Manitoba Claims Provincial Rights To Public Lands
Professor Chester Martin told Kiwanis Club members at the Fort Curry Hotel that Manitoba’s fight to recover public lands from the Dominion has progressed. He cited constitutional grounds from 1870 and noted eastern provinces dropping purchase theory to support full provincial rights and potential arbitration over compensation.
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Manitoba
Dominion
Chester Martin
Kiwanis Club
Fort Curry
Elf
British Commonwealth of Nations
George Cartier
Robert Dorden
Meighen
Manitobez
King
Prairie Provinces
Martin
New Source of Radium Opens in Cornwall England
A uranium mine in Cornwall, England, once opened before the war, now has the plant and machinery to produce radium. This could add to the world supply of the costly element prized for its extraordinary power in tiny quantities. Also note Icelandic horses shod with sheep horn and Soudan stock from camel skin in the read items.
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Cornwall
England
Iceland
Soudan
Canada Claims Wrangel Island Base From Arctic Occupation
Canada asserts ownership of Wrangel Island based on eight months of 1913 occupation by Kariuk expedition survivors and a 1931 flag planting by Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s team. Britain may be named to avoid disputes with a plan to transfer to Canada, while Russia’s prior claim appears contested. The island, west of Behring Strait and north of Siberia, is valued for fur and fisheries and bears the name of Baron Wrangell.
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Wrangel Island
Canada
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Great Britain
Baron Wrangell
Russia
Saskatchewan Organizes Field Staff for 1922 Wheat Report
The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture is reorganizing its 150 field men for the 1922 wheat season. Each correspondent covers a territory to report spring seeding progress crop growth and harvesting activities. End of season yields and farm product sales are compiled for annual department reports.
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Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Feild
Save the Children Fund Urges Canadian Aid for Russian Children
A wartime appeal urges Canada to aid starving Russian children amid famine in many provinces. The Save the Children Fund lists an Ottawa office and asks subscriptions to Sir George Burn, with one dollar feeding a child for a month and five hundred dollars feeding a hundred children until harvest.
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Russia
Canada
Save the Children Fund
Elgin
Ottawa
Sir George Burn
Saskatchewan seed relief limited to deserving farmers
Field Crops Branch of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture says seed distribution will be limited this spring. Only the most deserving farmers will receive a minimum quantity to keep farms going. Regions with good 1920 crop returns will not require seed. drought areas will get help to purchase seed on lands broken or summer fallowed in 1920 and 1921, with undertakings to summer fallow and cultivate at least half the area.
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Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Saskatchewan
Buffalo Fur to be Sheared in Canada
An estimated 1000000 buffalo in captivity could yield 160000 pounds of raw fur if sheared, offering a wool substitute for blankets and clothing. While buffalo are too strong to shear like sheep, Canada plans to shear 5000 head at Wainwright, Alberta, using horse branding methods.
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Canada
Wainwright
Alberta
Scientific progress proves value of research and industry
A commentary notes that skeptics misjudge science while citing Ottawa's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. It highlights General Electric’s Schenectady lab, with over half a million annual funding and 75 investigators, producing the tungsten lamp now produced by 22 factories. The lamp saved about 3.24 billion per year in 1911 terms, and modern work has raised efficiency and use fourfold.
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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Ottawa
General Electrical Company
Schenectady
Machine records heartbeats from miles away at London hospital
At the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart in London a basement electro cardio graph records a patient’s heartbeats through wrist pads. A weak current carries the pulse to a delicate wire pointer, its motion photographed for distant recording. An expert notes telephone interference could affect results.
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National Hospital For Diseases of the Heart
London
Textile Industry in Canada 1920 Economic Overview
Canada’s ecciton textile sector in 1920 shows $92,490,000 in production value and $76,443,000 in capital investment. Employment reached 17,625 workers with wages totaling $13,960,900. Imports of raw or partly manufactured materials were $196,775,000 and exports were $2,515,000.
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Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Alberta Field Crop Values and Wheat and Oats Yields 1921
Field crop value in Alberta 1921 is listed at 125 million dollars while dairy products total 25,500.0 dollars. Wheat planted 4,649,000 acres and oats 2,139,000 acres produced 53,000,000 and 64,906,000 bushels respectively.
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Alberta
Wedding Notice Skips Bride’s Gown Description
A newspaper wedding notice outlines the event while omitting details about the bride’s gown. The focus remains on the couple, officiant, date, and venue, with no attire description provided.
Asia Accounts For One Third Of World Land Surface
The assertion states that Asia makes up one third of the Earth's total land area. It implies a broad continental proportion without detailing sources or measurements.
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Asia
The Cammit from a Boy’s Essay
The cammit is a desert sheep that stays calm yet raises its back when provoked. It travels long journeys and drinks water to last many days, a trait noted by the author.
Alberta’s Multiplex Telephone Network Linked Wide Regions
Alberta Government Telephone links nearly one thousand cities towns villages and hamlets with total system assets of twenty three million dollars. The Calgary Edmonton line harnesses multiplex telephony, first in Canada and fifth in the world, enabling three conversations simultaneously over the same pair of wires.
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Alberta
Calgary
Edmonton
Canada
First Idaho Cabin Built in 1806
The historic note records that the first cabin in Idaho was constructed in 1806 marking an early settler milestone.
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Idaho
Literacy in Britain at Victoria’s Accession
When Queen Victoria ascended the throne literacy was low with not more than forty percent of Britons able to write their names. The remark highlights widespread illiteracy during the era of Britain’s early 19th century reign.
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Queen Victoria
Great Britain
MacCrae recalls forming the 43rd Battery in wartime
In Guelph Col. David MacCrae recounts going to Ottawa to raise a field artillery unit. He was told by Gen Sir Sam Hughes he could try to raise a battery. The 43rd Battery thus came into existence after that decisive exchange.
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Guelph
David MacCrae
Sam Hughes
U:3 Swiftest
Militia
Col. MacCrae
43Rd
Toronto Star
Wisconsin bans serving frogs legs in March and April
A news note states it is illegal to serve frogs legs in Wisconsin during March and April, outlining the seasonal prohibition and its legal basis.
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Wisconsin
Canadians Urged to Find Uses for Helium Gas
Canadian scientists warn helium wasted daily as it escapes from natural gas. They urge peacetime uses to unlock potential profits and position Canada as a major producer, noting past airship reliance on helium and citing national science funding.
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U.S
Canada
Research Council
Western
Hull
United States
Roma
Atlantic
Brandon Sun
Queen Victoria Letters to Chronicle World Politics Rise
British history notes that King Edward has ordered publication via John Murray of a new series of Queen Victoria letters. The volumes cover 1861 onward, during Prussian rise and Hohenzollern self-assertion, with Gladstone and Disraeli as prime ministers shaping policy during wartime. The letters promise insight into domestic and global politics.
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John Murray
Queen Victoria
Edward
Prince Consort
Prussia
German Empire
Gladstone
Pisraeli
Swindled Sam Finds a Diamond Pin on Holiday
A farmer returns from London with a scarf pin containing a large diamond. Sam boasts of its beauty and dismisses questions about its value. His employer asks if the diamond is real, and Sam quips that if it isn’t he has lost five shillings.
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Sam
London
Quartz Mine Sold in Vancouver Deal
One of winter’s largest mining agreements sees J Trethewey and associates secure the Taylor claim on Iron Creek in the Lillooet District for 225000 dollars. The quartz proposition joins their mining interests.
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Vancouver
J. Tretheway
Honey of Euphrates banks described as intoxicating
Report notes honey gathered along the Euphrates banks possesses an intoxicating quality. The remark suggests unusual strength or effect of the honey as observed by locals.
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Euphrates
Historical roots of tennis and botany note
The text explains the origin of tennis once being called bandy and clarifies that tapping pine trees for turpentine does not harm the Wood of the tree, offering a linguistic and botanical aside.
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Behring Straits
Siberia
Russla
Nansen
Machine Records
National Hospital
Textile
the “Cammit
Sir Sam Hughes
Victoria
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