Confidence as the bedrock of society and self
An essay extols confidence as humanity's core asset shaping homes, businesses, communities, and nations. It warns that lost confidence undermines self, institutions, and progress while urging individuals to cultivate belief in themselves and trust in others.
Figures Show Railways Dominate Canada's Economy
Statistics reveal 66,626,000 tons of freight and 17,952,000 passengers carried by Canadian railways last year. Payroll totaled $141,078,000 to about 119,000 workers. Fuel cost 14,705,092.33 and water 893,700.04. Labour accounted for about 60 cents of each dollar. Mining products led revenue tonnage at 32.7 percent, with agricultural 23.1 and forest 12.2 percent.
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Canadian Railways
Canadian National Lines
In Bed With Neuritis Winter Remedy Claim
A woman reports three winters of neuritis confined to the hips and legs. After a first Kruschen Salts dose she avoided bed rest last winter, attributing relief to the product. The ad claims neuritis stems from impure blood and presents Kruschen as restoring internal balance.
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Wheat supply regulation urged by Sir Josiah Stamp in Montreal
Sir Josiah Stamp voiced the need for Canada and dominions to regulate wheat exports to Britain as Britain's demand stabilizes. In Montreal he spoke en route from Quebec to New York aboard a combined business and pleasure trip. He headed a royal commission on the Canadian wheat situation and warned against assuming permanent gains from U S dust storms.
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Canada
Dominions
Great Britain
Britain
Sir Josiah Stamp
Montreal
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Bank of England
Josiah
Lady Stamp
Quebec
New York
United States
Rapid Transport Flying Weekend Flight Plans Revealed
Capt. T Campbell Black plans a weekend high speed flight to Canada as the second of four proposed weekend journeys. Other trips include Capetown the Orient and an unspecified destination.
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T. Campbell Black
Canada
London
Capetown
Orient
Chlorophyll Drives Plant Energy from Sun
Chlorophyll is described as the sole mechanism by which plants convert solar energy into usable energy, enabling photosynthesis and growth.
Mount Ararat rises above sea level in 2007 Bitsua
The article notes Mount Ararat stands over three miles above sea level with historical reference to Noah landing the Ark, reflecting a geographical and historical blend in the Bitsua 2007 report.
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Mount
Ararat
Mauretania Retires After Long Record-Setting Service
The Cunard liner Mauretania, once the fastest ship in the world, has been retired after a storied career. Built at Wallsend by Swan Hunter, launched September 26, 1906, it set speeds and distance records, carried about 250,000 passengers, and served in war transporting 70,000 soldiers. Also noted: February bacon movement to Britain nearly doubled 1934, with January–February 1935 exports at 28,370,600 pounds, and Aberdeen installs its first automatic telephone.
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Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson
Wallsend
Newcastle-on-Tyne
England
Duchess of Roxburgh
Mauretania
Atlantic
West Indies
South America
Africa
Canada
Great Britain
Blind girl Lucille Lemp shines at Ontario convention
Lucille Lemp a little blind and crippled girl from Tavistock Ontario took part in the Ontario Education Association convention in Toronto. Carried on stage by her father she played harp recited her poem and typed a business letter on a Braille keyboard. She used a relief map to teach geography impressing delegates with a home instruction unit for physically handicapped children.
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Lucille Lemp
Tavistock
Ontario
Ontario Education Association
Toronto
Lucille
John K. Lemp
Ontario Department of Education
British Isles
Petrified Forest Found On Adshar Slopes Near Teflis
Professor Vinogradov of the Tiflis forestry institute announced discovery of a petrified forest dating from a prehistoric age on the slopes of the Adshar mountains in Teflis, Russia. He says trunks belong to many species and several reach gigantic proportions.
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Adshar
Teflis
Russia
Vinogradov
Old Belief About Teeth Differences Between Genders
The tale recalls Aristotle counting teeth of a housekeeper and a male servant finding the woman’s mouth had four fewer teeth. For centuries this led to the belief that men had four more teeth than women, a notion later questioned by science.
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