Tuxedo Park Emerges as Winnipeg Suburb and Agricultural College Site
Manitoba plans an Agricultural College in the province with a bill establishing The Agricultural College of Manitoba. Tuxedo Park on the Assiniboine River rises as a premier suburb with parks, boulevards, river frontage, and future railway stations.
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Manitoba
Tay
Suc
Giovernor Inoune
Agricultural College of
Mantoba
Tuxedo Park
Assiniboine River
Winnipeg
Parkdale
Toronto
Westmount
Montreal
Washington, D.C
U.S. A
City Park
Hudson's Bay
Canadian Northern Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway
Agricultural College At Winnipeg Park Site Described
The proposed Manitoba Agricultural College campus near Tuxedo Park in Winnipeg covers about 130 acres with 20 acres for buildings including main hall residence science dairy and barns and 117 acres for experimental farming and demonstrations of grains fruits and ornamentals. Plans include domestic science facilities and English mathematics courses, with streetcar connections via Portage Avenue and a government grant of 40000 dollars for a railway and traffic bridge.
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Winnipeg
Tuxedo Park
Macdonald Institute of Guelph
Gartailo
River Gee
Portage Ave
Winnipeg Electric Street Railway
Yartr
C Iy Park
Asainiboine
Manitoba
Agricultural College of Manitoba
Severe crackdown on anarchists reaches U S shores
Washington reports rigorous government action against Italian anarchists arriving in the United States. Authorities in San Francisco and Baltimore are tightening measures to apprehend a deemed dangerous ringleader named by the Italian consul in Baltimore, with immigration officials expediting his capture.
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Washington
United States
San Francisco
Baltimore
America
Behtimore
Railway Wire Expansion Across Western Canada
Railway construction this season totals 2 250 miles of line with 619 miles of new pole lines by the P R R and 4 068 miles of wire to be stretched 1 966 copper. A copper from Montreal to Winnipeg will be duplex and a copper Montreal Toronto quadruplex for sixteen operators. An iron Montreal Ottawa quadruplex plus a Prescott Ogdensburg cable serves railway traffic.
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Winnipeg
Canada
P.R
Montreal
Toronto
Ottawa
Prescott
Ogdensburg
Skeleton parts found in Yorkshire quarry near Kirkdale Cave
A skull and other skeletal parts were found in a quarry near Kirkdale Cave at Kirby Moorside Yorkshire. The site is noted for fossils from extinct animals discovered in the early 19th century.
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London
Kirkdale Cave
Kirby Moorside
Yorkshire
Washington Congressman Warns of Pacific Shipping Threats
Congressman Humphrey of Washington warns that British and Japanese competition and Canadian subsidies threaten the American flag in Pacific merchant trade. He cites Vancouver subsidies of 300000 dollars annually and Japanese line subsidies, with English, German, and French shipowners forming a rate trust to push costs higher.
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Washington —I
W & Humphrey
Congress
Washington
Merchant Marine Commission
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Roosevelt
Humphrey
Vancouver
B.C
M. Humphrey
Seattle
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Orient
Pacific Mail Company
Hill
Windsor
China
Japan
Tidewater
British Columbia
Russia Opens Paris Talks for $200 Million Loan
Russia began preliminary negotiations in Paris for a large foreign loan of at least $200 million. The syndicate includes German Dutch and British capitalists with no Americans known to be involved. The discussions aim to secure funds for Russia in St. Petersburg.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Paris
Justice probe into Courrieres salvage engineers negligence
The Ministry of Justice orders the Douai public prosecutor to investigate salvage engineers at Courrieres for negligence and possible manslaughter. Premier Sarrien says mining companies accept a wage rise in Nord and Pas de Calais to end the strike. New York trustees announce Carnegie widow pensions with conditions on the professor’s tenure and retirement date.
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Paris
Ministry of Justice
Douai
Department of the Nord
Courrieres
Sarrien
Pas de Calais
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Foundation
Carnegie
Immigration boom drives Western Canada to new lands
The article notes a record immigration wave to Western Canada with Kippenacker quoted officials and Maxim Gorky in New York commenting on Russia. Rail lines strain under the influx as hundreds of settler cars await inspection at North Portal and Minneapolis trains overflow with homeseekers heading northwest.
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Minneapolis
Minn
United States
Western Canada
Theodore M. Knappen
Western Ghasdian Immigration Association
Canada
North Portal
Sask
Soo Line
Cus
Maxim Gorky
Gorky
Men of Conditions
Russia
Doma
Liber
Western
America
F Hill
Jewish Colony for Canada to Be Formed by English Farmers
A Jewish communal colony is planned in western Canada with fifty English farmers and their families. They favor Southern Alberta as a base, planning a large settlement in the Dominion. After migration from England and brief stays in South Africa, colonists seek suitable district and likely settle near Winnipeg or in nearby counties.
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London
John Forrest
Australia
Dirathcona
Lord Strathcona
Canada
South Africa
New Zealand
Winnipeg —R
Gasque
Alberta
England
Winnipeg
Dominion
Time's Power Over Life Themed Verse by Tennyson
A compact meditation on time and aging by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poem contrasts years with a fragile vase of clay, waking sleeping earth, and the passing of youth into old age. It reflects on the rulers of time that bring both joy and sorrow.
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Tennyson
Susan B Anthony remembered as a pioneer of women's rights
Flora Mac Denison secretary of the Woman's Enfranchisement Association praises Susan B Anthony as the great reformer who led the women's movement. She notes Anthony's decades long struggle for suffrage and equal rights, calling her a lasting example for future generations in Canada and beyond.
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Flora Mac. Denison
Woman's Enfranchisement Association
Susan B Anthony
Susan
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Aunt Susan
Canada
Blackstone
Lord Strathcona’s Title Sparked Scottish Backlash
The Toronto News recalls Sir Donald Alexander Smith’s bid for the title Lord Glencoe was dropped after fierce protests from Macdonalds Campbells and others who opposed a Smith bearing the Glen of Weeping name. He instead took Lord Strathcona. The piece also rebuts gossip of a humble steerage origin, asserting noble Morayshire lineage and a legal education in Edinburgh, denying a Canadian path.
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Donald Alexander Smith
Glencoe
William III
Toronto
Scotland
Smith
Glen of Weeping
Donald
Lord Strathcona
Macdonald
Campbell
America
New York
Canada
Hudson Bay Co
Morayshire
Budson Bay Co
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New Agricultural College
Forelock
Parks Board
Manitova Agricultural College
Buffalo
New City Park
Assiniboine Drive
Domestic Science
Manitoba Agricultural College
Tuxedo Boulevard
Witte
Speedway
Hower
Jewish Colony For
Susan B. Anthony
Lord Glencoe
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