Immigration boom boosts Canada as settlers pour in
Canadian Immigration Branch reports 325000 arrivals in the past year with about 130000 from the United States and the rest from the British Isles and Northern Europe. Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta prepare reception halls and 160 acre homesteads while railways extend lines to accommodate new settlers. ships shift routes from Antwerp to Canada and Winnipeg welcomes a train conveying 25 farming families with 41 carloads of gear.
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Canadian Immigration Branch
Canada
United States
British Isles
Europe
Western
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Antwerp
Atlantic Steamship Lines
Red Star
America-Canada
Gothland
New York
Rotterdam
Winnipeg
Keep Clean and the Free Air of Heaven
Advice urges cleanliness in home and life with a sunlit, healthy living philosophy. It emphasizes using the blessed sun as the world’s physician and eating to live, not living to eat.
Resino! Ointment Cured When Nothing Else Would
Barbara Carpenter of Ogden South Carolina reports a neck eruption that resembled Nezema clearing after using Resinol. The ad notes Resinol is sold at all drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Carpenter
Ogden, S. C
Local Society Scene Sees Nurse Hired for Poodie
A witty exchange notes a society woman hiring a nurse to care for her poodie while she insists on tending her baby herself. The remark suggests the stunt could become a fashionable fad.
Spohn Distemper Cure Advertised To Control Contagious Diseases
Distemper in all forms among horses and dogs is claimed to be cured by Spohn Distemper Cure. The ad says the product has over 600,000 bottles sold last year and costs $50 and 8100. Agents are wanted for Goshen Indiana based manufacture and distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spohn Medial Co
Spee
Goshen
Fairly Won. Who gave ye th black eye Jim
A short quotation from Life magazine notes a stubborn sentiment about earned conflict. The line “Nobody gave it to me I had to fight for it” reflects gritty individual resilience.
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Jim
Kill the Flies Now and Keep Disease Away
Ad suggests a daily fly killer that kills thousands and lasts all season. Promotes purchase via dealers or by sending 20 cents to Somers at 150 DeKalb Ave Brooklyn NY. Includes a quoted line on poverty as mental and moral training attributed to Finley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somers
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
N.Y
Illinois Happenings Highlights From Across the State
A compilation of local incidents reports many deaths and accidents. Alma Mourns Nora Egan killed by a fast Central train near a village station. Galesburg records Charles Becker crushed by a streetcar. Herrin notes John Connell killed by a mine fall. Other items include disappearances, school fines, political changes, and brief fires.
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Alma
Nora Egan
Galesburg
Charles Becker
Herrin
John Connell
W. P. Rend
Osaunell
Mattoon
Mamie Daugherty
Streator
Walter Farrell
E. Brown
Ottawa
Shelbyville
Bessie Edwards
Sidney Biggs
Belleville Savings Bank
Rockford
Frederick Clamp
Mr Clamp
Lord Weld
Centralia
Farina
Bloomington
Illinois College of Jacksonville
Wesleyan University
Illinois
Edwardsville
Sandoval
Marion County Soldiers and Sailors
Arlington
Reisen
Arnold Drug
Sam Smith
William Morgan
Peter Stuckert
Charleston
George H. Brown
First Christian Church
Austin
Veal Recipes Show Quick Dishes From Loin to Cutlets
A vintage guide lists several veal preparations including Loin Chops of Veal Saute Veal Chops Veal Birds on Toast Breaded Veal Cutlets and Braised Veal Cutlets. Each method explains browning simmering or frying steps with common seasonings and serve suggestions.
Short Cake Paste Instructions
Instructions describe mixing flour butter salt sugar and water to form a dough. Chill, roll into an oblong 1 1/4 inches thick, score edges and pattern top, brush with beaten egg and bake quickly for about thirty minutes. Yields enough for three or four people.
Seed Cakes
A recipe for seed cakes instructs rubbing butter into sifted pastry flour with salt sugar and baking powder. Add sweet milk to form a soft dough then knead roll to half an inch, sprinkle caraway seeds press to adhere and bake quickly.
The Land of Promise and Other Notable Mentions
A collage of vintage ad lines and quotes promoting land prospect guides, home life ideals, eye care products, patent remedies, and moral maxims. It mentions B. C. Prince in Bambridge Ga for a land booklet, Hamlins Wizard Oil for colds, Marine Eye Salve, Thomas a Kempis quote, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, and Meriwether & Edwards tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. C. Prince
Bambridge, Ga
Liquid Bluing Recipe From Old Time Page
Instructions describe making blueing using Best Prussian blue pulverized oxalic acid pulverized one ounce and one half ounce soft water one quart mixed with one or two tablespoonfuls per tub size to produce a speck free blue.
Radium Baths Rise in Bohemia Near Pitchblende Mine
In St. Joachimstahl Bohemia the Austrian government builds a large bathing establishment to use radioactive water sourced from the local pitchblende mine. The facility aims to utilize the radium rich waters for therapeutic or scientific purposes under government oversight.
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St. Joachimstahl
Bohemia
Pitchblende
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Aurora
Alonzo Hinkle
Urbana
D. Dunn
Condit
Peoria
Clayton Paris
Arthur Paris
Taylorville
Nelon McClean
Charles McClean
Edinburg
Sterling
J. W. McDonald
Joseph Spaulding
Greenview
William Behrens
the Centaur Company
Castoria
Bears
Madame de Puysieux
Colonel Hunter
Thomas A Kempis
Dr. Pierce
W. T. Grenfell
Meriwether & Edwards
Clarksville
Tenn
J. Mulrall
Sioux City
Iow
Common Sense Mfg. CO
Niagara Street
Buffalo
Carter
Direct Buyers’ Association
Dallas
Tex
New Yok
New York City
Hudson River
Hangs
Wheton
Watson E.coleman
Washington, D.C
Chicago
Asary Medical Ass’n
R.V. Pierce
M. D
Pres
T. Buffalo
Pierce
Boor
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