Grain Through Canadian Ports Shifts Wheat Exports
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows December exports of 27,735,999 bushels of wheat, with 17,206,177 going to the United Kingdom. Most UK-bound shipments moved via Canadian ocean ports, amid seller concerns about Imperial preference and U.S. routing.
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Canadian
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Great Britain
Bureau of Statistics
Washington
U.S
Britain
Ottawa
U.K
New York
No Substitute for Home Training in Shaping Boys
A Detroit Saturday Night editorial argues that home training remains essential for a boy’s character. It criticizes overreliance on schools and social agencies to replace parental guidance and warns that neglecting home duties risks increasing waywardness.
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Detroit
Depth Range for Light Penetration in Ocean
The depth limit for light penetration in the ocean lies between 3600 and 5400 feet. This range indicates how far sunlight can reach below the surface, affecting visibility and biological activity at depth.
Man Who Did His Job Outsmarts Post Office Boss
A London engineer visits a Sussex house and convinces the resident to replace an old telephone instrument. He pressures with a hand microphone and offers a pretend upgrade, then persuades the master to accept a card bearing His Majesty's Postmaster General Sir Kingsley Wood. The tale highlights the post office control of the British telephone system.
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London
Sussex
Kingsley Wood
Longest living woman advises a single life in Chile
Donna Rosa Hunecho Tobar, 129, oldest South American, says she would not have lived so long if she had married. In Santiago she recalls starting work as a girl washing clothes during Chilean independence fights and still works at laundry today.
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Donna Rosa Hunecho Tobar
South America
Santiago
Chile
Lost English Villages Submerged by Rising Seas
The London Sunday Pictorial notes that centuries of coastline erosion have swallowed many villages in Britain. A half mile strip has vanished from Yorkshire over 150 years with at least thirty villages gone. Dunwich lost a medieval city and its cathedral while services are held at the shoreline. Near Pakefield, at low tide one can swim over and touch ruined streets now under water.
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Britain
Yorkshire
Dunwich
Pakefield
London Sunday Pictorial
Actor Sir Henry Lytton bows out of London stage
Sir Henry Lytton, longtime Gilbert and Sullivan star, gave a final London bow at the Savoy on January 21 marking his last appearance of the season. At 66 he plans a provincial tour stretching into 1934, despite not intending to retire.
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Henry Lytton
London
The
Savoy
New London Phone Service to Replace Lost Calls
A new scheme licensed by the postmaster general aims to prevent unanswered calls by letting subscribers leave messages at the exchange when away. On return, the subscriber phones the exchange to retrieve all accumulated messages, a boon for one man businesses. Also notes Saccharine’s sweetness and London's Charlestep dance.
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London
Postmaster-General
Grosvenor Place
The Pleasure Of Skating In Canada
The article extols skating as a national pastime in Canada highlighting winter health benefits and family expenditure. It notes natural and artificial rinks, moonlit and lit ice, social joy, and the competitive thrill of hockey, speed skating, fancy skating, and rhythmic figures shaping a strong skating culture nationwide.
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Canada
No Living Ex Presidents Record Four Times in U.S. History
The article notes four periods with no living ex presidents. Washington died 1799, leaving no ex presidents until Jefferson's 1801 inauguration. Johnson died 1875, leaving no ex presidents until Grant's 1877 succession. Cleveland died 1908, and Cal Coolidge’s death creates a new such gap.
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United States
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
General Grant
Andrew Johnson
Grant
President Hayes
Grover Cleveland
Calvin
Quip about a spouse ends with mention of a watch
The fragment records a joking exchange where one character dismisses a former companion as "skinny and ugly" and the other counters with pride that she is now married, mentioning "a watch nine and a half inches in" as an abrupt, unfinished detail.
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Jerry
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