Ruhr General Strike Off as Berlin Fulfills Pledges
Dutch and Danish dispatches report the Ruhr general strike will be halted now that Berlin has met obligations to workers. The move ends troop movements against the Ruhr district unless Berlin again fails to halt the front advance. Government forces have made gains as they push insurgent lines along the Ruhr region.
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Second Annual Banquet of Men’s Progressive Class
The Second Annual Banquet of the Men’s Progressive Class at Fifth Avenue church drew a clean cut crowd with escorts as nine toasts followed by a duet. Speakers praised Canada’s wartime effort, civic duty, and the church’s Forward Movement, stressing youth value, national progress, and the lasting role of Sunday schools.
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Sudgloa
Fifth Avenue Church
Mr. Farrell
Canada
Ontario
G. A. Caldwell
Grant Halpin
C. J. Wilson
Emes Robinson
Premier Stewart Defines Alberta Bone Dry Stand
Premier Stewart in the Alberta legislature clarified his bone dry interpretation during debate on Dr. Stanley’s Liquor Act amendments. He stated doctors may not prescribe liquor as medicine and urged physicians to help citizens vote in the June plebiscite on interprovincial liquor traffic. If the vote rejects liquor imports, the province will go bone dry.
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Alta
Stewart
Stanley
Lonedry
Alberta
Sterling Strengthens in New York Market
Dealers report a stronger exchange market with demand bills at 3.97 dollars and cables at 8.98. The quotations mark the highest since December and indicate a near ten percent recovery from February’s low of 3.18.
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New York
Dealers In Exchange
London
CP Railway faces labor shortage in development plan
Saskatoon on April 3 reports D G Coleman vice president and general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway says labor is the big problem for this year. He notes skilled and unskilled workers are leaving for Europe and the company must adjust its construction program accordingly.
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Saskatoon
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D. €. Coleman
Seventeen Dollar Hard Coal Next Winter
Toronto April 13 Seventeen dollar hard coal for next winter was predicted by H A Harrington Ontario fuel administrator who said the price of coal may not drop again in Ontario The fuel situation is not serious but stocks are depleted due to the abnormal winter a mine strike would worsen the outlook next winter.
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Toronto
H. A. Harrington
Ontario
W C B Official Coming to Medicine Hat
Calgary district auditor G W Waistell of the Workmen's Compensation board will visit Medicine Hat from the 5th to the 9th of the month and meet any board of trade members at the Cecil Hotel to discuss operations under the act.
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Richardson
Board of Trade
Medicine Hat
Cecil Hotel
Edmonton Speaker at Forum Sunday Afternoon
Mr A Farmilo of Edmonton will speak at the Dreamland Theatre Forum at 3 15 o clock tomorrow on The Aspirations of Labor The meeting is expected to be the best of the season Mr Farmilo a leading Western Canada labor figure is vice president of the Alberta Federation of Labor and representative of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada Elocutionist Mr Hillis will also contribute a reading.
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Dreamland Theatre
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Western Canada
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Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Bolsheviks Attack Both Sides of the Dvina Front
Bolsheviks opened new offensives on both banks of the Dvina as they press toward Vilna. Lettish reports say fighting continued along the front with a Bolshevik assault repulsed near Lake Osvia.
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Prohibition Raid Seizes Mash and Whiskey in Queens
Federal agents raided a Queens house and seized two 50 gallon stills three 500 gallon vats two tons of mash and several barrels of whiskey. Two arrests were made. Stills showed more than a year of operation.
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Weather summary for western Canada forecasts cold windy conditions
The past day brought very cold weather with strong northerly winds across the three prairie provinces. Forecasts show a mix of fair to very cold conditions across Western provinces today and Sunday with unsettled northern wind.
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Lethbridge
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Western
Mothers Pensions Referred Back at Ontario Convention
London Ontario April 3 The Independent party convention discussed mothers pensions and increased special indemnities. The session approved raising member indemnity from 1449 to 3000 but sent the mothers pensions measure back to the committee for redraft.
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London
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Ontario Legislative Assembly
Independent Party
Calgar y oil firms cancel nine prewar registrations
Calgary reports nine oil companies registered before the war are canceled. All were formed in Calgary but never sold stock, having organized only in the last month or two before the outbreak of hostilities.
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Calgary
Alberta
Wilsons Note Favours Expulsion of Turks from Europe
Constantinople April 3 President Wilsons note to the allies urging the expulsion of the Turks from Europe shocks all Turkish parties. The full text has not yet been received. Ada Bazar occupation by Turkish nationalists reported from London April 8. The allies demand the Turkish government disavow the nationalist movement.
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Ada Bazar
Constantinople
Hamed
Asia Minor
Wilson
Europe
London
Hamid
Exchange Telegraph Company
Independent provincial board eyed to equalize assessments in province
Edmonton April 2 The legislature debates a bill to create an independent board for equalizing assessments for supplementary taxes. Names from municipal associations and urban groups are proposed to serve on the board while government names a fifth member. Discussion covers raw land valuation and how improvements affect land values under the new two mill scheme compared with last year’s rates.
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Edmonton
Nelson Spencer
Medicine Hat
A G. MacKay
MacKay
Municipal Districts Association
Donahoe
Jackman
Clover Dar
Urban Municipal Association
Messrs. Spence
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Long
Vermilion
Jas. East
Spence
Department of Municipal Affairs
Bette
Gilmour
Lacombe
Military activity reported around Londonderry in April
Authorities escalate security near Londonderry with road patrols and police searches of Scotch boat passengers as Sinn Fein prisoners clash in the Londonderry jail. Dundalk also tightens patrols between Belfast and Dublin while car owners must show permits amid heightened wartime measures.
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Londonderry
Sinn Fein
Dundalk
Dublin
Court of Revision Sittings For Appeals On Tax Assessments
The court of revision will sit Tuesday from 10 am to 5 pm in the city hall council chamber to hear appeals against land and building assessments.
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