Exportation of British Pedigree Stock Reviewed by Committee
The panel led by Lord Strachie reports on Britain’s export trade in livestock, urging purity, tuberculin testing, and official testing abroad or acceptance of UK certificates. It calls for stronger laws against fraud, improved consul expertise, and potential export stations to boost confidence and prices while noting railway costs and disease controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Strachie
Edward Strachey
Board of Agriculture
Wi Uwin
Middleton
South America
Bank of Montreal reports record profits and major revaluation
The Bank of Montreal marks 94 years in Canada with its 1911 annual meeting chaired by R B Angus. Net profits reach a record 2,276,518, assets total 230,000,000, and a 3,400,000 premises revaluation boosts the rest and adds to the profit and loss balance. Sir Edward Clouston retires as general manager. H V Meredith will succeed him.
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Bank of Montreal
Canada
R. B. Angus
Edward Clouston
Great Britain
United States
New York
London
H. V. Meredith
Dominion
A Mere Guess A Suffragette May Fight And Look Under The Bed
A collage of satirical quips from multiple papers about suffrage. Poised as verse, it blends humor and imagined scenarios where a suffragette confronts male figures over voting rights. The piece toys with the idea of marriage as a political bargaining chip and lampoons male responses.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Boston Transcript
Maud Muller and the weight quest in a winter verse
A humorous verse follows Maud Muller through her vanity and dieting attempts. She seeks slimming at a Turkish bath and with grain diets, exercise, and health bills. Despite efforts she remains heavy, hurting herself with clubs and clumsy workouts while her scales refuse to budge.
Christmas Trees for the Birds in Northamptonshire
Four thousand local children helped decorate trees for birds with meat bones suet nuts and seeds in gardens and ground scatterings. Mrs Sherard mistress of Guilsborough Hall funded daily supplies for the birds as thousands visited the park. A call to Canada to imitate the cooperative effort.
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Northamptonshire
England
Actors in the House of Lords and Peer Players
Viscount Dangan son of Earl Cowly acts in Peggy at the Gaiety Theatre and follows a path by peers like Earl of Rosslyn nicknamed James Erskine who acted both in America and Britain. He and Lord Lyveden also tried many careers including war reporting and stage work.
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Viscount Dangan
Earl Cowly
Peggy
Gaiety Theatre
Earl of Rosslyn
Peers
James Erskine
America
Lord Lyveden
Prank Hill
Haymarket
Earls and peers tread boards in early stage careers
The piece notes Earl of Yarmouth appearing in his musical comedy The Pigeon House and Marquess of Anglesey acting in a three act bill at the Gaiety Theatre in 1901. It highlights Hon Helen Douglas-Scott-Montagu embracing acting under the alias Miss Elaine Cecil in The Girl in the Train and praises her potential as an ornament to the profession.
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Earl of Yarmouth
Fortune
Eric Hope
Marquess of Anglesey
Anglesey Castle
Helen Douglas-Scott- Montagu
Lord Montagu of
Actor Seeks Work in Westchester Stock Theatre
An impoverished actor, long out of work, travels from Forty-second Street to a Westchester theatre forty five minutes from Broadway by train seeking a summer role in a fine stock company. The manager greets him warmly and asserts he is the preferred choice among all actors, prompting the desperate performer to respond with resolve and dignity.
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Westchester
Broadway
New Haven
Forty-second Street
Actor questions script cues in Hart Schaffner and Marks style
A dialogue shows an actor and manager discussing stage costumes across acts. The manager prescribes outfits from yacht cream serge to evening dress, while the actor jokes about the writing credit Hart Schaffner and Marks.
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Ore
Hart, Schaffner and Marks
Suspended Animation in Micro life Reveals Regeneration
The article explains how lower life forms endure injuries that would kill higher animals. It notes rotifers and wheel-animalcules can suspend life by desiccation and revive fully with a single drop of water. Clawed lobsters and polyp fragments also exhibit regrowth after damage.
Asthma Remedy Brings Relief and Comfort
An ad extols Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy claiming it eases strangled breathing during attacks. It states relief is beyond measure and breathing becomes normal as bronchial tubes clear, making the remedy worth its price to users.
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J. D. Kellogg
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House OF Lords
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