Canada S West Provinces Rise In New Epoch Of Growth
The piece highlights two new Canadian provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan formed from the Northwest Territories. It notes Alberta’s diverse climate and wealth in cattle, wheat, sugar beets, coal, oil, and gas, plus Saskatchewan’s hard spring wheat potential. It also covers railway expansion and policy questions on transport and rates. Other items mention Hudson Bay exploration and the Arctic voyage.
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Orange Judd Parmer
Gate
Canada
Canadian
Northwest Territories
Port Arthur
Lethbridge
America
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Colrado
Rocky Mountains
Manitoba
Esquimaux Child Learns French On Arctic Voyage
Raguimac families voyage near the Arctic and attend concerts and entertainments aboard. Mr Vanasse finds them bright and cheerful. An Esquimaux boy of five has to learn French during the trip.
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Ear
Arctic
Ularly
Vanasse
Esquimaux
Toronto man found dead in stable on Dundas Street
Toronto resident Peter McBride was found dead in a Dundas Street stable where he had lived through winter with another man. Heart disease was given as the cause of death in the report.
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Toronto
Peter McBride
Civic
Dundas Street
Guilty Plea In Fire at George Brown’s Stable
A man and a youth pleaded guilty to wilfully setting fire to George Brown’s Stable behind 540 Spadina Ave. The case was brought before Col. Denison police magistrate and both were remanded to the children’s shelter for a week. The toys allegedly involved were connected to the City Dairy company premises in the west.
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Teere Ee Jew Kirk
City Dairy Company
Col. Denison
George Brown
Spadina Ave
Penitentiary twine prices and Toronto hospital plan
Government fixed 1905 twine prices for pure Manilla and mixed varieties, with car lot buyers receiving $10 per ton reduction. A Toronto Hospital proposal to build a new General Hospital at University Avenue and College Street, costing over a million and a quarter, with seven acres site, aims for $700,000 in university clinic facilities and added support from Ontario government and benefactors.
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Ditawa
New Zealand
Jaly
Toronto Hospital
Toronto
University Avenue
College Street
Ontario
Ius
Morphia Poisoning Scourge Hits Inland China
Report from Amoy describes a smuggling system bringing morphia into inland China where heavy duties encouraged concealment. Boxes hidden in a flour shipment leaked morphia when opened and sold to rural districts. Within a week dozens died from morphine poisoning, with estimates around fifty.
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China
Froma Amoy
Wild Man Reported Seen Near Qualicum by Indians
Victoria reports Captain Owen says Indians in the vicinity of Qualicum shot at a naked wild man digging clams with a knife. The creature shrieked and fled. Search parties failed to locate him while Union residents cling to belief in the wild man and rumors link him to a disappearance from twelve years ago.
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Victoria
Owen
Qualicum
Union
Tramped Three Days Without Food Aboard Pacific Ship Tale
Two passengers from the Ss. Pleiades narrate a three day hunger ordeal after leaving the Tacoma during icy Siberian waters. A. J. Miller and E. W. Raymond describe reaching a Japanese village on foot with no food, after an arduous trek from the ship in heavy ice conditions. Shingle Combine in British Columbia near Vancouver: major producers unite to end price wars, forming Export Lumber and Shingle Co. Lea and Union Lumber Co. Ltd, with a revised field price and new selling arrangements to stabilize output and prevent glut.
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Victoria
Boston Tow Boat Company
Manilla
Orient
A. J. Miller
Tacoma
E. W. Raymond
Funushari Island
Japan
B. C
Vancouver
British Columbia
Pacific Province
Magstowa
Ontario
Tme
Kootenay Shin Silemen
Coast
Coast Mills
Kootenay
Export Lumber and Shingle Co. Lea
Union Lumber Co. Ltd
Export Lumber Co
Upton Lumber Co
Russian naval chiefs forecast favorable odds in far east battle
Petersburg reports Captain von Essen lauds Admiral Rojestvensky and predicts long range clash with Togo. He cites Japanese torpedo tactics, port Arthur lessons, and gun calibers as decisive. Nebogatoff division feared vulnerable to swift enemies. junction awaited. A staff captain appointment follows. Also soldiers marry by telegraph as ceremony proceeds across distances.
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Petersburg
Rom Essen
Port Arthur
Associated Press
Far East
Rojestvensky
von Essen
Togo
Roses
Fensky
Sen
Sevastopol
Dava
Botilla
Sevasto
St. Petersburg
Rojestventsky
Ne- Dogatoff
Admiralty
Ne- Dogatof
Straits of Sunda
Nebogatoff
China Sea
Nebogato
Straits of Malacca
Neboga- +toff
China
Madagascar
Tr Rass
Clado
North Sea
Extraordinary spinal meningitis case at Des Moines
Des Moines reports a prolonged spinal meningitis case involving Miss Charniman daughter of Mr and Mrs H Charniman of East Tenth and Court Avenue. She remained deaf and blind with partial paralysis and eventual total blindness during a two week illness under local doctors care. Medical outlook improved but recovery still uncertain.
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Des Moines
Sue
H. Charniman
East Tenth
Court Avenue
Charniman
Murdered His Wife in Jersey City
New York Italian laborer Nicole Murdoch of Jersey City was arrested for the murder of his wife. The body was found with a severe head wound and an axe nearby. Neighbors were alerted by the family’s little boy who said his father killed his mother. Murdoch allegedly complained of his wife’s conduct toward other men.
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New York
Nicole Murdoch
Jersey City
Murdoch
Mather
Walking 700 Miles to Canada By Foot
J. W. Hard and his wife with two small children left Barron Wisconsin on foot aiming to reach Canada where they will take up a homestead. They plan to walk the entire distance seeking a new home despite the long trek.
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St. Yank
J. W. Hard
Barron, Wis
Canada
Dynamite Blaze Kills Minnesota Family in Oven Accident
A farmer near Brideman Minnesota meant to warm his stove with dynamite placed in the oven while clearing land. He forgot to remove it. an explosion destroyed the house killing his wife and two children and fatally wounding another son. He later went insane and is under medical care.
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Brideman
Minn
Ater
Hunter
Albany secretary shot by office clerk in alleged prank
In Albany Franklin Havens, secretary of the Albany board of fire insurance underwriters, was shot in his office by Miss Julia Cavers, a longtime Havens employee. She says the revolver was unloaded and fired during a joke, three trigger pulls before it exploded, with six cartridges in the weapon. Havens, 35, remains conscious. Cavers, detained by the humane society, claims innocence and says she aimed to scare him as he entered the room.
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Albany
Franklin Havens
Albany Board of Fire Insurance Underwriters
Julia Cavers
Havens
Cavers
Pls OL
Jessie James style bank burglary nets $5000
Outlaws blasted a private bank at Gilbertaville eight miles from here with two drilled holes in the new safe doors. They escaped after a heavy firefight, severing telegraph and telephone lines as villagers rallied, while five men, heavily armed, fled into the woods with the money. Local residents pursued but were unable to intercept them.
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Git
F C Brewer
Gilbertaville
Th Tobbera
Cilbertayi
W. F. March
C. A. Daniels
Warsaw Riots and Polish Crisis Amid May Day Tensions
Indignation grips Warsaw as May Day violence leaves sixty two dead and about two hundred wounded. Troops patrol streets while workers strike across Lodz and other cities. Cossacks disperse mourners at a police station as unrest spreads. England pledges support to French Morocco policy in Tangier, with Lowther asserting British backing under the Franco British accord for Morocco’s gradual development.
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Warsaw
Jaime
Angpitals
Lodz
England
Morocco
Warsaw Turmoil Sees Wounded Die Amid Church Clash
In Warsaw unrest grows as workers strike and clash with troops on Jerusalem street. Ten wounded die in hospitals. Troops beat civilians at a church service, many women and children injured. Police and cavalry disperse crowds. the church is closed for reconsecration.
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Warsaw
Jerusalem Street
Shyness of Great Men at Roentgen Congress
The Berlin congress opening April 29 celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Roentgen ray discovery. Although the featured professor was listed, he could not attend due to fear of facing the crowd and sent acknowledgments from Würzburg. Dr Charles Lester Leonard of Philadelphia praised the congress transactions as highly valuable to medicine.
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Berlin
Erviemens Invcuvecu
Wuerzburg
Bavaria
Charles Lester Leonard
Philadelpia
American Roentgen ‘Society
Rumors On Lord Strathcona Retirement Denied
An evening paper reported Lord Strathcona would retire but the Standard fully denies the rumors and states the resignation is not happening at this time.
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London
Lord Strathcona
Standard
Situation in Crete Grave as Insurrection Spreads
A Crete report says the island’s condition is grave as the insurrection adopts brigand tactics including theft murder arson and outrages against women. Local authorities are overwhelmed and eight gendarmes are unable to cope with the rising violence.
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Crete
Rome
Greece
Protective powers prepare to deploy force to quell insurrection
A distorted report indicates Prince George asks Italy and other protectors to adopt energetic measures and send a battalion each to suppress a nominally Greece related insurrection. Representatives decide to use force to maintain order.
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George Himfrit
Italy
Greece
Representor
How Labor Day Was Observed in France
Paris labor day was marked by unions adopting resolutions for an eight hour day. Disorder occurred in Brest and Eiienne with streetcars stopped but no serious damage reported. In Toulon anarchists marched with a red flag and banner. a scuffle near the naval Arsenal left several workers slightly injured.
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Paris
France
Trades Unions
Brest
Eiienne
Toulon
Chiccago
Limoges
Martinique
Naval
Cattle Restrictions A London Special Says
The row Telegram reports a London conference set for Thursday May 11 with Sir Henry Cam Bannerman and the board of agriculture president. English and Scottish agricultural associations, municipal and harbor boards, and chambers of commerce will discuss a resolution to remove Canadian cattle import restrictions. No business meetings are planned for the Canadian manufacturers' visit.
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London
Henry Cam Bannerman
Board of Agriculture
Chambers of Commerce
Tragic Double Death Of English Couple Near Burnley
Robert Rushton Shaw and his wife Elizabeth were found shot in a suburb field. A revolver lay beside them, and a New York bound sea ticket was found on Shaw. The couple, who left two children, allegedly planned to sail to Philadelphia to visit Mrs Shaw's mother.
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Robert Rushton Shaw
Burnley
Elizabeth
Voth
United States
Shaw
Philadelphia
Blackpool
Mny
New York
Majestic
Brakeman Killed in Park Head Shunting Accident
Brakeman Macdonald on a Grand Trunk freight from Wiarton to Palmerston was mangled at Park Head while shunting a switch. His boot caught in a track frog as the locomotive backed. He died at hospital about three hours later.
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Macdonald
Grand Trunk Railway
Park Head
Wiarton
Palmerston
United Shoe Machinery Corporation Incorporation Filed
Patterson New Jersey articles of incorporation show United Shoe Machinery Corporation with capital stock of 50 million dollars. Stock is 2 million shares at par 25 dollars each. Company designed to manufacture and deal in machinery tools implements and devices for boot and footwear production in leather or rubber.
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Patterson
N. J
United Shoe Machinery Corporation
Maniac Leaps to Death in Park Avenue Tunnel Entrance
In New York an unidentified man about 1 years old jumped from the coping at the Park avenue and 24th street tunnel entrance. Brandishing a knife, he aimed to be crushed by an approaching car and was killed instantly when he struck his head. The motorman stopped the car with the fender, but the leap caused the death.
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New York
Fourth Alley
Park Avenue
24Th Sited
Armed With Winchesters Prompt Street Violence
A report notes an employer backed workers strike with Winchester rifles on Chicago streets. Superintendent Reed confirms arrangements for rifles, while Chief O Neill declines to intervene. Fuller and Fuller’s employ twenty union teamsters to aid hauling as city council enforces statutes prohibiting unauthorized rifle carry.
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Aeieen
Reed
O'Neill
Chicago
Fuller & Fuller
Jare Doyse
Peters
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Leading Unites States Farm Paper
Montreal Dispatch
Charles Mc Hays
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Transportaion
Grand Trunk Pacific
Mir Haye
Hays
Hudson. Bay
Moodie
Bernier
Winnipeg
Hudson's
Cumberland Sound
Port Burnell
Man
Faux
the Baptist Church
Slaught
Mary Slaughter
James Murrell
Murrell
Bowling Green
Sher
Mary
W. P. Perine
Mary Slaugter
Mr. Faux
Miss Slaughter
FA. Faux
Jessie James
OLD World News
Soldiers Club Women
Strathcona’s
Maniac
Winchesters
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