Fires on Stage and Ontario Settlement Debates
A melodrama about creating a fire scene for a Lubin production shows a landlord, fire crew, and crowd staged near a plant with a dog mascot and a rescued heroine. Separately, Ontario plans for settlement focus on ready made farms or settler loans, plus road development and infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barry O'Neil
Lubin
Mr. Lubin
Neil
O'Neill
Trixie
Buckley
Miss Buckley
Art of 30 000 Years Ago Statuettes Shown in Paris
Three prehistoric bas-reliefs from about 36 000 B C were exhibited before the French Academy of Inscriptions. The male figure is slender and athletic, poised as if to throw a lance, while the women are heavier with well arranged hair.
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South Africa
Laussel
Dordogne
Donjon
Commaroue
B.C
French Academy of Inscriptions
Bloodhounds on the Trail and the Aram Relic Sale
A historical note on bloodhounds aiding crime investigations with a Omaha murder case where two dogs tracked suspects, plus a discussion of Eugene Aram and Lord Lytton, highlighting bloodhounds’ use in tracking, plantation history, and their savage reputation in the South and West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Aram
Lord Lytton
Aram
York
Dolls of Cord and Worsted
A simple baby doll craft uses soft cord or worsted to form a cuddly toy. Instructions describe winding around cardboard, tying knots, and shaping a firm head with ends cut to create a safe, step by step handmade doll.
Bloodhounds Traced Through History and Uses
The bloodhound is a noble breed with centuries of lineage and varied strains. In India the Rampore hound is ferocious and capable of tearing a tiger from its lair, while the Spanish bloodhound, spread from Spain to Cuba and then America, was used to track runaways in slavery days, though it rarely attacks unless trained.
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Napoleon
Paria
Chevalier
Napoleon I
France
Doss
Omaha
Neb
Herman Cohn
la Plate
Colin
India
Spain
Cuba
Liability to sickness across German occupations ranks by risk
The article lists illness rates per 100 workers aged 15 to 60 across trades from storekeepers to iron and metal workers, showing higher sickness in metal and textile industries with figures ranging from 4 to 187 per 100 and noting many specific crafts and sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Obacco
Railway Workmen and Factory Miners in Industrial Figures
Railway workmen total 142 workers. chemical factories employ 170. miners number 184. This snapshot lists key labor group counts, reflecting industrial employment distribution.
Artificial growth of diamonds by mercury vapor method
W von Bolton reports that illuminating gas exposed to mercury vapor decomposes carbon to form amorphous carbon and microscopic diamonds. Fine diamond powder on sodium silicate, exposed to mercury vapors at 100 C with gas flow, shows crystalline diamonds after a month, burning without residue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. von Bolton
Bolton
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New
Ontario
O Otario
Dodds
Duro
Sele
Standard Paint CO. of Canada, Limited
Montreal
Winnipeg
Calgary
Vancouver
Britain
Thomas Lord Erskine
Neal Cure
HE Neal
The
Neal Institute Co., Ltd
Seventeenth Ave
West
Smith
Imperial Oil Company, Limited
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