Principal Auden on Canadian public schooling ideals
The article profiles Principal Auden as a Toronto public school leader exploring Canada’s education style. It contrasts boarding versus day schools, emphasizes residential schooling, culture over pure utilitarian study, and the role of teachers and women. It notes the importance of Latin and Greek, Bible instruction, and agricultural colleges as Canadian strengths.
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Auden
Canada
Theoday School
Schoel
England
Ile
Tennyson
Shakespeare
Petter
Collegiate Institute
A. C
An Hour In The Woods With A Boy And Birds
A fall afternoon walk in the woods with a boy reveals sparrows bluejays chickadees and woodpeckers. The narrator notes bird behavior from tree trunks to the ravine and ends with a sand bank carved by bank swallows as city limits loom.
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Autumn
Scrambled Notes Echo Toronto Star Ornithology Opinion
Fragmentary passage cites birds and trains in Toronto amid jittery prose. Mentions an English sparrow, a gull, a greben wam, and noisy locomotives as part of a wandering natural history remark.
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Gklabo Wass & Great Gull
H. Vy. C
Toronto Star
Goldwin Smith Anecdote Sketches His Erudite Self
In his new book Odds and Ends Dean Pigon recounts a humorous scene with Goldwin Smith, noting he appears lost in thought at breakfast. A father’s prompt triggers a witty reply on the imagined pain of a child with a sore throat and the needed bandage, revealing the scholar’s playful side.
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Dean Pigon
Goldwin Smith
Goldwin
Will Even Up
Mrs. Davyswell wears numerous diamonds at receptions and overdressed for the occasion. Sibyl-Well notes her decollete evening gowns as a contrast to the lavish jewelry.
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Bery
Davyswell
Sibyl
Baltimore
Golfing etiquette joke turns on pipe to curb swearing
A humorous exchange features Mr. Fudge lighting a large pipe while golfing. He explains he smokes it to avoid swearing after a bad shot, claiming the pipe helps him refrain until he can remove it and maintain his religious composure.
Paper Cloaks in Japan Cost Less Than Ninepence
A scientific idea leads to paper overcoats worn by rickshaw coolies in large Japanese cities. The oiled paper garments cost under ninepence, protect from all seasons, and endure a year or more despite extreme weather and heavy use.
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Japan
Emperor inbog mishap prompts drainage order
The German emperor, famed hunter, sank to his hips in a swamp while deer stalking in his vast domain. He was pulled out uninjured except for his clothing. Later he ordered the swamp drained and filled with earth.
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William Inno
England's Best Dressed: Sailor and Nurse Honored
The Rev. E. J. Houghton of St. Stephen's Bristol declares England's best dressed man is a sailor and the best dressed woman a hospital nurse, praising outfits perfectly suited to their work.
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England
E. J. Houghton
St. Stephen's
Bristol
Theatrical Manager Teases Young Dyer in City Show
Burr McIntosh photographed a theater troupe when a young girl around sixteen with striking yellow hair tripped across the stage. The manager whispered about her nickname the beloved of the gods, and Mr Bidaotosh asked why she was dubbed so.
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Burr Mcintosh
Mr. Bidaotosh
New York Times
New War Office Bandolier System Prompts Tender Calls
The London Daily Mail reports the War Office adopts leather bandoliers and pouches for the army with new 50, 10, and 15 round configurations. Tenders invite leather bandoliers and pouches, including 550 bandoliers for 50 rounds and 247,106 pouches for 10 rounds. Three weeks ago split cowhide prices rose a penny per pound.
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War Office
London Daily Mail
Death of Victorian Speaker Duncan Gillies
The death of Duncan Gillies former Premier and Speaker of the Victorian Parliament is reported as tragic. After a long illness he resumed chairing the House but collapsed and could not identify members, was assisted by the Premier and others, and later found dead in his bath three days later. Gillies served on the Imperial Cable Committee with figures like the Earl of Selborne and Sir Saul Samuel in the 1890s.
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Duncan Gillies
London
Bath
Gillies
Imperial Cable Committee
Earl of Selborne
Colonial Office
G. H. Murray
C.B
Canada
Lord Strathcona
A. G. Jones
Australasia
Saul Samuel
Samford Fleming
Fall From High Estate Queen Victoria's Grey Horses
The article notes Queen Victoria prized grey horses and that unsound animals descended from royal status to humbler work. It recalls a Windsor cabman buying a grey for 36 guineas and leasing it to a lady for a pound weekly for five years, while others pulled vans or delivered washing.
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Windsor
Duke of Bedford’s miniature armored train at Woburn Zoo
The Duke unveils a brown painted truck pulled by a small steam motor as a protective armored ride through the Woburn Zoo enclosures. A ferocious deer nearly harmed the Duke and his stout companion during the inspection, prompting the new transport to allow safer tours of the park.
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Duke of Bedford
Woburn
Caprices of the Yukon and the Anchor Ice Explained
John A. Hornsby describes Alaska’s thawing waters and the formation of anchor ice as lakes freeze. He details ice beads, slush floods, and ice jams that challenge mushers and travelers, then explains how air holes form and the eventual icy seal up and submerged river network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Ce Olain
Nature
John A. Hornsby
Toronto Sunday World
Free Sermon Ground Cited After Collection Passed
A Philadelphia preacher notes Brother Jerkins found the sermon very free. The deacon recalls the collection was taken up after it. Jerkin was asleep and the plate passed him.
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Jerkins
Deacon
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U.O.C
Thiebo
Germany
Ruasie
Staus
Mle Boy Es
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Inter Ocean
BOIRS
Statesman
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