Western Rye Grass Proving Very Important To Prairie Farmers
Western rye grass emerges as a key prairie crop with self fertilizing traits enabling true-to-type varieties. Dominion specialists collected wild types, tested 150 cross lots at Ottawa, and prairie fields showed yields up to five times higher than common varieties, signaling major gains for Western agriculture. Damaged wheat brings good price as salvage work recovers Nos. 4 Northern to Nos. 4 grades. Edmonton to test converting Alberta potatoes to motor fuel with German precedents of alcohol yields from ton of potatoes.
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Agri-ultural Gazette of
Canada
Dominion Experimental Parme
M. O. Malte
Dominion
Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Edmonton
Alberta
Forest Heights
Germany
Standardization of Canadian school texts urged by United Order
A banquet in Regina saw the United Order of Canadians adopt a resolution calling for uniform text books in Canadian public and high schools. It urges more Canadian prose and poetry in readers and at least one literature course in colleges and universities. The plan includes sending copies to provincial education ministers. Professor Allison of Manitoba University spoke on educating foreign born children along Canadian lines.
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United Order of Canad
Regina
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Allison
Winnipeg
Manitoba University
The Lock Out The Wife and The Husband
A dramatic dialogue shows a wife locking out her husband after his late union meeting. The husband defends his absence during a strike hour. The scene centers on a domestic dispute over boundaries and labor unrest.
World Court Opens to All Nations Under War-Proof Pact
The League of Nations council allowed Russia Germany Turkey Hungary and Mexico to bring cases before the Court of International Justice. Nations must agree to abide by decisions and refrain from war over disputes. The move signals a growing push toward shared responsibility among states and broader acceptance of global legal remedies.
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Council of the League of Nations
Court of International Justice
Russia
Germany
Turkey
Hungary
Mexico
Christian Science Monitor
The Queer Greek
The article describes modern Greek customs in a humorous tone noting the Greek gesture for beckoning a friend, the expectation to initiate calls, placing Esquire before names, and a linguistic quirk where nay means yes. It highlights cultural quirks and language twists in a light, observational manner.
Women ask men to help them become better citizens
Miss Joan Arnoldi urged Vancouver Canadians to support women as they seek progress. She said men should act as elder brothers in life, offering sympathy and aid not criticism, noting many women rely on men for guidance despite imperfect governance.
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Joan Arnoldi
Vancouver
Railway extensions awarded to twelve miles northwest
Will extend railway contracts for Lacombe and North Western Railway by twelve miles from current terminus. Line serves a prosperous settled agricultural district and extension is needed to provide better transportation facilities.
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Lacombe
Canada's Fur Industry Through a Century and More
The Ottawa Citizen notes fur as Canada’s oldest industry tracing origins to fur trading of three hundred fifty years. It cites 1920–21 statistics showing a near 50 percent drop in fur value from 1919–20, with beaver and muskrat as leading pelts and silver fox fetching high prices. It urges humane, intelligent protection to sustain the annual harvest and national wealth.
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Canada
Montreal
Ottwa
Edmonton
Vancouver
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Natural Resources
Silver Fox
Ottawa Citizen
Hard to Climb Everest
A narrative on the Everest expedition notes the extreme altitude of 29,000 feet and the challenges of thin air. It explains oxygen needs, tea and cooking difficulties, digestion issues, and the impracticality of air travel due to surrounding high land and low air density for takeoff. It ends with a USPS Savings Bank finger print policy mention.
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Everest
Odd British Cargoes Headed to Morocco and Spain
A London paper notes unusual consignments from Britain. Two million gallons of purified drinking water were sent to Spanish troops fighting in Morocco. Also shipped were millions of small value bank notes, printed in Spain to counterfeiting risks. A stevedore at Albert Docks won compensation after head injury from old horse shoes loaded for export. An English firm exports waste shelter and lead melted into molds to form images of eastern gods.
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London
Morocco
Spain
Albert Docks
Richest Man in Ireland Lord Pirrie Turns 75
The story notes Lord Pirrie’s rise from Belfast shipyard apprentice to head of Harland and Wolff and a leading shipbuilder. Born in Quebec to Irish parents, he moved to Ireland as a child, joined Harland and Wolff at 16, became partner at 26, and later owned the firm while serving as director of major lines, banks, and railways, with 45 terms as Lord Mayor of Belfast and numerous honors.
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Lord Pirrie
Ireland
Quebec
Belfast
Harland & Wolff
Sever
Chinese ancestral shrines and tablets guide family reverence
Most Chinese homes hold an ancestral shrine with tablets bearing names and lifespans of forebears. Tablets vary by family wealth and mark birth and death dates. Twice yearly, on the departed’s birthday and death day, families perform ceremonies of obeisances before the tablets. The tablet serves as a symbol to remind the living, not as a dwelling of spirits.
World's Largest Plane Ready for Trans Europe Tests
The giant Farman biplane with four propellers and four 400 hp motors has finished final tests at Orly and will soon launch trans European flights. Pilot Boussetro will fly it at about 100 mph, carrying 20 passengers and luggage, a seven ton load. Experts say it could serve as a high altitude bombardment weapon.
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Orly
Farman
Bousse
Goliaths
Salon d’Aviation
Foreign Trees Grown in B C Market Feature
In Vancouver a special feature appears in the municipal market with young English and Japanese walnut trees grown in British Columbia.
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B.C
Vancouver
British Columbia
Tiny European kingdoms cling to independence across centuries
Monaco with eight square miles and Monte Carlo gaming sustains its own flag and coinage under a constitutional prince. Liechtenstein cites no public debt or army, while San Marino sits atop a rock with a small army and no debt. Andorra survives as a seigneury under France and Urgel, maintaining its own council, flag, and Catalan tongue amid mountain isolation and shifting borders.
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Europe
Monaco
Monte Carlo
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Austria
Sige
Huxely
France
Vaduz
San Marino
Italy
Great Britain
Belgium
Holland
United States
Andorra
Andora
Pyrenees
Charlemagne
Urgel
Rural life progress must come from within says Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press argues rural advancement should be driven by rural people, not city planners. It warns against the “Lack to the farm” relief approach and stresses that country life must be a calling, with leaders adopting a rurally minded stance.
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G. W. Fiske
Winnipeg Free Press
Night Air Myth and Winter Colds Debunked
The Ottawa Journal argues the night air is not harmful and carries fewer bacteria than daytime air. It notes fear keeps people from opening windows in winter, leading to recycled air and more colds.
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Otawa
Seed Centre Formed by 45 Birtle Farmers for High Grade Grain
The Provincesal Minister of Agriculture reports 45 farmers in the Birtle district have organized a seed centre to produce high class seed grain in carrot quantities for sale outside points. Plans include installing cleaning machinery standardizing grain and selling to Manitoba wheat producers or through country agents in Minnesota and the Dakotas where Manitoba seed is in steady demand.
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Birtle
Manitoba
Minnesota
Dakotas
Employment Service March 1922 References and Placements
The Employment Service of Canada, in March 1922, made 27 407 references to positions and effected 16 319 casual placements. Applications registered totaled 41 144 with 323 468 men and 676 women seeking work. Vacancies offered: men 21 657 and women 998, totaling 20 655 positions. Scotland Yard holds 200 000 fingerprints perfectly classified for instant retrieval.
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The
Employment Service of Canada
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United Order of Canadians
Whole
United States Postal Savings Bank
Scotland Yard
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