Prince Nicholas joins British navy amid royal news
World events report Prince Nicholas aged 14 signs as a midshipman in the British navy. A Moscow judge presided over a trial sentencing seven men to death. Canadian war memorial gifts include maples and ash trees sent to Fark in Belgium. The Duke of York may become Governor General in a Dominion. Death sentences in wartime total 264. 2,140 were pronounced but not carried out. An unmanned aircraft carried two passengers and landed at Elampos, France. The Canadian Wheat Board Act term is extended to July 15 1924 and expires August 16. A 300-year-old Thorpe Hall blaze damages the stately home of Laron Byng of Vimy.
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Prince Nicholas
Runinia
Elampos
France
Schaat-Board
Have You A Daucuter? Tas Agnece Wirl Interest You
Have You A Daucuter If You Have Tas Agnece Wirl Interest You The ad promotes Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescriptions for women s health claiming strong results from use It urges readers to obtain from a local drug store and try the medicine
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Hamilton! Qat
Pierce
Gang
Sarah Wilstao
Cannon S
Gigantic Raisin Day Parade Draws Big Fresno Crowd
A vast parade inaugurated the 1928 Raisin Day Celebration in Fresno California with representation from nearly every community and military unit in the raisin district. Trophies crowned the best floats while Miss Marié Girard of Delano Kern County won the Queen title amid praise for the pageant From the Garden of Eden to the Garden of the San.
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Fresne
California
Uelles
Cal
Raisin District
Garden of Eden
Garden of the San
New Orleans
Pasadena Tournament of Roses
Marié¢ Girard
Delano
Kern Couguty
Catarrhozone Remedy Promoted For Sore Throat Relief
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a throat remedy claiming to ease inflammation and cough, kill germs, and keep passages clear. It markets two month supply and warns against substitutes, with a Montreal company origin.
Oil of Merit Dr Thomas Ee Lectric Oil
An Oil of Merit Dr Thomas electrical Oil is not a jumble of medicinal substances but the result of careful investigation into healing oils applied to the body. It is a rare combination that has kept public favor from the start. A trial will prove its power to repair and heal.
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Thomas
Seed Control Act Amended for Expanded Seed Grading
The Seed Control Act in Quiana faces amendment in Parliament expanding compulsory grading beyond timothy alsike red clover and alfalfa to all grass and clover seeds plus crops like dak sorg hum millet wheat oats barley and more. Optional grading would apply to garden seeds while farm direct sales remain exempt and farm stored grass and clover seed must be officially tested graded from a central sample.
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Department of Agriculwre
Quiana
Agricultural Committee
House of Commons
Across Canada in 23 Minutes Amateur Relay Record
Radio tests carried across Canada for three nights relay by amateur operators. The BR message from Bail station in Montreal to Reeves station in Duncan Vancouver Island and back reached in 23 minutes, a top relay result reported to the American Radio Relay League.
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American Radio Relay League
Bail
Montreal
W. F. Reeves
Duncan
Vancouver Island
Raisin Cake Recipe Instructions and Variations
A collection of bake instructions detailing ingredients and steps for raisin cake. Includes butter sugar eggs milk soda cream of tartar lemon rind raisins and flour with optional substitutions using baking powder. Also mentions Sun-Maid raisins almonds graham flour and molasses and baking times for loaf or cake.
Baby's Own Tablets Promoted for Infant Ailments
An advertisement urges households to keep Baby's Own Tablets for common childhood illnesses. It claims to soothe indigestion constipation and fevers and includes a testimonial from Mrs. Moise Cadotte of Makamik Quebec. The tablets are sold by medicine dealers or 25 cents per box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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Moise Cadotte
Makamik
Que
Babs
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Meteors and memories in a wandering sermon
The text claims 20 million meteors enter the atmosphere daily as shooting stars. It references Mother Graves Worm Exterminator and mothers testifying to its virtue. It notes a congregation’s practice of reciting the 23rd Psalm and Mrs Armstrong’s habit of speaking ahead during the recital. A question asks who was the lady already interrupted by waiters while others rested in green pastures.
Manitoba Approves Flocks for Improved Poultry Stock
The Poultry Division of the Dowinion Livestock Branch in Manitoba establishes the Manitoba Approved Flocks to standardize stocks and promote heavy laying birds. A pamphlet by A C McCulloch outlines rules, selection of breeding pens, mating, sales of surplus stock, culling, gratis reporting forms, and extra support.
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Manitoba
Dowinion Livestock Branch
A. C. McCulloch
Freezone promises instant relief for corns on toes
The advert claims Freezone instantly stops corn pain by applying a small amount, letting users peel it off with fingers. It markets a tiny bottle sold by druggists for a few cents, capable of removing hard or soft corns between toes without soreness.
Innovation in Alberta fish grading boosts dealer ease
Alberta pioneers led by the Metnnis Fish Company graded and packed fish in three sizes for market, easing weight selection for customers. Reports from Chicago and the United States indicate strong dealer appreciation and consumer convenience, marking a continental first in fish packing.
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Metnnis Fish Company
Alberta
Buffalo Lake
Chicago
United States
Duke Receives Wedding Gift From Wanamaker
Colonel William EF Wood, representing Redman Wanamaker of New York, delivers a wedding gift to the Duke of York at Buckingham Palace. The gift is a massive 35 inch silver vase with hand forged oak leaf festoons and carved lions heads, supported by claw feet.
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William EF. Wood
Redman Wannamaker
New York
Duke of York
Buckinghham Palace
Colonel Wood
Mr. Wanamaker
New Castor Oil Waste Turned Into Building Tiles
A new method compresses castor oil bean residue into light tough tiles and interior bricks for walls and floors. Previously treated as waste or fertilizer, the material now offers warmth underfoot and resembles polished stone, with cost near that of stone or mineral tiles.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Cure for Catarrh
An 19th century advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It describes the medicine as a liquid taken internally, working through the blood to reduce inflammation and aid natural restoration, with Chewla ra free and produced by FE Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Chewlara
Seeds carried by migrating birds spread plants globally
Darwin noted soil carried on migrating birds' feet supports plant growth. the record shows 6.75 ounces yielding at least 37 plants. Meanwhile the Dominion’s trade for eleven months rises by 216 million dollars above the prior year’s tally, as pessimists warned.
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Darwin
Noble Memorial for Zeebrugge Raid to Rise Near the Mole
The foundation stone for a granite 70 foot memorial to the Zeebrugge raid will be laid by the West Flanders governor in a ceremony with a notable Anglo-Belgian party including Admiral Sir Roger Keys and the British Ambassador. The column will bear St. George for England and justice inscriptions, list fallen British sailors and wart ships, and overlook the sea. The governor called the landing a brilliant naval deed.
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Zeebrugge
War tUimre
West Flanders
Roger Keys
Lord Barahany
Lord Emmalt
George Gradwin
Mole
St. George
England
Unfit to Live Must Die Says Corn Removal Ad
An eccentric medical claim touts failure of corns and warts without surgery. It endorses a product called Putnam's Extractor with strong language and sensational urgency, urging readers to apply the remedy to affected skin.
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Putnam’s
University of Alberta tar sands bind briquette experiments
The Research Department at the University of Alberta under Prof. Edgar Stansfield reports a definite use for McMurray tar sands as a binder for coal briquettes. A series of experiments have progressed to a finished product demonstration, showing the process's success.
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University of Alberta
McMurray
University
Edgar Stansfield
Edmonton Bulletin
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