Flax Shown As Profitable Crop For Western Canada
The article notes flax as a profitable prairie staple alongside wheat oats and barley. It cites boat cargoes from Fort William carrying 241 000 and 288 000 bushels valued at 583 220 and 720 000 dollars, highlights rising flax demand, and promotes free 160 acre homesteads near rail lines plus railway land buys. It cites a St Louis display of western Canadian grains proving the region's potential and invites readers to consult Canadian government literature.
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Canada
Fort William
Lake Superior
Buffalo
Western Canada
St.Louis
Mixed naval policy cited by Admiral Evans at luncheon
Admiral Evans in San Francisco denounces a naval policy as mixed and illogical. He compares it to Bob Backstay who became a submarine engineer and notes the dangerous, head above water work, quoting a friend about sub work.
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Admiral Evans
San Francisco
Bob Backstay
Bob
Backstay
Anniversary Wedding Day Reminder
Mia reminds Professor Faraway of his wedding anniversary. Faraway shows surprise and asks when his own anniversary occurred. The exchange appears in Stray Stories with light, reflective humor.
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Mia
Faraway
Professor Faraway
Blobbs Questioned Over Wealth From Smoking
Denver Times notes Blobbs deflects claims he earned money from smoking tobacco as he comments on a lifelong habit and denies profit from it. The brief quotes Blobbs asking if to be rich from tobacco is possible and challenges the notion of wealth from smoking.
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Blobbs
Denver Times
Old Common Sense Change Food When You Feel Out of Sorts
A doctor advises the patient to stop fried foods and meat at breakfast and switch to Grape-Nuta and cream. He had suffered stomach trouble and headaches for years, took pills, and improved after discontinuing medicines. The man, 58, reports overall better health than in twenty years after the diet change.
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Wollville
Ofa Ts A
Ohio brief items note wrecks and civic events
Northbound freight wreck reported near Buckeye Notes Cygnet with engine front tracks detaching. Ashtabula Harbor 1910 season shows record ore receipts 9 599 542 tons coal shipments 5 578 342 tons and 2 236 ships entering or leaving. Portsmouth death of Robert G Peebles 65 former Ashland Ky ironman in Los Angeles. Wapakoneta marriage troubles and license quest for Edward Braunschweiger to Pauline Hilgeman. Springfield dog saves five in house fire. Chardon death of Eliza Ann Hitchcock former state senator widow of Peter Hitchcock. Akron seeks receiver for Waterworks Co over alleged contract breach. Cleveland judge lauds high prices and divorce surge. judge Neff calls courtship a masquerade. Conneaut juvenile court rules against Willie Thomas firebug. Dayton ballot box probe ordered by January grand jury.
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Toledo & 1
Ohio Central
Ashtabula
Portsmouth
Robert G. Peebles
Ashland
Los Angeles
John G. Peebles
John Peebles
Elmer Dover
Wapakoneta
Edward Braunschweiger
Toledo
Pauline Hilgeman
John Hilgeman
St. Marys
Langhorst
Braunschweiger
Springfield
James Kirk
Clarence Young
Eliza Ann Hitchcock
Peter Hitchcock
Burton
San Francisco
Florida
Tennessee
Hitchcock
Geauga D. A. R
Burton Congregational Church
Akron
Common Pleas
Akron Waterwords Co
C. Benner
Cleveland
Jonathan F. Black
Rebecca Lord
Judge Neff
America
Conneaut
Babcock
Willie Thomas
Lancaster Reformatory
Pittsburg
Dayton
C. B. Brown
Common Pleas Court
Montgomery
Brown
Indict Dynamiters in Wholesale Murder Case
The Los Angeles Times explosion case grand jury returned 22 indictments charging murder in connection with the blast. Names likely kept secret until arrests. at least three or four individuals may be named. The furor prompted rewards totaling near 100000 dollars amid competing theories of gas explosion versus dynamite conspiracy. More than forty witnesses, largely tied to unions, were summoned from San Francisco and other cities.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles Times
Times
Alexander
State Building Trades Convention
San Francisco
Indicted Banker Robin Charged With Large Bank Theft
Eight more indictments added against Joseph G. Robin in New York court. He faces charges including theft of 297000 from Washington and Northern Savings banks he controlled after an earlier 80000 theft. Bail denied amid questions of mental competency.
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Robin
New York
Joseph G. Robin
Segaton
Washington and Northern Savings
Mail bag theft in San Francisco steals 50000 dollars
Three registered mail bags valued at 50000 dollars were stolen in the last few days in San Francisco or en route to Oakland. The sacks held late Christmas shipments and banking instruments such as money orders drafts checks and currency for banks to settle year end accounts in the east and northwest. Banks face the heaviest loss.
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San Francisco
Cal
Oakland
Senator Elkins Laid To Rest In West Virginia
Funeral services for Senator Stephen Benton Elkins of West Virginia were held in Elkins today with prominent delegations from Washington New York Philadelphia and Baltimore and Governor Glasscock in attendance. He died in Washington of septic poisoning after a year long illness. his estate is reported at over 30 million dollars.
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Elkins
W. Va
Stephen B. Elkins
West Virginia
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Glasscock
Stephen Benton Elkins
Perry County
Ohio
Missouri
Missouri State University
Columbia
New Mexico
Territorial Legislative Assembly of
Congress
Europe
Republican National Committee
Harrison
United States
Senate
Oil Controversy Adjusted Between Vacuum Oil and Austria-Hungary
Washington reports a satisfactory agreement has been reached between Vacuum Oil Company and the Austro-Hungarian minister of finance. The settlement concerns controls by Austro-Hungarian capital and was conveyed to the State Department via cable from Ambassador Kerensky in Vienna.
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Washington
Vacuum Oil Company
State Department
Kerens
Vienna
Federal judge blocks Seattle mayor recall
Federal Judge Hanford granted an injunction to Frank H. Scobey of Chicago preventing the recall of Seattle Mayor H. C. Gill. This marks the first such injunction in the country.
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Geattie
Hanford
Frank H. Scobey
Chicago
H. C. Gill
Seattle
Ohio Happenings Across Towns and Tragedies
Multiple Ohio locales report disasters crimes and notable events. A Nigley Building fire caused by crossed wires killed John Kreiger and fatally shocked Joseph Kermiller Jr. and a Black Hand prisoner tale unfolds in Toledo. Grand juries indict Steubenville leaders. Dayton wires and robberies occur. Springfield mourns Dr. Samuel Ort. Police court cases in Canton detail family abuse and damages. railroad vandalism and fires threaten Painesville Crestline and others.
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Ottawa
Nigley
John Kreiger
Joseph Kermiller
Toledo
Black Hand Society
New York
Mary Ligett
Steubenville
Jeffersonville County
Dayton
Hammer Avenue
First
Saxe Streets
Henry Izoe
John Hollis
Springfield
Samuel A. Ort
Wittenberg College
United States
General Synod
Doctor Ort
Lewistown
Hagerstown
Wittenberg
Canton
Cleveland
Hortense Smith
Zanesville
William Tool
Crestline
Pennsylvania
Painesville
Truman Palmer
LeRoy Township
Palmer
Harry
Hart Palmer
Harry Palmer
Cincinnati
John E. Humphreys
Humphreys
W. J. Carey
Washington D. H
George
Bucyrus
George Squires
Norwalk
Squires
Mary Parker
Miss Parker
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad
An old testimonial promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as the best kidney remedy for backache headaches and urinary troubles. The ad cites Edward Porsche of Chicago praising relief from dropsy related swelling and back pains after using the product. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo distributes the 50 cent boxes.
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Dean
Edward Porsche
Cleveland Ave
Chicago
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
The Pronouns Debate: Authority vs Ordinary Citizen
A high finance official urges economizing language while an average citizen critiques grammar. The exchange centers on choosing the first person plural over the second person plural in common usage.
Illinois Teachers Oppose State Textbook Uniformity
The Illinois State Teachers Association passes a resolution opposing state textbook uniformity, pledging to use its influence to fight the movement. The piece includes a stray dialogue about marriage and personal preference amid the story.
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Chicago
Illinois State Teachers Association
Resinol Ointment Praised As Boon To Humanity
A letter from W. J. Callan of Brooklyn extols Resinol Ointment as universally healing. A tuberculosis funding report from the National Association highlights 1910 expenditures near 15 million dollars, with sanatoria costs exceeding 11 million and public funds rising to 9.27 million, signaling growing government support for anti tuberculosis efforts.
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W. J. Callan
Brooklyn
United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Anti-Tuberculosis Associations
National Association
His Wife and Mose Discuss Laundry Life
A couple exchanges lines about employment with Mose claiming to be the manager of a laundry named Eliza Ann. The dialogue highlights work and identity in a conversational, period tone.
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Mose
Thig Laundry
Eliza Ann
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New Jersey
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Senator Elkins
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Ted
Taectro Medical Institute
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