Immigrant Prompts Vast Yields in Western Canada Offer
In Stirling Alberta a Canadian Government homestead agent notes unprecedented yields and a grand opportunity for home seekers. Reports from Edmonton, St Albert, Ponoka, and Raymond highlight six to forty bushels per acre yields for oats, wheat and beets, plus thriving stock raising and cheap living. Prospects favor settlers with nerve seeking land, with favorable wages and strong markets.
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Alberta
Terra Firma
Edmonton
St. Albert
Raymond
Lethbridge
Lacombe
Wetask Twin
Western Canada
Ponoka
C. & BE. Brr
Wetaskiwin
Manitoba
Mfe
Floating Battery Aimed At Coast Defense By Stokes
New York merchant Anson Phelps Stokes proposes a globular floating battery for coast defenses with a rigid gun, two internal boats, and external anchors. He seeks government backing, has lobbied the navy, and notes foreign protections. Stokes Jr. and T. G. Phelps Store are linked to related philanthropic and college activities.
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Anyon Phelps Stokes
New York
Philanthropiatt
Stokes
Popoff
Caribbean
Sena
Secretary of the Navy
Stokes Han
Stokeston
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr
Protestant Episcopal Church
Potter
Yale Corporation
T. G. Phelps Stores
College
Acta
Deals Blow to Corporations in New Jersey Charter Culling
Governor Franklin Murphy cancels 927 dubious and bankrupt corporate charters across New Jersey, totaling $229 million in capitalization. The move targets fake entities, aiming to tidy business and political influence as Murphy, a Newark wartime manufacturing magnate, rose to Republican leadership in 1892.
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Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
Newark
Republican State Committee
Siecear
Macdonald as a jeweler during Sudan campaign tale
The late Gen. Macdonald prized a rough glass watch crystal. After breaking the original during the Sudan campaign, he ground a tumbler to create a new bottom and shaped it to fit tightly. The improvised replacement lasted until he returned home.
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Macdonald
Scotland
Soudan
Desert
Statues of Gladstone by Grock and Brock Set in Westminster Abbey
Two statues of William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli stand in Westminster Abbey near Beaconsfield. Grock portrays Gladstone in ordinary late nineteenth century dress, while Beaconsfield wears robes of state. The sculptor contrasts their public personas and legacies, one opposing tithes while the other led pageantry for the throne. There were no ceremonies at the dwelling.
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Grock
Gladstone
Brock
Westminster Abbey
Magnificent Minnesota launches from American shipyards
The largest vessel built in an American yard, the Minnesota, was launched April 14 at United States Shipbuilding Company in New London Connecticut. At 20 feet long and 177 feet high to the mast top it rivals the Celtic and Cedric abroad. The nine deck ship will carry 60 000 tons with a 6 000 ton bunker and two inverted triple expansion engines producing about 1000 indicated horsepower and a speed near fourteen knots. Fire safety uses steam extinguishing and the launch signals a rush of foreign orders for merchant ships.
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United States Shipbuilding Company
New London
Conn
Minnesota
Cedric
Great Northern Steamship Company
Pacific Ocean
Trafic
Har Hold
Omelots
Corrupt New York Jurors Rally Praise From Philbin
Eugene A. Philbin of New York criticized jurors in a Columbia University address on The District Attorney's Office. He cited grand juries protecting political workers, instances of jurors blocking presentments, and difficulty securing bribery convictions due to witness credibility. He described corrupt jurors and biased jurors facing police corruption challenges.
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Eugene A. Philbin
New York
Columbia University
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Speaks On Religion and Charity
Sanaa Deviate Rathauseet describes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's religious interests and a bazaar opened for a chapel fund in memory of Hugh Price Hughes. He urged integrating faiths and remarked that all religious efforts aim to improve mankind, noting his own Catholic upbringing.
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Sanaa
Arthur Conan Doyle
Kulent
Hugh Price Hughes
Arthur
Czar in Russia Cheered by Crowds in St Petersburg
The czar of Hutsia experienced a show of national spirit as crowds along St Petersburg streets cheered him during a drive. He reportedly beamed with pleasure, the reaction credited to upcoming reforms announced recently.
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Hutsia
Russia
St Petersburg
Ubuse
Forthcomig
Brigham Young’s Long Career
Brigham Young son of President Young founder of the Mormon church died in Salt Lake after a long illness spent last year in Idaho seeking health. Born in 1836 in Kentucky Ohio he rose to Council of Twelve Apostles and would have headed the church. He aided Utah legislature and the church abroad, crossed the plains in 1849 as a boy pioneer, led European Mission in 1864, and in 1879 was jailed briefly for resisting church property turnover.
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Brigham Young
President Young
Mormon Church
Salt Lake
Idaho
Mr. Young
Kirtland
Ohio
Council of ‘Twelve Apo
Utah
Tower to mark historic spot observatory planned in Boston
Mayor Glines has set aside Prospect Hill for a memorial observatory to honor Revolutionary War history. A forty five foot tall tower will resemble an old English castle, with a four foot parapet and iron gratings, offering a view reaching Blue Hills and White Mountains. The rough granite walls enclose a thirty foot diameter, hexagonal second floor with two rooms for relics and souvenirs.
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Glines
Prospect Hill
Engileh
Boston
Blue Hills
Boston Light
White Mountains
Aix
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Canada
Stirling
Free Homestead Lands
M. Pickrell
Beechwood, Ky
Saga of
United States
J. W. O'Denny
Third Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
Ir. Winshow
Mr. Stoles
Porte
Atem Fie
Tee
FOE
Midseip
Sectig
Gov. Franklin
GOR Abanalin
Murphy
The
General National Society, Sons of the American Revolution
Mr LE Foci
Somerville
Maas
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