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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1925
Page
1
A local business, rooted in a century of service, plans to refresh its approach with youthful methods while a sister establishment pivots to up-to-date practices. The notice promotes annual subscriptions delivered for five dollars, with Canada and U S prices listed at one dollar fifty-six cents.
Newcastle High School beat Bathurst 17 to 3 in Newcastle on Oct. 23. The locals displayed a faster backfield and capitalized on opportunities while Gammon starred for Bathurst. Murray contributed well for Newcastle as both teams showed good coaching. a banquet followed the game.
Glasgow faces a clash over Sunday political meetings as magistrates ban labor gatherings in theatres. Labor vows to defy the law, while MP James Welsh and six others face fines for a park rally. Four MPs including Rev Campbell Stephen plan to speak next Sunday and risk jail.
Miss Gladys Young, 20, lay unconscious after a night raid on the city doctor registry offices here. Police and hospital staff sought the assailant, described as a half-crazed drug addict in search of narcotics, who carried out the attack.
Rabbi Joseph Gauch of Louisville urged the central convention of American Rabbis in Cincinnati to aggressively seek converts and build friendly relations with non Jews, noting that Jews for two millennia avoided active efforts to gain converts and calling for a new approach.
Strangler Lewis, holder of the world heavyweight wrestling title, was awarded a technical verdict over Sandy MacDougall of Scotland in Montreal. MacDougall won the first fall, but Lewis countered with his head lock, tossing the Scotsman and knocking him senseless, leaving MacDougall unable to continue.
Special to the Guardian reports a security conference discussion about re allotting Rhine land territory after Cologne evacuation. British Foreign Secretary Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Briand returned from Locarno and were with Premier Painleve examining postwar German territory arrangements.
Washington on October 23. Dr Arthur MacDonald proposes a bill to weight the brains of all members of Congress and reveal results to the public. He plans a government laboratory to study so called abnormal classes and provides a formula to estimate cranial capacity and brain weight in living persons.
A stone from St Pauls Cathedral London will be placed at the Missouri School of Journalism campus. British journalist via Lord Burnham provides the stone with St Pauls Dean Inges consent. Sir Esme Howard will deliver the unveiling address. a world city distance plate bears a watchman motto.
Dominion Coal Company officials in Glace Bay report a fairly good outlook for coal trade over the next four months. They anticipate orders for 50,000 tons a month from United States materializing, keeping Cape Breton collieries of the British Empire Steel Corporation busy through February.
Ronald Livingstone a 10 year old boy was struck and killed while riding a bicycle near his Dartmouth home. The accident involved an automobile owned and driven by Mrs W K McKean who swerved to avoid a nearby vehicle, crossed a ditch and collided with a house causing minor damage.
Paris dispatch reports the French Cabinet decided not to accept American debt funding proposals and will have Finance Minister Caillaux submit a counterproposal within eight or ten days. The Foreign Office issued the semi official statement from Paris on October 28.
The New York Trust Company drew 1 million dollars in gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for shipment to Montreal. The move follows a rising Canadian exchange, now at a premium of five thirty seconds of 1 percent, making export of gold more profitable than Canadian remittances. Further shipments may follow if the rate holds, echoing the 1922 surge when over 15 million dollars left for Canada. It remains unclear whether any conditions constrain this shipment.
The article argues the National Policy was misjudged as protectionist too low in tariff. It cites Laurier’s efforts to preserve protection, the 1911 reciprocity push with the United States, and the risk of repealing it if American farmers resisted. It contends industrial growth and immigration favored the U.S. border economy, leaving Canada to export raw materials while importing finished goods, and urges domestic manufacturing to keep wealth and people in Canada.
Joseph Murray of New Glasgow writes that he has always received satisfaction from the cake sold by Joseph Murray Groceries Meats Confec tionery. He notes the cake arrives in perfect condition and reflects no complaints, a rare statement about his products.
WARSAW Oct 23 Poland has negotiated a loan of 100 million dollars. Premier and finance minister M Grabski told the Warsaw press that proceeds should reach the country in November. The loan funds will aid economic restoration and the new Bank of Poland issue amid ongoing negotiations.
New York on October 23 six hundred men and women paid sixty dollars per plate for a simple vegetable dinner. The event, dubbed make a farmer, was arranged by the National Farm School near Doylestown Pennsylvania. Proceeds will send sixty Jewish boys from the lower East Side to a three year farming and agriculture course.
EDMONTON Oct 23 The term of Lieutenant Governor R G Brett expired yesterday but no federal announcement of a successor has been made though reports say Dr Egbert President of the Alberta Liberal Renovation was the probable choice Dr Brett said he would carry on until Ottawa issues official intimation
London reports Mike Reilly, who was wounded at Neuve Chapelle in 1915, has had a bullet removed from his heart ten years later after years of pain. Surgeons located the fragment near heart muscles and performed a delicate operation, marking his discharge from Queen Mary's Hospital as completely recovered.
Budapest divorc e granted to actress San Fedek from playwright Franz Molnar. Decree allows her to keep the Molnar name. Neither party attended court. Molnar reportedly deserted his wife 72 days after their wedding, with no objection raised by his counsel.
New York reports cartoonist Bud Fisher plans to wed next week. The future Mrs Henry C Fisher is Aedita De Beaumont a former Paris beauty prize winner and countess, who married Count De Beaumont in 1917. Fisher, previously married to Pauline Welsch in 1912, divorced in 1917, returned from Paris six weeks ago.
London police announced the arrest of Arthur McManus, chairman of Britain's Communist Party, and John Thomas Murphy on charges of conspiring to incite sedition and mutiny. The arrests follow a government crackdown begun last week, which also included six party members arraigned on similar charges and remanded on bail of £100 each.
In Quebec on October 23 reports say the Aluminum Company of America is near purchase of the Roberval Saguenay Railway formerly run by Chicoutim Pulp now or renamed Quebec Pulp and Paper Mills. The line runs from Ha Ha Junction to Port Alfred with a branch to Chicoutimi. The total length is twenty eight miles with an electrified section to Chicoutimi.
In Montreal 38 Chinese laundry proprietors were arraigned in Recorder's Court on charges of operating without licenses. The cases were postponed for a week and the laundries were ordered to close pending review. Dozens of shirts collars and other items await settlement with civic authorities as the dispute continues.
In Paris on October 23 1925 the fashion world embraces color framed eyeglasses. Parisienne women mix celluloid spectacles with mauve green beige blue and rose frames to harmonize with their dresses. An optician in Rue Rivoli notes strong demand for colored frames matching outfits.
Lord Marchamley of Hawkestone dies at 70 in London. Formerly Right Hon. George Whitesley, MP for Stokport 1898–1900 as a Conservative, then Liberal MP for West Riding of Yorks 1905–1908. Patronage secretary to the Treasury under Campbell-Bannerman. His son Hon. W. T. Whiteley succeeds to the title.
Walter Forrest MP for Batley and Morley urged Australia to exempt woollen goods from a new tariff he called prohibitive and to allow orders placed before the tariff’s enactment. Amery replied noting the UK’s interests and value of Australian preferences to manufacturers.
Archdiocese head Cardinal Dougherty escaped serious injury after his limousine collided with a trolley in Melrose suburb. Secretary Rev Gerald O'Hara suffered a broken hand, while the Cardinal, bruised and shaken, was not seriously hurt and the chauffeur remained unharmed.
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