Western Premiers Conference To Address Unoccupied Land Issue
The Manitoba Legislature notes Premier Norris will convene a prairie Premiers conference to craft uniform legislation on unoccupied lands in Western Canada. It will assess settlers on the land and ways to boost productivity, with maps and price lists to aid colonization and direct immigrants to vacant lands near railway lines.
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Manitoba
T. C Norris
Prairie Province
Canada
West
Western Canada Colonization Association
The
Colonization Association
Wle
McRae
Dominion
Prairie
Board of Trade
Farmers’ Organization
Germany Lost Her Opportunity
The British premier criticizes Germany for evading debts and avoiding responsibility since 1918. He cites a shift from supplicant to recalcitrant, says Germany refused voluntary offers and offered exasperating proposals when pressed. Britain and France back an imminent ultimatum, placing blame on Berlin.
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Germmany
Foch
Berlin
Germany
Rifles
Britain
France
The
Montreal Star
Blacks Seize Estates in Queens Town District
Despatch from Johannesburg reports police massing with machine guns in Queens Town as a large group of blacks claiming lost tribe of Israel seize estates and attack Europeans. They say they await a divine call to return to Palestine and their actions prepare for this.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Queenstown
Israel
Palestine
Hog raising profitable in Western Canada despite price slump
John Hamilton of Coaldale Alberta delivered a load of hogs to a Lethbridge butcher averaging 270 pounds each. The nine month old hogs scaled this weight after an eighteen mile journey, illustrating the continued profitability of hog raising in the region amid broader farm-product price declines.
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Canada
John Hamilton
Coaldale
Alberta
Lethbridge
Remarkable Woman Discoverer of Radium Marie Curie in New York
Marie Curie, discoverer of radium, visits New York to accept a gram gift from American women. The Polish scientist rose from poverty to world prominence, winning the Nobel Prize with her husband, becoming the first woman professor at the Sorbonne, and declining several honors including the Legion of Honor and the Albert Medal.
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Mme
Marie Curie
New York
Sorbonne
Paris
Legion of Honor
Royal Society of Arts
Queen Victoria
Suggeson
Dr Hamilton's Pills Promise Youthful Vitality
A period advertisement claims old age brings thin blood and weak vigor. It promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills as a grand system regulator that strengthens nerves, improves bowel function, and purifies the body. Available for 25¢ at dealers of The Catarrhozone Co. Montreal.
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Dr. Hamilton
Catarrhozone Co
Montreal
Calamity Day Tuesday Menace Across Disasters
Tuesday is labeled calamity day with statistics showing higher calamities on this weekday. Rail road disasters fires and street accidents are cited as records held or best known for Tuesday. The passage notes a pattern of misfortune across multiple events on Tuesdays.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Restored Health
A historic advertisement claims catarrh or starrh is influenced by constitution and presents Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a tonic and blood purifier. It asserts cleansing the blood helps restore normal conditions and enables Nature to heal. Circulars offered free by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Nature
All Druggiste
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Manitoba Telephone Directory Sees 600 New Subscribers
The Manitoba Government directory for Winnipeg reports 40,000 names, up from 39,400 in January. The increase reflects 600 additional subscribers added in the latest issue.
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Manitoba Government Telephone
Winnipeg
Well Satisfied With Baby's Own Tablets
A Quebec mother, Mrs Eugene Boisvert of East Aldfield, says her baby’s constipation cleared after using Baby's Own Tablets. She praises them highly and recommends them to other mothers. Sold by dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Eugene Boisvert
East Aldfield, Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
Allies Willare For German Graves
A conference will be held between British French and Belgian War Graves Commissions and German representatives on the treatment of graves. It is estimated there are well over 400000 German graves on French soil and under 30000 French graves in Germany. A satisfactory solution may be reached.
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Germany
Farms In New York City Reach 800 Farms Value 35 Million
The New York City area contains 800 farms valued at over 35 million dollars. Five are in Manhattan, 55 in the Bronx, 54 in Brooklyn, 565 in Queens, and 121 in Richmond. Average farm value varies by location, from 558 dollars in the Bronx to nearly 3,000 in Brooklyn.
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New York
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queen’s
Borough of
Richmond
New York Times
Dried Fruits Improve Flavor and Safety in Cooking
The article advises cleaning dried and oriental fruits with a brush and warm water, soaking in clean cold water, and slow cooking to preserve minerals and natural sweetness. It suggests uses including prunes with lemon gelatine, apricot and banana lemonade freezes, and stewed figs and dates as breakfast or simple desserts with whipped cream.
How Are You Question Not a Real Inquiry Say Experts
A New York man argues that the common reply to How are you is often trite or mendacious. He suggests adopting a rhymed rule from the Boston Transcript that How are you is a greeting, not a question, to avoid discussing private digestion.
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New York
Boston Transcript
The Deadly Fly and the Lion’s Claws in Urban Lore
A Montreal Herald lively anecdote compares a lion’s unclean claws to a fly’s dirty feet, noting both carry rotting matter and deadly germs. The remark adds a grim humor about pests and decay in urban life.
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Montreal Herald
London’s Missing Citizens Reported Each Year
London records show at least 30,000 people reported missing annually. Some vanish permanently, while others disappear for weeks or months and later reappear to resume their previous lives as if nothing happened.
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London
After Three Years Of Liquid Diet Kaiser's Health Restored
Joseph S Kaiser of 331 Beverley St Winnipeg credits Tanlac with reversing a three year illness he says left him a skeletal weak man. He describes dizzy spells headaches nervousness and yellow skin before a first dose. He has gained twelve pounds and feels twenty years younger with friends amazed at his recovery. He says Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.
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Kaiser
Tanlac
Joseph S. Kaiser
Beverley St
Winnipeg
Taglac
Barnardo Boy Victim of Ontario Barn Accident
A former Barnardo boy and farm laborer from Bowmanville Ontario was killed in a barn accident. He came to Canada twenty five years ago from England as a boy and worked as a farm laborer until his death at forty four. He left an estate of 15000 dollars with 1000 to Bowmanville Hospital 1000 to the Barnardo Homes in England and the balance to a brother in England.
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Barnardo
Bowmanville
Ontario
Canada
England
Oil Without Alcohol Promises Lasting Effect
An advertisement notes Dr Thomas selectric Oil blends six essential oils with no alcohol. It claims the mixture offers lasting benefits and is suitable where alcohol is undesirable.
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Thomas
Bolshevists Abandon Food Control
Letters from Petrograd describe worsening conditions under Bolshevist rule as Lenine’s food control ends too late. The family in Berlin notes shops are scarce, peasants have little to sell, and people reject paper rubles despite new allowances to buy and sell food.
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Lenine
Russia
Berlin
Petrograd
Empire Day Celebrations In Canada and New York
Canadians marked Empire Day with flag displays at major Canadian organizations in New York and a series of social and patriotic fixtures. The Dumbells, Canadian soldier entertainers, performed at a local theatre and held a benefit show at Fox Hills Hospital Staten Island for the soldiers there.
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New York
Dominion
Use Lizard Skins For Shoes
Skins of many uncommon animals including apes lizards walruses pythons and various alligators and crocodiles are now used to make women s footwear for fashion and practical wear.
Conserving Labor In Handling Grain
The Pennsylvania Railroad has installed four grain car dumping machines at Baltimore. A grain car is rolled onto the unit, supports engage automatically, the grain door is pushed in, and the car is tipped first 30 degrees sideways then 45 degrees endwise, with tipping reversed to fully discharge the cargo. Emptying takes seven minutes, and each loader replaces 16 workers, freeing cars for service more rapidly.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltimore
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