Encouraging Western Settlers Shapes Canada’s Growth
The piece argues for immigration as Canada's engine of prosperity, linking population growth to higher production, factory demand, and railway and mining activity. It cites wartime debt, urges skilled, morally sound newcomers, and praises the shift to Immigration and Colonization with broader support services for new arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yle
Atore
Puazensecer
Freieut
Canada
United States
Dominion
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Department of Immigration
Immigration and Colonization
Newsboy Heading to Queen's University to Study Chemistry
For ten years David Pasternack sold newspapers on Calgary streets despite his tulone Hmb handicap. He traveled to Kingston Ontario to attend Queen's University with the aim of becoming a chemical engineer and has saved enough to cover his eastern university studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David
Kingstop
Ont
Queen's University
Eastern University
German Competition Becomes Severe in Railway Tenders
Modern Transport notes German firms undercut British bids for Indian state railway carriages by about 40 percent. For Burman railways a British firm won despite bids running 10 percent above the top German quotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trasport
England Needs 8.5 Million More Hens for Egg Goals
Edward Brown of the National Poultry Council says England must raise 8 500 000 hens to reach the 1913 consumption target of 120 eggs per person. He notes US and Canada average nearly 200 eggs per person annually and, using Britain’s census, calculates English per capita consumption at about 3 eggs last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Edward Brown
National Poultry Council
Brown
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Proves Irrigation Is a Success In Alberta Farm Story
A farmer named Williamson demonstrates irrigation success in Alberta. After starting as a hired man he rented an engine and plough, then bought an eighty acre irrigated farm and a threshing outfit with season proceeds. By his third season he owns the farm, threshing and ploughing outfit, and tractor, all paid for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Williamson
Origin of Gall Stones and Digestive Health Claims
An article promoting Dr Hamilton's Pills and Hariston's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut as cures and preventatives for gall stones and digestive issues. It claims dried bile crystals cause gall stones, urges liver and bowels balance, and advertises 25 cent pills sold by The Catarrhozone Co Montreal with claims of safety and general family use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Hamilton
Dr Hamilton
Dbilio
Harstiton
Catarrhozone Co
Montreal
Sixty Years in One Regiment Captain Swift Honored
Captain Charles Swift leads the bugle hand of the Queen's Own Tor onto Rifles of Canada and has the longest service in Canada. He joined as a triangle player in 1861 at Ridgeway and led the band to King Edward’s coronation. Fellow musicians salute his famed hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Swift
Queen's Own
Toronto Rifles
Canada
Militia Department
Swift
Queen's Own Regiment
Ridgeway
Edgward
Capt
Rye Seeding Expands in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan
Kia estimates this year about 50 000 acres sown to fall planted rye in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, up from 6 000 acres last year, an increase near 185 percent. With average yields, the 1922 rye crop could net farmers in these districts three to four million dollars more than this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Iia
Nerviline touted as relief for mild stomach upset
An old warning notes a mild epidemic from impure water causing cramps diarrhoea and headaches. It praises Nerviline in sweetened water for quick relief and stopping hiccups gas and upset stomach with strong home usage advice.
Imperial Bureau to Battle Plant Diseases Worldwide
The British Government plans an Imperial Bureau to study plant diseases and test prevention methods. It will employ top experts to protect commercial crops, aiming to boost food production for the empire and beyond.
Bolshevism Critique From The Loshevists Of America
The piece argues that Bolshevism brings tyranny, injustice, social paralysis, and suffering, contrasting it with American efforts to address the victims of Marxist philosophy in Russia. It criticizes Bolshevism and defends American stance against its advocates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Heston Transcript
Farmers face 25 cents per acre insurance premium
Hall Insurance Claims Directors of the Municipal Hall Insurance Association set the current year premium at twenty five cents an acre on net seeded acreage. The levy yields about a five per cent rate based on total claims of 1,668,191 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Hall, Insurance Association
Principal’s Kidney Health Claim Sparks Local Confidence
Principal George Hutchings of Webb Saskatchewan says he suffered kidney disease for two years and credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with restoring his health and energy. He recommends the remedy to others, noting it helps kidneys filter impurities from blood. A brief mention notes a water proof raincoat made from Mitsumata paper in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb
Dodd
George Hutchings
Hutchings
Li van
Thodd
Growing Fuel From Prairie Trees In Six Years
A Dominion Forestry branch report from Indian Head Sask notes rapid growth of cottonwood willow Russian poplar and Manitoba maple for fuel. A plot of three quarters of an acre planted in 1906 with Russian poplar yielded six and three quarter cords in 1913, about eighteen cords per acre in eight years, with planting costs around five dollars and six cents and two years of cultivation costs near six dollars per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairies
Manitoba
Indian Head
Sask
M. Ross
Dominion Forestry Tranch
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promised To Enrich Blood
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to enrich the blood, claim relief from anemia symptoms and general vitality, with testimonials from Mrs EE Cook of Simcoe Ontario and a Hamilton reader praising improved health, weight, color and energy after seven boxes. It urges purchase from druggists or by mail in Brockville Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. Williams
Hamilton
Dr. Williams
Medicine
Dr. Wwilliams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Bronze Temple Inscriptions Date 460 B.C. Found at Ber ras
Greek archaeologists uncover a large temple at Ber ras Thessaly in excellent preservation. Bronze inscriptions set its date at 460 B.C. Tablets reveal ancient laws and resolutions. This is the second temple unearthed within a month near Volo, as excavations continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berras
Thessaly
Jupiter
Olympis
Volo
Ihe
Whet yield estimates for Saskatchewan crops given
The present year projections list Saskatchewan production in bushels for oats 196,126,000 barley 13,506,000 flax 4,560,000 and rye 4,053,000 with wheat at 145,082,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
A Whale Feeds on Tiny Prey and Has a Narrow Throat
A whale possesses a notably small throat that could be blocked by a closed fist and sustains itself by consuming very small prey from the sea.
A Prime Dressing for Wounds
In factories carbolic acid is kept for wound cauterization but Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil offers a quicker, less damaging alternative. It acts fast and does not scar or burn the skin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Thomas
Bath Craving Stranger Asked for Food at Residence
A Boston servant reports a strange man at the door seeking a bath and, in fact, food. The master inquiries, the visitor’s odd request raises concern as the servant notes the oddity in his tone and demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Indians of Nootka Sound Use Wooly Dogs For Garments
Indigenous people of Nootka Sound keep wooly dogs whose fleece is readily woven into clothing and garments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nootka Sound
Persistency of British Post
An Imperial veteran, J. Harris, received a packet of cigarettes mailed from England in 1903 that, after 18 years of travel through India and New Zealand, has journeyed nearly the globe, carrying the Prince Albert delivery to him during the South African War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Albert
J. Harris
England
India
New Zealand
Globe
His French and Milnard's店 Secrets in the Cellar
A brief snippet hints at language play and a cellar excavation motif. The dialog suggests a character learning French locally by scent and perfume bottles, while a cellar excavator persists in his task and a shop named Milnard's appears as a cue.
Immigrants Were Mostly British Born Four Months
For April to July inclusive the total British born immigration into Canada was 26 268. From the United States 14 219 and from all other countries P4358. Of US settlers the department says the great majority are English speaking and many are descendants of British born. Rejections at ocean ports in the four months numbered 344, of which only 72 were British.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Department
Banks And The People
The war drained resources and banks acted as government agents, boosting public interest in banking. Surplus money is seen as stored work with earning power, reducing idle funds and mischief, as reflected by The Indianapolis News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D&imost
The
Indianapolis News
Rainbow appears in summer not winter as rain and sun meet
Professor W J Harve explains that a rainbow needs both rain and sunshine, a mix common in summer convectional showers but rare in winter cyclones, so rainbow sightings vary by season. The Pacific halibut fishermen pay all bills before starting trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Harve
Pacific
Suffering of Young Women in Toronto Aids by Vegetable Compound
A Toronto woman describes years of pelvic pain and fatigue from adolescence, notes poor relief from doctors and patent medicines, and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief. She encourages others to seek guidance from the Pinkham company and its confidential letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Lydia FB. Pinkham
A. Goodman
Rockvale Ave
Goodman
Lydia
Pinkham
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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Queen's Own Rifles
Loshevists of America
Hall Insurance Claims
Mitsumata
Dapan
Dodds
Minard
Liniment
N. LU
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