Word: novaes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canada is divided in its attitude on the liquor question. Seven provinces are absolutely dry legally. Of these, Prince Edward Island was the pioneer. Its present law was passed in 1907. Saskatchewan, Alberta, Newfoundland, went dry in 1915. Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, passed prohibition laws in 1916. Quebec and British Columbia have laws restricting the sale of liquor, passed in 1919 and 1920, respectively. Yukon Territory passed a law in 1920 which prevents saloons from operating there. In 1921 a complete prohibition measure failed to pass...
...ghost" by showing that some one who had learned the dangerous minimum of fact was playing upon the credulity of the public. So completely did the Salem witches take in the hardheaded Puritans, that they were placed in the fire to drive out the evil spirits. Mary Ellen of Nova Scotia kept sophisticated newspaper readers undecided between belief and scorn. And more recently a nurse caused gray bearded doctors to shake their puzzled heads at her steadily maintained temperature of 114 degrees until the hoax was discovered in the form of a hot water bottle...
...every country save. England and New Zealand the traffic goes on the wrong side of the road." This statement is a slight exaggeration, because Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island still "keep to the left", although New Brunswick and British Columbia have recently passed laws requiring that all vehicles adopt the right turn. But the English still prefer the old method of traffic regulation, even though they have to learn to drive all over again whenever they "visit the continent" or come to America...
These are great days in Gloucester. Cod is king again, and supreme as he has not been since before the days of the canning factories. All the old salts have turned out to spin yarns with their visitors from Nova Scotia, and no one who ever displayed special prowess with cod has been permitted to hide his light under a bushel. Not only the technique of sailing and the merits of different types of schooners but all the details of the fisherman's trade have been recited to willing and unwilling audiences, and boasts of great achievements have been brazenly...
...Gentleman of Seville", after languishing for a century and a quarter in a remote Irish castle, has been found, neglected, unwashed, and uncared for and now brushed up and tidy again is about to resume his rightful place in the galleries. Only a day or so ago a Nova Scotia workman stopped in at a little shop to buy a picture which had taken his fancy. After taking it home and cleaning it, he found an entirely new surface revealed, declared now to be a Rembrandt, and therefore worth thousands...