Boring a Tunnel Through the Selkirks for CPR Line
The Canadian Pacific Railway plans a Rogers Pass tunnel through the Selkirks to shorten the transcontinental route by four miles. The Boxers Pass tunnelling scheme involves more than 10 million dollars, pioneer bore shafts, and dual ends drilled simultaneously to speed completion by 1916.
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CPR
Selkirks
Boxers’ Pass
America
Hoosac
New York Central
Canadian Pacific Railway
British Columbia
Rogers
Belk Range
C.P.R
Rogers’ Pass
Canadian Pacific
Innstead
300 Miles an Hour Miracle From France
The London Standard and Express highlight Emile Bachelot’s magnet levitation idea for a high speed track. A suspended car would ride on magnetic towers with electric propulsion, claiming 40 to 48 minute London to Manchester and 75 minutes London to Glasgow. Costs cited include $25,000 per mile plus $60,900 per hundred miles for power houses. Experiments impressed railway experts, though editors warn the concept could alarm conservatives if tests succeed.
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France
London Standard and Express
Emile Bachelot
America
Bachelot
London
Manchester
Glasgow
The
Express
Spanish Navy Proposes Nine Year Warship Credit Bill
Spanish minister of marine tabled a bill for an annual credit of 7.2 million dollars over nine years to fund exclusively Spanish shipbuilding. The plan aims to develop arsenals and avoid foreign builders, with a battleship to be laid down in 1917 and built entirely by Spaniards using Spanish materials.
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Miranda
Minister of Marine
Japan to participate in 1925 Hampton Roads naval review
The Japanese government informed the U S State Department that it had appropriated 363,362 dollars for Japan’s warships to take part in the international naval review at Hampton Roads in 1925 and for the voyage through the Panama Canal to the Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco.
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State Department
Washington
Hampton Roads
Panama Canal
San Frax
April War Coincidence Ties Dates Across American Conflicts
April dates link major conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the Spanish American War. Washington notes that the Atlantic fleet would reach Tampico on the sixteenth anniversary of the 1898 declaration, with the war antedated to April 21. Governor Locke recalls April as the traditional start month for many Indian uprisings and wars.
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Washington
Tampico
Spain
Congress
McKinley
Victor M. Locke
Oklahoma
Locke
United States
Fort Sill
New Edible Mushroom Bred by Prof Matruchet in Paris
Professor Matruchet a renowned French botanist unveils a cultivated edible mushroom derived from wild woods fungi. Grown in Paris Observatory cellars the variety named tricholome nudum yields year round harvests with stems eight inches high and heads four to six inches across. Early specimens showed purplish blue stems that fade with continued cultivation.
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Matruchet
Paris Observatory
Forest Waste Felt Abroad Threatens German Industry
Declining U S forests drive concern in German pencil and vehicle sectors. Red cedar and hickory, sourced from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas, grow scarce. German army uses U S hickory for gun tongues, while carriage and auto sectors rely on steady supply. future shortages loom.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Texas
America
Nelson Letter Sells for 1050 in Autograph Sale
A September 1805 letter from Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton written aboard the Victory sold for 1050. It is among the last Nelson entries in the Lady Hamilton collection published in 1814. The sale also offered Bon de Beaumont manuscripts and letters fetching 850.
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Neilson
Lord Nelson
Lady Hamilton
J. B. Hodgkin
Bon de Beaumont
Bite Americanization of Canada shows imperial problem
Toronto Times correspondent argues Britain’s view of Canada as bound by history is shifting. He notes immigrant inflow and a possible push toward an independent Canadian republic. He cites Canada’s newspapers now prioritizing British news over American items, suggesting a complex imperial dynamic and latent anti imperial sentiment among some Canadians.
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Toronto
London Times
Canada
Great Britain
Empire
United States
Times
Tuberculosis in Dairy Cattle Policy Hope in UK
Sir Sydney Pocock reported to the British Dairy Farmers Association that 8,162 cows were tested for bovine TB up to September. only 220 milk samples were TB positive. He argued public fear had been overstated as no proof milk from infected udders transmits TB to humans, and noted administration and compensation costs of £11,998, with £3,246 paid for slaughtered animals.
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United Kingdom
British
Dairy Farmers’ Association
Sir Sydney Pocock
Board of Agriculture
Big Dividends In Diamonds From Colonial Mining
The Colonial Mining Company will pay a 1913 dividend of 2 500 per cent, down from 3 800 per cent a year earlier, yet remains the largest dividend payer among German enterprises. The company arose to exploit diamond finds in German Southwest Africa, and by its four years of operation will have distributed nes per cent in total. Herr Stauch, once a railway superintendent in the colony, has risen to become one of Germany's multi millionaire founders.
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Colonial
Africa
Herr Stauch
Germany
Otter warns Canada unprepared for external danger
Major General Sir William Otter told the Royal Grenadiers sergeants dinner in Toronto that Canada is totally unprepared for a potential external threat. He said the nation lacks numbers and material and that without definite sustained action it will be caught and lose its identity.
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Royal Grenadiers Sergeants
Toronto
Wm. Otter
Canada
Otter
Estevan Trials Carbonize Soft Coal For Market Edge
Government experiments in Saskatchewan at Estevan carbonize abundant soft coal to a harder state suitable for fuel. Commissioner H. Anderson Cameron notes highly satisfactory test results and predicts briquettes and coal will soon reach the market at about five dollars per ton, rivaling Pennsylvania hard coal.
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Government of
Saskatchewan
Estevan
H. Anderson Cameron
Pennsylvania
National Park Created in British Columbia near Revelstoke
An order in council designates ninety five square miles as a national park in the railway belt of British Columbia near Mt Revelstoke. The Revelstoke National Park will protect mountain peaks and waterfalls within the area.
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British Cotcembia
British Columbia
Mt. Revelstoke
Revelstoke National Beauty
Eskimos Show Rapid Moral Progress Says Archdeacon
Archdeacon Whittaker and nine companions leave Edmonton for the Arctic mission fields. He reports Eskimos near Mackenzie delta baptized, practicing services, and living by fur trade. He notes Stefansson’s cautious views, observes Eskimo boats and earnings, and doubts a bright future beyond the 60th parallel unless fur is conserved.
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Bionde Eskimos
Stefansson
Archdeacon Whittaker
Edmonton
Far North
Fort McPherson
Mackenzie River
Arctic Circle
Bishop Stringer
Mackenzie River Delta
W. Henry Fry
Herschell Island
Victoria Land
Lucas
Belgium to Sell Congo Free State to France
Private Paris reports claim Belgium will sell Congo Free State to France amid high maintenance costs and prior rights in the recent Anglo French German accord. The purchase would extend French colonial holdings, tying the infamous rubber-plantation regime to a new owner.
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Congo Free State
Leopold
Belgium
Paris
France
Great Britain
Germany
Catania City Weathered by Repeated Earthquakes and Eruptions
Catania, Sicily's largest city with about 140000 residents, lies south of Messina on the east coast. Founded in 729 B C, it has endured frequent tremors and volcanic events, including major eruptions of Mount Etna in 321 A D 1693, with 1669 lava flows diverted to spare the town.
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Catania
Sicily
Messina
B.C
Etna
Spiritual Healing Report Endorses Prayer and Medical Care
A London committee of clerical and medical leaders including the Dean of Westminster Sir Bryce Duckworth and Sir Clifford Allbutt issued a report affirming the value of spiritual or mental healing in functional diseases. They support prayer and divine power within natural law, urge broader spiritual ministration alongside medical care, and condemn unqualified independent treatment.
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Comrmalitee
London
Westminster
Bryce Duckworth
Durham
St. Paul's
Douglas Powell
Clifford Allbutt
The Horseshoe as Talisman Across Cultures Through Time
The piece traces horseshoe beliefs from witchcraft fears about nocturnal horse mischief to its use as a lucky emblem in Europe, noting historic practices from Nelson on the Victory to Conqueror era England. It contrasts ancient horse protection methods in Greece, Rome, and China with Japanese straw sandals competing with metal shoes today.
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Placco
Nelson
Greece
Rome
Nero
England
William the Conqueror
Japan
Light Rays and Germs: Ultraviolet Effects on Microbes
Dr. Roux of the Pasteur Institute references Mme Victor Henri's note on ultraviolet exposure transforming anthrax microbes. Some die while others mutate shape or acquire altered toxicity, prompting the question whether diverse microbes evolved from few active forms under light. This challenges the traditional view that sunlight and air can destroy dangerous germs.
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Roux
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Academie Des Sciences
Mme
Victor Henri
Pioneering Deluxe in Western Canada Rise of a New West
Frederick Foster writing in an American Magazine praises Western Canada’s rapid growth driven by rail expansion and immigration. He contrasts old frontier hardship with modern progress, noting model towns, improved transport, farm tools, and growing commerce as settlers push into British Columbia and Manitoba from Winnipeg toward Fraser River and Stuart River valleys.
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Frederick Foster
Ohio Historical and Archaeological Society
National Geographic Society
Joe Boyd
Giscombe Portage
British Columbia
Western Canada
Great Britain
United States
Canada
Prairies
Middle West
Fraser River
Stuart River
North America
Fraser
Winnipeg
Winnipeg O
Boston
Gunny Eacks L. Garlic
Ben
From the Farm to the Table Parcel Post List Features Farmers
The Boston postmaster circulated hundreds of copies of a list titled From the Farm to the Table. It classifies farmers ready to distribute products by parcel post under suitable headings. Early results show direct dealings and promise success. Toronto World.
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Boston
Mass
Toronto World
Government to Irrigate 400000 Acres in Alberta
Dominion irrigation plan targets about 400000 acres in southern Alberta for irrigation. The system could be operated by the federal government or by municipalities granted rights to run irrigation systems in various districts. F H Peters, irrigation commissioner, stated Calgary headquarters.
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Alberta
Deimnien
F. H. Peters
Dominion
Calgary
Skeleton of Ship Found At Libau Believed Moskva
The skeleton of a ship found near Libau is identified as the Moskva, a vessel from Peter the Great era that foundered in 1753. The discovery sheds light on 18th century naval history and confirms a long debated wreck site.
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Libau
Peter the Great
Apples for the Prairie Provinces from Dr Saunders
The prairie province apples from Dr William Saunders are now in Ottawa’s horticultural division. First crosses, about crab apple size, are well distributed and hardy where larger apples fail. Top varieties include Jewel Charles Silvia Prince Tony Robin Elsa Alberta Columbia Ruby Northern Queen Eve. Second crosses fruited 1913 and earlier, some two and a half inches in diameter, are being propagated and tested for prairie hardiness.
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Prairie Provinces
Wm. Saunders
Horticultural Division
Department of Agriculure
Ottawa
Jewel
Charles
Silvia
Prince
Tony
Robin
Elsa
Alberta
Columbia
Ruby
Eve
To Establish Peace Library at Berlin
Announcement states the Church Peace Union founded last February by Andrew Carnegie with a two million dollar endowment has appropriated part of the fund to establish a peace library in Berlin.
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Peace Library
Berlin
Church Peace Union
Andrew Carnegie
Italy to participate in Panama-Pacific 1915
Secretary Bryan received Italy official note accepting participation in the Panama Pacific exposition to be held in 1915 and the Italian parliament appropriated 2,600,000 lire for the event.
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Italy
Bryan
Panama-Pacific
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General Otter
New National Park
Western
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