Cambridge Wins Inter-University Boat Race Jubilee Title
Cambridge won the Diamond Jubilee inter-university boat race by six lengths over Oxford, in 1 minute 324 seconds, amid rain and light wind. Oxford led by toss, but Cambridge quickly took and maintained the lead through Craven Steps, Harrods, and Barnes Bridge, finishing with a solid victory.
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Dridge
Craven Steps
Harrods Stores
Seaharine Works
Bridge
Hammersmith Ridgs
Mills
Thorney Crome
Wolves Attack Couple During Baby Baptism Run
In Severny Krai a man urged his wife to fling their newborn to wolves as twelve wolves closed in near Vitibak. She refused and the man tried to seize the infant. They tumbled from the sleigh into a ditch, wolves pursued, and the man and horse were killed and eaten.
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Severny Krai
Vitibak
West design a college Albanian rising in the Balkans
A garbled report mentions Albanian tensions in the Balkans, Canada planning three train ships for UK naval reserve, vessels arriving at a harbor, and a Count Zadorowski. It notes a death in an Italian automobile race and mentions monuments to Bismarck across Germany and Europe, with March references and scattered place names.
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West
Balkans
Canada
Fort
Zadorowski
Aime
Iealy
Winnipes
Meteioue
Parliament Opens In British Columbia With Labour Legislation
The fourth session of British Columbia’s ninth parliament opened on April 2 with the lieutenant governor presiding. The throne speech proposes mining tax reforms, reconstituting old orientals acts, and a machinery to settle capital and labor disputes via a three-person arbitration panel and sworn witness examination.
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British Columbia
Henry Lothialore
Esquimalt
Work Point
From Both Hemispheres News Roundup of Events
A rough scan notes varied items: Bulgaria deaths and Wilkes-Barre mine entombment, Winnipeg grain board seeks railway post, a commercial traveller with smallpox in Lind say, outbreaks in several places, wireless telegraph tests near Berlin on moving trains, a barn fire near Bothwell with $1500 loss, the steamship Saraiman's iceberg scare off Halifax, Helena Montana earthquake with river changes, a Magdeburg court martial lenient on a cruel officer, and a note on army discipline pending further action.
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Halifax
Helena Fats
Hellspell
Mont
Whitefish River
Volcanic Eruption Disrupts Nearby Districts and Reports
A dispatch notes a stirring volcanic event starting in March and continuing into the morning with the Soutriere region and Hovde mountain showing reflections of activity. The agricultural office reports district Findward resembles surrounding areas as ejecta and cinders are dispersed. several kinds of ejecta are described, indicating a significant eruption and broad disturbance.
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Hovde
Agricultural Office
al Aeas
Zion
Ageia
Narrow escape at Varig to March shoots at Marcel Prevost
A stylish young woman named Emme Tourtt fired two shots at Marcel Prevost during a Society of Men of Letters gathering in Rue Rougemont. Both shots missed as Prevost disarmed her. she claimed London acquaintance and intent to avenge, not kill. She was taken into custody then freed. Prevost did not pursue charges and the election proceeded with Prevost elected president.
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Theas
Marcel Prevost
M. Prevost
Society of Men of Letters
M- Prevost
London
Mile
Touret
Mverty
Indy
Pres Dent
Young Minrods Capture Bears in Manitoba Woods
Fred Wallingham, a Belgian woodman near Darwin, Manitoba, watched his two sons, 10 and 22, shoot a bear that had attacked them while they approached a den with four cubs. The boys killed the mother bear with a hail of bullets and then captured the four cubs alive, returning home to care for them on milk.
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Fred. Wallingham
Darwin
Winnipeg
Willie
Faint News Digest Reports Diverse Local Incidents
A patchwork of brief notices covers travel plans, a jailbreak arrest, chess results, Doukhobor homesteads, a government message, railway labor issues, a fatal fire in Onondaga, a tobacco linked death, Niagara Falls stunts, and maritime trade figures.
Markets Decline Presses on Wheat and Grain Prices
The wheat market shows eleven days of steady declines with price drops of 7 to 10 cents from late January levels. Manitoba wheat is quiet with little offer, while end-of-week prices sit 4 to 10 cents lower than a week prior. Flour demand remains steady with various patent and bakery grades priced for trade delivery. Milling inputs such as bran, shorts, ground feed, and oats show steady to strong demand, with oats and barley prices noted for May delivery as navigation opens. Potatoes rise slightly, other vegetables and meats list varied prices, and live stock receipts remain light amid cold storage influence.
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Vance
Manitoba
Glenora Patent
Abc
Tesla
Sheepakins
Bet Steera
Wide World Items From Dominion News
A survey of varied reports from Ontario to Ottawa includes a redistribution bill impact, a fatality at C. I. P. yards in Winnipeg, Swift death in Chicago and a poisoning acquittal in Ireland. Immigrant ships to Canada, a grave robbery sentence, aerial balloon work by Spencer Brothers, and a stabbing fatality in Carleton Place are noted alongside riots in Russia and a looming lumber inquiry.
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Old Ontario
C.I P. R'i
Winnipeg
Gustavus Swift
Chicago
Irish Land Bill details issued in Commons debate
The Irish land purchase bill text runs thirty nine pages, outlining arrears treatment by the land commission and power to remit parts of costs in special cases. It notes sale of school lands in the Northwest, with public auctions planned in Regina Moose Jaw Qu Appelle Wolseley Grenfell Whitewood Moosomin Carnduff Alameda and Yellow Grass on June 2, with a reserve price of seven dollars per acre.
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House of Commons
Wyndhamn
Land Commission
Land Commissiones
Northwest Territories
School Lands Endowment Fund
Northwest
Minister of the Interior
Regina
Moose Jaw
Qu'Qppette
Wolseley
Grenfell Whitewood
Moosomin
Corivle
Carnduff
Alameda
Yellow Grass
Forestry Superintendent Reports Interior Branch Gains
Mr Stewart the superintendent of forestry told the agricultural committee of the House of Commons what the new branch of the Department of the Interior has accomplished in protecting the plains. In three years there has been a huge rise in demand for young trees and the government map application sends inspectors in the spring to advise farmers on fire safe trees and planting.
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House of Comm Week
Department of the Interior
BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND CLAIMS AND SETTLEMENT ARGUMENT
The article argues that British Columbia cannot attract new settlers while lacking a comprehensive survey and a homestead law. It notes seven eighths of Crown land remains unwed, no open land for agriculture, and preemption is slow and unclear. It suggests settlers migrate to the territories for 160 acres with Torrens title and calls for population growth through advertising once proper laws exist.
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Columbia
British Columbia
United States
North West
British” Columbia
Porati
Lands and Works Department
Britis Columbia
Osler’s Wir Win Deautont from Pioneer American physiologist
An old Canada Lares piece recalls Osler's article on Wir. Win Deautont, praising De Beaumont for detailing a wound from a Canadian trapper and the healing process. It notes De Beaumont’s observations as foundational to understanding digestion and the anatomy of the digestive tract, admired by physicians.
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Osler
Wir
Win. Deautont
Alexis St. ‘A. Preneh
Dreayermont
Iter St
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