World Happenings Briefly Told
The Ramasian Government makes wheat a temporary monopoly. An Arab pledge breach observed as the London delegation issues a manifesto. Former Empress Zita seeks a Bavarian home with ally consent. Sun Yat Sen munitions base destroyed by Chen Chiang Ming forces. Filade la Castro blasts Lentini court house killing occupants. Japan China treaty on Shantung return filed with League of Nations. British war debts repayment plans nearing lump sum. Blind workers in Wilkes Barre strike after foreman replacement.
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London
Zita
Austria
Spain
Bavaria
Chen Chiang Ming
United China
Sun Yat Sen
Canton
Filade la Castro
Lentini
Sicily
Central News
Japan
China
Washington
Shantung
League of Nations
London Evening News
United States
Pennsylvania Association For the Blind
Wilkes-Barre
Banner of stamps delivered from Soviet Russia to Ben Litvin
A letter from Soviet Russia to Ben Litvin in Wandsworth arrived with a banner of postage stamps three feet long and seven inches wide. The stamps number 150 with 50 valued at 200 roubles and 100 at 1 rouble, totaling 44 000 roubles in face value. The article notes exchange rates and compares prewar and current values, then shifts to unrelated items about corn remover and university experiments with cows.
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Russia
Ben Litvin
Wandsworth
Kief
Royalty Promotes Equality After Football Match Camp Plan
The York's second son repeats a plan to curb snobbery by linking Westminster School boys with workers from a Welsh steel works after a football match. A summer camp invites 200 public school boys and 200 from industrial areas to foster good feeling across social status.
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York
Westminster School
Toye
Deep Hollow Coughs Dangerous and Cough Remedy Ad
An advertisement warns that deep hollow coughs signal danger from cold and catarrh. It promotes Catarrozone inhaler to relieve sore throat runny nostrils and bronchial irritation. Claims quick relief and lists a two month price of 1.60 dollars, small 50 cents, with nationwide sale.
Exodus Debate on Canadian Population Loss Reconsidered
Vancouver Province argues there was no large migration out of Canada over the decade and that Canada, in fact, saw a greater population increase than the United States. The piece calls for precise immigration and emigration statistics by nationality to guide future policy.
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Canada
States
Vancouver
United States
Michigan
Prince Edward Island
Dominion
Ottawa
Nerviline home remedy for sick children advert
An old advertisement promotes Nerviline as a preventive and treatment for children's illness. It advises chest rubs, a five minute gargle, and ten drops in hot sweetened water at bedtime, claiming quick improvement by morning. Also mentions Burns memories and Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as low cost drugstore products.
Keep Money in Family William Rockefeller's Will
William Rockefeller leaves an estate of 150 million dollars to his family with no bequest to charity or public service. An elderly retainer who shined his shoes for forty years was excluded. The decision is seen as bolstering arguments for stronger inheritance taxes and limits on concentrated wealth.
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William Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Sun
Chinese Girl Wins Prizes at Public School 23 Graduation
Florence Low, a twelve year old Chinese student living at 34 Moit Street, won the Morgan award of 20 dollars for best cook in District I and second prize of 15 dollars in the Evening Post essay contest on American history. About 100 essays were submitted. 14 graduates sat on the platform with Principal Joseph Beardom and teachers.
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Bayard and
Mulberry Streets
New York
Rnorence Low
Moit Street
Evening Post
Low
Joseph D. Beardom
Ethel Ce Baptist
Florence
Reardon
Keep Children Well During Hot Weather
Mothers warned of lethal heat dangers to infants from cholera infantum diarrhoea and stomach ailments. Baby's Own Tablets are pitched as preventive and curative, promise quick relief, and are sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Curiosity Insatiable Mother and Cake Folly
A mother warns Bobbie not to eat too fast referencing a tale of a boy who died from haste. The boy’s question about what happened to the cake prompts this grim moral about excess and restraint.
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Bobbie
Magnetic Recovery95 from Coal Cinders Boosts Fuel Output
A new process uses magnetism to recover five tons of usable coal from twenty tons of cinders produced by burning a hundred tons of coal. The fuel contains enough iron to separate it from non magnetic ash, potentially saving millions of tons of fuel.
Circle Tours Through the Canadian Pacific Rockies
The trip claims to be the most magnificent mountain and inland water journey in the world passing Banff Lake Louise Field Glacier Arrowhead steamer Arrow and Kootenay Lakes. It offers a reverse direction option at low cost with full information and planning via any Canadian Pacific ticket agent.
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Banff
Lake Louise
Field and Glacier
Arrowhead
Arrow
Kootenay Lakes
West Robson
Nelson
Canadian Pacific
Siberian Rivers Flow Over Ancient Ice Beds
Siberian rivers differ from others by running over beds of ice. A Lena River tributary carries a heed of ice nine to twenty feet thick, with water likely flowing above it for hundreds of years.
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Siberia
Lena
Understanding a Friend Jong Through Respect for Peculiarities
The quote emphasizes that lasting friendship requires effort to learn Jong’s unique traits and honor them. It advises patience and attentive regard for individual quirks as the basis for meaningful rapport.
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Jong
World’s First Broadcasting Auto Tested in Winnipeg
The first radio phone broadcasting automobile was tested on Winnipeg streets, a moving car using a special transmitter and delivering the human voice through air. Led by radio engineer L. V. Salton after extensive experiments, the test proved a complete success.
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Winnipeg
L. V. Salton
Proofreaders Fallible and Self Doctoring Quip
The quotation notes that proofreaders err and a person may rely on medical books to self diagnose. It humorously warns that a future misprint could prove deadly. The line reflects archivist style and wit about publishing and medicine.
Saskatchewan Woman Recovers with Lydia Pinkham's Compound
Mrs. Ws. J. Tuomas of Melaval Saskatchewan credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with a wide range of improvements over two years. She says the product made her a different woman and recommends it to others suffering from common female troubles and low energy. The advertisement touts nearly fifty years of service and natural restoration.
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Melaval
Saskatchewan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mas
J. Tuomas
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mrs. Thomas
Ski Jumper Injured in 110 Foot Exhibition Jump
Revelstoke skier Drennan Holton sprained his left ankle after a 110 foot jump at Ranier National Park during the opening day of a five year ski tournament. A ski struck him above the eye, leaving a severe cut, and he was treated at Paradise Inn. Teammate Nels Nelson jumped 105 feet, the day’s longest non-fall effort.
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Drennan Holton
Revelstoke
B.C
Ranier National Park
Holton
Paradise Inn
Nels Nelson
Rev
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Committee of the House of Commone
Banner of Postage Stamps
Soviet
Holloway
University of Wisconsin
Milan
Taffeta
Sun-Maid
Fresno
Calif
Burns
Gil
Circle
Canadian Pacific Rockies
C.P.R
Minard
Linimert
Boston Transcript
U. S
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Clireaboratory
Berkeley
Dominion Express
York Belting Co
York St
Toronto
Bayer
Sayer
Bayer Cowmpenay
Bayer Cress
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