Regina to Host International Grain Show and World Congress Plans
Regina plans an international grain show at the 1927 cumwer exhibition with a view to a World Grain Congress in 1932. The executive committee proposes continuing the show to raise standards and attract prizes totaling 232 dollars across three classes: spring wheat Marquis variety and white oats, with expansion to additional crops as success proves.
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Agister
Regina
Regina Extitition Board
Ecicutters Committee
faf @irectorate
Imporunt
Forgotten craft revived by London shopman in Old Street
In a small room behind a London newsagents, W. C. Webb preserves a long-dormant craft of selling vivid prints and portraits. Webb recounts a recent exhibition at the Faculty of Arts Galleries that sparked new interest among wealthy collectors, including Americans, and hints at rebuilding a family business with 6,000 antique dies and a potential successor. He notes the craft’s revival hinges on elusive tinsel backing and back-of-paper stamping trade secrets.
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Faculty of Arts
Tomato Breeding Progress Shows Early Varieties
Progress by the decision Verticulturist in breeding and selection improves tomato varieties. Crosses among Alacrity Bonny Beet and Livingston Globe yield uniform early fruit with good shape and quality. A cross Livingston Globe Bonny Best shortens days to harvest. Alacrity Bonny Best shows an especially promising early, smooth, less acidic fruit.
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Livingston
Benny Best
Immigrants Guaranteed Work Question in Commons
J. 8. Woodsworth of Winnipeg North Centre read in the House of Commons a Gal loway Gazette advertisement claiming Canada guaranteed year round employment for immigrants. Minister Forke answered that Empire Settlement migrants on two pound rate are guaranteed employment but not retention. five year tracking was promised, while others arrived on their own initiative.
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Woodsworth
Labor
Winnipeg North Centre
House of Commons
Galloway Gazette
Scotland
Robert Forke
Canada
Department
The Scourge Of Cancer Debate On Cure Efforts
Five years after Lord Athol Stanley offered £26000 for a cancer cure, the Royal College of Surgeons warns of a national uprising against the disease. Sir Berkley Moynihan urges increased funding as experts weigh causes and cures, noting progress is hard to gauge for lay readers.
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Tve
Lord Atholstan
Montreal Star
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
London
England
Berkley Moynihan
Sir Berkley
Royal College of Surgeons
Renting Jewelry Becomes Fashion in English Society
In western England and Midland towns, provincial women hire jewelry for festive events rather than buying. Jewelers act as social hubs, lending rings bracelets earrings and pendants for evenings at modest rates. A single store may loan jewelry valued at about 1000 pounds in a night, with wearers often repurchasing after repeated use.
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England
Midland
Trains in Germany Slow Hours for 3600 Mile Trip
Federal railway administration promises speed improvements after protests by the rational chamber of commerce and tourist agencies. The Berlin Prague express takes over three hours for 100 miles to Dresden, Berlin Vienna express runs 12 hours for 300 miles, and the Berlin to Cologne Paris and London expresses average 25 miles per hour with many stops.
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Federal Railway Administration
Rational Chamber of Commerce
Berlin
Plans for Zeppelin flights to Tokio and North Pole
Zeppelin expert Dr. Hugo Eckner says a giant airship under construction at Friedrichshafen Germany will attempt autumn 1928 flights to Tokio in four days and to the North Pole in two days.
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Tokio
North Pole
Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Hugo Eckner
Buying Autos By the Pound Shows Modern Car Value
A Cleveland bank compared fourteen auto makes by weight to assess value per pound. Ford ranked best for money while Rolls Royce showed the highest cost per pound. The study notes the modern car uses finer workmanship yet costs less per pound than many crude machines.
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Motm
Cleveland
Cleveland Trust Company
Ford
Rolls Royce
Chevrolet
Dodge
Overland
Star
Nash
Buick
Studebaker
Oldsmobile
Hudson
Cadillas
Lincoln
Packard
Rolls Royo
Cleveland Institution
Lost village of Stretton Bas kerville and its church
Rev. S Morris will lead the Benefice of Burton Hastings and Stretton Baskerville England. Stretton is called the lost village from Richard III era. The manor lord raised troops for Bosworth Field. Henry VII defeated him and razed the village. Now only fields woodland and a rabbit warren remain. The church site is cattle grazed.
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S. Morris
Woilvey
Burton Hastings
Stretton Baskerville
England
Stretton
Richard III
M Manor
Bosworth Field
Richard
Henry VII
London trader’s payers list ranks Scots and Jews best
A London trader who maintains a black list of non-payers states that Scotsmen and Jews are the best payers. He describes Englishmen as average and Welshmen and Irishmen as the worst for settling debts.
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London
Disappointing Grasfontein Diamond Field Report
The Daily Mail correspondent from Johannesburg reports Grasfontein shows uneven yields with rich patches but many diggers strike blanks. Hundreds have abandoned diggings and farmers who sold farms for claims face ruin as claims prove worthless.
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London Daily Mail
Johannesburg
South Africa
Grasfontein
Verbal Marriage Agreement Legal in Russia
A court in Russia confirms that a verbal marriage agreement can be legally binding. The ruling underscores that spoken consent between partners may create enforceable marital terms under certain circumstances.
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Russia
Mount Robson Dominion's Peak Draws Tourists
Mount Robson in British Columbia stands as the highest Canadian Rockies peak and a major traveler draw. From the Prince Rupert and Vancouver routes the summit is visible, with Tumbling Glacier snout shown in the photograph. A trail from the track leads to Tumbling Glacier where cabins provide tourist accommodation for side trips to Emperor Falls and the Valley of a Thousand Falls.
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Mount Robson
British Columbia
Canadian Rockies
Dominion
Prince Rupert
Vancouver
Canadian National Railways
Tumbling Glacier
Emperor Falls
Valley of A Thousand Falls
Rockies
Puzzling Medical Minds Fail to Explain Infant Fractures
A four month old baby in Colorado suffers spontaneous fractures while resting in a cot. Denver doctors at the midwinter clinic gather around the infant for examination but cannot explain the mysterious case.
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Colorado
Denver
Daft replies spark tense asylum encounter
A visiting lady questions the inmate about work at the asylum. The inmate declares he is daft, prompting the woman to argue that daft people can work. He replies that he is not so daft as that.
Native doc in Japan details a cowardly act
A fragmented Japanese document notes a cowardly incident. The readable text references a native context and hints at wrongdoing without specific names or dates. Further details are unreadable in the OCR fragment.
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Japan
Windmill Power Trials For Farmers At Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan engineers test a Perkins Aerolectric windmill to store electricity from wind for farm use. The device, mounted on the engineering building, runs at up to about 1000 RPM, charging storage batteries for long term data on average, max, and min currents. If successful, farmers may access low cost generating equipment with battery upkeep as the main ongoing expense.
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University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Saskatoon
Perkins
Ted
A. R. Greig
W. C. Wood
Perkins’ Aerolectric Company
Vacuum Cleaners Cut Grooming Time For Army Mules
Field Artillery Journal reports vacuum cleaners outperform hand grooming, finishing tasks in one fifth the time. Each mule or horse loses about a gallon of dirt from eleven animals, coats improve with less clipping, and nervousness drops after one use. Some animals even show pleasure from the massage effect.
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Field Artillery Journal
Coata
Silence or Speech Draw Criticism Across Ranks
Critics target individuals who refuse to speak and others who insist on talking, highlighting the pressure to choose sides and the challenge of transparent communication in public life.
Literature Worth Studying Canada’s national literature urged for selfhood
Dr Lorne Pierce of Toronto urged Regina audiences to make Canadian literature compulsory in schools. He argued many universit ies imitate old world models while a small body of writers including Roberts Carman Lampman Scott Johnson and Picthall defines national achievement. He warned youth lack knowledge of French Canadian writers and stressed study of Canadian history and letters to foster national self consciousness within the British commonwealth.
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Canada
Lorne Pierce
Toronto
Women’s Canadian Club
Regina
Kitchener Hotel
Pierce
French Academy
Speaker
Westminster
Paris
New York
Dr. Pierce
Charles G. D. Roberts
Bliss Carman
Archibald Lampman
Duncan Campbell Scott
Pauline Johnson
Marjorie Picthall
Bell of Victory Rings at Liverpool Seamen’s Benefit
After 122 years silence the bell from Lord Nelsons flagship Victory tolls again in 81 George's Wall Liverpool during an entertainment for seamen's institutes under British Steamship interests. Admiralty permission allowed its use, following past shipboard bells from Cutty Sark and H M S Bombay.
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Trafagar
Lord Nelson
George's Wall
Liverpool
England
Cutty Sark
H.M.S. Bombay
Old Dick the Brainiest Mine Mule Dies in Pennsylvania
The Yorktown coal mine mule Old Dick, famed as a brainy and loyal worker for over twenty years, died recently. Known for intelligence and feats such as opening latches and untying knots, he was prized at the Yorktown colliery, a blue ribbon tail of the anthracite region.
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Yorktown
Pennsylvania
British inventor unveils zombie walking stick and go cart
A British racing driver introduces a zombisation walking stick and go cart as novel inventions. The remarks compare radio’s invention to these curiosities and claim the fret loudspeaker originated from Adam's rib.
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