Grain cutting nears finish and social visits noted
The report lists local activity including grain cutting nearly done in the area, visits by Mrs. Fletcher to Harrowby, Mrs. Cusitar from Brightside, and teachers spending the weekend at Asessippi. It also mentions visitors from Penn and Ontario, typhoid recovery for Willie Cunningham, and improvements on Harrowby hill after extra labor aiding travel and local politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher
Harrowby
Cusitar
Brightside
Asessippi
Moore
Penn, W.S
McKinnon
Blane
Ontario
Willie Cunningham
Sunlight and Air as Purifiers Against Bacteria
Historical note reports experiments from Pasteur Institute showing bacilli exposed to sun and air are destroyed in two hours, while sun without air leaves bacteria alive for fifty hours. An Italian physician’s cholera test found sun exposure rendered many bacilli harmless. Oxygen enhances sun decontamination. some liquids resist putrefaction under sun. Air and sun are nature's great purifiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasteur Institute
Laurier Invited to Lay West Parliament Buildings
The Premier of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, is invited to lay the cornerstone stones of two Provincial Parliament buildings in the West at Regina and Edmonton. The notice notes his rare opportunity to tour major western centres, meet diverse populations, and share in the West’s rapid development and expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Regina
Edmonton
Wilfrid
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid
Bettie
Fourteen hundred dead in Mexico floods and other reports
The survey details a wide mix of items including a Mexico flood toll of fourteen hundred lives, the death of Charles Stewart bursar at Selkirk asylum, a failed Winnipeg McClary fire inquiry, crop estimates for Canada Western wheat at 118 million bushels, and varied notes on advertising, church politics, a London county map project, a Scottish minister’s collection, and Canada’s race track gambling critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Charles Stewart
Selkirk Asylum For the Insane
Free Press
Canadian West
Ontario
Kingston Penitentiary
Central Prison
Toronto
County of London
County Council
Stamford Hill
Lower Streatham
Plumstead
Putney
Canada
Department of Justice
Canda
New York State
Texas
Kentucky
California
Japan
Banner
Man Escaped Constable Recaptured, Sentenced for Theft
G Holunga, who escaped from Constable Moynes last spring and was recaptured, received a one year sentence for theft from Judge Mickle last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Holunga
Constable Moynes
Mickle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Harrowby Hill
Toronto Globe
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the
West
General News
McClary
Winnipeg
Smellie Bros., Ltd
Russell
Via
Canadian Northern Railway
C. W. Cooper
Man
Western Canada Flour Mills
J. S. Warrington
Russel
Montserrat
McGill University
Montreal
W. J. Dingh
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