Indian Progress Report on Indian Wages in Canada
The annual Indian Affairs report for the year ending June 30 notes rising earnings from various industries, including fisheries, farming, and forestry, totaling about 218000 dollars. It details population changes, disease impacts, education enrollment, land sales, and trust fund growth, with cautious remarks on Indian character from a provincial official and a counterpoint praising disciplined Indigenous faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Indian Affaire
Dominion
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Mattleford
Ontario
Quebec
Prince Edward Island
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
New Trunswick
Humber
British Colum
Unusual Opinion on Labor Across the Atlantic
George Marnes of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, a British labor commissioner, compares England and America. He finds wages higher in the U S but notes longer hours, worse sanitation, and less civic responsibility in American life. He claims English workmanship and training are stronger, with more orderly conditions and cleaner buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A Lennon Cans
George Marnes
England
Manitoba Cricket Assoc reorganizes and curling wins
A Canada wire of the era notes the Manitoba Cricket Association reorganized. Montreal curling rinks defeat visiting Scotch teams as Intercolonial earnings rise. Winnipeg reports multiple local items including a death, immigration notes, and a royal assassination attempt in Madrid.
Death of Constable Lohman After War Service
Vancouver dispatch recounts Constable Lohman, once a South African War veteran, shooting himself after financial ruin and distress from a colleague Powell who drained Lohman’s money. Chief Campbell had placed him under surveillance as Supt Hussey prepared to review alleged irregularities. The note to his wife in San Francisco ends with a fateful plea for an honorable death.
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Vancouver
Treg
Lotman
Vali I
Veomarade
Arsos
Lohman
Powell
Carmien
Lohtoan
Waa
Campbell
Hussey
Lobman
Constable McPherson
San Francisco
Albert
Double marriage of Toronto washerwoman to same husband
The Toronto dispatch reports Mrs. Mary Kerr, once a Richmond Street washerwoman, has married her husband again after thirty-five years and four children. He deserted her for Manitoba, became a wealthy farmer, then remarried her New Year’s Day. Meanwhile in London at Paddington Coroner’s Court a man died after false teeth lodged in his throat due to snoring. Separate reports note officials in Leicester promising agricultural support and a Japanese island bride bringing a large tub of water as a dowry.
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Philadelphia
House of Retion
Homesbury
Tiss
Leon
Mexico
Canada
Great Britain
Liverpool
Toronto Dispatch
Mary Kerr
Richmond Street
Tara
Kerr
Saugiters
Shem
Manitoba
Toronto
Paddington
London
George Walls
Angus
Walls
Oshima
Famine in Sweden Faces Typhoid Threat
Telegrams from Stockholm report a northern Sweden famine affecting about 70,000 people from latitude 61 to 67 north. People eat dried pine bark bread. fish scarcity and deer supplies fail. cattle fodder risks typhoid from milk. Relief needs include $6.3 million, with $2,600 raised locally and Swedes abroad sending funds.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Gulf of Potonia
Iceland
Great Pun
Northern wreck and mining deaths loom large in 1902 report
A Jan 14 collision near Mainesville Wham wrecks the Great Northern and the freight engine de Aver with severe damage and injuries. Engineer Nelson Firman Don thoe and Wireman Whippler survive with injuries. several passengers hurt. A miner Moses Jackson dies after rock fall at Ve us mine on Morning mountain B. The Winnipeg bank clearings show over 40 percent rise in year 1902.
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Great North
Great Northern
Nelson
Firman Donthoe
Hudson
Wireman Whippler
Mainesville
de Aver
Moses Jackson
Jackson
Beibi canning works at Bains Ontario report
Condensed dispatches note the Beibi canning works at Bains Ontario based on January 15, the Winnipeg Field Factory gaining top marks for general efficacy in Canada, and various legal, political, and social items from Ontario and beyond. The text mentions courts, emigration, and a range of incidents including hog cholera, a submarine inventor’s fate, a large euchre crowd in Brooklyn, and immigration enforcement actions at New York port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beibi Canning Company
Bains
Ont
Winnipeg
All
Resolved to Investigate Congress Power on Coal
May Seine Coat Mu Washington the chair of the judiciary committee has introduced a resolution to investigate and report whether Congress has power to seize all coal beds mines and transportation facilities in the United States. It argues the committee has power to determine necessity and provide detailed modalities for appropriation to exhaust that power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Board of Trade of
United States
Pada
Lucido Parocehi
Pope
Rome
Sparta
Ont
Ine Spector
JA. Smith
M. Goubet
Submare
Washington
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Opi
Howe
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Indian Progress
Annual Report OF
Indian Department
Edmonton
Cuetec
New Brunswick
Prince Edward
Indian Trust Fund
Jas. Gibbons
Edmonton Agency
Keepine
Wight
Mave
Alun McGibbon
Quippalie
Furskdes
Mr. Gibbons
Pelican Narrows
Rueel
William Friars
Point Duchen
N. B
J.D. Friars
Waterford
J. D. Friars
Wm. Friars
Edwin Robinson
Friars
United States Congress
R. Owen
Fort William
Montreal
Mountain Ash
W. Hemterson
Britain
Col. Pope
Haseen
Amerian Bicycle Co
Two
Condenerd
Manitoba Cricket Association
Im ‘Feane
Woony H. McIntyre
Mackensie & Mann
Venessa
Battleford
W. S. McKay
Ignace Island
Port Arthur
Regina
G. W. Kerby
Calgary
Morocco
Leang Fe
Prinetti
Italy
Count Belgarde
Ceree
Ian MacLaren
Head ‘Teachers’ Association
Fone
St. Catharines
Grand ‘Trunk
Port Robinson
Chippewa River
Niagara Falls
Robert McHarg
Fort Erie
Madrid
Alfonso
C Hristina
Feito
Toox
Pennteberg
British Board
Agerculture
Leicester
Winnipeg Bank Clearings
Ewe
Ontario Cov
Ts Temitkaming Railway
Grand Trunk
Ross
Herbert
John Litton
Meredith
Cans
Hashed
Soldie
Vivian ‘Tamins
Varcouver
South Africa
Paardeberg
Stamrey Cooper
Sher
Jude Desapollencourt
Fourteenth Regiment Armory
Brooklyn
Im Junison
Wellman’s Corners
Out
Alva Hogie
John Robinson
Rawdon
Mr. Hogie
Hogie
Robinson
Kaslo
B.C
Mike Murphy
New York
Seine
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