Value and buying of fertilizers discussed
A Dominion Agriculture notice warns buyers that fertilizer value hinges on available phosphoric acid content rather than price. It cites superphosphate grades 16 20 and 43 percent available phosphoric acid, urging purchases by real plant food content and advising consultation with the Dominion Seed Branch if value is doubtful.
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Fertfizers Division
Seed Branch
Dominica
Canada
Dominion Seed Branch
Safer Automobiles Emphasize Public Safety Campaigns
A national push highlights growing road safety as cars enter the era of safer design. Despite higher speeds, makers claim stronger glass, larger windshields, improved brakes, and better gear engagement reduce risk.
Manitoba Poultry Grading Advances Consumer Demand
The Manitoba Poultry Pool supports grade based dressed poultry standards to boost consumer demand and unify pricing. For eighteen years every pound sold by the pool has been on a quality basis, ending abuses of flat grading and ensuring fair value for producers and consumers. Prepared by W. A. Landreth.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Poultry Pool
Canada
W. A. Landreth
Typhoid Mary dies after long isolation on islands
Mary Mallon known as Typhoid Mary died at about 70 after a quarter century as an isolated medical prisoner on North Brother Island New York. The case sparked public health debate over innocent carriers and quarantine practices.
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Mary Mallon
Mary
North Brother Island
New York
Typhoid Carrier in Early 1900s Public Health Case
The article recounts a typhoid carrier, Mary Mallon, an Irish cook known as Typhoid Mary, who spread the disease in seven families over nine years. Health authorities quarantined her, finding no effective treatment to halt germ transfer. It notes about four percent of recovered patients remain carriers and explains transmission through food, fingers, flies, and water. The piece highlights that typhoid fever, once widespread in cities and armies, is declining due to preventive medicine.
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Aiary Mallon
Irlan Cook
New York
Mary
Manitoba lawmakers seek list of potential returning officers
Manitoba federal members have been asked to submit to Ottawa the names of candidates eligible to act as returning officers in the next Dominion election.
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Manitoba
Ottawa
Ford V-8s Lead Mercury Showdown in Canada
A photograph features two Ford V-8 cars alongside Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited. The image caption notes Ford versus Canada exhibition with the Ford V-8 models prominent in the display.
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Mercury
Ford Motor 8 Company of Canada, Limited
F . Top
Ford
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