal fragments were too small to be seen by pedestrians.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Memory Course Diploma Reported Misplaced
A husband jokes that after completing a memory course he earned a diploma but cannot locate it. His wife asks where it is, and he concedes he must have forgotten to take it. The lighthearted exchange plays on the course theme.
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Hubby
Winnipeg Officer Had Responsible Task
In 1920 a Winnipeg officer, Captain J. J. Walsh of the Connaught Rifles, led the search to locate the unidentified soldier buried in Westminster Abbey. He recounts taking 12 men to a battlefield, basing findings on soil color, locating a body without identification, and sending the casketed remains to London.
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Westminster Abbey
London
Winnipeg
J. J. Walsh
Connaught Rifles
Imperial War Graves Commission
Walsh
Vaccine developed against Rocky Mountain spotted fever named
The United States public health service announced a perfected vaccine protecting against Rocky Mountain spotted fever after long trials. Three scientists who sought a cure died from the fever during research, including Assistant Surgeon McClintic and two laboratory assistants.
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United States Public Health Service
McClintic
Leningrad Professor Claims bone transplant aids TB knee patient
Professor Opell of Leningrad announced before a conference that he successfully transplanted a bone from a dead body to a woman with tuberculosis of the knee joint, enabling her to walk again. The patient regained mobility shortly after the operation.
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Professor Opell
Leningrad
Aristocrat Banters Over a Highbred Dog
A humorous exchange features a character doubting a dog's highbred status and another quipping that the owner will need goats and a tall hat to show off the best finish. The banter reflects social pretensions and playful fiction.
Canadians urged to expand apple crop exports after frost loss
The article notes Canada’s apple crop worth about 35 million dollars, with frost damage and room for gains through better storage, marketing, and weather. It cites the successful California orange model and shows crates of apples moved east by CPR to Halifax and ships bound for Great Britain.
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British Isles
California
Halifax
Great Britain
Good Health and Humidity in Cold Weather
The article warns that excessive heat with dry indoor air increases respiratory troubles. It urges humidification in classrooms and homes, noting that low moisture dries throats and noses, irritates people, and harms comfort and work. It emphasizes balanced temperature and moisture for healthy air.
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Canada
Sahara
Sir
Alfred the Greats Candle Clock and First Lantern
A historic note claims Alfred the Great invented a candle clock with six twelve inch candles marked in twenty minute segments to measure time for twenty four hours. Special royal chaplains watched the candles, and wind allegedly made candles burn faster, prompting a horn case lantern in wooden frames.
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Alfred the Great
Alfred
Albatross Wing Bones Market Draws Attention
An Australian paper reports a London firm imports albatross wing bones for craft and smoking implements. Frigate bird wing bones are also used for similar purposes or as cigarette holders, highlighting unusual sea bird uses.
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London
Safetida Snafu At The Drug Store
A boy asks for a nickels worth of safetida at a drug store. The clerk names Hunnyfunkle as the payer, but the druggist forgives the charge and jokes that he would not write a safetida and Hunnyfunkle for a nickel.
Birdman Bossoutrot Sets New Altitude and Duration Marks
Veteran French pilot Lucien Bossoutrot piloted a four motor super Goliath plane carrying 8,818 pounds to break world records for altitude and duration in heavier than air flight. He stayed aloft 2 hours 19 minutes and reached about 16 440 feet.
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Lucien Bossoutrot
Bossoutrot
British Columbia Coal Output Rises Over 1924 Nine Months
Coal production in British Columbia for the nine months ending September 30 rose by 327 717 long tons to 1 777 018 long tons from 1 449 261 long tons in the same period of 1924.
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British Columbia
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