Care Of The Feeble Minded In Canada Overview
Dr JG Shearer outlines Canada’s lag in care for mental defectives across provinces. Manitoba leads with a Child Welfare Act and psychiatric wards, while Saskatchewan and Alberta build facilities but lack full discovery and care systems. Ontario and British Columbia struggle with classification and training. Nova Scotia and others face minimal or no infrastructure, highlighting a national reform imperative.
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Canada
Minnesota
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Canadian National Committee For Mental Hygiene
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Ontario
Hodgins
Quebec
P E.L
Manitoba
General Hospital
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Weyburn
Alberta
Edmonton
British Columbia
Orillia Hospital
Provinces
Vancouver
Pel
How to Foretell Weather
A simple method to predict rain uses morning sky observation. Watch the smallest visible cloud for five minutes and note changes in size. Shrinking clouds suggest a fine day while growing clouds indicate rain within hours. steady size implies little weather change. Rapid growth hints at thunder in summer.
The Telephone's Reach Through Time
Forty six years after the device’s birth, the article notes Bell’s room basement cry I can hear you and chronicles the telephone’s vast growth in America with 14 000 000 instruments 34 000 000 miles of wire and 300 000 employees. It speaks to its wartime and peacetime utility and the world expanding with wireless to follow.
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Alexander Graham Bell
America
Vulcan
Mars
Cupid
Denver man claims Rocky Mountains are his ancestors
An Irish New Yorker debates a Denver man who boasts the Rockies were built by his ancestors. The Irishman asks if he knows the Dead Sea story, prompting the Denver man to admit his great-grandfather killed it in a punchline twist.
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Denver
Rockies
Dead Sea
Largest Wireless Horn Erected at Idora Park California
The world's largest wireless horn stands twenty five feet long with a twelve foot aperture. It projects wireless concerts across an area of twenty nine square miles from Idora Park in California.
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Idora Park
California
Temple of Solo mon cost and conscripted Israel
The text claims the Temple of Solomon in modern terms cost about £1,000,000,000 and that virtually the entire male population of Israel was conscripted to build it.
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Israel
Why the Salmon Is Pink
Men of science long puzzled over pink flesh in salmon and trout. Studies show color from diet, notably shellfish. Leger experiments with trout found flesh turned salmon pink when fed shrimps, white without shrimps. shellfish color mystery tied to shellfish diet and possible microbial factors in pink oysters from Long Island Sound.
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Leger
Piscicultural
Grenobe France
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Long Island Sound
The Value of a Smile Says It All
A short exhortation urges readers to share cheer and smile often. It argues smiling spreads happiness, costs little, and benefits both giver and receiver. The author notes smiles are contagious and likens them to sunshine for the community.
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N. Arthur Preiss
The
Watchman Examiner
Ancient Babylon Bricks Reveal Early Mortgage Records
New excavations in Babylon reveal clay bricks burned to preserve mortgage transactions from 3,000 years before Christ. These bricks show lenders and borrowers used documented debts long before modern finance, illustrating the ancient roots of secured lending and property agreements.
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Babylon
Bethlehem
Judea
Oldest University at Pekin Claims Grand Stone Register
The article notes Pekin houses the world’s oldest university with a vast stone column register. It is described as ancient, containing about sixty thousand graduates’ names across three hundred twenty columns.
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Pekin
Dominion Experimental Farms Botany Division report highlights
The Division of Botany studies agricultural botany and plant pathology, tracing weed control, poisonous plants, disease research, and potato inspection nationwide. The 1921 22 twelve month report notes 686 specimens identified, seed exchanges abroad, and extensive field inspections totaling 7 900 acres with high certification rates across provinces.{""}
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Dominion Experimental Farms
Ottawa
Central Farm
Canada
British Columbia
Ontario
Manitoba
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Dominion Plant Pathology Laboratories
Charlottetown
P.E.I
Fredericton
N.B
St Catherines
Ont
Saskatoon
Indian Head
Saskatchewan
Summerland
B.C
Earth's orbital speed and Moon's velocity stated
The Earth's velocity around the Sun is given as sixty six thousand miles per hour and the Moon's velocity as two thousand two hundred seventy three miles per hour.
Ireland’s Fine Granite Samples Prove Worldwide Quality
Ireland yields notable granite, with excellent samples found in many nations, demonstrating the stone’s worldwide appeal and high craftsmanship.
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Ireland
When In Doubt Try a Joke On a Dyspeptic
A quip about testing humor on a cranky stomach person reflects a cautionary tale for comic timing. The remark plays on the risk of my humor missing its mark with tough audiences and the need to gauge reactions before delivering punchlines.
Giant Western Canada corn field claimed by John H. Smith
John H. Smith of Maple Creek owns the largest corn field in Western Canada, 125 acres in a solid block. Field Crops expert H L Lovering notes rows planted with a corn planter, thorough harrowing, two cultivations, and minimal weed growth. Estimated yield about 1,000 tons of green corn, seed cost $35, promising feed for stock and leaving land ready for wheat.
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Canada
Dominion
John H. Smith
Maple Creek
H. L. Lovering
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Smith
Immigration zeal of London bishop praises Canada
The Bishop of London, returning from Canada, calls emigration a God given cure for Britain’s ills and praises Canada’s loyalty and potential. He vows to act as an immigration agent to boost English settlement, suggesting room for a hundred millions in Canada and urging more loyal Englishmen to emigrate.
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London
England
Canada
Rudyard Kipling
Dominion
First Bulgarian liaison Miss Nadeja Stancoff summoned to Washington
First Secretary of Legation Miss Nadeja Stancoff, daughter of Bulgaria's London envoy, prepares to travel to Washington to assume duties as first secretary of the Bulgarian Legation. A twenty seven year old with fluent Russian French German Italian, she has served as her father’s private secretary visiting Bucharest Vienna Petrograd Sofia Paris Rome London. Before Washington she will serve as secretary and interpreter to the Bulgarian Premier at the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva.
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Nadeja Stancoff
London
Washington
Legation
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Miss Stancoff
Bucharest
Vienna
Petrograd
Sofia
Paris
Rome
The Busy Bee and Its Long Journeys
A note on the bee as a tireless worker, stating a pound of clover honey draws nectar from about 62 000 blossoms and requires around 2 700 000 foraging visits. Bees may travel up to 2 miles each trip, accumulating journeys that can exceed 5 000 000 miles.
Tragedy Of The War: Gold From A Sunken Submarine
A storm strands a schooner crew on Manequa Island in the Pacific. They discover a sunken enemy submarine filled with gold bars in its strong room. The captain salvages two cases of gold before salvage ships arrive, but the wreck and treasure vanish again in ensuing storms.
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Manesqua
Pacific Ocean
Mature
Manequa
Regulating Cattle Exports Warns of Losses
An official of the Canadian Council of Agriculture says shipping cattle to Great Britain from Western Canada costs about $60 per head including rail and ocean freight feeding attendance insurance and other expenses. He urges government action to ensure cattle meet British market needs and to regulate export flow by seasonal demand. The Western Canada Livestock Union reportedly supports similar representations.
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Great Britain
Canada
Canadian Council of Agriculture
Department of Trade and Commerce
Western Canada Livestock Union
Where to Go Young Man Dont Go West
A Louisville Courier Journal admonition invites readers to seek an isolated tropical island retreat away from tariffs and price coercion. It warns against wool and coal interests and emphasizes independence where clothes are unnecessary and roads do not exist.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Umbrella Misadventure Sparks The Running Man
A passerby notes a man’s umbrella and asks where he is headed. The unidentified man replies it is not his and recalls a rainstorm incident where he hailed a stranger who dropped the umbrella and fled, leaving the driver puzzled.
Englishman to attempt Channel crossing in self-made boots
An English inventor plans a solo trek across the English Channel wearing boots he designed and built himself. He intends to test a new approach to long distance walking, claiming the boots offer improved buoyancy and stability for the perilous voyage.
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English Channel
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Social Service Conncil of Canada
Jon
Chicago News
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