Canada Western farms urged new land payment plan
President Beatty announces CPR offer to cancel existing land agreements with about 30 000 Western farmers and replace them with new 34 year payments leading to title. Policy aims to keep settlers contented and support cooperative marketing to offset U S tariffs while urging renewed reciprocity with the United States and expanding immigration.
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Beatty
CPR
Canodes Greases
Fieers
The
PLA
Trans-Pacific Cable Linked Canada to Australia and NZ
The project required vast time and expense with the cable's manufacture and a massive cable laying steamer built for the task. The longest single span is 3 560 miles from Vancouver Island to Fanning Island, with total length near 8 000 miles. The route touches Fiji and Norfolk Islands, reaches Australia near Brisbane, and continues to New Zealand.
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Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Vancouver Island
Fanning Island
Mid Pacific
Equator
Fiji Islands
Norfolk Island
Brisbane
Grain Shipments from Edmonton Top Five Million Bushels
Dominion Grain Inspector reports westward shipments from Edmonton to Vancouver exceed five million bushels this season, surpassing last year by 2,225,000 bushels. The total indicates stronger grain movement through the westward route.
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Edmonton
Vancouver
Dominion Grain Inspector
Chicago man who jumped bail in 1912 lands in jail
A Chicago man who fled after posting bail in 1912 has finally been captured and brought to jail, ending a long flight from justice. The case marks one of the era’s most enduring manhunts as authorities confirm his custody.
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Chicago
Encouraging the Land in a Field of Anguish
Two clerical friends travel through a stony gravelly farm region and meet a farmer ploughing thin soil. One asks why he tills such harsh ground and the farmer replies he tills to encourage it and to see what is on the other side. Source: Harper's Magazine.
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Harper
Magaazine
Alberta Farm Youth Training Week Announced
The fifth annual university week for farm youth in Alberta will occur this month. Space is available for 200 boys and 156 girls aged 16 to 25 from farms. The six day programme will cover several lines with instruction in agriculture and related fields.
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Alberta
Joint Stiffness Goes Swellings Disappear Pain Subdued
A promotional medical claim notes rapid relief as stiffness fades and swellings diminish with a liniment praised for universal satisfaction. The copy implies wide efficacy and lasting comfort from the remedy.
Nerviline Promises Quick Pain Relief for Common Aches
The advertisement touts Nerviline as having strong penetrating power to reduce swelling and inflammation. It claims fast action through tissues providing warm relief, with pain reducing effects for rheumatism lumbago neuralgia and other minor pains, priced at 35 cents at dealers.
Alpine Resort Work Begins On Grouse Mountain North Vancouver
Construction starts on the Alpine resort project atop Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver. The plan allocates 2.56 million dollars to build a chalet wagon road motor road and hotel with a 100000 dollar property expenditure due within two years. The hotel will be accessible to the city and support winter sports including turboganning snowshoeing and skiing with a large parking area planned.
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Grouse Mountain
Vancouver
Have You Any Of These Symptoms
Aimed at restoring health with Dr Williams Pink Pills the ad cites pale fatigue nervousness poor appetite and disturbed sleep. It features Horace Cuphill of Woodwards Cove NB praising the pills after initial poor relief and eventual recovery, noting lasting benefits and occasional use thereafter. The pills are sold by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont 40 cents a box.
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Williams
Horace Cuphill
Woodward's Cove
N.B
Oy Mall
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Russia Tax Law Targets Merchants Amid Scarcity
A new Russian income tax sets below 1.35 billion rubles monthly as untaxed. Tax starts at six percent above that line and rises quickly. Anyone earning over roughly one hundred dollars Canadian per month must pay eighty percent of the excess, targeting merchants and speculators profiting from shortages.
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Jist
Russia
Manitoba Dairy Production Sees Record Year
The Dairy Commissioner of Manitoba reports the past year set a record for dairy output. In 1922 the total value of dairy products reached about 12,404,223 dollars. Creamery butter from 44 creameries totaled 10,559,601 pounds, up 2,009,495 pounds from 1921, with creameries selling for 3,695,864 dollars.
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Manitoba
Dairy Commissioner of
Winnipeg Colonel Ships 2 Year Old Steer to Britain
Col. H. A. Mullins of Winnipeg purchased a two year old shorthorn steer weighing 1,449 pounds. He plans to send it overseas to be shown at principal livestock centres in Great Britain, illustrating Western Canada’s cattle potential.
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Western
Canada
Col
H. A. Mullins
Winnipeg
Great Britain
Fortune teller lacks faith as she predicts marriage to wealth
A skeptical gtr doubts a fortune teller who fails to forecast that she will marry rich. The remark highlights disbelief in predictions and wealth-based outcomes.
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Gtr
Forest Preservation Appeal to Protect Timber Wealth
A call to loyal citizens to be fair with the forest this year. Each acre of timber land is national wealth owned by unborn generations as partners with current holders, urging restraint from 4000 forest clearings driven by our carelessness.
Vancouver Seaport Becomes Canada’s Largest Grain Port
Figures from the Vancouver Merchants’ Exchange show Fremost Seaport of Dominion Vancouver led Canada in port tonnage last year. Col. W. R. Dockrill notes 16,641 vessels entered, 12,233,000 gross tons, 58 ocean going ships monthly, and record grain and lumber exports boosting business. Vancouver overtook Montreal in ocean vessel tonnage.
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Vancouver
Canada
Pacific
Merchants’ Exchange
Col. W. R. Dockrill
Montreal
North Pacific
Colonel Dockrill
Pacific Ocean
Durable Foldable Camp Stove From Troy Foundry
The Troy Foundry and Machine Co offers a compact durable camp stove that folds like a suitcase and burns any fuel. Widely used by campers motorists prospectors canoeists and trappers. Send a postcard to the Bank of Hamilton Building Toronto for full details.
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Troy Country and Machine Co
Troy Foundry and Machine Co
Bank of Hamilton
Toronto
Germany waives freight on new church bells replacing war losses
The republican government decided to honor churches that lent their bells for artillery during the war. Freight charges will be waived on shipments of all new bells to replace those surrendered in the conflict.
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Germany
Not Used To it Water Refusal Stuns a Beggar
A lady offers water to a beggar, who declines with a sigh claiming an iron constitution that would rust water. The brief dialogue presents a stark contrast between gracious aid and a stoic refusal.
Cocoanut Ginger Gems from Household Hints
A recipe for Coconut Ginger Gems uses butter molasses sugar and eggs. It instructs creaming butter and sugar adding molasses and egg yolks then milk with dissolved soda. It combines flour salt and ginger then folds in raisins and beaten egg whites. Bake in gem pans fill centers with jelly nuts and frost with coconut icing.
Traditional Spiced Raisin Cookies From Old Recipe
Melt shortening in hot water then mix in brown sugar and molasses with sifted dry ingredients. Fold in plumped raisins and chill. Roll thin, cut into shapes, bake 15 minutes in a moderate oven. decorate with frosting using a small pointed pastry tube.
Corn Extractor Promotes Painful Removal Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Putnam's Corn Extractor as a painless and sure method to remove corns and warts. The copy urges readers to refuse substitutes and promotes the product price of 25 cents per unit.
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Putnam’s
Putnam's
Increase in big game animals in Jasper National Park
Reports from superintendents indicate a rapid rise in big game due to sanctuary conditions in Jasper National Park Alberta Canada. Elk deer and caribou numbers are high with sightings of up to one hundred elk feeding in Buffalo Prairie alongside numerous sheep and goats, causing guides to struggle for feed for pack-horses.
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Jasper National Park
Canadian Rockies
Alberta
Buffalo Prairie
Canadian Pacific Excursions to Pacific Coast
A promotional note invites readers to take a summer trip via Canadian Pacific to the Pacific Coast with stops at Banff Lake Louise Glazer and resort hotels. Summer excursion tickets available May 15 to September 30 to Vancouver Victoria and other Pacific Coast points with stopovers and return limit until October 31.
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Pacific Coast
Canadian Pacific Rockies
Banff
Lake Louise
Glazer
Vancouver
Victoria
Canadian Pacific
Cactus Uses Expand Beyond Water Storage
A South African method converts prickly pear juice into industrial alcohol. In Cuba, an experimenter claims to produce superior rubber from a cactus juice. The cactus increasingly seen as a versatile resource.
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South Africa
Cuba
Early Urban Pope Chronology Noted in History
Eight popes have borne the name Urban with the first serving from 222 to 236. The record traces the papal sequence and identifies Urban I as the starting holder of the title.
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Urban
Inventions Sought by World Airplane for Children
The British Institute of Patentees sponsors a What’s Wanted volume with Sir William Bell’s invention list. Items include bendable glass, non slippery wet roads, heat efficient furnaces, unshrinking flannel, a noiseless aeroplane, child manageable planes, lightweight engines, reduced friction, tidal use methods, phosphorus extraction from vulcanized Indian rubber for reuse, easy to clean pipes, a temperance drink that preserves taste, and talking moving pictures. Miller’s Worm Powders claim to aid infantile worm-related and digestive ailments, improving appetite and bodily disorders as treatment begins.
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British Institute of Patentees
Sir William Bell
Imst
New Sub Feeder Drill Promises Wider Seed Spread
J A Mitchell of Lawson Saskatchewan claims a new seeding method called the sub feeder drill. By removing shoes and blocking holes he seeds double the amount over a 70 inch grain space out of 114, a wider coverage than the 20 inch span of standard drills. He has tested the method on 75 acres of summer fallow.
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J. A. Mitchell
Lawson
Sask
Department of Agriculture
Mr. Mitchell
Mitchell
Sunday School Teacher Beneath Notice
A humorous fragment from The Passing Show in London shows Ernest unaware of which figure defeated the Philistines amid a daydream. The line contrasts a secular sports banter with a biblical reference.
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Ernest
London
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills Help Woman in Ontario
Mrs. James Burleigh of 248 King St East Chatham Ontario describes years of heart palpitations and nervous trouble. After a doctor said her heart skipped every third beat she used Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills for about three months and felt better, able to sleep and grow stronger. Price five and a half cents a box or mailed on receipt of price by The I Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
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James Burleigh
King St. E., Chatham, Ont
Milburn
I. Milburn Co., Limited
Toronto
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Otttawa
P. G. Murdoch
Portage la Prairie
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Dr. Chase
North Vancouver
W. L. M. King
Fremost
Dominion
Minard’s Liniment
Bradley Molasses
Minard
Liniment
Neuraigia
Dominion Commatinee . Limited
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