Empire outlook contrasts Canada Great Britain work and immigration
Canada shows months of improving conditions with rising industry and job prospects while Britain faces high unemployment and dole dependence. The piece argues Canada needs workers, offers welcome to British-born migrants, rejects a dole system, and warns against IWW influence.
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Canada
British Isles
Great Britain
Britain
Doles
Dominion
I.W.W
World's Oldest Bush Identified in Perry County
Dr. Edgar T. Wherry states a box huckleberry bush in Perry County Pennsylvania is the world’s oldest. The bush spans a mile and a quarter along a hill and grows about six inches yearly, suggesting an approximate age near 12,000 years based on growth rate.
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Edgar T. Wherry
Perry County
Wherry
Oliver Hatchery Sends 14000 Plus Baby Chicks South and North
The Oliver Alberta provincial poultry plant hatchery shipped over 14 000 baby chicks this spring. Chicks went as far north as Berwin and as far south as Lethbridge.
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Oliver
Alberta
Berwin
Lethbridge
City plans summer tours to Fort Nelson via Bay line
Winnipeg mayor Ralph Webb urges westerners to join one of three summer trips to Fort Nelson to view Hudson's Bay line prospects. Regina board of trade has been notified trips depart Winnipeg on August 21, August 31 and September 9 by special trains.
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Fort Nelson
Ralph Webb
Winnipeg
Regina Board of Trade
Biblical Inquiry Sparks Sunday School Dialogue
A Boston Transcript report captures a teen exchange as a Sunday School teacher asks the student Robert about the Pharisees. The boy replies that Pharisees fasted publicly yet secretly exploited widows.
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Robert
Bobby
Boston Transcript
England's oldest auctioneer Henry Stevens dies at eighty two
Henry Stevens of Stevens Auction Rooms Covent Garden London dies in Addiestone Surrey aged eighty two. He sold a vast array of curios from Kruger's hat to King Charles waistcoat and Napoleon's death mask. His records include Lord Derby's animal collection and Dick Turpin's pistol.
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Henry Stevens
Stevens Auction Rooms
King Street
Covent Garden
London
England
Addiestone
Surrey
Kruger
King Charles
Mr. Stevens
Lord Derby
Napoleon
Queen Vittoria
General Gordon
Dick Turpin
Stevens
Duke of Wellington
Strand
St. Paul's
Dickens
Thackeray
Garrick Club
Worries in the Home and Williams Pink Pills
A newspaper note extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as relief for nervous headaches indigestion and fatigue in women managing homes. It cites Mrs Gustave Hutt of Bruxelles Manitoba praising better appetite digestion sleep and strength after use. Pills available from dealers or mail order 50 cents a box Brockville Ontario firm.
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Williams
Gustave Hutt
Bruxelles
Man
Dr. Williams
Calgary Cairn Unveiled Marking Mountie Arrival 1875
A cairn in Central Park commemorates Calgary’s 1875 founding with the arrival of F Troop of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police and Inspector Brisbois. Sir Cecil Dennehy unveiled the veil, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board presented the cairn, and Judge Hoay spoke on Calgary’s birth by the Mounties.
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Calgary
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Central Park
F Troop
Mounties
Brisbois
Cecil Denney
Judge Hoay
New Westminster
B.C
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Immigration Decline Noted in Montreal District Report
Figures from the United States immigration commissioner for the Montreal district show a drop in Canadian entry for permanent residence during the year ending June 30 1925. Border points from Halifax to Cape Vincent NY recorded 49047 entrants, down from 77624 last year, with eighty percent Canadian. A local butcher advertised milk origin claims and moved to a morbid jest about sausages from pigs that died happy. A joke exchanges about quitting smoking for money highlights a humor piece.
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United States
Montreal
Canada
Halifax
Cape Vincent
N.Y
Wheat prices and crops boost optimistic Western Canada
Good crop conditions and solid prices lift spirits in western Canada. Reports show favorable crop prospects after 1923 and 1924 bumper outputs. If world supply remains average, wheat prices could rise in the fall beyond 1923 levels, though US and other exporters’ crops are not yet certain.
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Canada
United States
British Columbia Doukhobors Back U.S. Law Adherence
Peter Veregin the younger has been elected ruler of the Doukhobors in British Columbia and is guiding a policy of strict compliance with Canadian laws. A mass meeting in Brilliant reportedly backed the move to respect Canadian institutions in the future.
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Peter Veregin
Rhler
British Columbia
Doukhobors
Victoria
J. D. MacLean
Brilliant
Veregin
Relations Should Be Improved Japanese Financiers Anxious Over Curtailment
An interview obtained in Vancouver with B. Wright of Deloro Ontario, manager of the Deloro Smelting and Refining Co., says Japanese financiers fear serious curtailment of trade due to Chinese industrial strikes and internal warfare. Wright sees opportunity to boost exports of Canadian wheat and lumber to Japan as business leaders agree relations should be improved.
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Vancouver
B. Wright
Deloro
Ontario
Deloro Smelting and Refining Co
Orient
Trouble at Antioch Alleging Gentile Circumcision Debate
Sunday School lesson on Acts 15 1 35 and the debate over Gentile converts needing circumcision. Paul reports God opening a door of faith to the Gentiles while Jerusalem church insists on Moses covenant before salvation, revealing a pivotal early church crisis.
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Antioch
Syria
Paul
Jerusalem
Cornelius
Moses
Nerviline Promises Fast Chest Congestion Relief
Advertisements claim Nerviline quickly penetrates chest congestion and throat soreness. The liniment is advertised as not burning or blistering while drawing out inflammation and improving symptoms in a short time, with nearly fifty years of use and 35c bottles sold worldwide.
Wonderful Air Mail Service Sets Remarkable Records
The United States air mail service shows exceptional distance coverage and reliability. From May 15, 1918, to June 30, 1924, 255,086,600 letters were carried over 6,931,631 miles in 14,984 trips with 91.82 percent average efficiency. Transcontinental service cut New York to San Francisco flight time to about 32–33 hours, far faster than rail and pony express.
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United States Air Mail Service
New York
San Francisco
Overland Mail
Continent
Pony Express
Rockies
British Students For Canada Scholarships Plan
The Fellowship of Empire Exhibition allocates 50 Canada agricultural college scholarships with 25 already to London and the rest in Scotland and English provinces. Each scholar will receive free passage, education, and maintenance for a year and will later be placed in Canadian land work. Also mentions Mother Graves Worm Exterminator and Minard's Liniment for sore feet in the same piece.
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Agricultural Colleges of Canada
Fellowship of Empire Exhibition
London
Scotland
Canada
Austrian Explorer Claims Ophir Located in Peru
Dr. Von Hauch, an Austrian explorer, reports Ophir in Peru. He says he found 300 Indians with a Hebrew-like language in Peru’s forests near Pam pas del Sacremendo. The tribe allegedly tells of a land of gold on the Hualla River visited by white men long ago.
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Ophir
Solomon
Palestine
Peru
von Hauch
Pampas del Sacremendo
Hualla
Miller's Worm Powders Promote Health in Children
Advertises Miller's Worm Powders as sweet palatable to children and rapidly effective. Claims to end worm troubles, strengthen digestion, and impart a healthy tone to the system aiding development.
Amusing remark from Sir Walter Schwabe lecture
Sir Walter Schwabe tells an anecdote about Mr. Commissioner Kerr at the City of London Court. Kerr recalls David’s haste claiming all men are Mars and adds I have sat here for forty years, I say it at my leisure.
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Walter Schwabe
K.C
Commissioner Kerr
City of London
David
Mars
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