July Bank Statement Shows Increased Trade With United Kingdom
Ottawa August 25 The bank statement for July shows a favorable comparison with the previous year with notes in circulation and deposits rising, while balances due from the United Kingdom indicate greater dealings with the mother country. The department calls the overall outlook extremely satisfactory and prosperous. Reports also note a large forest fire near Cathe Lake along the Ottawa Arnprior and Parry Sound line and peat bogs burning between Ottawa and Montreal along the CPR short line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Department of Finance
Dominion
Canada
United Kingdom
Cathe Lake
Ottawa, Arnprior and
Parry Sound
Montreal
C. P.R
Daya
Captain Kendall Drowns After Fall From Steamer Clippex
Rat Portage and London Ont report the drowning of Captain Frank Kendall Jr after he fell from the steamer Clippex 15 miles off Long Point while on a routine check. The accident occurred during a heavy sea as a barge was being towed. Kendall drowned before rescue could reach him. Minnie Booker, 22, of London, Ontario, died after taking Paris green at her home following family plans to travel to Buffalo. A separate Manila dispatch notes troop transports Valencia and Zealandia sailing for San Francisco. Ottawa reports Royal Regiment inspection by Major-General Hutton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rat Portage
Frank Kendall
War Road
Minu
Kendall
Long Point
London
Ont
Aung
Minnie Booker
Paris Green
Misa Booker
Buffalo
Mamie
English
Miss Booker
Joseph Booker
Winnipeg
Mra. Nelson
Fonseca Avenue
Mra
Peterson
Telegraphic Briefs Update From Global Ledger
A digest of brief worldwide notes reports losses, trials, weather, and transport events. Highlights include a Transvaal shipment, Winnipeg jury trial, grain data for the western fall, Ottawa-bound Manitoba team, and Canadian railway incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Transvaal
Aebt
Wluulets
Winnipes
Welle
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Ottawa
Frank Kendall
Ratlor
Cage
Traverse
Winipex Fire Brigade
Thie
British wary over Transvaal armament buildup in Cape Town
Aug 25 26 reports from Cape Town and Johannesburg describe rising munitions in the South African Republics amid Delagoa Bay incidents and Uitlander arm restrictions. British officials consider disarmament as key to peace, while German volunteers show readiness to aid if enrolled properly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibraltar
Manchester Regiment
Clapetown
Southampton
Cape Town
Delagoa Bay
Transvaal
Uitlanders
Gorenzo
Delagos Bay
South Africa
Johannesburg
Harvesters From Ontario and Manitoba Train Excursion
Winnipeg reports a large OPR excursion scene as two harvest trains arrive with over 6 000 excursionists. Many men seek work locations while officials aid inquiries and manage arrivals before departures to Brandon Glenboro and Calgary. In China a Baboni plague appears at New Obwang with fears of spread to Tien Tain and other North China towns.
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Winnipeg
O.P.R
Sever
O.P. R
Brandon
Southwestern
Muanitoba
Glenboro
Ad Calgary
Tien Tsin
China
New Obwang
Tien Tain
Five Die as Cuban Pay Riot Breaks Out Near Santiago
In Cuevitas near Santiago five Cuban soldiers are killed and ten wounded when a crowd of thousands, angered by delayed pay, clashes with gendarmes and US troops. Captain Balint is killed, others wounded. payment resumes under heavy guard with fears of further attacks.
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Santiago de Cuba
Cuevitas
Santiago
Quevitas
Balint
United States
Col. Moale
Moale
Money Office
Baliat
Revelstoke Merchant Sentenced to Fifteen Months Hard Labor
In Atlin police court D G Oathcart, Revelstoke merchant, pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining money by false pretenses through worthless cheques and was sentenced to three months hard labor on each count, totaling fifteen months. The article notes labor troubles in the Rossland district and a telegram invitation to M P P Ralph Stith to attend Labor Day events.
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Vancouver
B.C
Atlin
D. G. Oathcart
Revelstoie
Ralph Stith
M.P.P
Dominion Labor Congress
Rossland
Smith
Change in CPR OM Class Fort William Rumor
Rumor and belief say J A Cameron CPR Winnipeg Fort William superintendent may move to Crow's Nest Pass division. G J Bory North Bay superintendent expected to succeed him. Bory to take charge September first. Cameron currently on holiday in British Columbia.
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Fort William
J. A. Cameron
Winnipeg
C.P.R
Crow's Nest Pasa
G. J. Bory
North Bay
Bory
Cameron
British Colombia
Wheat shipments and threshing progress reported in Nebraska
Ogilvie's elevator shipped 4 car loads of No. 1 hard new wheat from here yesterday. Threshing will be general this week. In Gretna Alex Smith loaded his first car of new wheat graded No. 1 hard, with an expected yield near twenty five bushels per acre and threshing to expand by Friday.
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Rosenfeld
Ogilvie
Gretna
Alex.Smith
Guerin ite barricade and siege at Paria headquarters
Guerin ites retreat from anti Semite league HQ at Paria after August siege by authorities. They maintain a French barricade of boards and tables soaked with petroleum. a fire line stands outside as officials fear mob violence. In Fort Willian an expulsion train will move sections west within twenty four hours carrying over five thousand harvesters from Ontario and Quebec to the Northwest.
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Paria
Fort Willian
Ang
Ontario
Quebec
Boer Recruits Arriving Rapidly Across Cape Town Border
Aug 24 Cape Town reports rapid Boer mobilization with Mafeking Regiment forming around Vivian's camp. Hundreds of recruits arrive daily, rumors of 800 Boers laagered on the border, and police warned of threats to railroad bridges as tension rises amid speculation of pro British agents and Loyalist sympathies.
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Capetown
Transvaal
Great Britain
Mafeking Horse Regiment
Vivan
Kroger
Haa
Colonso
Pietermaritzburg
Natal
Natu
Saati
Uncertain 19th Century Text Fragment Summary
Fragmentary report mentions various items including cotton price rises for Canadian manufacturers, a drowning incident, a pine product suppression, shipwrecks, a missing traveler, a public gathering in Maelvod, a match in Mihandes Mintric, and industrial projects in Pittsburgh and Winnipeg. It references London, Ottawa, and Vancouver area activity, plus a note on wheat futures and a Canadian yacht voyage.
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John Nitclife
Pal
Wabilinhiy
Idaho
Atlin
Virgil
London
Oliver
Maelvod
Alloway and Champion Bankers and Brokers Ad
Bankers and brokers Alloway and Champion advertise services for margin trading and currency exchange offerings. They list offices at 862 Main and in Winnipeg with promises to buy sell and write off monies for government lands and other exchanges.
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Alloway & Champion
Main Street
Winnipeg
Reichamarkt
Tottian Rouhien
Manitoba Market Prices and Goods Report
Readable from a Manitoba market list with prices for grains meats dairy vegetables and livestock. It lists Wheat 52 ride grade, Barley about 380 per bushel, Butter 11¢, Cheese 95 kgge, Potatoes and onions prices, hides and wool rates, cattle and hogs values, chickens and fowl prices, and horses and milch cows values.
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Geneva
Oslo
Deakin
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Advances in Cotton and Mixed Trade News Across Cities
The report notes a cotton price rise affecting retail goods including fancy cottons and undergarments as mills lift prices due to higher raw cotton costs. It also covers a series of brief items from Winnipeg to Kingston, including a Scottish-like court hearing, a lunacy commission update, harvest excursions, shipboard losses, and a fatal accident in Kingston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
The Brother of Jim in a Civil War Dawn
Henry Price confesses killing his brother Jim in a southern army battle. He recounts the ambush in the sunken road, where Jim lay buried and Price vowed to honor him after the fight. As dawn nears, Price seeks a final burial and prepares for a doomed stand beside a hot gun amid burning ruins.
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Price
Henry Price
Henry
Pet
Jim
Rebs
Poly
Banderaon
Bey
Grovetom Cromroads
Fragmented OCR snippets mix letters advice and quotes
A garbled collage from multiple papers shows misread letters and stray phrases. It includes lines about missed correspondence and playful banter on poker and gun use, with scattered dates and city names, lacking coherent event.
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Kendall, JR
Mamnie Booker
Manila
Valencia
Zealandia
Mantaus Regiment
San Francisco
Royal Regiment of Canadian Infantry
Hutton
Buchan
Sir Wilteht Laren
Sar Phos Lipton
Genesve
Revchertor
Denver
Col
Maurel
Dr. Chase
B. Nicholson
Man
N.Y
John Archdseger
Floren Wousol
Portsmouth
Cape Hatteras
New Inlet
Chitin Hag
Iapan
Wining Waterworks
Teosenfold
Geico
Beayoy
Natit
Louis Paview
Mok Faloe
Ars
Nolwah
Wilia
Main &T
Hanks, Sellera
Seae
Halifax
Toronto
Duluth
Joney
Forts William
Glenora
Lake of the Wooden
Shorts
John W. Anderson
Moriing
Peebles
Gage
Lunacy Commission
Duto
Ising
Agnews
Spon
Brooks
Oryata Canadian Pacific
Territories
U.S
Hooker
Corregidor Island
Calgary
Moediciné Hat
Sapt. J. Wiblock
Tonawanda
N Y
John Dundas
Thorold
Dundas
Patterson
John
J. J. Herbert
Banque Ville Marie
Lonflon
Portland Street
George W. Plam
Philadelphia
Carpenter
Alice Street
Berlin
Tife
Maurice Grand
Herr Drouck
Kingston
T. Blake
Blake
Brother
William Henry Bheltor
Mom
Hareh
Anton
Bettar
Detroit News
Pi Detroit Journal
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