Women gain franchise in San Luis Potosi move
State legisla ture grants women voting rights in San Luis Potosi Mexico and other world updates include a draft to liberalize the Volstead Act in New Jersey, cheaper grazing rents in western school lands, sugar price rises in Canada, and large British education plans for foreign women graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
San Luis Poto
Mexico
Congress
New Jersey
George Chanot
St. Pierre
Miquelon
Atlantic Sugar Refineries, Limited
Canada
Wonderful Work In Damascus
Damascus is famed for ancient hand loom work and damaske fabric in brilliant silks. The city also produced legendary blades known for extreme sharpness and elasticity, welded patterns, and gold and silver inlay. Damascus today remains renowned for metal inlay artistry.
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Damascus
Europe
Asia
Tamerlane
Nerviline promises quick relief for cramps and stomach ills
Wakeful pains prompt claims Nerviline can ease cramps, gas, diarrhoea, neuraglia, chest cold and sore throat. The ad touts a thirty five cent price across stores and urges rapid purchase for instant relief.
Vocabulary standards set for professions at Salem teachers institute
Dr. Carl G. Downey of Willamette University told a Salem teachers institute that teachers should know 1500 to 10000 words, professionals 1500 to 3000, and ditch diggers about 300 words, outlining vocabulary expectations.
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Salem
Oregon
Carl G. Downey
Williamette University
Railroads and Motors In a year the Pennsylvania Railroad carried 152000000
The report notes that the Pennsylvania Railroad carried 152 million passengers in a year without a fatality, while 12 500 people in the United States died in automobile accidents that year. The statement mocks progress and contrasts rail travel safety with car deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States
Miller's Worm Powders Promised To Aid Children
Observant mothers recognize worm symptoms in infants and seek speedy remedies. Miller's Worm Powders are advertised as driving worms from the system while soothing the child, leading to painless and satisfactory progress after treatment.
Dairying Growth in Manitoba Province
Manitoba's dairying industry has expanded with about half of the 51,000 farmers now producing and shipping milk and cream. The sector shows notable development as dairy activity rises across the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
McArthur praises Tanlac after years of pain relief
David A. McArthur of West Calgary, a barber shop owner, claims Tanlac cured his rheumatic pains after two years of suffering. He says the left side pain vanished and he regained rest and strength, urging others to try the medicine. Tanlac is sold by druggists with over 35 million bottles sold.
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Taniac
David A. McArthur
Imh Ave. F
West Calgary
Alberta
National Hotel
Arable Land in Britain Shrinks Further in 1922
A ministry of agriculture report shows Britain’s arable area declined by 308000 acres in 1922 while permanent grass rose by 189000 acres. Total crops and grass area barely changed from 1921 to 1922, at 26025000 acres versus 26140000.
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Great’ Britain
Ministry of Agriculture
Healthy Sleep For Children Promised By Dr Williams Tablets
The ad claims healthy children sleep well while sickly ones are cross. Mothers are urged to give Baby's Own Tablets to troubled infants to relieve constipation and digestion, promote sleep, and restore happiness. The tablets are a mild laxative, opiate free, safe for newborns, and sold by dealers or $0.25 a box by mail from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockvile, Ont
New York Health Chief Urges Fish Day and Meat Reduction
New York Health Commissioner Copeland calls for making Friday a fish day and criticizes excessive meat consumption. He argues the public school curriculum fails to teach basic nutrition, suggesting students are taught everything except how to five.
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New York
Copeland
Help Wanted SmaH Boy in Prayer Request
Juvenile speaker asks a preacher for snow as a new sled is promised. The fragment hints at a small town scene with religious undertone and a child’s wish shaping a moment of communal or personal hope.
Your Teeth
A dental health piece stressing prophylaxis as prevention. It urges early treatment and regular cleaning, polishing rough enamel, filling small cavities, and maintaining proper tooth contact points to avoid future decay and gum discomfort. It links prevention to safety in the broader community context.
Cas carets sold as cure for stomach distress
A claim that Cas carets clean out bowels without cramps or overacting describes them as a universal remedy for headaches biliousness gases indigestion and upset stomach with all distress disappearing by morning. Sold at 10 cents a box and flavored like candy.
King’s Arms Inn at Eltham to be cleared for road widening
The 700 year old King's Arms Inn at Eltham once a stop for Dick Turpin and other highwaymen has closed to make way for a modern name by the main road between London and Folkestone. The timbered two story inn will be swept away for road widening. Local lore mentions a haunted room and a subterranean passage to the nearby church.
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Dick Turpin
King’s Arms Inn
Eltham
London
Folkestone
Worm Exterminator Offered At Drugstores
The affordable Worm Exterminator by Mother Graves is within reach of all and can be purchased at any druggist's.
Presbyterians Lead in China Religious Denomination figures
Presbyterians form the largest Protestant communion in China with 7 332 adherents. Including 29 000 Congregationalists, they total 36 332, surpassing the next group, the Methodists, by nearly 30 000.
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China
Work Ethic Praised by Stull for Wanamaker
Ottawa Journal quotes George W. Stull praising John Wanamaker saying he was always at work on time. The remark labels timeliness as essential and views those who cannot grasp it as failures before they begin.
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George W. Stull
John Wanamaker
Ottawa Journal
A Cynic Quips Through Tears Behind Laughter
A cynic is described as a man who laughs at the world even as tears fill his eyes, capturing a paradox of mirth and sorrow in one persona.
Four Briton Young Farmers win CPR summer course in Alberta
President Beatty of the CPR awards a full season at Alberta agricultural schools to four prize winners from British Isles young farmers clubs. The clubs have grown rapidly in Saskatchewan and Manitoba since 1913, with thousands of members and hundreds of branches. The four winners arrive to start in May, with potential annual awards.
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Beatty
C.P.R
Agricultural Schools of
Alberta
Young Farmers’ Clubs of
Great Britain
British Isles
Canada
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Unfit to Live Must Die Verdict Echoes in Ad Copy
An old corn remover ad proclaims unfit to live and must die with Putnam's Extractor, touting its reliability for corns and warts. The copy urges readers to buy the 25 cent remedy from all dealers.
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Putnam's
Obseratory cleaner notes star fall and praise
A man cleaning an observatory spots an astronomer peering through a telescope. Moments later a star appears to fall and the cleaner quips that the observer is a crack shot.
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Pearson
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promotes Health Marches Through Blood
Catarrh is described as a local disease influenced by constitutional conditions requiring constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces, strengthening the patient and aiding nature. Circulars free from Fr. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haliu
Hall
Nature
Fr. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
The Camel’s Role in Desert Life
The camel sustains desert peoples as a main draft beast and food source. It carries burdens, yields flesh and milk, and provides wool for cloth. Children drink camel milk, dishes feature camel meat, and robes and tents use camel hair. The animal endures heat, thirst, and hunger.
Powerful Medicine in Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil
The six essential oils in Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil are said to concentrate healing properties in every bottle. Many testify to its pain relief and health benefits. The text notes its price as modest compared to its described power.
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Dr. Thomas
Fortune teller predicts death in a year prophecy
A fortune evler tells a man he will die within a year in a chilling exchange. She asserts a line in his palm foresees the fate while the victim pleads for certainty. Her line blurs year to date, claiming only that the death will occur within a year.
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Evler
Charity Should Motivate Earning Self-Reliance, Says Ottawa Journal
The Ottawa Journal argues against indiscriminate giving to paupers. It favors directing charity toward enabling individuals to earn their own meals, build self-respect, and achieve independence rather than fostering dependence.
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Ottawa Journal
Dr Thomas Electric Oil Aids Croup and Other Ailments
An advertisement extols Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a remedy for croup and throat, chest, earache, rheumatic pains, cuts, bruises and sprains. It claims rapid relief and notes its place in many households.
Hayes Claims Echoes Reveal Ocean Depths and Navigate Fog
Dr H C Hayes of the National Academy of Science describes an echo method to determine ocean depth across the world’s seas and to guide safe navigation through thick fogs, enabling precise readings anywhere in the 140 million square miles of water.
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H. C. Hayes
National Academy of Science
New York
Ladies Wanted to Do Sewing at Home
An advertisement from National Manufacturing Co. Montreal seeks women for plain and light sewing at home with good pay. Work can be done full or spare time and tasks may be sent from any distance with charges paid. send a stamp for particulars.
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National Manufacturing Co
Montreal
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Austria
John James
Allen Water
Fort William
R. W. Brown
British Federation of University Women
Crosby Hall
Chelsea Embankment
FOR
Canadian Postum Cereal Company
Liantes
Front &I. B
Toronto
Windsor, Oxtarlo
McArthur
Calgary
Britain
Rea Proctor McGee
Pittethyssh, Pa
Bilious
Highwayman
Jam
Minard
Minard’s Liniment
Family Medicine Chest
Minarg
Dominion Express
Wilson Methods, Ltd
America
H. Cheamwee
West Pati St
U.S.A
Seigel
Gt Bie i Records
Brunswick
the Musical
Mdse
Saes Co
Portage Ave. E
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