Captain Blood Faces Miss Bishop on Port Royal Ambition
In Tortuga and Port Royal Captain Blood, now in the Jamaica squadron, confronts Miss Bishop as he returns from sea. A note from the Deputy-Governor summons him ashore where tension with Bishop and the Bishop household deepens. Blood recalls past loyalties, defends his actions, and clashes over a girl and a deadly history.
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Bishop
Blood
Lord Julian
Colonel Bishop
Port Royal
Jamaica
Tortuga
Captain Blood
Trifler
St. James's
Julian Wade
Captain Blood Rose
Jeremy Pitt
Wolverstone
Pitt
White House
Woman Recovers Nerves After Pinkham Beetroot? No, after Vegetable Compound
Chatham Ontario woman describes severe nerve weakness after childbirth born Sept 4, 1922. After four bottles of Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports regained ability to do housework and washing and to stay alone without fear. She plans to continue treatment and offers to correspond with other women.
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Chatham
Ontario
Pinkham
Timomial Ll
Coron
Forsythe Street
Carson
Oil on Stormy Seas Cuts Through Rough Waters
The British admiralty advises on oil use to calm stormy seas. It notes that a small amount, about a pint per hour, can create a protective oily film around a vessel traveling ten knots. The effect is strongest in deep water, reducing wave action and improving safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Admiralty
Picture May Be Worth a Million Velasquez Discovery
Mrs. Stuart Livingstone of Vancouver owned a painting showing two troubadours in a drinking pose. She lent the work to Sig Nor Farina, a Velasquez expert, for examination and he declared it genuine and possibly worth a million dollars. It was bought in Winnipeg about four decades ago for seven dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Livingstone
Vancouver
Farina
Velasquez
Winnipes
Average Family Of Five Poverty Line Comment
An Ottawa Journal remark questions where the average family of five fits the labor department’s figures. It notes that if a family of five lived on $21 weekly, the so called poverty line would erase ambition and dull the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Department
Ottawa Journal
First Reading on Amend Canned Foods Act Changes Sale by Weight
A bill amending the Meat and Canned Foods Act was introduced in the House of Comments. It would require meat and canned foods excluding salmon to be sold by weight rather than cubic content.
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House of Comments
Trinidad Pitch Lake Depleting Yet Production Remains High
Popular Mechanics reports Lake Pitch in Trinidad has dropped fifteen feet since discovery despite about 4,000,000 tons of material removed. Railborne extraction feeds the diggers as surface holes refill daily and 106,000 tons are drawn yearly. The 116 acre deposit depth is unmeasured. In another note Basil Hall challenges hereditary cancer theory, proposing a parasite as a cause.
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Trinidad
Pitch Lake
Basil Hall
Bradford
England
Ontario Medical Association
Toronto
Hall
Carter's Little Liver Pills Tames Bad Breath
A New York City man, John A. Perry, credits Carter's Little Liver Pills with erasing his habitual bad breath and sour stomach. The pills are touted to ease constipation, headaches, and indigestion, and are sold by drug stores nationwide.
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Carter
John A. Perry
New York City
Preferred To Remain Unknown Hofmann’s Benefactor Revealed
Josef Hofmann discloses that Alfred Corning Clark funded his music education. Clark, a wealthy New Yorker, gave fifty thousand dollars to study with Anton Rubinstein while requesting his name be kept confidential. Hofmann recalls Clark in Berlin and England, while noting the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened when he was ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josef Hofmann
Alfred Corning Clark
Hofmann
Berlin
England
New York World
Occupation An Aid To Health In Nelsons Fleet
In a two month long voyage with 7000 to 8000 sailors at sea, no deaths from sickness were recorded. The author credits not only the crew’s surroundings but also constant mental stimulus through occupation and amusements, which kept faculties engaged and countered monotony.
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Nelson
Mahan
Eye rays move instruments thirty degrees says Dr. Russ
After experiments Dr Russ reports the human eye emits a magnetic ray capable of moving a sensitive instrument at distance. The movement is near instantaneous and may reach thirty degrees on the compass. He claims the body is not magnetic but an electrical force generated in the brain escapes through the eyes during sight.
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Russ
Dr. Russ
Canada Sees Rise in Liquor Output During 1924
Canadian distilleries produced 4,411,896 proof gallons of spirits in fiscal 1924, up from 3,828,879 in 1923. The increase reflects growing output in the hard liquor sector across Canada.
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Canada
When an Old Man Proposes to a Girl
An old man proposes and frames the act as his duty to lay bare his heart and his cheque-book before the woman, underscoring wealth as a measure of commitment in courtship.
Golden Rule as Measure of Men's Conduct
A brief reflection notes that many use the golden rule to judge how others behave. It argues the standard reveals character and daily actions, implying consistency between belief and deed.
Keeping the Peace By Readiness to Fight for Peace
The London Morning Post argues deterrence by preparation. power to hurt an enemy preserves peace. It asserts nations should declare willingness to use force, warning anxious isolation risks losing peace and security.
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France
London Morning Post
Make Care of Babies Easier Baby's Own Tablets
Stomach disturbances and constipation cause much irritability in babies. A gentle laxative to sweeten the stomach and regulate the bowels is suggested. Baby's Own Tablets are claimed to be opiate-free and effective. Mrs Jos Tousaignant of Ste Sophie Quebec endorses them. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Wilmans Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Jos
Ste. Sophie
Dr. Wil- Mans Medicine Co
Brockylile
Ont
Lincoln Works for Farmer After Damaged Library Book
The text notes Abraham Lincoln avoided punishment by working for a farmer after damaging a borrowed book and lacking funds to pay for it. It adds a moral about greatness arising from attention to small duties.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Rafael Sabatini
Areron
Vitagraph
J. Warren Kerrigag
Barbadoes
Mademoiselle d'Ogeron
Peter Blood
Jenethan
Julian
Levasseur
Bridgetown
Mary ‘Traill
Lydia E. Pinkhar
Big Ben Black Plug Chewing Tobacco
Stag Bright Plug Chewing Tobacco
Pay Roll
Bright Plug Chewing Tobacco
Piper Heidsieck
Trinidad’s Lake of
New York
Lord Nelson
Armco
SMP
Enoneer Meat Products
Montreal
Winnipeg
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