World Happenings Briefly Told
Prices Nicholas the nineteenth, son of the King of Rumiania, signs by a told plan in the British navy. A Moscow district court judge presides over a trial sentencing seven to death. Canadian Wheat Board Act extended to July fifteenth, 1924. Fire destroys two rooms at Thorpe Hall, Essex, home of the Vimy Gioverno general.
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Prices Nicholas
Rumiania
Moscow
Canadian Wheat Board
Unti
Thorpe Hall
Thorpe-le-Soken
Essex
Paronivng
Vimy
Gioverno
Canada
Have You A Daconter and Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription
An advertisement praises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a health drink for women and run-down people. Mrs. Sarah Wilshaw testifies its benefits for her family, including expectant mothers and a granddaughter, urging readers to buy at a drug store or mail for samples.
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Dr. Pierce
Dieter Pierce
Sarah Wilshaw
Cannon St. E Geo
Briegeburg
Gigantic Raisin Day Parade Honors Miss Girard in Freene
A vast eight mile Raisin Day Parade inaugurated Fresno Calif April 26 marking the Gfteenth annual celebration. Nearly every community civic and military group in the raisin district participated with floats costing over 60000 and trophies awarded for top entries. The queen was Miss Marie Girard from Selano Kern County California.
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Fresno
Cal
Raisin District
Garden of Eden
New Orleans
Marie Girard
California
Selano
Kern County
New Ruisia
Catarrhozone Promotes Throat Relief Claims
An old advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a cold remedy for sore throats and chronic catarrh. It claims the product draws inflammation from the throat and lungs, eases coughing, and kills germs, offering a 50 cent small size from The Catarrhozone Co Montreal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catarrhozone Co
Montreal
Oil of Merit Dr Thomas Ejectyie Oil Claim
The advertisement extols Oil of Merit as a carefully investigated healing oil. It claims wet rope strength contrasts with dry and oily conditions to illustrate the oil’s restorative powers for the human body and asserts it has earned lasting public favor through proven benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Seed Control Act Amended to Expand Seed Grading
Parliament moves to broaden compulsory grading under the Seed Control Act administered by Ottawa. The bill, after a second reading in the House of Commons, extends mandatory grading to all grass and clover seeds and adds crops including flax, millet, wheat and others with optional grading for field roots and garden seeds. Farm-sold seed remains exempt unless sold off the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Agricultural Committee
House of Commons
Radio amateurs relay across Canada in 23 minutes
A three night series of amateur tests relayed a message coast to coast via Canadian stations. The relay from Ball Montreal to Reeves Duncan Vancouver Island and back completed in 23 minutes, according to a telegram to the American Radio Relay League headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Radio Relay League
Ball
Montreal
W. F. Reeves
Duncan
Vancouver Island
Raisin Cake Recipe for the Busy Homemaker
A household hints snippet provides a raisin cake recipe with butter sugar eggs milk and raisins. It offers variations using baking powder or soda and tartar, plus Sun-Maid raisins and graham flour. Instructions include mixing, baking times, and a loaf yield for a moderate oven.
Baby's Own Tablets Offered as Home Remedy
A health ad urges owners to keep Baby's Own Tablets for children detailing benefits for digestion, bowels, and colds. Mrs. Moise Cadotte of Makamik Que endorses the product, claiming it cured her baby's indigestion and vomiting. Sold by dealers or mail order for 25c per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Juldhood
Moise Cadotte
Makamik
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockilte, Ont
Meteors and Mother Graves in a Curious Ledger
Not less than 26 million meteors enter the atmosphere daily, visible as shooting stars. The text mentions Mother Graves Worm Exterminator and a congregation's practice of reciting Psalm 23 with Mrs. Armstrong keeping a dozen words ahead, while a waiter asks who was the lady ready by still waiters in a green pasture scene.
Manitoba Poultry Improvement Program Introduced
The Poultry Division of the Dominion Livestock Branch establishes the Manitoba Approved Flocks to standardize flocks and develop high quality heavy laying stock. A pamphlet by A C McCulloch outlines rules, breeder selection, culling, sale of surplus stock, free reporting forms, and emphasis on specialized varieties and the Record of Performance system.
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Manitoba
Dominion Livestock Branch
A. C. McCulloch
Freezone Claim for Instant Corn Relief
An ad-style claim promotes Freezone to stop corn pain instantly and allow removal with fingers. It credits a druggist with a small bottle sold for a few cents, effective on hard and soft corns and between the toes without soreness.
Innovation Pleases Dealers In Alberta Fish Packing Breakthrough
The McLinnis Wish Company leads in Alberta with three sized packed fish to ease weight selection for buyers. Signals from Chicago show strong dealer approval of the new system, adopted last winter on the Buffalo Lake ice. Also notes worm remedies, Oberhof’s long slide, King Arthur legend, forest needs for telegraph lines, and a Stratford Beacon quip.
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McLinnis Wish Company
Alberta
Buffalo Lake
Chicago
United States
Wedding Gift Vase From Wanamaker Reaches Duke of York
Colonel William E. Wood, representing Rodman Wanamaker of New York, presented a 35 inch high massive silver vase to the Duke of York at Buckingham Palace. The vase features hand bas ed festoons of oak leaves and carved ion heads on the upper portion, acanthus leaves at the base, and stands on four claw feet.
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Wiliam E. Wood
Rodman Wanamaker
New York
Duke of York
Buckingham Palace
Colonel Wood
Mr. Wanamaker
New Building Material From Castor Oil Residue Tiles Bricks
A recently discovered method converts castor oil bean residue, formerly waste, into interior building tiles and bricks. Through compression the waste becomes a light tough warm flooring option, costing nearly as much as stone tiles and resembling polished stone in appearance.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure catarrh and deafness
An advertisement explains Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood action liquid that reduces inflammation and restores normal conditions. It also notes free circulars from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. The page adds a note about seeds carried by migrating birds and cites Darwin on soil samples from bird feet yielding many plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HALL
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Darwin
Dominion trade rises $216,000,000 this fiscal year
The total trade of the Dominion for eleven months of the current fiscal year shows an increase of 216 million dollars over the same period last year, signaling stronger commerce.
Noble memorial stone laid for Zeebrugge raid memory
The Governor of West Flanders and a distinguished Anglo-Belgian group laid the foundation stone for a granite 70 foot memorial near the Mole. The column will bear St. George, inscriptions, and names of British casualties and participating warships. The ceremony praised the raid as a brilliant naval feat.
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Zeebrugge
West Flanders
Roger Keys
Lord Burnham
Lord Emmett
George Graham
Mole
St. George
England
United For Justice
Unfit to Live Must Die Corn Remover Ad
An old advertising claim touts Putnam's Extractors for corns and warts. The copy asserts the remedy never fails and emphasizes a 25 cent price at dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam's
Putnam’s
Tar Sand Binder Lets Mc Murray Sands Improve Briquettes
The University of Alberta Research Department reports a definite use for McMurray tar sands as a binder for coal briquettes. Under Prof. Edgar Stansfield, a series of experiments have progressed to finished product demonstration, as noted in the Edmonton Bulletin.
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University of Alberta
McMurray
University
Edgar Stansfield
Edmonton Bulletin
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Uticura
Canadian Depot. Limited
St. Post Sc. W
Poperinghe
Belgium
Saskatchewan
Mee
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Japan
Dominions
Isis
South Africa
Fort of
Derby
Etampes
France
Freene
China
Shanghai
Minard
Oberhof
Phuringa
Thuringia Forest
Cornwall
Arthur
Dominion
Stratford Beacon
Duke
Wanamaker
AIN Minard
Minard's Liniment
Crown Brand
THE
Canada Starch CO. Limited
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