Painted Fires Chapter Continues with Helmi at Home
The Wymuths press discipline on Helmi at the Girls’ Friendly Home in Saint Paul. Helmi’s life there includes coercive questioning, prayers, and a guarded bond with Mrs. Wymuth as she awaits help from Miss Abbie Moore and others.
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Hell
Christ
Mr. Wymath
Helmi
Miss Abble
Miss Rodgers
Mrs. St. John
Saint Paul
Winnipeg
Abbie Moore
American Scot Alex Smith Hosts Scottish Guest
Story recounts George Duncan visiting Alex Smith in New York and the shared dinner where Duncan offered to split the bill. It notes Smith’s claim of being hardened by Scots hospitality and includes a product plug for Mother Graves Worm Exterminator targeting children’s parasites.
Westminster Gazette Reports Baltic Seaplane Trials
The British ministry tests a 3000 mile seaplane program in the Baltic with experimental flying boats to probe naval air transport potential. Reportedly, tests may expand to all metal aerial battleships acting as fleet eyes. The piece notes the human eye uses six muscles.
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The
Westminster Gazette
Baltic
Gazette
Prince of Wales to reside at Marlborough House soon
The Prince of Wales will move into Marlborough House after returning from Canada. The building, a red brick Wren structure over 200 years old, will house his suite on the first floor with two acres of gardens. A reading room and study will replace an audience chamber, while a large ground floor room will host friends. Queen Alexandra’s rooms and Victoria’s Osborne House entries remain as in lifetime.
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Queen Alexandra
Queen Victoria
Osborne House
Isle of Wight
Duty On American Publications Moves to 25 Percent Tariff
Canadian revenue authorities label forty nine American periodicals as dutiable at 25 percent, shifting them from free magazine entry under tariff item 184 to unbound novels under the general tariff. The ruling reclassifies fiction heavy publications amid broader import controls. Parasitic worm issues in infants are addressed by Miller's Worm Powders which claim to destroy worms and restore digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of National Revenue
Canada
United States
Five Curious Lakes on Mangishlak Peninsula
The Caspian Sea region notes five lakes with remarkable features. One salt lake can bear a man and horse, another lake is perfectly round and rose colored with salty banks, violet to rose hues, and a violet perfume from seaweed. Also references Minard’s Liniment and a rapid experiment turning trees into paper within hours at a paper mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mangishlak Peninsula
Caspian Sea
Aid settlement in West guides 401 families on 7944 acres
The Canada Colonization Association, a CPR subsidiary, placed 401 families on 7 944 acres in Western Canada during the first half of 1927. The remark notes cash buyers are favored, while girls admire promising young men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Canada Colonization Association
Canadian Pacific Railway
Western
Canada
Dinner Arranged by Air From San Francisco to Reno Rancher
A Reno cattle rancher near Reno Nevada ordered a sixty plate dinner from The St Francis Hotel in San Francisco to be delivered by an aero plane to W. H. Moffit at the Moffit ranch. Telephoned arrangements included express air delivery with electric heaters, a head waiter, and two aviators in proper attire to serve.
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St. Francis
San Francisco
W. H. Moffit
Reno
Nev
Moffit
Doctor's Praise Endorsement for Williams Pink Pills
Dr Andrea Amici physician to the Papal household endorses Dr Williams Pink Pills for anaemia neurasthenia nervous disorders and stomach weakness. The pills reputedly help in weak development in young women and irregularities and have gained world wide confidence for over thirty years. Available from dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Andrea Amici
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Key Word of Wisdom: Love
A compact meditation on how great teachers emphasize a single word that unlocks their influence. The piece contrasts Buddha, Zoroaster, Menu, Confucius, Moses, Plato, Socrates, Epictetus, Antoninus and finally Jesus who offers love as the inner key.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddha
Zoroaster
Menu
Confucius
Moses
Plato
Socrates
Epictetus
Antoninus
Jesus
O. B. Frothingham
Signature incident during sermon shocks congregation
A congregant wrote the word Fool on a sheet and had it handed to the minister in the middle of a sermon. The minister read the note and commented that a member signed his name without writing the letter while noting ancient Egypt’s sacred lotus was actually a water lily.
Meteorite under Meteor Crater may hide platinum
Drilled 600 feet in Canyon Diablo Arizona where a broken bit hints the main meteor mass may lie beneath Meteor Crater. Mining men expect platinum in paying quantities if tests prove feasible, a finding that could reveal how heavens bombard Earth with massive projectiles.
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Canyon Diablo
Arizona
Coon Butte
Meteor Crater
Neil M. Clark
Popular Science Monthly
Chicago
New York
Africa
King's Model Farm tour for North American visitors at Windsor
Royal farmers explain King George's model farm economy at Windsor where milk vegetables and meat supply Buckingham Palace. They note the king owns and dines on Yorkshire pigs with upturned snouts while dairy cattle and Sussex poultry are shown and the garden and old fashioned dairy are visited. Profits fund palace upkeep. the farm runs on an economic basis.
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North America
King George's Model Farm
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
King George
George
Victoria
Queen Alexandra’s Photographic Collection Binds Interest
A bound collection showcases Queen Alexandra’s self-taken photographs spanning over half a century. Her keen eye for fine pictures would have earned renown in simpler rank, as the album includes portraits of royalty across Europe. The note adds a science aside about how toads absorb water through the skin.
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Alexandra
Europe
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Wymuth
Chatham
Ontario
Lydia E. Pinkham
Curver Menarp
Harvey St
Chatham, Ontarie
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Alex Smith
Elf
George Duncan
Smith
Duncan
Dodds
Prince of Wales
Resi
Minard
Forest
Reno Rancher
Dr. Williams
Madame Guyon
Ancient
Egypt
Athe
King’s Model Farm
Royal Cattle and Poultry
Holloway
Claradien Depot
Listhouse Ltd
Frcoal
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