Canadian Authors Dominate Home Market And Sell Stories To American Magazine
Canadian fiction writers excel at home and sell stories to US magazines. Editors note high American standards, competition, and no tariffs. Canadian Magazine editor Joseph L. Rutledge cites equal quality. Canadian Home Journal shows 40 of 65 stories by Canadians. Maclean's Magazine exchanges cheques promptly for good stories.
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United States
Canada
Joseph L. Rutledge
Canadian
William Dawson
Canadian Home Journal
H. Napier Moore
Maclean’s Magazine
New Basis for Marketing Farm Produce and Soil Health
The article explores a future system where mineral content in soil dictates the value of cereals, fruits, vegetables, and meats. It cites Dr. Charles Northen and Rex Beach, noting soil analysis to restore essential minerals and promising higher quality foods, with public standards and farmer cooperation driving change.
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United States
Charles Northen
Alabama
Rex Beach
Hearst
International Cosmopolitan
Northen
Niagara Falls
Mr. Beach
Beach
Nerthen
Printed sermons repurposed as musket stock ridges at Monmouth
A Revolutionary War scene notes sermons from Franklin's print shop used to craft musket stocks for the Monmouth battle. A teacher asks what defines a widow and a student replies a widow is a woman kept alive by a husband’s death after a long marriage.
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Benjamin Franklin
Monmouth
Carter's Little Liver Pills Advertising Claim
An old advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills to “wake up your liver bile” and promote bile flow for digestion. It claims two pints of bile daily, warns of digestion problems if bile is blocked, and asserts the pills are harmless and calomel free. The ad targets readers with promises of relief and urges asking by name.
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Carter
Canada
Bayer Company, Limited
Windsor
Ontario
Bayer
Telepathy Experiments Publicized by Duke Professor
Prof J B Rhine of Duke University in Durham reveals tests on telepathy using a 25 card deck with five designs. Psychologist Miss Sara Ownbey imagined cards while readers attempted to read her mind from adjacent spaces, with higher accuracy when closer.
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J. B. Rhine
Duke University
Durham
North Carolina
Sara Ownbey
Duke
Miss Ownbey
Mechanization Of Cavalry Keeps Horses From War
A Detroit Free Press note cites a Canadian Defence official arguing horses should not be drawn into warfare. It laments battlefield slaughter and notes mechanization may speed war but spare noble animals from brutal death. The piece contrasts horror with Tennyson and artful horse imagery.
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Canadian
Department of National Defence
Light Brigade
Tennyson
Detroit Free Press
King George Named Patron-in-Chief of Empire Service League
J. R. Bowler announces at Ottawa that King George has consented to succeed the former King Edward VIII as patron in chief of the Empire Service League. The Canadian region, member of the league founded by Earl Haig, notes the gesture echoing King George V's precedent.
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George
King George
Edward VIII
British Empire Service League
J. R. Bowler
Canadian Legion
Ottawa
League
Earl Haig
King George V
Selected Recipes for Yeast Rolls by Mildred Mae MacKenzie
A step by step yeast roll recipe using Royal Household flour and fresh yeast. Includes scalding milk, dissolving yeast, gradual flour additions, rising in the fridge, shaping options Parker House and crescents, and a two stage bake at 425 then 400 degrees with butter brushed top.
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Royal Household
Parker House
Mildred Mae MacKenzie
Tuna Newburgh Soda Wafers Recipe
Soak crackers in milk with butter, then boil briefly. Add green pepper onion pimento and tuna mix with beaten egg, return to heat and cook three minutes, stirring. Serve on heated soda wafers. Makes six portions.
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Christie's
Awaiting a Super Metal for New York Bridges
An excerpt from Popular Mechanics discusses NYC bridge demand with six nearby spans and 3,000,000 daily crossings. It traces materials from stone and wood to cast iron, then steel via the Bessemer process, noting Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge and envisioning a 10,000‑foot suspension span awaiting a super metal.
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New York City
East River
New York
John Roebling
America
Brooklyn Bridge
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WHO
National Hockey League
Yrup
Cory
St. Lawrence
Empire Service League
TUNA
Newburgh
Super
Bessemer
Sredimex
Igary
Edmonton
Regina
Winnipeg
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