Wave Power Discovery Stirs British Industry
Britain reports a new wave power method transmitting energy through a pipe by wave pulses. The system claims high efficiency and safety, with waves traveling at about one mile per second and pipes tapped at intervals for multiple machines. It already powers tools like a rivetting engine and rock drill and was used secretly to fire aircraft propellers during the war.
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British Isles
British
Air Ministry
Glowing Tales From Fort Norman Oilfields Reach White Horse
A party of nine traveled from Fort Norman to White Horse Yukon Territory and back in 60 days with 38 dogs. They reported a newly capped 50 mile weir below Fort Norman and noted fewer than 100 mining claims staked. Trading posts at Fort Norman provide provisions, except salt, and officials aim to file claim records locally in White Horse to avoid Edmonton trips.
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White Horse
Y.T
Fort Norman
Ottawa
Edmonton
Oldest World Resident Torah Said Not To Wash
Paris dispatch notes the world’s oldest person, a Kard named Torah, never washes. The item links cleanliness to aging and hints the idea may shift as a boy grows into adulthood and dates.
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Paris
Torah
Quebec
Railway Ties For China Export Order Record
An export lumber company in Vancouver received an order for 3,500,000 feet of railway gas to be delivered in June to Nuchang China.
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Vancouver
Nuchang
Chima
Postpone Worries Until Tomorrow, Readers Advised
A brief editorial note urges readers not to fret today but defer concerns to tomorrow, emphasizing calm planning and practical action rather than immediate anxiety.
Extension Of Experimental Work In Agriculture
The Dominion's Experimental Farm system shows wide ranging agricultural progress as detailed in the year ending March 31, 1920 report by director E S Archibald. Expanded postwar activity includes more illustration stations and central Ottawa upgrades with a new dairy building, stronger cattle herds, poultry work and disease research, plus an emphasis on weather data across Canada. Sunshine records highlight regional variation from Ottawa to Vancouver with hours ranging from about 1,654 to 2,355.
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Dominion
E.S. Archibald
Canada
Ottawa
Fort Vermilion
Peace River
Alta
Charlottetown
P.E
Nappan
N.S
Fredericton
N.B
Lennoxville
Que
Kapuskasing
Ont
Brandon
Man
Indian Head
Sask
Rosthern
Lethbridge
Alto
Vancouver
B.C
Forestry Cheaper Than Chewing Gum
Canada spends on forest protection about half of its face powder bill and far less than daily luxuries. The nation pays 23.9 million for cigarettes and 12 million for cigars, while ice cream cones for youths exceed all Ontario forestry budgets.
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Canada
Ontario
Calgary Takes Out Group Insurance for Employees
Calgary has purchased group insurance worth 1,500,000 to cover city employees for death, sickness, accident, or other causes. The program makes Calgary the largest Canadian city offering this protection. It also includes many insurable persons who would otherwise be excluded.
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Calgary
Canada
A Great Police Force The Mounted Police
The article extols the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as essential to the West, praising its public deeds and private work. It argues Parliament should retain the Mounted Police as a cornerstone of law and order across Canada and the empire. It notes eastern critics misunderstand the force's value to the nation.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Pole
West
Mounted Police
Canada
British Empire
Empire
Brandon San
Germany to deliver twenty five thousand wooden houses to Northern France
The Ministry of Liberated Regions says Germany will soon deliver twenty five thousand wooden houses to rebuild the devastated zone in Northern France. The houses resemble portable camp dwellings but will be built sturdier. The Times notes the irony of Germany aiding reconstruction while poised to dominate the wooden house market in Europe and beyond.
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Ministry of Liberated Regions
Germany
France
Paris
British Columbia
Europe
Wade
Great Britain
Mesopotamia
Palestine
Victoria Times
Oldest Twins Win Ten Dollars at New York Theatre
At a Twins matinee of Two Little Girls in Blue at the George M. Cohan Theatre, Emanuel and Leopold Klein of Brooklyn claimed the $10 prize for the oldest twins, 87 years old. They sat in a stage box with twin sisters aged 78 and two Civil War veteran brothers, as 109 twin pairs filled the audience.
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Fairbanks
George M. Cohan Theatre
New York
Emanuel
Leopold Klein
Brooklyn
East River
S. Boschart
Jennie Cohen
William and
James Farmer
Unsinkable plane proposal by Edgeware firm
An Edgeware company, Stagg Lane Aerodrome, builds an unsinkable airplane using a rear inflated balloon for buoyancy. A sliding mica emergency door is in the roof for escape. The craft is designed to reach 120 miles per hour despite the buoyant feature.
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Continental Air Service
Stagg Lane Aerodrome Company
Edgeware
Butter Production Surges in Saskatchewan Cremeries
Saskatchewan creameries produced under 100000 pounds of butter less than fourteen years ago. Last year output exceeded 6000000 pounds, with production doubling every three years since 1905.
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Saskatchewan
The Megroes of Panama Speak Spanish Well
The article notes that the Megroes of Panama speak excellent Spanish. It highlights language proficiency among a Panamanian group and their cultural linguistic abilities.
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Panama
Robert's Reward at the Family Party
In a family scene Mrs Boram asks why Robert is absent from a party. Elsie explains Bobby has been a good boy all week and mother said he needn't come.
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Elsie
Bobby
Local Spending Boosts Community Health and Growth
The phrase emphasizes that every dollar spent in the hometown supports local businesses and fuels community growth. It highlights a collective economic impact and the value of supporting nearby shops and services.
Villa’s Big Harvest on Government Land
The statement notes Francisco Villa, once a bandit leader in the Southern Republic, expects to harvest 50 000 bushels of wheat on government granted land. He has shifted from destruction to production using modern farming tools, aiming to show a constructive transformation and benefit to peace and prosperity in Mexico.
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Mexico
Francisco Villa
Villa
Cain
The
Christian, Science Monitor
Age Respect Laws Turkish Messenger Murad Keeps Job
Murad, a Turkish Telegraph Office messenger, refused a pension at 120 claiming to keep work for others. His superiors pressed him to retire to make way for youth. He finally agreed if his son could take his post, but the son appeared as a white haired man over 70.
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Turkey
Murad
Turkish Telegraph Office
Conservation of Soil Is Necessary at Saskatoon Conference
Saskatchewan minister of agriculture Hon. C. M. Hamilton urged soil conservation at the Saskatoon agricultural conference. He cited an 1880s Indian Head Experiment Farm report by MacKay on replenishing soil nutrients lost through crop production. He warned drifting soil signs demand urgent attention in older provincial regions.
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C. M. Hamilton
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Indian Head
Mackay
Indian Treaty Party Uses New Alberta Built Houseboat For Northern Trip
The Indian Treaty Party will travel to the far north aboard a fifty foot Alberta built houseboat named H B C. The vessel funded by the Hudsons Bay Company is used to reach Dogrib and Slave settlements with the Nechemus tow boat assisting. The trip aims to contact northern tribes and deliver provisions while hosting the party in Alberta made living quarters.
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North
Alberta Motor Boat Works
Hudson's Bay Company
H.B.C
H B.C
Fort Simpson
Alberta
Mackenzie
Dairy Output Rise Highlighted by Provincial Official
Percy E. Reed, dairy commissioner for cokeichewan, reports a 40,000 pound gain in creamery output in 1920. The province’s dairy product value tops $23,000,000, up about $500,000 from 1919, with 47 creameries in operation and 44 having butter graded locally. Government graded creamery butter sales exceed last year by over 500,000 pounds.
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Percy E. Reed
Cokeichewan
Unfaithful steward debated on punishment
An employer sought advice after a steward embezzled a large sum. An Englishman urged firing him, a Scotsman suggested deducting from wages, the employer noted the sum outweighed wages, and an Irishman proposed raising his wares. Tit-Bits.
The Mightiest Jaws of the Forest Lab
The Forest Products Laboratory in Michigan uses a machine that can crush a post a foot square or exert a million pounds of pressure on a timber structure. It can operate with the slow steadiness of a building settling or with the rapid impact of an express train.
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Forest Products Laboratory
Michigan
New Administrator Is Mining Engineer
O S Finnie, a well known mining engineer, has been named administrator of the new oil territory on the Mackenzie River. The staff will total thirty five, including civil servants geologists surveyors engineers and RCMP officers to open the country and establish a government.
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O. S. Finnie
Mackenzie River
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Hat Rack Bargain Sparks Family Lesson
A hostess shows a newly bought hat rack to a guest while her son secretly overhears. She asks what she bought it for and the boy replies that it was for two dollars, adding that she told him not to tell anyone. The moment reveals a humorous miscommunication.
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Tommy
Dangers of X Rays in Adjacent Rooms Warned by Expert
Professor Contremoulin, a radiograph expert, told French Academy of Sciences members that X rays pass through brick walls and have injured people in buildings next to laboratories. He urged enclosing X ray laboratories in lead shielding about a quarter of an inch thick. He noted that rays strong enough to treat cancer affected people in rooms across thick walls and in apartments above and below the radiography room.
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French Academy of Sciences
Contremoulin
Kaiser's Peace Terms Warn of War Indemnity
A found German 1917 peace document outlines Kaiser terms if he had won. It calls for a $40 billion indemnity from the United States and expects American sympathy against reparations according to the Buffalo Express.
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Kaiser
United States
Buffalo Express
Advantage to Buy British Goods Gains in Budget Speech
Capt. Ewan J. Edwards senior British trade commissioner in Canada says the new budget makes it more advantageous for Canadians to buy British goods than United States products. He frames the policy as boosting British trade interests in Canada.
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United States
Ewan J. Edwards
Canada
Millions For Roads In Manitoba Budget
The government of Manitoba allocates 3,943,830 dollars for road construction across the province this year. Funds will support multiple projects to improve highways and rural routes.
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Manitoba
Dusging
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Regina
Portage la Prairie
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, Ltd
Weston
Dominion Livestock Branch
Ried
Upper Austria
George Erlacher
Exslacher
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