Winter Life in Spruce Creek Home and Music
The narrator recalls a Canadian winter living near Spruce Creek, detailing family routines, neighbors, and weekly Tuesday gatherings. She highlights library scarcity, shared music and storytelling, rural friendship, and the simple life, with reflections on winter's beauty and community bonds.
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Gagnon
Murray
Spruce Creek
Winnipes
Coirse
Mr. Gagnon
Narclese
Iere Fenwick
Gwen Severn
Joan Mowbray
Herrington
Oura
Mowbrays
Jean
Dover
Dickens
Jeckansy
George Eliot
Charlotte Bronte
Stevenson
Andrew Carnegie
Angela
Joseph Vance
the Miller of
Old Church
Richard Harding Davis
Gwen Severin
Gwen
Maudie
Arctic
Parkas
Mowbraga
Mr. Fenwick
Mrs. Fenwick
Alywins
Cameron Boys
Farthr
Mr. Macleod
Mowbray Boys
Sandy
Jim Cameron
Tom
Micky” Farrell
Leonard
George Buckley
Carsdale
Mrs. Wilson
Phyllss Carsdale
Cambrai
Phyliss
Bandits Revive Old Grave-Ransom Practice in China
In Henan province, Nanyang serves as a bandit stronghold where extortion via desecrating ancestors’ graves has renewed. Some 60 gangs control over 60 villages, with 600 to 2,000 members each, led by figures nicknamed the White Wolf Wan the Bearded and Wang the Monk. No clear action from authorities.
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China
Nanyang
Henan
Chu-ko Nang
Jong Sines
White Wolf
Honan
Wan
Wang
Monk
Chang
League backs uniform daylight saving dates
The League of Nations urged all adopting governments to set identical start and end dates for daylight saving time to ensure uniform summer hours across nations. This recommendation targets harmonization of clocks and time policies among member states.
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League of Nations
Ancient Rome Shorthand Origins and Early Uses
The article traces early shorthand development from Quintus Ennius in 290 B C to Roman figures like Cicero Horace and Pliny. It notes Caesar's secrets carried widely, St Luke reporting the Sermon on the Mount in shorthand, and describes wax tablets bound by wire forming a primitive book.
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Rome
Quintus Ennius
B.C
Plutarch
Cicero
Senate
Horace
Pliny
Ovid
Caesar
Mastodons Once Roamed Canada and North America
The article describes mastodons as vastly large elephants that once roamed Canada and North America. It notes a fossil near London Ontario with eight foot tusks and identifies Red Deer Alberta as a major mastodon cemetery, with references to extinction timing and possible coexistence with early humans.
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Canada
London
Ont
North America
Valley of
Red Deer
Alberta
Earth
North American
Africa
Asia
Austria spends little by central government budget
An Economical Republic notes that Austria's central government budget is 716,000,900 crowns per year about $10,000 for the president's bureau. It covers President Fainsich and 19 staff, plus all entertainment journeys and office expenses including car upkeep stationery.
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Republic
Austria
Fainisch
By-and-by and the town of Never in a cautionary tale
A moral piece contrasts promptness with hesitation. It cites a Rothschild anecdote to praise immediacy and warns children to act now rather than delay. A poem invites readers to Put-Off town where laziness and procrastination lead to trouble.
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Put-Of Town
Ontario to Build Its Own Educational Picture Plant
The Provincial Treasurer announced Ontario has purchased for 30000 a small up to date film plant in Trenton from the Atlantic Producing Company Ltd after studying costs and results of private firm operation.
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Ontario
Provinces
Trenton
Atlanac Producings Company Ltd
No, you cannot splash there yet says old woman
A snapshot caption describes an old lady scolding a little boy who refuses to leave a puddle. The boy retorts that he found it first and tells her to find a puddle herself. The moment captures playful urban mischief between generations.
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Mttle
Nearing the End
A speaker notes he will not talk long as a man in the front row interrupts the address asking how long he has been talking. The speaker replies about four years, and the man stays seated to hear the remainder of the talk.
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Pye
Shay
Turin
Fletcher's Castoria Advertising Claim
An old ad promotes Castoria as a remedy for babies and children addressing constipation flatulence wind colic diarrhoea feverishness and sleep aid without opiates. It touts over 30 years of use and the genuine bottle bears a signature.
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Fletcher
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Elinor Marsden
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Narcisse
Oxenham
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Molly
Gerald Severn
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Main Street
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Bete
Ogden
Plains of
Little Foxes
E. A. Henry
D.D
Permission
Thomas Allen
Johnny
Mary
Never
Rothschild
Brussels
Old Man
Walt
Httle
Linge
Valle
Lazy
Portoonid
Wal
Tarry Street
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