New C N R Branch Lines Proposed This Year Alberta
The Minister of Railways asks Parliament to authorize sixty eight miles of new CN lines in Alberta. A Bretona to Edmonton cutoff of eleven miles would shorten freight routes, improve access to southern lands, and cut travel time for passengers from Edmonton to South Edmonton. Other proposed lines include a Spruce Lake to westward branch, and a Ashmont to Bonnyville line of thirty eight miles, to spur colonization and development in northern and eastern Alberta with substantial lands awaiting development amid favorable precipitation for grain and mixed farming.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Camrose
North Saskatchewan River
Cros
Flk
North Saskatchewan
Spruce Lake
Saskatchewan
South Edmonton
Ashmont
Bonnyville
Cold Lake District
Cooperative dairies dominate Denmark's dairy sector
Danish Tidende reports only 260 of Denmark's 1600 dairies are individually owned with the rest as cooperatives. About 1600 dairies, over a third of butter exports come from cooperative associations. The British Co operative Wholesale Society has Denmark export operations. Also notes twins born to English parents in India match in all details including fingerprints. both now studying law in England.
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Denmark
Cooperative Dairies
Tidende
British Co Operative Wholesale Society
Britain
India
England
Improvement in Hog Breeding and Market Demand
The Dominion Live Stock Branch reports strong progress in hog breeding in Quebec. Hog grading demonstrations persuade farmers of bacon hog suitability for domestic and export trade, with swine clubs proving educational. Commission agents and packing firms praise field work, noting higher quality hogs and about $1.00 per hundredweight gain in average stock value.
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Dominion Live Stock
Quebec
Ruling Monarch Can Revoke Victoria Cross
The sovereign alone can revoke or restore a Victoria Cross and its pension. A VC recipient may be punished for treason or other crimes, or have the award restored at the sovereign’s will. Notable cases include Private J O Hea and the Gough family with multiple crosses.
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Godler
Prince of Wales
V.C
Queen Victoria
Sebastopol
Dominions
J. O'Hea
Rifle Brigade
Canada
O’hea
Danville
Lord Roberts
Lieut. Roberts
K.R R.C
Colenso
Gough
J.S. Gough
H. K. Gough
J. E. Gough
Punishing Boy Sparks Warning Note from Pike County Parent
A Pike County woman wrote to a teacher authorizing corporal punishment for her son Sammy, comparing him to his father and instructing the teacher to use a club as needed. In class, a perceptive student answered a food preservation question with “Isolation,” highlighting the lesson about safe methods.
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Pike County
Whippin
Sammy
Lope de Vega the Incredible Spaniard Master Playwright
The text notes Lope de Vega as the incredible Spaniard who produced about 1800 worldly plays and 400 religious works, highlighting his prolific output across genres.
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Lope de Vega
Winnipeg pattern slip over blouse and skirt set
Advertises a chic slip over blouse design with round neck turning to V front and two views with braid trim or button adornment. Includes sizes 16 to 20 years, yardage for 36 and 54 inch fabrics, and transfer designs. Also shows a box plait skirt with camisole top and pattern No 1341 with yardage details. Our Fashion Book offered at 10 cents.
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Price
How To Order Patterns Address Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Pattern ordering guide lists organization at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg with pattern number nasanete and size details. It specifies town name fields and emphasizes contact routing through the Winnipeg union.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Banff Winder Mere Highway Tour Through Canadian Rockies
A motor journey along the Banff Winder Mere highway can be completed in a day though the heart of the Canadian Rockies. The route offers rest camps camping grounds bungalow camps and service stations to accommodate travelers seeking a longer survey. London taxation shifts favor back to horses as a firm gains sixty horses postwar while replacing motor vehicles.
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Banff-Windermere
Canadian Rockies
London
Remarkable Skating Feat At Banff Winter Carnival
A skating stunt at the Banff Springs Hotel Rink during the Winter Carnival drew wide comment. The Banff Carnival proved a great success and the town is poised to become a premier western amusement resort with the hotel’s new wing and a thriving winter season.
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Banff Springs Hotel
Banff
Viscount Grey on the British Character and Empire
Viscount Grey discusses how the British Isles' small size belied their influence in world history and how climate, isolation, and race built an unprecedented empire. He credits the island's order, practicality, and adventurous stock for collective success and warns against excessive imagination without restraint.
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Viscount Grey
British Isles
Auto Competition Not Diminishing Manitoba Horses
Manitoba statistics show over 260000 horses in the province with earlier growth, and Winnipeg still depends on horse delivery. More than 700 light delivery and 500 dray horses serve the city, valued for winter readiness and suburban deliveries. The piece notes a shift in power and order in society, with emphasis on liberty, national character, and practical progress alongside continued reliance on horses for commerce.
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Manitoba
Dobbin
Winnipeg
Could Not Be Done
An old countryman returns from London upset about a hotel light kept on all night. He jokes with his wife about blowing it out and learns the punchline about a bottle. The scene shifts to a comic exchange about names and a drug store, ending with a quip on Babylonian merchants and old problems.
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London
American businessman makes Atlantic wireless call record in London
John W. Harrigan, an American staying at the Savoy Hotel in London, spoke twice across the Atlantic on the wireless telephone within two hours. The two calls cost 700 dollars. The Savoy has New York, Pennsylvania, Maine and Connecticut directories in every room and a second listening instrument for better audibility. On average about six calls daily to New York originate from the Savoy with a dedicated line to the American service switchboard.
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New York
John W. Harrigan
London
Atlantic
inLondon
Savoy
Pennsylvania
Maine
Connecticut
Witchboard
The African Chaperone and Come Out Customs
The article describes betrothal in infancy among various African and Asiatic groups. Girls were kept hidden until ready for marriage, then presented to warriors with an elder woman guarding them. On reaching a certain age they would "come out" into society and be married, a practice survivors in modern chaperone duties and coming out celebrations.
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Athabaska
St Alber
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Calgary
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Fashmont
Elk Poiritoy
Pegreville
Profiele
Wainwright
Hann
Alliance
Hemaruke
C.N.R
Acadia Valley
Stoneville
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Nasanete
Banff-Windermere Highway
Cess
Europe
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Rose
Violet
Pansy
Savoy Hotel
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