Empire unity through voluntary preferences not centralized control
The essay argues against centralizing empire governance and for voluntary preferences between Dominions. It likens the Empire to a family: autonomous growth with shared bonds, mutual benefit, and no need for formal loyalty pacts. It notes that cooperation strengthens all, referencing wartime unity and opposing global powers' approaches.
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London
Downing Street
France
Europe
Russia
United States
British
Atlantic City To Host Negro-Only Hotel Complex This Autumn
A fourteens story steel and reinforced concrete hotel for Negroes will be built in Atlantic City this autumn. The facility, owned operated and patronized exclusively by Negroes, is planned with an estimated cost of 750000 dollars.
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Atlantic City
Ant carries lead shot eight times its weight feat
During tests an ant carried a lead shot eight times its own weight. To match this feat a man would need to move with fifty tons on his back.
Theatre memory prompts laughter in London chatty column
A brief London Weekly Telegraph note recalls a theater lead figure named Jobkins and a humorous picture of him feeding a camel off stage, capturing a light moment in the arts scene.
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Jobkins
London Weekly Telegraph
Record of railway safety in Great Britain last year
A British railway safety record shows five deaths among 1,186,479,000 passengers carried, a rate of one fatality per 260 million journeys. The statistic highlights the industry’s safety performance and low risk to travelers.
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Great Britain
Canada completes largest government bond sale on record
The Hon. W. S. Fielding reports the war finance bond issue grew from 56 million to 200 million dollars with books closed. Of the total, 172 million funds will cover maturing bonds in November while the rest repays temporary loans. Fielding cites Canadian financial strength and citizen faith in the country.
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W. 8. Fielding
Fielding
Canada
Nerviline Triumph Cited In Backache Remedy Ad
Georgetown reader K. Sloane says two years of backache vanished after using Nerviline from Smith Bros Drug Store. The testimonial claims Nerviline relieves weak backs stiff muscles and swollen joints and urges others to try the liniment, available at dealers.
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Sloane
Georgetown
Smith Bros
Indian Boy Survives 17 Days Alone in Wilderness
George MacLeod, a nine year old Indian boy, was found unharmed after 17 days wandering more than 100 miles from The Big Eddy, McKay Boarding School. He claimed to have made a bow and arrows, killed rabbits and small game, caught fish, and even took two large bannocks from a trapper's cabin unseen. He was located at Sturgeon Landing.
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George MacLeod
McKay
The
Big Eddy
Pas
Sturgeon Landing
Rich blood helps rheumatism say PROTECT YOURSELF WITH PINK PILLS
In past eras rheumatism was seen as aging and was treated with creams and heat. Now doctors say it stems from blood quality and can be fought by a rich red blood supply. Dr Williams Pink Pills are advertised as improving blood and relieving rheumatic symptoms with a fair trial and affordable price of 56 cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
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Williams
Dr. Willams
Medicine
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Mills Ramp Up Output
About five hundred mills in British Columbia produce roughly three and a half billion feet of lumber and a similar amount of shingles each year. Lumber value is estimated at 85 million dollars this year, with world market surveys signaling a steady rise over the next decade.
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British Columbia
The Foolish Die Young Tale and Family Laughs
A fragment from the San Francisco Chronicle recounts a tale of risk and luck with a barbed wire fence incident and a loaded shotgun. A child’s misfortune over a toe mishap prompts a motherly reassurances as the boy stammers through his tears.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Coal Uses and Byproducts From Heating Soft Bituminous Coal
A historical overview describes how coke and gas are produced by heating coal in retorts and then cleaned. It details by products such as coal tar and gas liquor yielding ammonia, benzene, naphtha, carbolic acid, creosote, dyes like alizarin and indigo, medicines from tar oils, saccharin, and fragrant tar pitch derivatives used in soaps and fragrances.
Putnam's Painless Corn and Wart Extractor Ad
Don’t limp any longer from corns warts or bunions. The old remedy for fifty years proves a true success and will lift out corns quickly. Putnam's Painless Corn and Wart Extractor is the one remedy to use and refuses a substitute, 25e everywhere.
World’s Largest Electric Sign On Gotham National Bank Building
The world’s highest electric sign flashes atop the twenty five story Gotham National Bank building at Columbus Circle. The pair of 347 foot tall signs measure 80 feet wide and weigh 89 tons, riveted with 15000 bolts and rated to withstand 35 pounds per square foot wind.
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Broadway
Gotham National Bank
Columbus Circle
Manhattan
Long Island
Bronx
Alberta Coal Output Rises in First Half 1923 Figures
Preliminary mineral production report shows Alberta mined 3,312,991 tons of coal in the first six months of 1923, up from 2,258,296 tons in the same period of 1922.
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Canada
Alberta
New Theory on Pearl Formation Changes View of Oysters
A Pearlson expert reports pearls form not from a sand irritant but from a oyster disease linked to uric acid, akin to rheumatism. Experiments show sand grains enter shells and are washed out, while pearl-secreting glands lie where foreign bodies cannot enter.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Summer complaint cramps and diarrhoea ad claim
An advertisement touts Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry as a quick remedy for summer bowel trouble. It cites sudden cramps and diarrhoea and asserts few doses prevent suffering and even save lives, with a testimonial from Mrs. W H Judd and pricing at 50c per bottle.
ZR-3 Set for Transatlantic Flight From Germany to New Jersey
The ZR-3, German-built sister to the ZR-1, will leave Friedrichshafen in November for a nonstop 4500 nautical mile flight to Lakehurst NJ. A station ship will guide it mid ocean with meteorological support from Weather Bureau and Shipping Board. Route: Southern France to Azores to Bermuda then north to Lakehurst.
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Friedrichshafen
Lakehurst
Midocean
Weather Bureau
Shipping Board
France
Azores
Bermuda
England
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Credit and Character as Basis of Lending
A Kansas City Star note argues credit and character form the basis of lending even when not proven. It cites J. P. Morgan’s reputed claim to lend one million without security to a trusted man, yet withholds loans from those lacking character.
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Morgan
Kansas City
The
Kansas City Star
World's Champion Jumper Black Jaguar Leaps Fifteen Feet
Tit Bits notes the black jaguar of South America as the champion jumper, able to spring from the ground to a branch fifteen feet overhead. The piece compares various animals with six to twelve foot records, highlighting the jaguar as top among jumpers.
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South America
Mask of Napoleon Found Hidden in French House
A wax mask of Napoleon made hours after his death by an English surgeon of the 20th Regiment of Infantry was found in a small French town house. The mask was sent to England years later, bought by a Russian diplomat, and given to Czar Alexander I. It later traveled to Holland and Bavaria and has been missing for the past two decades. an eyelash remains attached to the mould.
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Napoleon
20Th Regiment of Infantry
England
Alexander I
Holland
Bavaria
Engraving 35000 War Service Medals Each Day for Two Years
An English arm of medal makers engraved the recipient’s name on 35 000 war service medals daily for two years, enabling personalized awards.
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Minard
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Young
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New York
Dr. Thomas
Atlantic
Mother Graves
Zam-Buk
Edmanaon, Bales & Co., Limited
Dominion Express
Conny
Charles Milk Free
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