Its a Gift and the Myth of Luck in Human Achievement
The piece argues luck plays little role in success. It emphasizes long effort training and work behind discoveries by figures like Edison and Banting, citing Macphee on gifted status being earned rather than fate driven. It asserts future progress rests on known principles plus persistent application.
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Norman Macphee
Canada
Toronto
Mr. Macphee
Emerson
Lord Kelvin
Sir Frederick Banting
Thomas Alva Edison
Canada Old Age Pensions reach 120462 recipients
A Labor Gazette three month summary shows 120 462 Canadian pensioners as of September 30 with Dominion government contributions totaling 4 629 241 for the period. Provinces list Alberta 8644 British Columbia 10480 Manitoba 11281 New Brunswick 8728 Nova Scotia 13410 Ontario 54960 Prince Edward Island 1693 Saskatchewan 11259 Northwest Territories seven. Dominion contributions since act inception total 82343535. Keen young doctors to train as crime detectives at Britain's London University crime college linked to Scotland Yard with a lab for bloodstains fingerprints and related evidence. Forensic medicine will be the chief subject.
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Canada
Labor Gazette
Dominion
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan
Northwest Territories
False teeth declared personal property in insurance dispute
An appellate court in Los Angeles ruled that fine point false teeth are part of the owner's body when in the mouth but are personal property when in the pocket. Walter A. Merrill, a film actor, claimed the teeth were lost from his pocket and sought to collect a personal property policy.
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Los Angeles
Walter A. Merrill
What's Wrong And What's Right With The Church
The Durham Chronicle printed two editorials on What's Wrong With The Church and a local minister followed with a full sermon on What's Right With The Church. It is understood neither question is yet settled.
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Durham
Ont
Chronicle
White whales live in the Arctic seas
A brief note states that white whales inhabit Arctic seas. It references the northern oceans and associated cold water habitats, noting their presence in polar regions and the challenges of observing them in ice-covered waters.
Inoculation Tests For Common Cold Fail Over Three Years
The Overseas Daily Mail reports an extensive three year test of anti cold vaccination in a large volunteer group. The experiment aimed to prove the vaccine's value but produced only negative results, highlighting the ongoing struggle against the common cold despite successes against other diseases.
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Post Office
Overseas Daily Mail
Carter's Little Liver Pills ad claim
An old advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills as a harmless laxative to stimulate bile flow and aid digestion. It contrasts them with calomel while promising gentle, mercury free relief and urges readers to ask for the product by name.
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Carter
Dates and Walnut Fruit Loaf Recipe by Mildred Mae MacKenzie
A dated recipe for a fruit loaf combines dates with walnuts and spices. It uses corn syrup brown sugar and melted shortening, with date mixture soaked in boiling water before mixing with dry ingredients and baking in a wax paper lined loaf pan. The method emphasizes minimal stirring and a soft crust if brushed with butter near completion.
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Mildred Mae MacKenzie
Ham Souffle with Milk Soaked Crackers and Ham
A ham souffle recipe uses 115 cups milk with Christie's Soda Wafers softened, then mixed with melted butter 1 cup chopped cooked ham and seasonings. Egg whites are folded in and the batter is baked in greased dishes at 375 degrees for 20 minutes before serving with tomato sauce, yielding six portions.
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Christie’s
Weather Observers Stationed At Lethbridge
Ottawa reports establish Lethbridge Alberta as the main weather forecasting point between Vancouver and Winnipeg for the trans-Canada air mail inauguration. A full staff of observers will work there and forecasts will be issued every three hours.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Vancouver
Winnipeg
trans-Canada Air Mail
Ottawa
Anonymous donor gears aid for Welsh children at Christmas
In South Wales and Monmouthshire sixty thousand needy children found their stockings brimful as aid reaches distressed areas. An anonymous Londoner sent emissaries weeks prior to locate the names and addresses of children who would otherwise go without gifts.
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South Wales
Monmouthshire
Japan tops world market for phonograph records
The Nipponese market for phonograph records is the largest, purchasing about 10,000,000 discs annually. Meanwhile Moscow has tripled its ice cream production since last year.
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Japan
Moscow
Russia
World’s Largest Steel Wire Rope Made in Warrington England
The rope, 4 inches in circumference and about 7 miles long in one piece, weighs 57 tons and took eight weeks to manufacture. It comprises 144 wires in six strands of 19 wires, closed over a manilla centre. Its working speed is 133 miles per hour.
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Warrington
England
Manilla
Comedian Claims Roars as Stage Gag Draws Laughs
A comedian boasts that his stage routine brings roaring crowds while a pretty young woman compliments the act. She asks if he is a lion-tamer, implying the show's wild reception.
Scientists Debate Feasibility of Death Rays as Weapons
Prof. G Russell Harrison of MIT says death rays remain imaginatively possible but practically imperfect today. He notes radium and high voltage X rays are lethal only at close range and no ray would work at long distance. He cites electromagnetic radiation as able to explode fulminite, but cites no workable distant ray.
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G. Russell Harrison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Experimental Physics Research Laboratory
Brass clocks pioneer Chauncey Jones first in America
Chauncey Jones, a New England watchmaker, first saw brass surpass wood for clock works and became the initial American to manufacture them in brass.
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Chauncey Jones
New England
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