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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
7
Ottawa announces the Returned Soldiers Insurance Act. Eligible veterans may obtain policies from $500 to $5,000 with loans, disability benefits, and annuity options. Dependents named as beneficiaries, premiums paid on varied schedules, offices in the Transportation Building, Ottawa.
Imperial press delegates gathered at Lake Beauvert in Jasper National Park for a holiday luncheon. Viscount Burnham carved a buffalo haunch while Sir Emily Carr praised park authorities and Canada for the distinct hospitality. The party toured Maligne Mountain before returning to the lake for sunshine and the Jasper scene.
Reports from United Grain Growers in Calgary indicate Alberta wheat yields averaging twenty bushels an acre, up from eighteen. Threshing returns are strong and support a higher figure. In London, smoking at Dick Kerr's works reportedly boosts output. three months in, smoking time extended from 15 minutes to 1 hour 90 minutes across shifts.
Ottawa reports government plans to approve operating regulations for the Canadian Air Force this week. Training will then be conducted at Camp Borden and other sites as part of the changes.
Commerce reports show US exports to Germany reaching 202 million dollars for the year ended June 30 and imports from Germany rising to over 4 million. Austria and Austria Hungary trade also grow with high export and modest import values. Russia trade improves with exports about 24.7 million while imports total 2.44 million.
A series of bush fires swept through the Ste. Rose du Lac district destroying homes barns implements and crops. Officials report thousands of acres of hayland and hundreds of tons of cut hay lost in the northern province as rainfall this period reduces danger.
Major Martyn industrial commissioner reports a Stel Plant Victoria rolling mill and blast furnace for steel production will be established in the province once a sufficient market is assured. He, along with James H. McVery and Nichol Thompson of the advisory council, has gone to Chicago and San Francisco to explore the master plan.
The Tribune reports the League of Nations has purchased a Geneva hotel for 5,500,000 francs. In Baku, Tartars revolt against Bolsheviks amid rising costs of living now twenty times higher than at Soviet rule’s start, sparking revolutionary outbreaks.
A Canadian war measures act case over rails rolled for war use seeks payment of 3.25 million plus interest. Dominion government and railways Grand Trunk Pacific and others are parties. court to determine fair price per ton and total due. Also, Jasper Park hatchery stocks 10k rainbow trout 5k Hibernia lake 5k Marjorie Lake 24.3k salmon trout planted.
Polish and Russian delegates at Minsk have interrupted negotiations. Most Polish delegates head to Brest-Litovsk while Bolshevik representatives go to Moscow. Transfer of Minsk talks to Riga agreed by Teivia per Polish request for resumed conference next week.
A crop report from the Canadian National Railways notes wheat cutting near completion in Eastern Manitoba while Central and Northwestern Manitoba show 6 to 70 percent done. Reports from Saskatchewan and Alberta indicate rapid progress, with favorable weather and yields generally from 13 to 40 bushels per acre, Alberta leading.
Polish official communique details gains on the northern front with Ausgustowo northeast of Grodno seized and welcomed by locals. Bolshevik resistance stiffens near Malanarwka while Suwalki falls under Lithuanian reports as a Polish division advances east of Suwalki.
One million bushels of new wheat, largely No 1 northern, have passed through Winnipeg. Streetcar fares rise to seven cents, four tickets for 25 cents. A statistician forecasts 15 000 city riders will walk to work until people adapt to the higher rates.
Moose Jaw will gain the largest stockyards west of Winnipeg as the Southern Saskatchewan Stockyards take over the CPR yards. Regina reports a few isolated typhoid cases, but public health commissioner Dr. M. M. Seymour says the province’s general health remains normal.
The first car of wheat from Coachdale district arrived in Calgary, averaging No 1 hard and yielding 23 Dushells per acre. Dutch capital of at least 2 million dollars is expected to flow into Western Canada, with about 1 million into Alberta, per Rotterdam financier F M Wachter. The government reports a strong farm labor demand, with over 1,000 workers placed the prior week and another 1,000 vacancies listed on September 1, mainly for unskilled labor.
A Winnipeg grain exchange official reports that a large portion of the newly moved wheat is Grade No 1 Northern. The early estimate shows movement already begun with a higher percentage of this grade than in prior years.
The three revenue collecting departments of the Dominion government at Vancouver reported a total August intake of 915000 dollars, enriching the federal treasury from port business.
Ottawa report on Bar Associations gathering features Viscount Cave and Ontario Attorney General W. F. Raney. Cave extols imperial ties, the League of Nations, and the Imperial War Cabinet as engines of interdominion unity and future world peace.
Postmaster General Burleson says a hydro airplane mail service will start next month between Seattle Washington and Victoria British Columbia. The route, operating from October 15 to June 30 1921, aims to speed United States and Oriental mail by linking Puget Sound ports, reducing delays at Victoria where mail often waits for connections to outbound ships.
In a high altitude accident, W. L. Smith and Edward Haigh both of New York were severely burned when the Chicago to New York mail plane burst into flames over the area. The aircraft sustained limited damage and the mail survived. The Prince of Wales arrived in Honolulu aboard the battleship Re nowa.
Montreal refiners announce a two cent per pound drop with top granulated sugar at 22.80 per hundred pounds. Local brokers, holding large stocks, offer around 18 cents per pound amid fluctuations between the new level and previously quoted prices. Refiner outlook says broker stocks are nearly exhausted and prices should stabilize at 22.80 for best grade with steadiness in other grades.
Residents of Assiniboia organize a bus service to start operations on Saturday to protest fare hikes on Winnipeg street railways. St Charles residents will finance their share of the project.
The article notes Ottawa has prepared machinery for voting under the Canadian Temperance Act, but many forms used in former elections are unusable under the new Election Act in the by elections.
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