Western Canada Wheat Marketing and Debt Safeguards
A discussion urges delaying a wholesale wheat dump to avoid price collapse as farmers face debt pressures. It argues banks and creditors rely on timely repayments, warns against rapid marketing that could depress prices, and contends gradual selling protects farmers, lenders, manufacturers, and workers while preserving national credit and employment.
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Organized Wheat Board
Seacon
Canada
Hiss
Sven
The Modern Slave and the Rise of Machine Labor
A Minneapolis News quotation argues machines replace human toil and will lead to a future where people mainly build and adjust machines. It asserts a shift from handwork to mechanization, calling the machine the modern slave and noting widespread reliance on industrial labor. Two autos improve barrel-sifting efficiency.
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Minneapolis News
Ancient Egyptian Obsidian Head Sells for Fifty Thousand
Sothebys rooms sold a carved head of Amenemuses III, an Egyptian king from about 3000 B.C., described as the finest expression of Egyptian statuary. The obsidian piece, four and seven eighths inches high, fetched £10,000 with praise from Egyptologist Percy E. Newberry as a masterpiece unmatched by any sculptor.
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Sotheby's
Amenemuses III
B.C
Percy E. Newberry
Nature keeps working: a chatty Standard quip
A Kingston Standard editorial praises nature for never striking, joking that a strike would ruin everything. The piece playfully calls the natural world a kind old lady always at work, highlighting its reliability and constant activity.
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Kingston Standard
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promoted for Nervous Debility
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as effective for nervous debility and related symptoms. It cites Mrs Docke Tritt of Stratford Ontario and her daughter Matilda, claiming improved health and heart flutter relief after use. Pills sold locally or by mail at 50 cents a box or six for 2.50 from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Brockville
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Insatiable Mother and Curious Daughter Exchange
A brief exchange features a mother warning Kate against questions, invoking the saying curiosity killed the cat. Kate asks what the cat wanted to know, prompting a coy reply.
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Kate
Everest Named Mountain After British Official and Indian Survey Head
A historical note traces how the highest peak was named in 1856 for Sir George Everest, a British official who headed India's Survey and improved colonial mapping. The article also reports Asiatic yak introductions at Wainwright National Park in Alberta, aiming to crossbreed with buffalo for a hybrid.
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Nanastmani
India
Sir George Everest
Chomo-lung-ma
George Everest
Cape
Wainwright
The
National Park
Alberta
Stock Exchange Banter In A Curious Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue shows tradesmen joking about speculation on the Stock Exchange with quips about being a bull or a heart and casual remarks on walking away, reflecting playful banter and misread dialogue.
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Ft Am
Stock Exchange
The Problem Of The Mentally Defective
An article argues feeble mindedness is a major social issue. It cites 24 to 2 percent estimate in Canada, details types from imbeciles to normals, and links prostitution, venereal disease, crime, and social costs to feeble mindedness. It calls for segregation and training to reduce reproduction and societal harm.
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Canada
Board of Education
Vancouver
Young Woman Demonstrates Arm Exercise In Humor
A college student returns home and shows her father a physical culture drill using a thin rod moved from right to left. He jokes that with straw on the end she could be sweeping, reflecting light sarcasm on early fitness trends.
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Dad
American Legion Weekly
Grow Your Own Fuel Prairie Tree Planting Benefit
Report from Indian Head Saskatchewan shows on just over one acre a Rus sian poplar stand produced 18 cords of firewood in eight years. The Canadian Forestry Association says this could yield about $16 per acre per year at $8 a cord, suggesting Liberal tree planting could improve farm profits and home conditions on western wheat lands.
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Prairie Provinces
Hominion Forestry Nursery
Indian Head
Sask
Canadian Forestry Association
Mother Graves Worm Exterminator Promises Lasting Relief
Advert says all mothers can end worry over suffering children with Mother Graves Worm Exterminator. Claims its effects are pure and lasting, offering relief from worm-related discomfort.
Wireless Underground Signals Reach Underground Mine Test
In a British coal mine an aerial was set up a quarter of a mile from the open. Despite small apparatus, signals were heard from several high power transmitting stations including a large station near Berlin.
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Berlin
Colorful pastor vows defining sermon today
A colored pastor told his congregation he will deliver a powerful sermon this morning. He plans to define the undefinable explain the unexplainable and unscrew the unscrutable for the audience.
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Brethren and Sistera
Princess Mary Hard Pressed by Photographers at Public Events
Princess Mary, pursued by photographers more than any public figure other than Lloyd George, endures constant cameratime since her marriage to Viscount Lascelles. Cameramen dog her at church and garden parties, prompting her to directly request they desist.
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Mary
Lloyd George
Viscount Lascelles
Relief from Asthma by Kellogg Remedy Described
A reader asks who can describe relief from asthma following Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy and the joy felt as the soft gentle influence frees constricted airways. The ad claims it has made asthmatic affliction a thing of the past for thousands and never fails with good druggists selling it for years.
Alberta Population Growth Split Between Urban Rural
Alberta population statistics show urban population rising from 18 553 to 292 904 over twenty years, an average ~10 000 yearly. Rural population grew at about 16 500 per year in the same period.
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Alberta
Province
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Nebraska
National Retail Dry Goods Association
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New York
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Wireless Underground
Detroit
Princess Mary
Concenitztam Lna Veterinaria
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