Gilletts Lye Promises Easy Home Cleaning
An ad touts Gillett's Pure Flake Lye as a safe grease dissolver that won't harm enamel or plumbing. It claims quick cleansing, germ destruction, odor removal, and potential savings on cleaning time with a free booklet from Standard Brands Limited in Toronto.
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Gillett
Gillett’s
Gillett’s Lye
Address Standard Brands Limited
Fraser Avenue
Liberty Street
Toronto
Ontario
Montreal mayor moots civic lottery for city finances
A civic lottery to raise funds for city finances is being discussed by Montreal mayor Camillien Houde. The brief item notes the measure as part of ongoing municipal financial concerns.
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Camillien Houde
Montreal
Yotaro Sugimura
Italy
Nanking
Shih Ying
Europe
Great Britain
Hudson Bay
Churchill
Man
Dominion Treasury
Finance Department
Ottawa
Little Journeys In Science: Coal Formation Timeline
Gordon H Guest explains coal as a carbonaceous mineral formed from ancient plant matter. Fresh-water lakes and marshy shores foster peat, which becomes lignite then bituminous and anthracite over vast ages. Current mining rates imply coal could run out in about five thousand years.
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Robert Peel
Liver Fille Advertisement Promises Health Remedy
An old style ad claims low spirits come from a sluggish liver and promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a purely vegetable remedy. It ridicules laxatives and harsh calomel, urging readers to ask for the product by name and pay 25 cents at druggists.
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Carter
Sanitary District Suit Dismissed Over Prosecution Gaps
A 1901 Chicago sanitary district case brought by a construction company was removed from the docket due to the plaintiff’s failure to pursue. The court did not rush the action nor abridge civil rights, and the dismissal ends the matter for now.
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Chicago
Canada Malta Trade in 1933 Surpasses Three Hundred Thousand
Canada supplied Malta in 1933 with over $360 000 in goods mainly wheat and flour and Malta returned imports to Canada totaling $150 in the same year reflecting a small trade surplus for Canada.
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Canada
Malta
Mercury Derived X Rays Reported By University of California
The University of California announces X rays from mercury produced by a high power vacuum tube not previously used in science. Researchers Wesley M. Coates and David H. Sloan describe the method in Physical Review, noting soft and hard rays and targets including aluminum sulfur bromine molybdenum silver tin and lead.
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University of California
Physical Review
Wesley M. Coates
David H. Sloan
University
Radiation Laboratory
Department of Physics
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London
Lydia E. Pinkham
H. E. Sellers
Winnipeg
Alberta Pacific Grain Company, Limited
Calgary
Gordon H Guest, M.A
Tecler
China
B.C
Cppleford Paper Products
Hamilton
Lanavar
Edmonton
Regine
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