League of Nations Eight-Year Review and Peace Prospects
An editorial assessment marks eight years since the League of Nations Covenant and notes two core aims: extending international law and settling disputes by arbitration. It cites mediations that avoided war, praises its educational role in fostering a peace consciousness, and urges continued effort toward eradicating war.
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League of Nations
League
Lord Cecil
Europe
London Daily Herald
Labor
Assembly
Russia
United States
Cannot Keep All Seven One Family in Uzumlu
In Uzumlu a 50 year old peasant Agha Faoha and his seven wives and twenty three children live in a single room. Old law allowed four wives. as new law is not retroactive, the first four wives stay while the last three must be divorced.
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Uzumlu
Agha Faoha
Chil
Home With a Sick Mother
Mrs Maurice Tobin of Peterboro Ontario writes that after giving birth she suffered serious health decline but recovered fully using Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription. She recommends the remedy to women with similar symptoms and notes availability in tablet or liquid form from Dr Pierce s Laboratory Bridgeburg Ontario.
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Peterboro
Dr. Pierce
Maurice Tobin
Ists
Bridgeburg
Emperor of Japan Wears Two Watches at Dinner
The Emperor wears two plain nickel watches one on the wrist and one in the pocket as a sign of simple living. He hosted a palace dinner for Premier Tanaka and officials while personally tending a rice field on palace grounds. His frugal example contrasts with his high status.
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Japan
Imperial Palace
Tanaga
Empire Marketing Board Promotes Canadian Apples
The Empire Marketing Board uses illustrated ads to educate Old Country buyers about Empire products. Recent campaigns highlight Canadian apples to spark demand for imported fruit and bolster intra Empire trade.
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Empire Marketing Board
Canada
Dr Williams Pink Pills Help Run Down People Restore Health
A Canadian testimonial notes a formerly weak and fainting woman named Mrs Thomas Ahearn of St Malo Quebec recovered after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She reports restored energy appetite and cheerfulness after a dozen boxes and urges others to try the tonic, available from local medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Williams
Canada
Thomas Ahearn
St. Malo
Que
Dr. Williams
Edmonton Canning Plant Leases Land for Local Veg Canning
A canning company based in Edmonton has leased about 500 acres to grow peas beans spinach and other vegetables for local processing. Tomatoes will be shipped from British Columbia to supply the plant for local canning operations.
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the Canning Company
Edmonton
British Columbia
Lydia E Pinkham Product Praised by Hamilton Woman
Mrs J Fuan Winsdn of 471 Wilson Street Hamilton Ontario credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with lifting her from near collapse during menopause. She describes severe fatigue back pain nervousness and low appetite improving after one bottle and recommends the remedies to other women seeking relief sold by druggists nationwide.
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Hamilton
Ontario
Lydia E.pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs
Jfuan Winsdn
Wilson Street
Support for Canadian Authors Book Club Initiated
The Carillon Book Club in Canada plans to supply readers with six new books annually printed by Canadian workers on Canadian paper. Members receive postpaid books as they are printed, with a $10 yearly subscription. President C. C. Knight of Ottawa invites inquiries for full details.
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Carillon Book Club
Canada
C. C. Knight
Exchange Building
Ottawa
Myopia Explained At Optometry Convention
Explanation at the American Academy of Optometry convention argues myopia stems from evolutionary fish traits as eye muscles strain to maintain parallel vision. The article notes near sightedness is prevalent due to retained diverging eye muscles. It also mentions Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a versatile remedy for humans and horses.
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American Academy of Optometry
Thomas
Recipes For This Week Beef with Lemon and Vegetables
Simple old fashioned beef dish with lemon and vegetables. Beef is soaked overnight in water lemon juice salt and pepper then dredged in flour and roasted slowly. Vegetables are added halfway, gravy thickened with flour and optional sour cream.
Pineapple Nests with Celery Nut Garnish
Arrange pineapple slices on lettuce nests and mix celery with nut meats. Pile mixture in center of pineapple and garnish with four orange sections laid symmetrically. Pass dressing separately. Notes that about 72 percent of the earth is water.
France Builds Secret War Plane That Bombs Deep
France is testing a mysterious aerial warship armed with eight machine guns and able to carry two tons of bombs within a 509 mile radius. It rises to 18,000 feet and remains out of range of land guns, featuring a balcony for crew, wireless, a map room, and a bomber cabin. It can land in fields with a double wheel setup and can transform into a seaplane in an hour.
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France
Wolfhound Wigger Hunters Burglars in Vaud Canton
Judge Marc Collio credits a highly intelligent wolfhound named Wigger with making theft unprofitable in 1927. The dog assisted gendarmes by tracing and arresting over twenty burglars and thieves, locating missing persons, and guiding investigators to a drowned body at a lake edge.
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Marc Collio
Geneva
Switzerland
Wigger
Carlier
Vaud
Wireless cinema: films seen hours after filming in New York
A British invention enables a wireless tele-cinématograph to transmit film from New York to London within about an hour. It can send two still frames per second, with reception developing into a cinema at sixteen frames per second. Inventors foresee Glasgow football broadcasts to Britain the same afternoon.
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London
New York
Glasgow
Great Britain
Minard's Liniment touted for pain relief in ads
Advertisers claim Minard's Liniment provides pain relief while noting that over 90,000 people use elevators daily in the Equitable Building in New York, highlighting the building's heavy foot traffic.
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Equitable
New York
Hudson Strait observations study ice break up for early sailing
Montreal reports by Alex Johnson deputy minister of marine note aerial surveys of Hudson Strait ice continue. Focus will be on spring break up to gauge earliest possible ship passage through the bottle neck between Windsor Bay and the Atlantic.
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Fort Churchill
Alex. Johnson
Montreal
Hudson Strait
Johnson
Hindsor Bay
Atlantic
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