Canadian Business Men Should See Canada First
The article urges Canadian business leaders to visit both east and west to understand regional markets. It highlights benefits from firsthand knowledge of local conditions, inspires travel to see Canada’s diverse cities, landscapes, and industries, and notes that such exposure strengthens national business and optimism.
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Montreal
Montreal Board of Trade
Weet
East
Europe
United States
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Windsor
Saskatoon
Greeks Burn Smyrna Figs To Starve Turks Of Cargo
Fire along the Smyrna waterfront destroys orchards and packed figs destined for America. Only two ships escaped with cargoes as Greeks allegedly torched supplies to keep them from Turkish forces.
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Smyrna
America
Sheet brass worth fifty dollars on the sunken Lusitania
A historical note reports fifty dollars worth of sheet brass recovered from the Lusitania wreck, highlighting small salvage value found in the submerged liner.
Memorial Homes for War Hero Capt Albert Ball In Nottingham
Eight houses erected and endowed by Alderman Albert Ball in memory of Captain Albert Ball VC DS.O MC. Notting ham opening by Lt Col Leslie Wilson MP with a King s message praising Ball. Homes to house mothers or widows of fallen servicemen, tenants receive free coal and light, value over £20,000.
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Albert Ball
Ds.o
Alderman Albert Ball
Nottingham
Leslie Wilson
Alderman Ball
Inland Towns Produce English Channel Champions
The piece notes that most English Channel swimmers come from inland towns rather than coast communities. It argues many fishermen lack swimming skills due to a long standing belief that swimming worsens danger if wrecked far from land.
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English Channel
Costly Comma Delays Tariff Duty Loss
A printing error in a tariff bill caused a comma to be placed after fruit, turning "all foreign fruit plants" into "all foreign fruit, plants." The mistake allowed duty free entry of oranges lemons bananas grapes and other fruits for about a year, costing the government at least two million dollars.
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United States
United States Congress
Primitive Post Office Stone in Capetown Vestibule
In the early 19th century ships of the East India Company buried letters beneath flat stones carved with the vessel name. Homeward travelers sought these stones for news, and a stone bearing a ship's date and name remains in the Capetown Post Office vestibule.
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East Indian Company
Capetown
Table Bay
India
Homesteader at 89 Takes Up Prairie Homestead
Hugh A. Sharon, who filed a Saskatchewan homestead at age 80 after a half century of work in Ontario since Confederation, holds a unique record for beginning development unaided and paying tithe at 83. He recently visited Regina.
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Prairies
Hugh A. Sharon
Regina
Sharon
Ontario
Saskatchewan
First Woman Students Enrolled at McGill Univers ity
McGill University enrolls its first woman dental student. Miss Florence Johnston of Montreal is the pioneer. In 1911 the university admitted its first woman to law, and now four girls pursue the medical course.
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McGill University
Florence Johnston
Montreal
Begging Letter Writers Reach Quarter Million in Fagland
A tally shows about 250,000 professional begging letter writers operating in Fagland today. The industry has grown rapidly, with workers marketing requests for aid to diverse audiences across the country.
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Fagland
Everywoman's Fund organized to aid tubercular women in Saskatchewan
The Everywoman's Fund in Saskatchewan mobilizes support for one year of care for fifty tubercular women. Regina clubs the Ladies Aid of the Metropolitan Church and the Women's Labor League join Provincial Council of Women in backing the effort. With Saskatchewan Sanatorium capacity described as inadequate, the fund seeks gifts to the Sanatorium at Fort Qu Appelle or to Mrs. Fred W. Bates in Regina, with acknowledgments promised.
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Everywoman’s Fund
Saskatchewan
Regina
Ladies Aid
Metropolitan Church
Women’s Labor League
Royal Commission On Tuberculosis
Anti Tuberculosis League
Saskatoon
Provincial Council of Women
Fort Qu’Appelle
Fred W. Bates
Angus Street
Canada Wheat Crop Delivers Vast Bread Supply
Statistics show 343,000,000 bushels of wheat equal 20,580,000 pounds or 10,290,000 tons and could yield 12,862,500,000 loaves of bread. This amount would feed 25,339,726 people with one loaf per day for a year, based on current production estimates.
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Canada
Canada Holds Coal Reserves For 0,000 Years
Deputy Minister of Mines Dr. Chas Camsell and a Special Committee report Canada has coal enough for 0,000 years. Principal reserves lie in Alberta holding about fifteen percent of the world's supply, with key deposits in British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
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Canada
Chas, Camsell
Alberta
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Germany Aims to Build Major Silk Industry
Germany pushes to revive and expand silk production after wartime efforts. From Frederick the Great to a Women’s Silk Growing Club, mulberry planting and cocoons grew to meet demand. Experts say scarce raw material spurs state supported growth and dye firms back large scale German silk for sale next year.
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Germany
Frederick the Creat
Women's Silk Growing Club
German Submarine Sinkings Total 19 Million Tons
German publicist Dr. Christian Siegfried Toesche-Mittler reports a war total of 19,000,000 tons of enemy mercantile shipping sunk by submarines. He credits 14,300,000 tons to the unrestricted campaign begun February 1, 1917, including 12,500,000 tons in English ships.
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Christian Siegfried Toesche-Mittler
Deferred Loan Spender
A courtroom exchange shows a lender refusing to advance ten dollars for the coming week while a judge comments on the delay. The dialogue highlights a minor financial dispute framed in legal terms.
Prairie Tree Planting Transforms Canadian West
The article describes a government led effort to transfer radio telephony licensing from federal to provincial control among Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. It notes widespread tree planting on the prairie, creating shelter belts and green groves, with 40,000 belts valued around 1,000 dollars each and 60,418,000 seedlings distributed over 21 years, improving farm life and landscape.
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Western Province
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Minister of Telephones
Indian Head
Canadian Pacific Railway
Wolseley
Tmany Prairie
Scrapbooks Endure as Personal Archives in the Home
The Regina Leader praises scrapbooks as lasting, practical keepsakes amid fading popularity of photo albums and autograph books. They conserve useful articles from newspapers and magazines, offering a personal encyclopedia of information for families, with recipes, health hints, politics and sports clippings kept up to date.
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Regina
Prickly pear fuel eyed as gasoline substitute
In South Africa the Department of Commerce reports a new gasoline substitute from prickly pear juice mixed with other chemicals. Known as springbok motor spirit, it may sell for half the price of gasoline, achieves 22.6 mpg in a six cylinder car, and starts easily in cold weather. Inventor A C Devallier is an attorney behind the idea and a manufacturing firm is formed, with the formula kept secret.
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South Africa
Department of Commerce
A. C. Devallier
Great Britain's Policy on Debts Cited by Sir William Schooling
British economist Sir William Schooling argues that paying debts and forgiving debtors places a country in a sounder position than one that refuses to recognize indebtedness. The United States appears to dispute the point.
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William Schooling
Great Britain
United States
New Italian airship to serve 1 million meals with electric kitchen
Italian authorities unveil an airship design featuring an electrically powered kitchen capable of feeding one million passengers. The plan emphasizes efficient on board meal preparation and large scale catering for future transport missions.
Thankoffering Cheque Supports Bradford Hospitals
Lord Barnby of Blyth Hall Nottingham back from surgery sent a £5000 gift to Bradford for hospital division. Bradford Royal Infirmary receives £3000 while Bradford Eye and Ear Hospital and Bradford Children’s Hospital each receive £1000. He notes many cannot pay for operations and hopes the gift relieves suffering in Bradford.
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Lord Barnby
Blyth Hall
Nottingham
Francis Willey
Bradford
Traffic density linked to pedestrian safety in London
The Montreal Gazette notes that despite heavy traffic, London had only ten fatal accidents last year and hospitals averaged two daily. The piece wryly observes that busier streets seem safer for pedestrians, though it cautions that safety slogans wear thin with time.
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London
Montreal
Cazette
Road deaths in 1921 reach record toll nationwide
In 1921, using a 48 hour day basis, motor vehicle fatalities averaged two per hour across the United States, totaling more than 12,500 deaths for the year.
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United States
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