Canada and Alberta Oil Prospects Stir Western Wealth Plans
An editorial note from Collier’s Weekly highlights Alberta’s oil riches and warns against Standard Oil’s reach. It argues Dominion laws should keep oil fields under Canadian operators to secure national wealth and reduce U S control. It also mentions straw roadway experiments in Idaho and Manitoba building permits, then promotes Chamberlain's remedy.
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Canada
India
Alberta
Canadian
Collier's Weekly
Dominion
Montana
Straw Road Dust Control By Straw Covering In California
Dirt California roads become extremely dusty in dry season causing vehicles to travel through a dust cloud. Farmers cover roads with wheat straw stacked six to eight inches thick. six to eight feet wide, sixteen to twenty wagon loads per mile. Washington state saw widespread straw road use with community turnout and a 100 load effort led by Chas L Whitney.
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California
Sacarmento Valley
Wash
Walla Walla County
Walla Walla
The Last West and the Rise of Canada
In time immemorial humanity moved toward the setting sun as civilization pushed westward. The Last West is the suggestive title for Western Canada, a land of virgin tracts with a growing push for Canadian citizenship as British and European migration slows and the twentieth century favors Canada.
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Western
Canada
Great Britain
Europe
Presbyterian
Canada facts compiled from Commercial Canada
A digest of Canada statistics notes Canada is 18 times France and 20 times Spain in area, 6 million people rising to 17 million by century end. It cites wheat land in the West at 171 million acres with 890 million bushels possible, and Lord Strathcona's claim Canada can feed Britain in 24 years. It records export shares, war service costs, and mortality.
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Canada
France
Spain
Lord Strathcona
Great Britain
Confederation
America
Nothing on the Market Equal to Chamberlain’s Remedy
Joplin Missouri druggist Obe Witmer declares Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy superior to all patent medicines for bowel complaints in a customer circular. He notes nine of ten gists would recommend it when best is asked for. The circular urges readers to seek this remedy and mentions Siegen etme Leding ham and dealers.
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Winnipeg
Chamberlain
Weedingham
Obe Witmer
Joplin Mo
Siegen Etme Ledingham
Pwhere
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Idaho
Michigan
Engineering News
E. M. Williams
Grandview
J. 1. Johnsen
Chasince
J. L. Clark
Russell
Kwok Hong
Brinscarth
Geo. Busch
General Merchant
Shellmouth, Manitoba
Russell, Man
Ss.co
Slo.co
John J. Moon
Astbury’s
Astbury, Russell
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