Western Canada Colonization Push Seeks More Settlers
Proposals to boost immigration to Western Canada through a unified league face cross-border lobbying and private schemes. Reports from North Battleford say newspapers and foreign agents push local colonization efforts, while Ontario and British interests aggressively promote emigration to Canada’s west.
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Canada
Colonization and Development League
North Battleford
Old Country
United States
Western Canada
Great Britain
Boards of Trade
Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Eastern Canada
East
Ontario
England
Saskatchewan
New Zealand
South Africa
Absolute Zero and the Coldest Possible Temperature
The article explains a definite limit to the lowest conceivable temperature, roughly 459 degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit scale. It states that above this absolute zero particles vibrate, with vibrations increasing with heat, and that at absolute zero all motion would cease, with air potentially liquefying or solidifying.
Bradley potato variety debuts in Spokane County farms
A Spokane resident Henry K Brad announces a new potato breed named Bradley as a cross between Brunswick and Million Dollar rar. The tuber was developed on his farm and the busy bees reportedly oversee its production.
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Spokane
Henry K. Brad
Bradley
International Irrigation Congress Heads to Calgary 1914
Calgary to host the 1914 International Irrigation Congress October 5 to 9 with delegates from foreign countries and almost every U.S. state. Organizers emphasize expert sessions, practical irrigation methods, and lasting economic impact. Local chairmen include J S Dennis and A W Pryce-Jones with Aldermen Crandell and T A E Frose coordinating committees.
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Pame
Calgary
United States
Domnions
Union
Salt Lake City
Congress
R. W. Young
East Lake City
Arthur Hookers
Alberta
8. Case
Abilene
Kansas
John Fairweather
Frenso
Cal
S. H. Lea
Pierre
S.D
Richard F. Burgos
el Paso
Texas
Kurt Grunwald
International Board of Governors
Geo. A. Snow
Richard W. Young
J. S. Dennis
Douglas White
Los Angeles
Lou D. Sweet
Denver
Colo
L. Newman
Great Falls
Mont
Arthur Hooker
Dennis
Con
E. H. Crandell
Jas W. Davidson
Live stock must be kept to sustain soil fertility
The article argues crop rotation and legumes help but do not replace keeping livestock. It warns that selling all crops off the farm exhausts soil and stresses saving and applying manure. Citing US Department figures, Kansas corn yields fell as crops were sold, while stock states like Illinois showed rising yields.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Illinois
Indian Sedition Trials Uncover Plot Across Regions
Police seize clues linking Punjab Rajputana Bengal sedition movements. Delhi and Arrah trials reveal plans for secret societies with two concentric circles, funds by robbery, and bomb making. Hanwant Sahai described aims to undermine authorities and direct use of violence.
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Punjab
Rajputana
Bengal
Arrah
Jaipur
Delhi
Islamia College
Lahore
Hanwant Sahai
Hansant Sahai
Hanwant Saha
China
Persia
Turkey
England
Windsor treasures include rare Louis XV statue and cabinets
The article notes King George's gifts to France and highlights a unique bronze equestrian statue of Louis XV in Windsor's Green Drawing Room. It mentions three Gouthière cabinets for the d Artois bought by George IV, valued today at about fifty thousand dollars each if sold.
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George
King George
Louis XV
Windsor Castle
Girardon
Place Vendome
Paris
Windsor
Gouthiere
D’ Artois
George IV
Edmonton Population Surpasses Seventy-Two Thousand
Official census places Edmonton population at 72,315 with daily arrivals. Last year’s figure was 67,243, predicting a rise of about 5,006 to 5,100. Growth mainly on the south side of the river with notable gains on the north side as well.
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Edmonton
Pearl Deception in Auction Warns Buyers of Hidden Coatings
A well known pearl merchant offered a pearl for 40000 dollars after it had been renovated by Varma. Experts testified the coating of tropo line coloring was a protective skin and that the pearl was falsified. The tribunal will decide on further action, highlighting the need for elaborate tests to distinguish doctored river pearls from high quality sea pearls.
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Varma
Warma
Jewellers’ Syndicate
British Interests Plan Oil Refineries on Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
Negotiations between Canada interior ministry and British oil interests aim to develop an oil fuel industry. Plans include two fortified refineries on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to supply oil fuel for the British navy, with pipelines from distant sources and no northern Alberta prospecting. A Canadian refining company may be formed.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Schell Companies
California
Alberta
Ottawa
Inventor Carl Gustafson Patents Recording Telephone
Carl J Gustafson of near Aberdeen South Dakota patents an answering and recording telephone. The device combines telephone and phonograph to store a predetermined office message and allow remote dictation for later playback. It works on its own batteries and can record conversations over the line for office use.
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Carl J. Gustafson
Aberdeen
S.D
City of All Glass and the future of glass architecture
Paul Scheerbart, noted writer, predicts a glass era for architecture with iron furniture and rust proof frames. He envisions double glass walls for warmth, electric heating, Tiffany decor, and glass porches and greenhouses where homes bathe in sun and starlight. The city would feature glass stores, churches, and public buildings glowing in color.
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Paul Scheerbart
Herr Scheerbart
German Scientists Plan Wireless Wave Earth Study Expedition
German scientists will soon travel to the United States and Canada to use a remarkable new wireless wave apparatus for probing the earth’s interior and locating water and ore deposits, with a similar government‑backed expedition already active in German Southwest Africa.
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Earth
United States
Canada
Africa
Germany Burns Lignite Like Ours For Fuel Use
Europe reports Germany has large near surface lignite beds known as brown coal. Briquettes from this low quality coal burn with steady heat and little smoke, allowing cheap transport from Berlin areas. The method explains why smokeless towns and a growing preference for lignite briquettes may emerge as an alternative to regular coal.
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Germany
Canada
Pennsylvania
Europe
Berlin
Roller Skates Speed Up Chicago Postal Duties
The Chicago post office tested roller skates for clerks to speed locker checks and parcel handling. With 1400 lockers in a 300 foot basement, skating cut checking time to a quarter of previous pace and reduced boot wear. Officials consider extending skates to other departments.
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United States
Chicago
Wireless fog signals and mine blasts tested by Marconi experts
Marconi experts demonstrate a distant signaling system at Clyde Lighthouse Trust station Gourock with a Stevenson Moyes acetylene gun capable of three flashes per minute for up to 400 hours. The setup aims to prevent accidental firing by passing ships and may replace time fuses in blasting, with potential railway fog signaling applications.
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Marconi
Clyde Lighthouse Trust
Gourock
Fort Matilda
Rosenéath
Rail traffic growth in western grain haul 1913 14
The Canadian Northern leads in grain car increases with 7 928 more cars in 1913 14 rising to 29.6 percent of western grain movement. CPR adds 4 247 cars, with nearly half the CN total haulage. GTP up 4 494 cars but 10.3 percent of western grain. GN R and Duluth 3.7 percent and a drop of 3 126 from 1912. Total cars rise 13 542, eighty five percent, as railways brace for big gains.
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Canadian Northern Railroad
C.N.R
C.P.R
Canadian Northern
G.T.P
G.N.R
Duluth
Radium’s Rise and Risk as a Quack Cure
The British Science Guild scrutinizes the word radium and its hype, noting that radium salts are not a drug and tracing the era of X-ray use to Curie discoveries. It warns against quackery while highlighting radium’s real medical potential when properly applied.
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British Science Guild
Mme. Curie
Paris
Currie
Royal Institution
Moore
Oakland to become garden city of California plan
Garden City soldier movement plans split Oakland into forty three districts. Twenty thousand school children form garden soldiers with parents teachers and club members supervising in each district. Improvement clubs civic groups real estate associations and city departments join to transform streets with flowers and blooms citywide.
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Oakland
Garden City Soldier Movement
Oaklard
California
Muskrat Farms Planned in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
One of New Brunswick's largest ranching firms plans a muskrat farm near Halifax this summer with a thousand pairs to be installed and expected revenue. Fox raising is expanding as many farmers start small ranches to rear foxes locally.
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New Brunswick
Halifax
Denmark's State Aid Plan Lifts Small Farmers Worldwide
The article details a Danish program for smallholdings for agricultural laborers aged 25 to 50, requiring four years of work and a fraction of holding value as a loan. It notes total holdings 1901–1911 reached 6,777 with 25.41 million crowns in loans, and shows livestock totals for 5,374 farmers as of April 1 1911 plus high coop participation across dairies, slaughterhouses, eggs, and livestock groups.
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Denmark
Treasury
How Nectar Becomes Honey
The article explains nectar differs from honey in composition and odor. It details bees' digestion, gland secretions, and the evaporation process inside the hive that concentrates nectar into ripe honey with about twelve percent less water and no strong floral scent.
Money From Africa for P E I Foxes
A cable from Johannesburg to the Royal Investment Exchange in Charlottetown reports a large sum mailed for fox industry investment. The exchange has opened offices in Montreal and London. Millionaire financiers are negotiating deposits, including one for $100,000, with another inquiry about purchases valued at $150,000 to $200,000.
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Africa
P.E.I. Foxes
Johannesburg
Royal Investment Exchange
Charlottetown
Pei
Fox
P.E.I. Royal Investment Exchange
Montreal
Londons
England
Exchange
Europe
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