The Old World Ends in Sea-Wind Echoes
A fragment from The Smart Set evokes the sea's sway and the old world fading. The speaker notes widows and graves, moulder and grass, as time turns away from past lives toward uncertain horizons.
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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
8
Paint Upside Down and the Lawyer Who Won’t Run
A Dundas County merchant known as Pat is told his paint won’t stick to the floor but will stick from above, implying he opened the wrong end of the can. The tale blends a country store scene with a humorous moral about misapplied paint and community lore. Also included is a political tale of a county lawyer who refuses a congressional bid to avoid exposing a long forgotten poetry book from his youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Down
Dundas County
Whitney
Pat
St. Lawrence
Erin
Limerick
Connaught
Congress
Misplaced Adverb Teaches Kindness in Toronto School
A Toronto classroom hears a playful misstep by a visiting educator as he tries to illustrate kindness. A student finally shares how his father nearly gives him a cent every morning, revealing the lesson's personal link.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Jeugnene Hughes
The
Procession of Icebergs Guides Newfoundland View
The article describes a spring iceberg procession along Newfoundland's East Coast driven south by the Labrador Current and nearing the Gulf Stream. It notes heavy drift ice delaying navigation and agriculture while icebergs, food for marine life, ebb toward Europe. It mentions Lost Lake Station and Hudson's Bay Company presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newfoundland
Arctic
Grand Banks
Europe
Africa
Lost Lake
Hudson's Bay Company
Lake
Grand Trank Pacific
Two Remarkable Men and the Canadian Northern Rise
An excerpt notes the transition from no Canadian Northern Railroad in 1496 to about 7 000 miles in operation or planned today. It highlights the railroad as a continental spine under single control by William Mackenzie and Donald D. Mann, two notable Canadian figures shaping its growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Northern
Canada
William Mackenzie
Donald D. Mann
Estate of August Wilhelm Leaves Toronto Widow All
The estate of August Wilhelm who died in Bavaria leaves 151,390 dollars to his widow who receives the entire estate in Toronto. Arthur C Me Master a Toronto barrister is named executor. The bulk of the property consists of mortgages. Among 206 crate charters granted by Parliament in twenty years to 1909 only 28 led to construction 86 lapsed and others extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Wilhelm
Toronto
Bavaria
Arthur C. Me
Canadian Pacific
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian Northern
Free Trade Question on Plows Sparks Trade Debate
The 15 percent tariff on Canadian plows entering the United States faces Cockshutt Plow Co of Brantford securing 75 carloads to the Western States. If faced with this tariff, how would reciprocal free trade improve their output and benefits for grain growers, urged to government action by the Grain Growers Associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cockshutt Plow Co
Brantford
Model Farms Not War Ships Advocated by James Hill
James Hill argues for shifting naval funds to agriculture and experimental farms. He proposes annual African agricultural ventures and a large $100 million program funded from maritime appropriations. Hill contends ships are less needed than productive farming infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hill
United States
Mer
Hill
Oman
Agricultural schools and model farms urge national farming reform
The article cites Mr. Hill urging cutting warship funding to finance 1,000 agricultural schools across the United States. Each school would support model farms demonstrating modern tillage, crop rotation, and fertilization to uplift farm families, attract youth, and boost national wealth through science based farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill
Mr. Hill
United States
Agricultural College
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Arthur Io
Grandpa Whetstone
Washington Star
Smellie Bros. Ltd
Mr. Ell
the Banner Bookstore
Dre. Kennedy & Kennedy
Henry C. Locust
the Golden Monitor
Drs
Kennedy & Kennedy Cor
Michigan Ave
Griswold
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