Irish Settlement In Sight Prominent Leader Signals Acceptance
Sir Edward Carson indicates willingness to accept the Home Rule Bill now before Parliament, a move likely to be followed by Unionists in the north and seen as a first step toward peace. The plan envisions two Irish Parliaments and self government with land purchase capital valued at about half a billion dollars distributed to the people.
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Sir Edward Carson
Sir Edward
Sinn
Ireland
Echerme
Sunflowers Offer Western Canada A Fallow Substitute
Agriculturists across Western Canada explore sunflowers as a silage crop to replace summer fallow. Alberta experimental farms report 34 tons per acre yield with minimal irrigation, outperforming oats and peas and fodder corn, and sunflowers show strong drought tolerance suitable for semi arid western farms.
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Canada
Alberta
Supreme Self Sacrifice on the Prairie
Mrs. Forsyth wife of a farmer on a lonely homestead near Tompkins died as a result of freezing while tending a seriously ill neighbor. She traveled across the prairie to aid the sick woman, despite poor health herself, and told her family she might not return that night before disappearing into the cold.
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Canada
Forsyth
Prairie woman dies in blizzard rescue attempt
A western woman named Mrs Forsyth faced a rising wind and freezing temps as she walked home through a blizzard. She vanished overnight and was found dead in the snow near her door, having sacrificed herself to relieve others. She is honored for enduring courage in the western community.
Beyond the Veil and the Promise of Life After Death
The piece discusses Oliver Lodge and Conan Doyle proposing two-form immortality via mediums, noting scientific doubt. It contrasts scientific inquiry with faith in eternal life and praises the Anglican funeral rite as a source of comfort, arguing Christian creed remains supreme.
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Oliver Lodge
Conan Doyle
Trade balance figures for United States in fiscal year
A British publication reports the U S trade balance for the year ending June 30 last at over £795.6 million, with exports totaling £1,414.8 million and imports £619 million. Europe received £926.8 million of exports. Figures are given in pounds due to current exchange rates.
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United States
Europe
Literary Earnings of Sir Walter Scott
The question notes the maximum earnings of a novelist and cites Sir Walter Scott. It states that during the peak of the Waverley Series he cleared about 100000 dollars per year, and that his literary income over his life likely approached a million dollars.
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Russell
Walter Scott
Painless Surgery Advances Raise Conscious Procedures
The article explains painless surgery using phenol in Milan military hospitals. Surgeons mark the incision with phenol, then cut slowly while a protective film forms on tissues, allowing operations with the patient fully conscious and reportedly without pain.
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Milan
Italy
Astonishing figures on Alberta liquor profits cited
In a Alberta Legislature speech Attorney General Boyle stated that 1919 profits from legal liquor sales in the province totaled at least 2.15 million dollars while bootleggers and illegal stills earned about 3.5 million dollars. He suggested total profits likely exceeded these figures.
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Alberta
Boyle
Workers Wanted For Spring Farm Labor In Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Bureau of Labour seeks five thousand men to meet spring farm labor demand. Wages this year average seventy to eighty dollars per month, with married couples offered one hundred to one hundred twenty five dollars per month for an eight month engagement.
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Saskatchewan Bureau of Labour
Woman Dies in Blizzard Near Tomkyne
Mrs. Forsythe, living about twenty five miles west of Tomkyne on the CPR main line, went to check a sick neighbor. A blizzard struck, she did not return that night and was found frozen cerca two hundred yards from her home after two days. She was overcome by the storm.
Bank Robbery Suspects Nabbed in Winnipeg Hunting Trip Motive
San ford Pollett and Charles Devans were arrested in Winnipeg on a bank robbery charge from New York. Pollett, a bank clerk, allegedly stole several thousand dollars to fund a hunting trip in Canada. Police found an elaborate hunting outfit and about a thousand dollars in cash on them.
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Sanford Pollett
Charles Devans
Winnipeg
New York
Pollett
Canada
Reunion expected for 68th Battalion in Regina
Preparations are underway for a 68th Battalion reunion in Regina in early March. Former members are urged to attend. the unit recruited in 1915 and left for overseas in 1916. Contacts are Captain Fraser Stewart and Captain John Anderson for details.
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68Th Battalion
Regina
Col
Edgar
Military District No. 12
Col. Perrett
England
Fraser Stewart
John Anderson
Anderson, Lunney & Co
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