Playful Toy Guidance Across Ages from Goldsborough
A digest of Toy recommendations from Goldsborough 1878 advises parents to base play on creative activity rather than toy quantity. Infants need safe, simple items. ages two to four enjoy push toys and rattles. four to six benefit from creative games, drawing, and pretend stores. five plus favor blocks, Meccano, toy trains, and elaborate dollhouses for girls.
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Laird 9. Goldsboroyabin
Consimera
Goldsborough 1878
Perea
Confedera tion Life and a Witty Baby Question
A young father tells friends of his newborn when a matron asks who hid the baby. He points to his wife and says she did but notes she had an anaesthetic.
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Fouoully
Min Ned
Ten Thousand Men In Labrador Project Announced
Premier Smallwood announced next fall a 360 mile railroad from Seven Islands to Labrador iron deposits on the border with Quebec. The Labrador Mining and Exploration Company and Hollinger North Shore Exploration will mobilize ten thousand men and build a seaport at Seven Islands, with Knob Lake townsite and smelters. The $200 million project aims to move up to twenty million tons of ore annually to the St Lawrence, creating a Newfoundland economic boom and potential new cities, hydroelectric power, and diversified industry beyond cod.
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Labrador
Ungava
J. R. Smallwood
Seven Islands
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Labrador-Quebec
Smallwood
Stees
United States
Labrador Mining and Exploration Company
Newfoundland
Rod
Hollinger North Shore Exploration Company
Quebec
Knob Lake
Caro
Bell Island
Onas
St Lawrence
Coas
Ear piercing case shocks Montreal police
A report recalls a Montreal police arrest of a man and his Netherlands born wife charged with disfiguring their child Haley by ear lobe piercing. The piece notes old superstitions about piercing and mentions clip-on earrings as a modern alternative.
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Montreal
Haley
Ita
Ear Piercing Customs and Counter Irritants Across Cultures
An old report recounts ear piercing practices by the Grouch and others, noting doctor approval and thread manipulation to induce a boil. It mentions counter irritants like menthol and cloves and recalls a Syrian fever custom of hot poker marks, with Assyrians still bearing them today.
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Syria
Dailf News
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Rupert Jackson
Evening Telegram
Grand Falls
Hamilton River
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Malasit
Maritime Life Assurance Company
B. H. Butt
USA
Stew
T. W. Clarke
Red Deer Dietitian
Carnation
Jagr
Ellen & Ial
Boswell
Muir’s Marble Works, Ltd
Twillingate
E. J. Linfield
Spence
Yorce
Kentile
Ayre & Sons Ltd
St. John’s
Sard
Suebseri
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