A Monument To Peace Opens Pacific Highway Concept
The Pacific Highway linking Vancouver to Mexico across Washington Oregon and California edges toward completion this autumn. A Peace Portal at the U S Canada boundary will mark the milestone and celebrate a century of peace since the 1814 Treaty of Ghent with historic tokens from Mayflower and Beaver on each side. Marshal Joffre and Marquis de Chambrun are expected guests at the dedication on September 6.
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Washington
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California
Mexico
United States
Canada
Ghent
A. E. Todd
Victoria
Pacific Highway Association
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Plymouth
Massachusetts
England
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North Pacific
Hudson’s Bay Company
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Marshal Joffre
Marne
Eafayette
Jeffre
Samuel Hill
Marquis de Chambrun
Lafayette
Toronto Globe
Doctors Warn Baldness Rising Worldwide
Doctors say baldness is increasing and blame tight clothing. They advise keeping the head cool and feet warm, living in temperate rooms, and lowering blood pressure. They urge patients to avoid tight hats and shoes to curb the malady sweeping rich and poor alike.
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Answers
America
Uo Council
British Columbia Leads Coast Fishery Output
Canadian Fisheries reports Atlantic coast line total not disclosed, Pacific coast 7000 miles, and 220000 square miles of inland waters. Production valued at 60000000 dollars, half exported, employing 100000 workers with a 60000000 dollar capital base. Great Britain endures severe drought after six weeks of hot weather with limited rainfall.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
British Columbia
Great Britain
Mosquitoes Mean Wheat Boosts Hopes for Record Harvest
A breezy observer predicts the coming harvest will be the largest since 1915 as moisture drives both crops and pests. He notes rains have kept wheat healthy and mosquitoes thriving, linking moisture to bumper yields, while warning against lavish spending seen in a man named John Jones who exhausted his cash after a prior big crop.
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Manitoba
Saskatoon
John Jones
California
Measuring Betelgeuse Diameter With Interferometer Discovery
Professor A A Michaelson uses a self designed interferometer to measure Betelgeuse at least 260 million miles across. The measurement, made with the 100 inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson, relies on light interference and suggests stars far larger than the Sun may exist.
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A. A. Michaelson
Betelgeuse
Solar System
Russell
Michaelson
Hooker
Mount Wilson Observatory
California
Population trends in Western Canada 1920 prospects
Western Canada population rose ten percent in ten years and eight percent in five, now near two million. The region has about 225 million acres of land, with only 30 million cultivated. Wheat production is estimated near half a billion dollars for 1920.
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Canada
West
Queen Wilhelmina Plans Incognito Three Week Norwegian Fjords Trip
Queen Wilhelmina, who for years has not left Holland, plans a three week summer voyage to the Norwegian fjords incognito. The trip follows her long period of royal residence and will see her travel without public attention.
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Wilhelmina
Holland
Inter-Provincial Weed Special Trains Tie Up Prairie Provinces
A two Car weed control train tour across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta ran six weeks from January 24 to early March. It attracted crowds at 74 stops with 15 480 attendees and covered 3500 miles. Exhibits showed weed species control methods and machinery while lecturers offered district tailored agricultural guidance.
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Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion City
Man
Western
Canada
B C Men For Harvest Fields Extend Knowledge Of Irrigation
Plans in Victoria by the provincial department of labor call for sending two thousand men from British Columbia cities to harvest fields in the middle western provinces due to high unemployment, especially in Vancouver where over four thousand are registered unemployed. A course on irrigation history and practices has been added to the University of Alberta curriculum, covering water sources measurement and distribution and effects on soil and crops.
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British Columbia
Victoria
Department of Labor
Vancouver
University of Alberta
Duke of Devonshire to avoid mid ocean meeting with Lord Byng
Official at the governor-general’s headquarters announces that His Excellency the Duke of Devonshire will not meet Lord Byng and his household in mid ocean as is customary. The departing governor-general will reach England before his successor sails for Canada.
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Duke of Devonshire
Lord Byng
Midocean
England
Canada
Wheat Most Important Canadian Cereal Crop
Wheat is Canada’s leading cereal crop occupying 36 percent of cropland and 25 percent of crop value. In 1920 producers yielded 263,189,300 bushels valued at 427,357,300 dollars with an average yield of 14.50 bushels per acre. Canada ranks fifth in world wheat production.
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Canada
Desert Natives Amazed By Water Falling From Sky
Sahara locals express astonishment upon hearing that rainwater comes from the sky. The remark highlights unfamiliar weather phenomena and the broader gap between desert life and meteorological concepts.
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Sahara Desert
Baron Edmond de Rothschild Funds Science Research Drive
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, administrator of the Eastern Railway in France, donates 10,000,000 francs to encourage students toward scientific research and its industry and agricultural applications. The note cites laboratory origins of progress and defines scientific research as the art of finding things.
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Baron Edmond de Rothschild
Eastern Railway
France
Toronto Star
Reception for Byng in Quebec at City Hall
Quebec City will host a reception at the city hall on the day Lord Byng arrives as the new governor-general of Canada. Citizens will be welcomed and presented to the incoming official.
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Byng
City of
Quebec
Lord Byng
Canada
Where B. C. Lumber Goes
The principal export demand for British Columbia lumber comes from Japan which takes Jap Square large dimension lumber for heavy construction and resawing. About six to eight million feet per month has been booked for Japan. China and Australia New Zealand and South Africa are also buyers. Rail ties are expected to go to Egypt. Coast mills run at about 73 percent capacity.
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British Columbia
Japan
China
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Egypt
Wheat acreage dominated by prairie provinces this year
The provinces of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta hold more than ninety percent of Dominion wheat acreage in the current year. Of 18,654,110 total wheat acres, 17,418,900 are in the three provinces, up 577,000 acres from last year.
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Prairie Provinces
Prairie
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prompt Test of a Medical Student
An elderly examiner tests a young medical student with a hypothetical gunpowder explosion. The student answers that he would wait for the man to come down again, illustrating a dry humorous exchange about emergency response knowledge.
Five loose garments advised for comfort by authorities
The text states the ideal number of garments is five, designed loose and made from light, porous material, with several authorities endorsing the practice for comfort.
Government To Help Exhibitors At Chicago Show
Saskatchewan exhibitors at the Chicago International will receive government support including transport costs paid and cash prizes for grand and reserve grand championships. The plan aims to boost competition as Saskatchewans breeders have a strong show record in wheat and livestock and will showcase soil climate and skilled personnel.
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Saskatchewan
Chicago
New Farmers Swell Canada's Population
Record shows 10 405 immigrants landed at Canadian ocean ports in three months seeking rural lives. Of them 6 761 men 1 875 women and 1 769 children came from abroad, incl 6 458 from the United States toward farm work. Families travel together amid big farm immigration months.
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Canada
United States
Ocean
Canada expands egg export inspection network
The Dominion divides inspection duties into eastern and western sections under the Livestock and Livestock Products Act. For January to November last year 334 111 cases were inspected with 148 668 shipped to Great Britain. Shippers can request domestic inspections. cases are graded, labeled, and certified, with seaboard inspectors tracking arrivals and market conditions.
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Dominion
Ontario
Port Arthur
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Great Lakes
Great Britain
Seaboard
Shipboard
Canada
Household Budget Sparks Office Furniture Purchases
Willie remarks on economizing while Gillis notes his wife has started tracking expenses and has bought a $25 desk a $300 filing cabinet and ordered a $750 adding machine indicating rising home office costs.
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Willie
Gillis
First Folio Shakespeare Sells in London for 13250
A 1623 first folio Shakespeare sold in London for 13250 dollars. The rare edition drew buyers who valued its historical significance and rarity, underscoring continued demand in the international rare-book market.
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London
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