Canada mining prospects and rights reform urged by officials
The Ottawa Journal discusses mining potential in Canada and the need for refining domestically to employ Canadians. It cites Stewart and Reginald McKenna, and urges policy innovation to maximize mineral benefits while keeping justice in policing and wartime rights. It highlights concerns over Third-Degree interrogation and calls for legal safeguards against coerced confessions.
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Stewart
Canada
Reginald McKenna
Ines
Ottawa Journal
G .Stewart
Winnipeg
Charles
Courtenay Social News Highlights Local Visitors
Courtenay residents share news of visitors from Ottawa Renfrew Eganville Killaloe and Lake Clear. Detroit six week visit included health care at Providence Hospital. Navy sailors attended a city dance at the Gaiety Theatre.
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City and Board of Trade
Gaiety
A. E. Filmer
Noel
Nanaimo
Filmer
Courtenay
Synopsis of Land Act Amendments
Vacant Crown lands may be pre empted by British subjects over 18 or aliens declaring intention to become British subjects with residence and farming improvements. Buy and lease terms for agricultural lands, timber limits, and homestead leasing rules are outlined. Grazing districts governed by a Grazing Commission with permits based on stock numbers and associations for range management.
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Department of Lands
Victoria
B.C
Coast Range
Land Commissioner
Land Recording Division
Amberland
Tomestead
Saint John tourist season sets record as arrivals rise
Tourist traffic to Saint John hits record levels with arrivals earlier this spring and continuing in large numbers. The piece notes a growing industry, tulip bulb farming in British Columbia, plans for a Vancouver wool grading center, and railway carriage expansion for automobile freight. It also mentions trans Atlantic liner progress and a remodeled school car prototype for the Ontario district.
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Saint John
Sleeping sickness linked to vaccination reported
Geneva reports a League of Nations health committee finding that vaccination to prevent other diseases has caused a dread sleeping sickness known as cephalitic lethargy. England and the Netherlands notified occasional cases and the Netherlands suspended compulsory vaccination in public schools for a year.
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Geneva
League of Nations Health Committees
England
Netherlands
League
Pleads Fair Deal for Immigrants at Chiefs Congress
Colonel Starnes of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police urged the Chief Constables Congress for humane immigrant policy. He stressed treating entrants with courtesy to help them become citizens quickly and to prevent their children from growing resentful.
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Toronto
Aig
Courtland Starnes
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Chief Constables Congress
Starnes
Jannings Stars in The Last Command Promising War Drama
Emil Jannings delivers a remarkable military general role in The Last Command from Paramount. Josef von Sternberg directs with an all star cast including William Powell Evelyn Brent and Michael Visaroff in a sweeping Russia to America tale of revolution, love and intrigue.
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Jannings
Paramount
Variety
Josef von Sternberg
Underworld
William Powell
Evelyn Brent
Michael Visaroff
Russia
America
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Vancouver
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J. G. Richardson
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Alaska
Victoria Avenue
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Walter Richards
Richards
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Thomas Graham
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Trenton
Ontario
Canadian Pacific Railway
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Due of Atholl
Canadian Pacific Steamships
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Montreal
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Delta
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North Vancouver
Emil Jannings
Cumberland, B.C
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Ganadian National
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Mutual Life
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Royston Lumber Co. Limited
Cumberland, B. C
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Blue Ribbon Coffee
Matt Brown
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British Columbia Forest Service
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