Silent Police for the City
Mayor Acres and all aldermen met to discuss street upkeep on the transprovincial highway and securing a right of way to connect with Winnipeg arcade. They approved placing silent policemen at key intersections and ordering diagonal parking with right wheels to the curb.
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Speciai
Acres
Hutton
Union of
British Columbia
Nelson
Seminary St. Sulpice
Montreal
Nelson News
Vancouver
Baird
Board of Works
Bridge
First
Second
Winnipeg Avenue
Main
Hirst
Apple Prices for This Year 1920
Fall and winter apple prices for 1920 are established with removal of the British embargo easing imports. Opening prices nine days ago were slightly lower than current quotes. Wealthies fetch 2.40, Macs 2.75, Winesaps 3.00, Delicious 3.25. Manitoba Ontario and Great Britain buying heavily. about 500 cars sold at Prairie points by August 20.
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Manitoba
Ontario
Great Britain
Prairie Points
Duchess
Wenatchee
Yakima Jonathans
Jonathans
Yakima
Okanagan Valley
United States
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Apple Dealers Association formed during Chicago meeting
A convention at the Sherman hotel August 10 to 13 drew many apple men but lacked attendee lists. Reports show committees handled business while external chatter focused on the eastern apple deal, prices, barrels, and sugar forecasts.
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Sherman Hotel
Progress on irrigation plan in river valley
The irrigation committee reports progress on forming a water municipality. The proposed system includes three main pumping plants and several smaller ones to irrigate 4430 acres from Carson to the GPR steel bridge along the Kettle River and adjoining lands. about 1900 acres are signed up, with completion expected in a week to forward the petition to the government.
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Wayer
Chia Wiley
Know
Carson
G.P.R. Steel
Kerman
Columbia
Thompson's Ottawa Visit Signals Irrigation Funds Soon
J E W Thompson M P P for Grand Forks returned from Vancouver, confirming irrigation funds will be available once the water municipality is formed and engineers file their report. Curlew mine near Curlew Washington plans to resume. Curlew tunnel explored, ore includes lead zinc silver. Government engineers Groves and Hodson to Kelowna. horticulturist Paul Black inspects valley orchards.
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J. E. W. Thompson
Grand Forks
Vancouver
Mr. Thompson
Phoeix
Franklin Camp
Curlew
Curlew, Wash
Negro Chauffeur In Court Over Accident
A Washington based Negro chauffeur faced court for a pedestrian collision. He claimed he did his best to warn the man but horn signals failed. The judge questioned why he did not slow instead of striking the wearer. The exchange touched on voters and candidates in a local context.
Copper production and political notes from early reports
A New York dispatch cites Granby Company producing 2,400,000 postnide of copper in July at Annox, compared with 2,079,000 poundy in June. Towe, long resident here, departed Monday for eastern Canada. In August the commercial government assumed control of the Pranquile sanitorito at Kotatuppes. The Canadian Wick of Commerce plans a $20,000 building at Auyox.
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Granby Company
Annox
New York
Promecial
Pranquile Sanitorito
Kotatuppes
Canadian Wick of Commerce
Auyox
Weather Record From Laws Ranch Week
Government thermometer data from Laws' ranch shows daily minimum and maximum temperatures for the past seven days alongside rainfall measurements. Data highlights daily highs and lows with totals, reflecting a wet period and variable warmth across the week.
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Laws‘ Ranch
English roots of the bagpipe claim debated in 19th century writings
A passage cites disputes over bagpipe origins with claims English influence predating Ireland. It references James Moncrieff, 1865, Edinburgh talks, Shakespeare mentions, and stock notes on royal music expenditures showing English pipers and terms like Budlish piper.
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England
Ireland
Kenworthy
House of Commons
James Moncrieff
Lord Advocate
Edinburgh
Sharkespeare
Macbeth
Dunsinane
Lincolshire
Yorkshire
Population boom in British Columbia cited in health report
Vancouver on August 25 reports BC population estimated at 880 000 in urban areas with 580 000 in prairie districts. Minister MacLean notes tuberculosis death rate fell from 1 23 per 1000 in 1915 to 0 83 per 1000 in the current year after a campaign distributing fifty thousand pamphlets in schools camps and public places.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Hoa de MacLean
Public
Healio
Ataticliciang
Sugar Protests Grow as Cuban Boom Delays New York Ship
The Ward liner Mexico arrived in New York after a 22 hour Havana delay costing the line $2000 daily. Looting at Havana port, sugar speculation, and congestion cripple shipments with ships rotting in harbor. Merchants ignore relief efforts as public interest fixes on sugar profits.
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New York
Mexico
Havana
Ubut Portie
Provocative Ignorance at Eastern University
The juvenile son of a botany professor shows early learning in Latin plant names and herbarium work while also ready for fighting. He returns home with an injured eye after a dispute sparked by a friend’s claim that Taraxacum officinale does not mean a dandelion.
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Bill Johnson
Mrs Nilea Leaves For Residence In Medicine Lut
Mrs C H Nilea and her daughter departed on Tuesday to establish their residence in Medicine Lut.
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C. H. Nilea
Medicine
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APPLE
Rome
Chicago Internationl.Apple Dealers?_ “Association
News of the
B. W. Groves
D. W. Hodsdon
Kelowna
Paul
Black
Washington
Theo W
United
Yale
Neber
Tiberi
Canada
Manchester Guardian
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