Veterans and Youth Notions Contrast in Ottawa Journal
The Ottawa Journal quotes voices arguing youth should be given a chance but warns that older veterans like Stanley Baldwin and J. Rameau MacDonald may be preferable to up and coming leaders. It notes Germany’s violence under early Nazi pressure and questions the appeal of youth optimism versus veteran steadiness.
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Germany
Stanley Baldwin
J. Rameau MacDonald
Adolf Hitler
Sir Oxnald Moxley
Tanly
Ottawa Journal
Sensible Driver Duty Highlighted by Judge Kingstone
The Stratford Herald cites Justice Kingstone in the local assize session on driving with limited visibility. He states a driver must stop if he cannot clearly see ahead. failure to stop could render him legally responsible for any resulting accident. The piece urges drivers to consider this logic in fog and glare conditions.
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Peterborough
Ontario
Justice Kingstone
Assize Court
Kingstone
Stratford-Herald
Optimistic Outlook for East Coast Fishing Industry Returns
John Dubhavn, back in Prince Rupert from a trip to Eastern Canada and the U.S., says there is renewed optimism about the fishing industry. He expects frozen stocks to be cleaned up by March 1, improving health and boosting confidence among industry members.
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John Dubhavn
Prince Rupert
B.C
Canada
United States
Fragmentary dialogue from a damp street scene
A garbled excerpt shows a landlady discussing a new place with a man who calls it right yet not what he wanted. The exchanged lines reveal casual, muddled speech and a sense of dissatisfaction.
Australia Plant Hospital in Canberra Aims to Save Thousands
In Canberra the Plant Hospital treats sick flora with operating theatres wards and laboratories. Glass wards shield plants from sun and cold while researchers study diseases in leaves roots and cereals. The facility analyzes fertilizer effects and crop yields across eras.
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Canberra
Australia
Dieticians
Better To Be Average
A thirteen year old graduate faces social and intellectual mismatch with typical teens, hindered by adolescence when moving toward college. The piece argues happiness favors the average person, who bears the societal gift of balance amid future pressures.
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New York City
Geda
Detroit Free Press
Longest-Lived Coin and Demand for Larger Denominations
Walter Sellar notes copper coins have the longest government currency life as they sit unused in drawers or children's banks. He cites the rise of slot machines and coin boxes boosting larger coins and says 50-cent pieces were not minted last year. About 5 million 25-cent shin-planters remain in circulation and the Dominion’s $5 note totals around 1 million, mostly in Quebec.
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Walter Sellar
Sellar
Maritimes
West
Dominion
Quebec
Water bottle recalls North West Mounted Police trek
An 1881 water bottle inscribed Constable Sinclair NWM P was found at Waterton National Park Alberta by E H Wagstaff. The relic, picked up near Bad Lands east of Pags creek, evokes patrols that searched Pass creek valley for the outlaw Charcoal, captured later and hanged at Macleod for murder.
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North-Waet Mounted Police
Sinclair
N.W
Waterton National Park
Alberta
E. H. Wagstaff
Pags Creek
Pass Creek
Macleod
Wilde
North-West Mounted Police
Alligator Pear Tree in Whittier Gives Big Profit
An alligator pear tree in Whittier California yielded a profit of 3200 dollars in one year. The seedling bearing fruit in its seventh year produced 3000 pears sold for 1500 dollars and buds sold for 1700 dollars. The tree, a seedling from imported seed, bears pears weighing two to twelve ounces.
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Whittier
California
Mexico
Service to Humanity in Influenza Immunization Efforts
The National Institute for Medical Research pursues influenza immunization for humans, a goal hailed as a huge public service. Influenza has killed millions, especially in the 1918 epidemic, and researchers warn the work is not complete. They emphasize cautious optimism based on a year of progress.
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National Institute For Medical Research
Old Age Pensions Questions Elicit Honest Recount
In Nova Scotia a government set up agency is receiving and reviewing pension applications. An investigator asked an elderly woman to note any unusual income from the past year. She hesitated and asked if she must state the two dollars she received for her vote in the last election.
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Nova Scotia
Lincoln boots: a morning at the White House
Senator Summer of Massachusetts finds President Lincoln polishing boots at dawn. The president, still at work, answers simply that he blacks the boots belonging to himself, prompting a wry exchange about who’s boots are being polished.
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White House
Summer
Massachusetts
Lincoln
Track star fuels morning pace described as fiery run
A newspaper quote notes a boy's phenomenal speed on the track while his mother recalls finding the track covered in cinders the next morning, implying a dramatic racing incident without full details.
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Cindera
Elastic Debate at Aberdeen Shopkeeper Dialogue
A commercial traveller and an Aberdeen shopkeeper discuss stretchability and measurement. The Aberdonian insists on more of the elastic material, claiming he cannot gauge a last consignment without it snapping. The exchange reflects local banter over material reliability and pricing.
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Aberdeen
Mistress References Reveal Fast Groundskeeper Skips
A humorous verse recounts a maid noting six places in a month and the mistress lamenting the end of good times as new references surface.
Bath postal authorities reportedly issue unusual address
Bath postal workers believe they set a record by delivering a letter to an address read as Ye the driver of a cab outside the North Door of the Abbey Bath who on January the First wore a white chrysanthemum in his coat.
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Bath
England
Abbey
Flower pot production in England tops 1.25 million weekly
England factories work to meet demand as production exceeds 1,250,000 flower pots every week and orders pile up. The surge reflects strong gardening trends and seasonal demand across multiple regions.
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England
Found Again the Griffon Ship in Lake Huron Waters
The New York Herald Tribune reports the Griffon, the first European ship on the Great Lakes, discovered in ten feet of water off Birth Island in Lake Huron. Descended from La Salle’s fur trade voyage, the ship vanished after 1679 with legends of mutiny and disaster. Identification remains uncertain after centuries of myth and mystery.
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A. P
St. Ignace
Green Bay
Wisconsin
la Salle
Lake Huron
Birth Island
Great Lakes
Alte of
Buffalo
Oliver Hazard Perry
Griffon
New York Herald Tribune
Streamline train 110 mph sparks debate on machines and economy
The New York Times argues that a faster streamline train challenges the era of technocracy and unemployment fears. It suggests shifts in industry, finance, and transport as railways face obsolescence and potential replacement by airplanes or rebuilt lines.
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New York Times
First Bottled Milk History From 1878 to Home Use
The International Review of Agriculture notes the first bottled milk appeared in Brooklyn in 1878 using beer bottles with patent stoppers. By 1889 cardboard discs sealed bottles, initially for guaranteed or infant milk, then for markets, schools, offices, and factories, and finally general home use with skim milk, sour milk, whey, and butter milk sold bottled.
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Brooklyn
U.S.A
International Review of Agriculture
England Ten Year Dog Distemper Study Cost Report
A decade long study in England on dog distemper cost about 275000 dollars. The report notes it is easier to identify problems than to discover a remedy that will work.
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England
Garden Plans For A Crowded Canadian Season
The piece urges building a vegetable garden as a steady income source amid hard times in Canada. It advises staggered planting of early to late varieties, continuous harvests, and introducing new crops. It notes road stands, canning, and local markets as income avenues with urgent effort and careful planning.
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Canada
Fatal World War Mines Drift Still Plague Seas
A Finnish steamer found and destroyed a drifting sea mine in the Baltic Sea. Since World War I a Swedish naval officer has located and destroyed over 350 drifting mines. The hazard remains shocking and widespread due to indiscriminate wartime tossing and incomplete postwar clearance.
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Baltic Sea
Not So Unfortunate The Letter E in Words
A quirky reflection on the letter E noting its absence in many harsh words yet presence in peace progress and love. It plays a central role in terms like honesty, endurance and achievement, framing the paradox of its ubiquity.
Contest to pick prettiest girl in graduating class
Reported jest about a high school event in a class of 400 where the outcome was one girl receiving two votes. The remark reflects light humor on a school contest and the small tally.
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