New Districts and Railways Spark Western Canada Growth
The letter discusses strong grain yields in Western Canada with 20 to 50 bushels per acre and high profits in areas like Southern Alberta. It highlights new homestead regulations, 160 acre additional grants, railway rates, and optimistic forecasts for Western Canada's development driven by American settlers and Canadian government support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Sy Creek
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Leslie An
New York
United States Treasury
McKinley
Roosevelt
United States
Monticello
Iowa
Western Canada
Ontario
Moose Jaw
Regina
Avery
Ottawa
H. M. Williams
Law Building
Toledo
Colombia's One Iron Foundry in Bogota
The only iron foundry in Colombia sits in Bogota and is called La Paradera. It operates on a small scale using native ores smelted then remelted for casting. American engineers are drilling a coastal ore body near the Caribbean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colombia
South America
Bogota
la Paradera
Caribbean Sea
David Grieves for Absalom
Lesson text analyzes Absalom's rebellion and death in 2 Samuel 18 33. It contrasts Absalom's selfish kingship with David's repentance, notes Absalom's entangled hair and Joab's justified slaying, and ends with reflections on consequences of sin, leadership, and ultimate fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Jerusalem
Mahanaim
Jordan
Jabbok
Jacob
Dead Sea
Sea of Galilee
Battlenela
Wood-of-Ephraim
Gilead
David
Absalom
Ahithophel
Rae Eeos
Israel
Hushai
Spencer
Josephus
Joab
Kitto
Son Absalom
Ternsalem
Cook
Moses
St. Paul
Esau
Niagara Falls
Sparrow Club in Essex Kills Sparrows by Acre
In Elsenham Essex the Sparrow club holds annual meeting and dinner. President Walter Gilbey explains the 17 year old effort to curb sparrows across 1830 acres. Members kill one sparrow per acre from September to May and pay a penny per missing head. Fines fund club refreshments. About 3000 heads are sent yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Essex
England
Elsenham Sparrow Club
Walter Gilbey
Largest British Land Owner: Self-Made Australian Gutta King
Sidney Widmen, a British empire figure, is described as the largest land owner. He owns 49,216 square miles of land and has 100,000 cattle and 10,000 horses. The article notes he is completely self-made, starting at age 14 earning $2.50 a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Sidney Widmen
How He Won Her and Spanish Women's Suffrage Shown
The piece relays a comic tale of a fisherman wooing Angelina ending with a father’s approving remark, labeling the suitor a piscatorial George Washington after a joke about a half pound porgy. It then notes Spain granting municipal voting rights to women heads of families, a broader suffrage expansion compared with many US states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angelina
George Washington
Bohemian Magazine
Spain
Ambitious Chicagoan Seeks Publisher For Novel
A Chicago aspirant tells a publisher he plans to write a book and hopes the publisher will bring it out. He hints at a work in the vein of Les Misérables but livelier, expressing quiet ambition and desire for publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips Brooks
Upo P Ublisher
Lippincott’s
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Western
David Grieves
Sparrow Club
Tve
Committee of the
Spanish Chamber
Samuel Patcher
the Centaur Company
Bears
Gastoria
Sloan
Niment
Earl S.sloan
Boston
Mass
U.S.A
Lafayette Stoge Farm
Lafayette, Ind
America
Perecherun
J. Crouch & Son
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