Commodity Prices Rise Signal Canada Prosperty Ahead
A statistical review from the department of trade and commerce reports higher wholesale prices in May and a retail sales surge in April. Exports of wheat and flour rose sharply in May with bushel and barrel increases, while export clearances for wheat show a strong year over year rise. The Canadian stock and mining exchanges continue an eighth consecutive week of upward value and volume.
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Canadian Stock Exchange
Canada
Department of Trade and Competo
Rajput Maharajah Arrives in London With Polo Team
Saramid I Rajah Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajah Sawai Mansinghji Bahadur arrives in London with 40 polo ponies valued at 5000 dollars each and 40 grooms. The Indian champion team from Rajputana travels at great expense to face English polo clubs. He rules over 6,000,000 in India and leaves the Palace of the Winds, a home with 3462 windows.
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Saramid-I-Rajah-I-Hindustan
Raj
Rajendra Shri
Maharajah Adhiraj Sawai Mansinghji Bahadur
London
Rajputana
India
Saramid
Floating Palace to Carry Bishop in South Pacific
Shipwrights promise one of the fastest contracts on record to build a $150000 ocean gong yacht named Southern Cross VII. Cammell Laird & Co will deliver by August 30 for the Melanesian Mission. The vessel will serve missionaries, include a chapel, and an altar in the bishop's quarters.
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Birkenhead
Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Company
Southern Pacific Islands
Tiger in coffin James in tiger joke circulated in India
A British officer story recounts a subaltern killed by a tiger in India. His parents in England insist on sending James home, paying all costs. Months later a coffin arrives, revealing a tiger inside. The regiment’s colonel explains the misinterpreted exchange: tiger in coffin, James in tiger.
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India
England
James
Tiger
Pyecombe crooks and the legacy of a Sussex forger
The article profiles Charles Mitchell born 1844, the last England maker of Pyecombe crooks used by shepherds for centuries. It notes his forge near Brighton, his role in blacksmithing and building the first penny farthing, and mentions his longevity and training of his son. It also covers Saskatchewan reports on grasshopper poison bait shipments and a history of the hansom cab, tracing its invention by J. A. Hansom a century ago and its rise in the 1890s.
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Pyecombe Crook
Saskatchewan
England
London Daily Express
Charles Mitchell
Australia
Pyecombe
South Africa
New Zealand
Canada
Brighton Road
Sussex
Shepherds of Souls
Zululand
Mitchell
Pyecombs
Isle of Man Surplus Cuts Income Tax Rates
The Isle of Man posted a year end surplus of 5 000 pounds, with income tax returns beating estimates by 2 000 pounds. The top rate falls from two shillings 11 pence to ten pence per pound, while the British standard rate remains five shillings per pound.
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Isle of Man
Irish Sea
Thousand Dollar Globe Flower Stolen From English Rockery
A globe flower valued at 1000 pounds and described as the world’s only one of its kind has been stolen from the rockery of Rev J F Anderson a horticulturist at Great Glen near Leicester England. The natural hybrid blooms orange instead of yellow and was to be shown at the Chelsea Flower Show. Mr Anderson said the loss is a blow to world horticulture not just to him.
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J. A. Hansom
London
London Museum
St. Thomas
J. F. Anderson
Great Glen
Leicester
England
Chelsea
Letter Returns After Nineteen Years In Montenegro
A man in Cetinge Montenegro received a letter mailed to a friend in Colorado USA nineteen years after posting. The American recipient had died, World War I had occurred, and the Montenegrin capital had moved. The letter crossed oceans many times, stamps were value less, and postage due was required on a never delivered item.
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Colorado
U.S.A
Cetinge
Montenegro
America
X-Ray Burns Fatal For Army Colonel in San Francisco
Col. Eugene G. Northington, 53, a United States Army officer, died from infection caused by X-ray burns sustained during experiments. He died in a San Francisco hospital after nine months as surgeons performed 164 operations in an attempt to save him.
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Col
Eugene G. Northington
United States Army
San Francisco
Holy Coat of Christ to Return for Trier Exhibition
The Holy Coat, a revered relic housed in Trier Cathedral, will be publicly shown for six weeks from July 23 to September 3 as part of the Holy Year. Expected to draw over two million pilgrims from Ireland England and America, preparations include special trains and extensive local hospitality.
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Trier
Germany
Ireland
England
America
Union Pacific Tests Three Car Streamlined Train
The Union Pacific Railway ordered a trial three car special train using streamlining to reduce air resistance. Weighing about 80 tons it may reach 110 mph, average 90 mph, rivaling air transport while offering comfort and safety. The trial signals rails facing growing competition from air and road travel.
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Union Pacific Railway
United States
Winnipeg Free Presa
Plan to build first Mohammedan mosque in United States
Asar El Jadeed Arabian society announces plans for Michigan City Indiana to erect a one story brick mosque 20 by 50 feet with two minarets and arch domes. Organizer Neffen Sam cites local Muslim population about 350 with broader numbers in Detroit New York Chicago.
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Michigan City
Indiana
Asar el Jadeed
Neffen Sam
London
Paris
Detroit
New York City
Chicago
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Grasshopper Menace
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
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Lake Johnston
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