Revolt in Haiti Sees Executions by Interior Minister
In Haiti, President Nord Alexis backed by General Villar dGuein Le comte ordered mass executions after a plot to overthrow the government. Twelve suspects were dragged from beds and shot in Port au Prince, with others killed or fled to foreign consulates amid a reign of terror and widespread fear.
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Massillon Coirou
General Tirmin
Legation
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Alloption
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Tyamotte
Paul Saintfort
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Villar
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Borno
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Ashburton Grain Market Weekly Report December 1908
Market report for the week ending Friday December 4 1908 shows milling wheat demand remains firm as millers stock up and holdovers shrink. Prices quoted for Tuscan Pearl and Hunters range from 2d to 4s 1d per bushel with various grades and oats also described amid shifting demand and high inventories for prime quality on trucks.
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London
Teaching Young Farmers and Rural Progress
The Agricultural Department plans cadet accommodations at Ruakura this year with practical farm training as the main feature plus lectures on agriculture chemistry stock diseases land surveying and accounts The aim is to stimulate progressive country life and expose farmers to cooperative experiments and extended instructional courses tied to the experimental stations to attract rural youth to farming and improve lives across the dominion
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Agricultural Department
Ruakura
Fife
Department of Agricultire
Hat at the Coliseum London Draws Keen Crowds
Miss Madge Temple wears a £120 hat at the Coliseum London. The feathered showpiece measures 14 feet in circumference with 15 old rose ostrich plumes two yards long. Spectators pay to gape as London tastes echo Shakespearean era notes. Health column claims eating is a science to be learned by patient study.
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Coliseum
London
Madge Temple
Christchurch Grain and Produce Market Update
Christchurch reports slow demand for milling wheat and dull oats. Local fowl feed demand supports limited milling wheat trades at 4s 14d to 4s 2d, with no advances on late quotes. Potatoes are exhausted as the season ends. chaff exports seek £2 16s and local £3. Dalgety cabled: frozen mutton market weak, lamb prices mostly down, beef steady but dull.
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Christchurch
Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited
London
Folowing
Gisborne
Fight
New Zealand
Invercargill approves borrow for abattoir enlargement
The Invercargill ratepayers voted 170 to 43 in favor of borrowing 10000 pounds to enlarge the municipal abattoirs. The decision was announced after the poll conducted today.
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Invercargill
Hea they Chinee in Opium Charge at Court
Kee appeared on a charge of having opium in possession. He collapsed in the dock with pain and groaning. Sergeant Johnston said he was well at the station but unwell in court. The bench dubbed him a Hea they Chinee and Abbee was remanded to the next day.
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Per
Press Association
Christchurch
Kee
Johnston
Posies
Abbee
Supreme Court Sessions Report From Auckland and Wellington
In Auckland a decree nisi was granted in the Jones versus Jones case citing misconduct. John Robert Martin seeks 250 pounds for slander against William Monaghan with Judge Edwards awarding 100 pounds and noting possible perjury prosecutions. In Wellington the Public Trustee pursued 501 pounds for the Gillies fatal Hutt Road collision. settlement reached before court action.
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Auckland
Supreme Court
Nisi
Timothy Edwin Jones
Bushman
Waihi
Emma Katherine Jones
John Robert Martin
William Monaghan
Epsom
Justice Edwards
Wellington
Murdoch Gillies
Hutt Road
John Goring Johnston
Johnston
Well-sinking at Arataki reaches 128 feet
Hastings report from December 4 states well-sinkers at Arataki struck water at 128 feet after earlier attempts failed to reach water at great depths. The Rev. My Mason indicated the spot.
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Hastings
Arataki
My Mason
Inventors and patents period ad highlights Christchurch firm
The piece extols invention as engine of industrial wealth and urges daily improvements. It promotes Henry Hughes patent agents in Christchurch represented by A B Heldship, offering local advice to Canterbury inventors and access to Advices to Inventors from 183 Hereford Street.
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Henry Hughes
Christchurch
A.B. Heldship
Canterbury
Hereford Street
Chiiatahureh
Leslie O'Callashan
Tenpy Hughes
Paris school teaches waiting arts in four languages and more
In Paris a school trains the art of waiting with courses in four languages geography decoration and dance. Carmarthen County Council offered £200 for information leading to conviction of a motorist who killed one of them described as good labourers and crave away.
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Paris
Carmarthen County
Warner's Safe Cure touted as indigestion remedy
An article extols Warner's Safe Cure as a permanent cure for indigestion and dyspepsia by restoring liver and kidney function to purify the blood. It warns against laxatives and pre digested foods and promotes a concentrated version at 6d per bottle, claiming no alcohol. It cites H H Warner and Co Melbourne as makers.
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Ben Peat
Warner
H. H. Warner and Co., Limited
Melbourne
Vic
Notable Push to Make Phthisis Notifiable Under Poor Law
The Local Government Board plans to require Poor law medical officers to notify all phthisis cases to district health officials within forty eight hours of discovery. The move aims to curb tuberculosis spread by improving housing, food, and sanitary conditions, with compulsory notification favored over voluntary reporting.
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Burns
Neowsholme
Washington
London
Metropolitan
Daily Telegraph
Cloth from bull pine needles touted by Technical World notes
The article discusses a possible pine needle based cloth from Pinus ponderosa. It notes the tree may endure leaf removal with uncertain impact and suggests this industry could expand, comparing to European cordage from Scotch pine roots.
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Technical World Magazine of America
Europe
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