World Happenings Briefly Told
The Prince of Walks plans to attend the Dominion Day dinner in London this year. Harry K. Thaw, freed after 17 years in confinement, is released. Wheat seeding in prairie provinces nears completion with crops healthily above average in May. Diplomatic talks signed in Washington between U S and Germany similar to prior discussions. Scotland Yard reports 16 691 London street accidents in Q1 with 175 fatalities. Pope Pius receives 1924 medal for welfare work. Imperial Airways plans night flights Paris to London for business travelers. Creston Cooperative Fruit Exchange contracts with Associated Growers of British Columbia. Maj Gen Sir Charles Townshend dies in Paris. A local asthma remedy by Dr Kellogg is promoted. Alberta gas production in 1923 reached 3% trillion cubic feet. crude oil 6 559 barrels. China has over 59 million farmers, 2 billion acres land, with 212 million cultivated acres and limited street widths in Chinese cities.
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Prince of Walks
London
Harry Ko Thaw
Stanford White
Great Britain
Washington
United States
Germany
London Street i
Scotland Yard
Pope Pius
Keighta of Columbus
Paris
Cleir
Imperial Airways, Ltd
Creston Cooperative Fruit Exchange
British Columbia
Creston Valley
West Kootenay
Charles
Townshend
Kut-el-Amara
Mesopotamia
Retires Free RCMP After Thirty Seven Years of Service
Assistant Commissioner Theodore A Wroughton of the force retires after a long career beginning as a constable in 1887. He served across the Northwest Territories Yukon and South Africa before returning to Dawson Yukon as inspector. During his Yukon command he sentenced 2000 in Sabiie court helping end the reign of dance halls and gun violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sol. Wroughten
Capads
Theodore A. Wroughton
FLC
MSP
Col. Wroughton
Northwest Mounted Poller
Yukon
Arctic
South Africa
Red Canadian Mounted’ Rifles
Dawson
Yukon Territory
R.N.W.M.P
J Wroughton
Sabiie
Relics of the Frank Slide Halted by Police
Excavations at the Frank Slide site, where skeletons from the 1962 disaster were found, have been halted by police. About 60 bodies remain buried beneath rock debris, with unearthed remains prompting renewed interest. A bank building was reportedly untouched, and a cottage revealed personal items from the tragedy.
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Frank Slide
Hare Beech
Bodlea
Frank
Union Bank
J. H. Farmer
Tme
Eyelids Grafted In Liverpool Munition Worker Rescue
A Liverpool Royal Infirmary operation grafted new eyelids onto a chemist who lost both eyelids in a sulphuric acid accident at Gretna munitions factory in 1917. Skin from his arm was used and eyelashes grew along the eyelids, ending six years of untold pain. The case is hailed as a major surgical achievement.
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Liverpool
Liverpool Royal Infirmary
England
California
Gretna Munitions Factory
Chemical
Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary
New Malady In London Commuters Shell Shock on Trains
London medical experts warn of a new ailment among daily commuters to the capital. Prolonged train travel induces gradual injury labeled shell shock, arising from swaying carriages, shifting scenery, and clattering noise. Symptoms include irritability, memory lapses, poor appetite, anxiety, and diminished business focus.
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London
To Renew Life Rome Professor Announces New Rejuvenation
Dr. Pais, a University of Rae professor, claims a new radium injection rejuvenation method. It promises a painless, non surgical treatment with safer, better results than the Voronoff operation, and is set for human trials after successful animal tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Pais
University of Rae
Python disrupts expo train in Nagoya incident
A 12 foot python owned by a Japanese showman escaped its box in the baggage car of an expo train near Nagoya. It forced its way into a passenger coach, frightened travelers, then slid back to the platform and was driven out through an opening. The owner faced 10 600 yen in damages.
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Nagoya
Japan
Noor
Hassted
Fumorial Government Railway
Forty Commercial Failures Reported Across Dominion
Forty commercial failures were reported across the Dominion during the week ending May 9, compared with 57 in the same week of 1923, per R.G. Dunn and Company. Manitoba had five, Saskatchewan six, Alberta one, and British Columbia four failures. British government experts have built a camera capturing 200000 photographs per minute for ordnance analysis of shell behavior.
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Dominion
R.G. Dunn and Company
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Catarrhozone Inhaler Offers Throat Cure Promise
An advert touts Catarrhozone as a remedy for sore throat and coughs. It claims to draw out inflammation, relieve soreness, and kill germs in the throat and lungs, with a two month dollar outfit available in small size for 60 cents and sold by druggists or by mail from The Catarrhozone Co. Montreal.
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The
Catarrhozone Co
Montreal
Langdon Discovers Sumerian Library by Divination
Oxford professor Langdon leading Weld-Blunder Expedition reports a chance divination led to a Sumerian cuneiform library discovery in Ireland. He says twenty Kish College rooms were unearthed and expects further finds next year.
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Langdon
Oxford
Nebuchadnezzar
Kish College
Spelling Prompt Reveals Child’s Innocent Helen Confusion
A mother teaches that certain words are naughty as a girl asks how to spell hell. The child clarifies she means Helen and proposes spellling by writing one cylinder at a time, revealing a humorous misinterpretation and schoolweek innocence.
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Helen
Hunting With a Camera Explains Humane Insight Into Nature
The piece argues that photographing wildlife offers deeper connection than hunting with a gun. It claims success requires greater skill than killing and challenges viewing heads or pelts as sporting trophies.
He Started Something Viud-are you aware
An odd, clipped fragment questions money use and finances with a lively older style. The note references a three fourths share toward bills and asks what happens to the remaining funds. It closes with a mention of Minard's Liniment for failing hair.
Canada’s Exhibit 8 of Furs Disappoints Wembley Visitors
Officials lament the underwhelming fur display at Wembley and refrain from stressing Canada as the “Frozen North” to avoid overemphasizing the Dominion. Authorities note a few silver foxes are en route but not yet shown, and that winter sports exhibits are similarly deemphasized to attract tourists to the Dominion.
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Wembley
Canada
Dominion
Cheerful Woman Health through Dr Williams Pink Pills
A Vancouver BC woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring her health after two years of illness. She reports weakness, hospital treatment failure, and gradual recovery after using the pills, with ongoing good health since. Pills available from druggists or by mail for 60 cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Melvin Abra
Graveley Street
Vancouver
B.C
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
Saskatchewan debentures fetch best price to date
Confidence in the province's future grows as Saskatchewan sells two million dollars of five per cent, twenty year debentures to a Toronto syndicate at 95.879 per cent plus accrued interest. The issue marks the best price received for such securities payable in Canada. Also noted are unrelated items about Sucre crafts and English illiteracy among New York factory workers.
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Saskatchewan
Toronto
Canada
Cores Between the Toes Painlessly Removed
An old reliable corn remedy claims to lift corns between the toes without pain. Putnam's Corn Extragier has been advertised for fifty years and is sold for 25 cents everywhere.
Sailing Round World In Four-Ton Yawl
Adventurous American Harry Pidgeon, sailing solo in the four-ton Islander from Los Angeles, has reached Capetown after 18 days from Durban on a world circumnavigation. He plans to sail to the West Indies then via Panama to LA, aiming for about 35,000 miles. He has dodged matrimony yet and declined a Natal woman’s offer to join.
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Los Angeles
Capetown
Table Bay
Harry Pidgeon
Pidgeon
South Sea Islands
Samoa
Fiji
New Hebrides
New Tamea
Australia
Mauritius
Africa
Durban
West Indies
St. Velena
Panama Canal
Natal
Ancient Influenza War Prevalent In Eanteen Germany
An old account traces influenza to 1580 in Eastern Germany where it was called sleeping sickness. It recurs in the 18th century with epidemics across Europe. Notable sufferers include Sir Isaac Newton Goethe Schiller and Kant, who blamed insects from trade with Asia.
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Eanteen
Germany
Sir Jana
Newton
Goethe
Schiller
Kant
Western
Europe
Hissin
Music and Education Elevating the High Arts in Schools
A short essay argues that the keener appreciation of high arts like aBisle builds character, lacks decadence, and fosters purity. It states arts belong in schools from kindergarten to graduation, enriching civilization and acting as a basic subject in the curriculum.
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Dts
Mauilton Herakt
Capital punishment prevails in most states except eight
The survey notes that capital punishment remains in force across most states, with the exception of Arizona Kansas Maine Minnesota North Dakota Rhode Island and Wisconsin. The snippet mentions Minard's Liniment for aches and pains. Tse.
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Colon
Arizona
Kansas
Maine
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
The Strong Right Arm in Time Of Grave Peril
The text argues Britain faces peril from misguided ideas and that the United States could blunder too but could pay a defense bill. It notes a dockers strike could cause hunger and a superior fleet might compel subjection, while Mr. MacDonald cannot or will not push armanent plans.
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United States
National Defence
Great Britain
Mr. MacDonald
England
Chicago Tribune
At 80 Years Of Age Was Troubled With Shortness Of Breath
Mrs M O Connor of Whitestone Ontario writes of long standing breathlessness and heart palpitations. She says Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills gave immediate relief and stopped fainting spells. She keeps them at home and recommends them to others with heart trouble. Pills cost 60 cents a box, available from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto.
Minnows Fight Mosquitoes in Central California
The state employs Gambusia minnows to curb mosquitoes in Butte County California. Report from Grove says these tiny fish placed in irrigation ditches ponds and lakes destroy breeding sites. Mosquito nuisance declined rapidly after minnows were planted across the area.
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Butte County
California
Associated Press
Grove
Cal
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Arvida Te
Ireateteerd Te
Cuneta
J D. Kellogg
Neredious
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
China
RCMP
Fletcher's
Dr. Thomas
Minard
Catadian 1
Cuthenrs
P.O
Hes
Westra
Tulewee Bc
Sucre
South America
New York
Carters Carter
W. No
Dr. Chase
Clement
Edmanson, Bales & Co., Limited
Dr. Erase
Derminigmn Express
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