Timber in Western Canada Prairie Provinces a farmer asset
The article describes timber in the Prairie Provinces as a valuable farm asset, providing shade, shelter, fuel, fencing, and building material. It notes timber reserves exceed 32 500 square miles, with government forests allowing harvest of mature timber for smaller sizes, aiding local mills and farmers in North Battleford Saskatchewan and surrounding districts.
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Canada
Dominions
Prairie Provinces
Bald
Western
North Battleford
Saskatchewan
Battleford
How Our Soldiers Escaped Typhoid and Wheat Shipment
Death notices for Sir German Woodhead professor of pathology at Cambridge who invented water chlorination for troops and headed wartime labor in tuberculosis and cancer research. Also reports January wheat shipment from Saskatoon totaling 150000 bushels to Shanghai, Halal, Yokohama.
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Aisthorpe Helall
Lincon
Eng
German
Besn
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
United Kingdom
War Office
Saskatchewan
Shanghai
Saskatoon
Shanehal
Yokohama
Highest inhabited point on earth reaches near eighteen thousand feet
The article notes Tibetan customs officers at 18 400 feet on a Himalayan pass during summer, capable of enduring thin air. It compares permanent Andean habitation at 7 100 feet with the Tibetan group and asks how high humans can acclimate, noting 18 490 feet as not necessarily the limit.
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Eeetes
Andes
Tibetan Plateau
Singing Lessons at Westminster Abbey Revive Church Choirs
Westminster Abbey adds Sunday singing lessons before evensong taught by an expert to improve hymn and psalm singing. The practice, said to be successful in country churches, aims to make church singing lively and inviting.
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Westminster Abbey
London
Far North Canoes Sail From Edmonton For Trading Posts
Sixty eight canoes of all models left Edmonton from the Alberta Motor Boat Works destined for far north trading posts. Twenty one are sent for spring delivery to the Mackenzie River country and fifty for Hudsons Bay Company operations on northern lakes.
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Edmonton
Alberta Motor Boat Works
Far North
Mackenzie River
Hudson’s Bay Company
Colonization Plans Attract Federal Attention In 1920s Policy Debate
The Harding administration backs a ship subsidy of about 32 million dollars yearly to U S shipowners by diverting 10 percent of customs receipts and endorses the St Lawrence waterways project as part of expanding a modern merchant marine. Plans to move Irish constables to Canada and settle them on Western lands surface amid a push to recruit British Isles agricultural workers for Canadian farms.
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Ing
United States
US Congress
Harding
St. Lawrence
Great Middle West
Great Lakes St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
Department of Immigration
J. S. Dennis
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canada
Col Dennis
Manitoba Rural Credits Expanded to Boost Agriculture
The Manitoba Government plans to raise Rural Credits loans from 3 million dollars to about 5 million. Hon Edward Brown announced a policy to encourage farmers to expand stock raising by supplying well bred dairy cattle on credit, with the program to be enlarged.
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Manitoba
Edward Brown
Canadian Pacific Heroes Rescue at Sea
The Monteagle crew aided the French liner Hsin Tien off the China coast in April. They rescued 61 people including 15 Europeans and 46 Chinese before the Hsin Tien sank, earning medals and thanks from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, the French consul general, and CP Rail officials.
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China
Liverpool
Humane Society
Vancouver
Hsin Tien
Saigon
Leeward
Swatow
Shanghai
Lamrock Islands
Montragie
Monteagle
Amazon
G. M. Bosworth
Canadian Pacific Steamships Company, Limited
E Beetham
Hain Tien
Hoeken
Ferguson
Campbell
G. M Bozworth
Italians Prosper in the Argentine Clubhouse Highlight
A Buenos Aires list names 111 Italian immigrants and descendants with combined fortunes over 1.0 billion pesos. The Italian colony plans a 5 million peso clubhouse as the landmark for their growing influence in industry and other sectors in Argentina.
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Italy
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Letter Writing is Lost Art Rush of Modern Life
An Indianapolis News reflection on how letter writing, once a refined art shared by fathers and grandfathers, is fading amid modern life’s rush. It laments the loss of beauty and value in personal correspondence and calls for action to preserve education and refinement.
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Horace Walpole
Indianapolis News
Universal Truths Australia War Debt and Production Demand
The article argues Australia’s war debt and loans are repaid in goods rather than currency. It emphasizes that increased production is essential to discharge outstanding facilities and that the path to growth lies in expanding output and work effort.
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Australia
Work Pays Everything in Life Teaches the Value of Work
The piece argues work fixes problems from root leaks to crop yields. It stresses industriousness thrift and steady effort, noting dull tools improve with grinding and that theory alone yields less than hard work and practical labor.
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Llows
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Milngavie
Milnegavie
Ak Ul
Professor Woodhead
Sir German Sims Woodhead
Fessor
Pathology
Cambridge
Sperd
Himalayas
Premier King
Alberta
W. L. Mackensie King
King
U.S
Dominion
National Council of Women
Charles Stewart
Interior
British Isles
Manitoba Rural Credits
Nichol
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
J. Vaux
C.P.R
Hosken
Hong Kong
Boriax
Donan
C. Fergusson
Carl A.J Hoskin
Fa Eweise
Muprood Campbell
Cras
Kee
Rost Plewes 5
S. Monteagle
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