Canada needs more people to pay national debts
The Toronto Mail and Empire argues that Canada must attract additional population via selective immigration to expand its labor force and markets. With ten million current residents, a larger population would ease debts, finance railways, and boost industries, pulp mills, and agriculture while awaiting favorable world conditions and Ottawa talks on intra Empire migration.
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Dominion
Canada
Ottawa
J. H. Thomas
Dominions
W. A. Gordon
Toronto Mail and Empire
Right Up-To-Date Bobby Short of Money
A humorous exchange shows Bobby asking his father for work and the father’s hesitation turning into a joke about the dole. A quip on business is a wheelbarrow that only moves when pushed. The dialogue ends with the line about attempting to strike and the charge of attempted death by one’s own action from Gemutliche Sachse Leipzig.
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Bobby
Gemutliche Sachse
Leipzig
Not As Pictured Lords Honor War Dead Memorial
St. Thomas Times-Journal notes the Prince of Wales unveiling a Memorial in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords to 245 peers who died in World War I. The piece argues these peers and their sons showed sturdy patriotism despite earlier anti Lords sentiment.
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Prince of Wales
Royal Gallery
House of Lords
Lloyd George
Britain
St. Thomas
Beans Make Good Crop At Lethbridge Station
The Dominion Experimental Station at Lethbridge Alberta notes rising interest in field beans across western Canada especially irrigated areas. Western cities have relied on imports from Japan the United States and Eastern Canada. Lethbridge uses about six carloads of 30000 pounds annually. Beans need a long season and early planting to avoid fall frost. Small white varieties suit market demand. overfertile land heavy irrigation thin seeding and wide row spacing slow growth.
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Dominion
Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada
Japan
United States
Vancouver Harbor Board Eyes 100000-Box Apple Cool Room
The Vancouver Harbor Board considers plans to build a cool room at a pier with capacity for 100000 boxes of apples to aid the export apple crop from the Okanagan.
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Vancouver Harbor Board
Okanagan
Modern child dress pattern from Aron’s latest catalog
The article describes a child’s dress ensemble with a caped collar skirt bolero jacket in deep blue check wool, a linen blouse in orange red, and optional linen frocks in pink or French blue. Style No. 857 fits sizes 6 8 10 12, with fabric yardage and a 25 cent pattern price.
Patterns Order Notice From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Winnipeg Pattern No. Name on a Size Town Life is worth living better than most men live it. The notice appears in the Winnipeg newspaper union address at 175 McDermot Ave.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Radial rings reveal tree age and historic droughts
The Regina Leader notes how tree ring width records past drought years in western Canada, citing L B Powell and A E Douglass. It explains that wide rings indicate moisture abundance while narrow rings mark dry years, with examples from Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
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L. B. Powell
Weyburn
Regina
Saskatchewan
A. E. Douglass
Tucson
Arizona
New Mexico
Rockefeller Foundation
British Columbia
Canadian Humor in Stevenson Critique
Lionel Stevenson notes Canadian humor differs from American and English forms. It aligns with Scottish whimsy in Barrie but is more action oriented and good natured. The style blends cheerfulness with an eye for the absurd, steering clear of crudity and sentimentality.
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Lionel Stevenson
Barrie
Color attracts butterflies in garden color tests
Popular Mechanic Magazine notes German tests with paper and real flowers showing butterflies settle on various colors. Insects displayed species specific preferences such as yellow and blue or blue and purple, while green attracted none.
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Popular Mechanic Magazine
Germany
New German Deep Sea Egg Shaped Diving Apparatus
A German invention improves deep water work reaching depths beyond 10 000 feet. The egg shaped device uses a metal shell and automatically adjusts interior air pressure by vaporizing liquid air to resist high water pressure.
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Germany
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Aron
Reichenzeiger
Europe
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Belgium
Holland
Spain
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Finland
Hungary
Esthenia
Roumania
Lithuania
von Hindenburg
Guards Regiment
Berlin
Oberst
von Tiedemann
von Hammmerstein
Sas
Madria
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