Municipal Representation and the Local Ballot
Citizens face decisions on local representation as rural and urban districts prepare for elections. The piece argues active participation, careful judgment, and support for capable, integrity driven candidates to ensure responsible local government and responsive councils. It notes the impact of small electorates and the need for broad electorate engagement to avoid minority imposition and apathy.
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Prairie
Three Prairie
Drought Hazard Warns of Poison in Sudan Grass Feed
The Agriculture Department warns drought threatened cattle feed may contain deadly hydrocyanic acid. Sudan grass cane and grain sorghum stay green but risk poisoning livestock if eaten in dry conditions.
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Drouth
Sudan
Department of Agriculture
Ice Flower of Switzerland and Extreme Elevations
The Soldanella ice flower pushes through snow and solid ice to bloom. In Asia Mount Everest reaches 29 000 feet while the Dead Sea lies about 1292 feet below sea level. Argentina reports a large rise in peanut production this year.
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Switzerland
Asia
Mount Everest
Dead Sea
No Campaign Speeches Elects Alaskan Woman to Legislature
A visiting voter surge by air elected Alaska’s first woman legislator, Flying Neil Scott, who did not campaign or speak publicly. The Seldovia candidate spoke directly to voters and key figures, using air travel to reach the district. Her platform called for fish trap abolition, social security legislation, aid to prospectors, predator animal bounties, and more airstrip development.
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Neil Scott
Seldovia
U S naval strength drops as others expand
An official report shows U S naval power reduced since July 1 while other nations grow. The Navy Department cites scrapping aging warships under the London treaty, cutting to 306 ships totaling 1 062 875 tons from 324 ships and 1 080 715 tons.
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America
Navy Department
United States
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Teases Digestive Cure
An old ad claims the liver must pour out two pounds of bile daily to aid digestion. It says if bile fails to flow, food decays in the bowels, causing gas, bloating and constipation. The copy promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as harmless, gentile, mercury free, and superior to calomel.
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Carter
Supplies Reach Coppermine After Months of Delay
The Audrey B. finally clears ice in Coronation Gulf and reaches Coppermine, base in the Central Arctic, delivering Hudson's Bay Company supplies. Owners Jack Lickert Bill Storr Art Watson and Slim Purnell report safe passage by radio to Edmonton. Another HBC ship reached Coppermine on October 6 with Ray Ross, Reid Island post manager, and his bride Miss Lillian Smith of Edmonton.
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Coppermine
Arctic
Edmonton
Audrey B
Hudson's Bay Company
Coronation Gulf
Jack Lickert
Bill Storr
Art Watson
Slim” Purnell
Fruit Oatmeal Cookies From Historic Recipe
A historical recipe card describes fruit oatmeal cookies with currants dates and a method to cream butter mix eggs and fruit then fold in flour soda and oatmeal. The batter rests overnight and is baked in a slow oven. A note mentions streamlined steam locomotives built for an eastern railroad with smokestack fins to improve engineer visibility.
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Eastern
Sydney to spend 3.5 million on city railway plan
The city of Sydney announces a 3.5 million Australian dollar investment for a major railway project. An English inventor is credited with creating matches about a century ago, noted in a retrospective included with the report.
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Sydney
Australia
Northern Lake Athabaska teacher takes Cannery Bay post
Miss Helen Barr, a civilian school teacher from Imperial, Sask., moves to Cannery Bay on the northern shore of Lake Athabaska to fill a lonely post after the male teacher resigns. She will instruct pupils aged five to twenty in the isolated fishing settlement across from the gold town.
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Lake Athabaska
Goldfields
Sask
Helen Barr
Cannery Bay
Miss Barr
Imperial
Saskatchewan
Fort Chippewyan
Police staffing rates in Berlin England and France compared
Berlin shows 2.4 police per thousand residents, lower than England at 5.05 and France at 3.18. The figures highlight differing policing densities across the three regions.
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Berlin
England
France
Hawaii Forest Lands Include Majority Government Ownership
The state reports about one million acres of Hawaii forests with more than half under government ownership. The data highlight public control of vast tracts, shaping conservation and land use policy for residents and agencies.
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Hawaii
Amazing Fast Flight of the Gray Cheeked Thrush
Frederick C. Lincoln notes in The Migration of North American Birds that the gray-cheeked thrush migrates from Colombia and across South America to the United States. It arrives in the lower Mississippi region by late April and reaches northwestern Alaska by late May, covering roughly 4000 miles at about 130 miles per day.
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Frederick C. Lincoln
Bureau of Biological Survey
Lincoln
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Venezuela
British Guiana
United States
Mississippi
Florida
Alaska
Louisiana
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Edwardsburg
Canada Starch Company Limited
Montreal
Canada
Mcanian
Argentina
U.S. Naval
Hudson’s Bay
Dixie
Dixie Plug
Far North
Arti
Firestone
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