Captain Blood Film Aims at Romance of the Spanished Main
The text previews a 1922 Vitagraph adaptation of Captain Blood drawn from Rafael Sabatini. Peter Blood, an Irish physician unjustly enslaved, leads a rebel crew aboard a Spanish galleon. Strategic ambushes, hostage threats, and a council steer their course toward Tortuga amid shifting loyalties.
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Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini
Peter Mood
James
Arabella Bishop
Diego de Espinosa Y Valdez
Colonel Bishop
Blood
Don Diego
Curacao
Piood
Blood and Levasseur form a piracy alliance at Tortuga
Don Esteban and Blood’s followers find Tortuga a haven of plots and temptations. Blood avoids Arabella while weighing Levasseur’s offer of a privateer alliance. They sign articles to share prizes, with Blood renaming Cinco Lingas Arabella and preparing a protracted cruise across the Caribbean.
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Arabella
Ogeron
Tortuga
Peter Blood
Caribbean Sea
Hagthorpe
Wolverstone
Ruffan
Pedro Sangre
le Sang
Levasseur
Bay
Hispaniom
Blood and Spanish intrigue in Don Diego’s wake
In this scene Captain Blood negotiates with Don Esteban and Don Diego’s circle aboard the Cinco Lingas. Two chests worth fifty thousand pieces of eight are delivered as suspicions rise about faith and loyalty amid a tense reunion with Hagthorpe and a wary admiral.
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Don Miguel
Don Diego
Blood
Spain
Malaga
James
England
Don Esteban
San Domingo
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Nursing Mothers
Testimonial from Mrs Rosent McCulley of Port Greville Nova Scotia praises Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for relief from severe pain weakness headaches and postnatal recovery. The letter notes safety for nursing mothers and claims many women report benefit in a canvass while emphasizing roots and herbs and no harmful drugs.
Fireworks Origins and Historic English Costs
The article notes fireworks likely originated in China or Florence around 1360 and 1588 respectively. It cites Lord Macaulay claiming post peace fireworks in England after the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick cost £12,600, roughly $66,000 today.
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Florence
Italy
Lord Macaulay
England
France
Ryswick
William Tl
Geological Survey Denies Knowledge of Dry Springs
The geological survey states it has no knowledge of springs that begin flowing near the end of a drought, denying any observed hydrogeological phenomena.
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The
Geological Survey
The Magazine Menace in Canadian Reading Markets
Major Baxter criticizes the flood of American magazines into Canada and urges stronger Canadian publishing. He notes twenty four million American periodicals enter Canadian homes annually and asserts advertising bias favors U S products. The remedy is to establish and support Canadian magazines to balance competition.
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Cals
Canada
Major Baxter
Montreal
Baxter
Montreal Star
Road in Devonshire yields gold and silver
A road entering the village of Nidecombe in Devonshire contains silver and gold in its peculiar granite. One ton of rock may hold three to thirty shillings worth of gold and up to two-thirds of an ounce of silver. Large quantities of similar rock line walls and lie among moorland boulders. the vein source is not yet found.
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Nidecombe
Devonshire
Lipton and Lauder Chuckle Over Pin Thrift Tale
A Caledonian thrift anecdote circulates among Lipton and Lauder as they joke with New York reporters. The comedian bought a package labeled thousand pins for threepence, found three pins missing, and plans to return to the shop after a Glasgow trip.
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Thomas Lipton
Marry Lauder
Harry
New York
Piccadilly
Lauder
Glasgow
London
British capital eyeing Canada for branch factories
F. W. Field, senior British trade commissioner in Canada, told the Canadian Press in Montreal that Britain should seriously consider establishing branch factories in Canada. He expressed hope that larger sums of British capital would soon be invested here for the benefit of Anglo Canadian trade.
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Canada
F. W. Field
British Trade Commission
Montreal
Field
Canadian Club in London Faces Fund Decline
The Canadian Club in London wanes as life membership funds shrink while three new Anglo-Canadian members join. An investigation into its financial position is underway.
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London
F. C. Wade
Californian Adrift on World Journey in Small Yacht
Harry Pidgeon of California sails solo around the world in a four ton yacht. Departed Los Angeles in 1921 and after Pacific Indian Ocean crossings and the Cape of Good Hope, he reached Ascension Island and Trinidad in thirty five days. Remaining leg to Panama Canal and home expected by September, rivals Joshua Slocum. Baltimore Evening Sun.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
Venezuela
Harry Pidgeon
Pidgeon
Los Angeles
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Cape of Good Hope
Ascension Island
South Atlantic
Panama Canal
Canal
Joshua Slocum
Globe
Slocum
Cape Horn
Mhus
Baltimore Evening Sun
Winged souls and hopeful prayers in a Sunday reflection
The piece invokes wings as a symbol of spiritual freedom and joy. It urges readers to imitate a bird on a fragile branch, seeking uplift through faith, love, and the Holy Spirit, to conquer besetments with a consecrated heart.
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Horatio N. Powers
Success At Last Mrs Hall Declares Deception
Mrs Hall accuses John of deception after years of doubt. John replies he has pursued the truth for fifteen years, signaling a long dispute now reaching a clarifying moment.
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Mrs. Hall
John
Mr. Hall
King Shows Beet Industry Interest At Sandringham Farm
The King accepts a contract to grow beets at Sandringham for the Spalding sugar factory in Lincolnshire and already grows beets for Cantley Norfolk factory, with contracts being taken up freely.
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Sandringham
Spalding
Lincolnshire
Cantley
Norfolk
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Coppighred
J. Warren Kerrigia
Hapthorpe
Don Diexu
Peter
Esteban
Hispaniola
Cinco Lingas
Cayona
Holland
Ife
M. d’Ogeron
Barbadoes
Great Brotherhood
Mademoiselle d'Ogeron
sir _ancle
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bert Young
Filch Bay
Quc
Minard
Inecto Rapid
Mali
W. T. Pember Stores
Mphone
Wodge
Toronto
Ontario
the Magazine
Sir Thomas Lipton
Victor Hugo
Midlands
Carnarvonshire
Mr. Man
Ingersoll
Robert Ingersoll
Safety Stropper Co
Fourteenth Street West
Calgary
Alberta
J. J. H. McLean, Co., Ltd
Winnipeg
T.R.F
Winnipeg Radio Agency
McDermot Avenue
Magnavox
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