English Climate Is Safe and Inspires Steady Life
Mary Borden argues from Harper’s Magazine that the English climate, with its fog and gentle damp, fosters robust but modest living. It produces a balanced temperate man who respects community and resists mass conformity, contrasting with the hurry of American life.
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Reader's Digest
Harper's Magazine
Mary Borden
England
America
Stlton Cheese
New York
San Francisco
United States
Buffalo Bones Drive Saskatoon's Early West Commerce
Professor J W G MacEwan notes Saskatoon peaked as a buffalo bone hub in 1891 1892 supplying the railway era with freight from 250 head per car and about 3000 carloads from the area before eastern shipments. The bone trade formed a key link for the settlement era on the prairies.
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Old Bones
West
Saskatoon
J W. G. MacEwan
University of Saskatchewan
Lions’ Club
Prairie
Buffalo
Pin-pricked portrait of Anne Boleyn ties Toronto woman to historic relic
Miss Julia Barkaway of Toronto owns a pin pricked image of Anne Boleyn's attendant from the Tower of London. The crude but detailed portrait shows keys on a girdle and reflects meagre materials. The piece, traced to Thomas Luck of Hadlow, Kent, was authenticated by Prof C T Currelly of the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Tower of London
Anne Boleyn
Henry VII
Julia Barkaway
Toronto
Anne Boleyns
Miss Barkaway
England
Thomas Luck
Hadlow
Kent
C. T. Currelly
Royal Ontario Museum
Laughing Triggers Hay Fever Says London Clinic
St Mary's Hospital asthma clinics in London report 15,236 attendances last year and note laughter can provoke hay fever. The study references many distinguished visitors from America South Africa Australia and the Continent.
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St. Mary's Hospital
London
America
South Africa
Australia
On the Moscow Street Fine for Dropping Paper
A Moscow rule allows a police officer to fine a person on the spot for dropping a small paper like a train ticket on the street.
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Moscow
Paderewski Portrait Origin Story By Burne Jones
While unknown in London, pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski rode a bus and drew the attention of an aristocratic artist who offered a portrait commission. The encounter led to the famous Burne Jones painting capturing Paderewski’s intense face and spiritual presence.
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Ignace Jan Paderewski
London
Paderewski
Edward Burne- Jones
Rejuvenation Claims By Former All-India Congress President
A former All-India Congress President seeks extended rejuvenation treatment hoping to appear 20 years younger. After half the period, observers report reduced wrinkles and improved sight, with new teeth forming. The treatment director stores the patient in a dark chamber and predicts hair will turn black soon, but details are withheld.
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All-India Congress
Beginning of Stormy Weather Outs Noted as Wedding March
A humorous exchange uses music as a punchline with a wife prompting about a tune and the husband misattributing the Wedding March to Stormy Weather, illustrating a playful mistaken identity in a domestic moment.
Firestone seized an opportunity in tire history
The piece notes Harvey S. Firestone, pioneer in rubber tires, who shifted focus from buggies to pneumatic tires. It traces rubber demand from 1900 to 25 years later and foresees future opportunities, quoting W. K. Kelsey in the Detroit News about 1960 and young entrepreneurs seizing chances.
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Harvey S. Firestone
Firestone
W. K. Kelsey
Detroit News
Wolf bounty claimed by Dan Rose in Goderich Ontario
Dan Rose of Saskatchewan arrived to the Goderich Ontario treasurer’s office with a wolf pelt slung over his shoulder to collect a $15 bounty. The 70 inch pelt marked the first wolf shot in Huron county in two years. A separate quip about a woman flicks through a crockery shop and roars a garage door disturbance.
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Dan Rose
Saskatchewan
Goderich
Ont
Huron County
Reading as Lifelong Companion from Lady Tweedsmuir
Lady Tweedsmuir champions reading over passive media arguing books demand effort and intimacy with authors. She classifies readers into three types and favors biographies for inspiration, noting memoirs like Sir Walter Scott’s and Lord Tweedsmuir’s works.
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Lady Twedsmuir
Sir Walter Scott
Lord Tweedsmuir
Lady Tweedsmuir
Saving Grace Of Humor At Haaren High
Mrs. Mabel Brady marks seven years as director of ceramics at Haaren High School New York. She argues art classes help troubled students express themselves and that humor saves a drab life by shaping clay into creative work from Harlem tenements to Park Avenue penthouses.
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Mabel Brady
Haaren High School
New York
Harlem
Park Avenue
Changing Our Laws and Canadian Self Government
The Brockville Recorder and Times argues Canadians favor full self government with power to amend their constitution and to end Judicial Committee of the Privy Council oversight. It asserts most Britons in Canada support legal independence and autonomous interpretation by Canadian judges.
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Brockville
Eton College to Sell War Trophies for Scrap Metal
Eton College announces the sale of its war trophies for scrap metal, listing the items to be auctioned and the proceeds expected to support college programs.
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Eton College
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Tokyo
China
Japan
South Staffordshire Regiment
Aldershot
Sir Edward Burne- Jones
India
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Canada
Regina
Prairies
Alberta
Manitoba
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