Tractors Aid Settlers Advancing to Canada Farmland
Settlers heading toward Canada rely on tractors to reach Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Photographs show families carrying essentials by road rather than rail. Reported crop yields include wheat 20 to 40 bushels per acre oats and barley strong alfalfa cuts. Modern machinery and favorable border reports spur optimism for spring farming on new lands near Lake Winnipegosis.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewa
Alberta
Lake Winnepegosis
Texas
Eliminate Nonessential Kitchen Clutter For Simpler Living
A 1920s style guide urges decluttering to save energy and happiness. It promotes training children in daily chores, reducing servant reliance, and using simple tableware. It offers home recipes like Apple Catsup Pineapple Supreme Cheese Cakes Tomate Ice and Cucumber Nut Salad with practical steps for a calmer, more efficient household.
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Tao Estate
Short Vermont wedding amid freezing odds and squire’s glare
A historic Vermont anecdote recalls couples wed without licenses in bitter cold with the squire at the window asking what fish they want before the couple pleads to be married. The tale pairs legal casualness with unintended religious gravitas.
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Vermont
Back to the Fold in Peter’s Call to Return to the Fold
A compact quotation from scripture echoes Peter 2 25 urging believers to return to the fold and to the shepherd of souls, emphasizing guidance, repentance, and renewal of faith. The brief line frames a churchly exhortation about belonging and spiritual restoration.
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Peter
British Columbia to Survey Iron Resources This Summer
The Dominion Geological Survey and the provincial Department of Mines will jointly start a comprehensive survey of British Columbia iron resources this summer. BR. G. AL Young, the geological survey's specialist, will lead the work in a few weeks.
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British Columbian
British Columbia
Dominion Geological Survey
Provincial Department of Mines
BR. G. AL Young
Geological Survey Department
Castoria Adverts and Acrobatic Showdown
Important to Mothers urges careful check of Castoria bottles for the PAY signature with over 30 years use. In sporting news Lillian Leitzel performs dangerous trapeze act high above the arena floor as a lone circus performer, ending hanging by one arm beneath the spotlight while a child asks if she strained her eyes.
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Fletcher
Lillian Leitzel
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Kansas City Star
Fresh Air College dorms require open porch sleeping
All resident students at the University of Arizona must sleep in the open air on porches. Fraternity houses follow similar sleeping arrangements.
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Fresh Air College
University of Arizona
Remarkable memory man from Greenville Tex described
A collection of quirky clippings highlights Jim Gilmore a 56 year old Black resident of Greenville Texas celebrated by scientists for a vast memory and Bible verse recall. He answers questions on Civil War Spanish American War and World War with dates. can name train stations and water tanks across the continental routes. quotes long poems and has traveled widely.
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Jim Gilmore
Greenville
Tex
Gilmore
San Francisco
New York
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