Little Things That Cost Canada Millions
A Canadian editorial argues neglect of small details leads to large losses in farming, postal waste, weed control, and fire safety. It cites Saskatchewan potato grading lapses, misaddressed mail, weed pests, and careless handling of matches and guns as preventable drains on resources and lives. The piece laments a trend toward ignoring tiny yet costly missteps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheat Board
Saskatchewan
Post Office
Post Offices
Canada
Drake University Astronomer Announces New Star Discovery
Dr. D. W. Morehouse acting president of Drake University and noted astronomer announces the discovery of a new star labeled 6b. The star was first exposed on April in a photographic plate and has since shown developing nebulosity, described as a rare astronomical phenomenon.
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D. W. Morehouse
Drake University
Father Youngster Thunder Hearing Riddle
A brief item notes a joke where a father asks about a man who cannot hear the thunder. The youngster clarifies the sound is not thunder, implying a humorous misunderstanding in Pearson's Weekly.
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Pather
Pearson's Weekly
Wireless pirates face penalties under 1904 act
The British government accuses wireless pirates of using unauthorized receiver sets without licenses. Offenders violate the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1904 and may be fined up to 1090 pounds and jailed for as long as 12 months.
Caution Go Siow Hie Why Do Blushes Creep
A fragment from a humorous dialogue notes why blushes appear on girls faces as a parakeet observes behavior. It questions modesty and reactions in a playful classroom style with brief comic exchanges.
Anglo American ties steady despite occasional sparks
The Sulgrave Institution reports relations are distinctively less friendly though fundamentals remain strong. Both nations have long trusted arbitration during disputes and view war as morally outlawed, with tempers and public rhetoric likely to rise and fall.
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Sulgrave Institution
United States
Dr Hamilton's Pills Offer Quick Relief for Women
Promotional notice claims Dr Hamilton's Pills quickly ease ailments described as feminine in origin. It asserts back and side pain, shortness of breath, and poor color improve, congestion and pain are prevented, and health returns, urging purchase for 25c at all dealers.
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Dr. Hamilton
Great Aerial Pullman Aims to Run on Rail Then Fly
British authorities inspect a concept for a slim metal air coach resembling a long Pullman car. It would operate on railway tracks with wheel rails and be backed into stations for passengers. At an aerodrome it would tilt, detach rail wheels, and bolt onto pneumatic airplane chassis to become an airplane in minutes.
Would Not Be Without Babys Own Tablets
A mother from Beausejour Quebec praises Baby's Own Tablets as an ideal home remedy free from opiates. The product, said to aid constipation indigestion colic and fevers, is sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
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Ernest Gagne
Beausejour
What No One Knows About Endurance Contests
Professor Dunlap of Johns Hopkins asks about the psychology of participants in endurance dancing and other contest events. He questions why people partake in fat men races, pie eating, amateur theatricals, or college athletics, suggesting psychology may become truly interesting.
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Dunlap
Johns Hopkins
Providence Journal
Rogues Are Found Out In Time Fontaines Quotation
A quotation attributes universal detection of rogues to a Fontaine line, then mentions Minard's Liniment claimed to ease aches and pains. The snippet blends aphorism with an ad-like reference to a medicinal product.
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Fontaine
Catarrhozone Promises Quick Relief for Colds and Catarrh
The notice touts CATARRHOZONE as a fast acting remedy to drive colds and catarrh from the system. It claims to reach the source of catarrh in the nose and throat, stop discharges, clear nostrils, and relieve headaches and breath. Available in months and small sizes from The Catarrhozone Co Montreal.
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Mall
Catarrhozone Co
Montreal
Prairie Elevator Boom Drives Big Build Season
Prairie provinces plan 200 plus country elevators this spring and summer with about 2.25 million dollars in lumber costs and six million dollars for head of the lakes terminal enlargements. Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator to add two new elevators as Winnipeg builders report orders in hand.
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Prairie Provinces
Winnipeg
Prairies
Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company
Simple Kidney Pills Testimonial From Pointe Bleue
A reader from Pointe Bleue Quebec reports relief from kidney trouble after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says he could not walk before, but is now well and urges others with kidney issues to try the remedy. The piece presents a straightforward endorsement as proof of relief.
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Louis Cleary
Dodd
Leary
Bright
Your Teeth Care For Children Dentifrice Guide
A dental health notice stresses early care to prevent decay. It advocates brushing twice daily with a clean brush and mild toothpaste, cleaning all tooth surfaces including tongue and cheeks, rinsing, and drying brushes separately. It warns against medicated dentifrices for children and emphasizes proper brushing technique.
Rural Saskatchewan Phones Expand With 500 Miles of Lines
Saskatchewan plans about five hundred miles of rural telephone extensions and around five hundred new subscribers by end of 1923. The year’s programme focuses on expanding existing rural networks, with forty extension applications approved and two new companies formed plus a reorganization.
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Saskatchewan
Department of Telephones
Wireless replaces signal gun on English coast lightships
Trinity House authorities in charge of lightships and lighthouses around the English coast decide to fit all important lightships with wireless apparatus, displacing the signal gun long used to call lifeboats or warn ships of danger.
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Trinity House
Ontario Honey Producers Co operative grows to vast output
Ontario beekeepers nearly 190 hold shares in the Ontario Honey Producers' Co operative Limited. The company now controls an output between three and four million pounds of honey, accounting for almost half of the province's honey crop.
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Ontario
Aerial chase halts French gold smuggling car
An airline armed with a machine gun pursued a car loaded with gold, smuggling out of France toward Baghdad. The car occupants abandoned their vehicle and hid among rocks as the plane encircled them until police and customs officers arrived to arrest them.
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France
Damascus
Baghdad
Not Sick For Four Years After Taniac Cure
Mrs. Thomas Smith of Toronto testi es that after four years without illness she stopped stomach pain heartburn and insomnia following Taniac treatment. She says the medicine restored her health and many neighbors on McGee Street praise it. Tanlac is sold by reputable druggists with Accent no substitute and has sold over 7 million bottles.
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Taniac
Thamas Smith
Mc-Gee St
Toronto
Ont
McGee Street
Radio and Fish Installations Aimed at Mackerel Schools
The Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries announces radio broadcasting equipment aboard Marine Department vessels to track mackerel schools. Information will be sent by radio-telegraph and radio-telephone so inshore fishermen with receivers can follow moving mackerel and act accordingly.
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Marine Department
Department of Marine and Fisheries
The Postage Stump Secret to Success
A concise principle is offered: focus relentlessly on a single goal until achieving it. The idea emphasizes steadfast persistence and uninterrupted effort as the path to success.
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Parrakeet
McClure
Nororee
Dr. Chase
Edmanson, Bates & Co
Toromo
N.Y
Minard
MR. Cleary
John Foster
Mrs. Smith
Castoria
Crown Tailoring Co., Limited
College St
Toronto, Ont
ST. Charles Milk
the Borden Co. Limited
Wrigley’s
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