King Critiques Meighen on Western Benefit Measures
Prince Albert Aug. 5 Two thousand people greeted Liberal leader W N Mackenzie King as he outlined the party program and pledged western legislation if returned to office He contrasted Meighens stance with Liberal aims vowing to carry out the western program and denounced Meighens Mussolini like dismissal of parliament officials
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Mackenzie King
Prince Albert
W. N. Mackenzie King
Liberal Party
T. Robertson
Federal Liberal Association
Arthur Meighen
Davis
King
Mr. King
Himeel
Meizghen
Canada
Meighen
Louis Burland Killed by Crow’s Nest Train
Louis Burland was struck and killed by a Crow passenger train near the Imperial Company plant in the city’s east end. Engineer H. Thomas applied brakes but could not stop in time. officials say Burland died instantly from a head blow, possibly as he wandered onto the track. No inquest is planned due to lack of foul play evidence.
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Louis Burland
Crow's Nest
Imperial of Company
WH. Thomas
Barland
Degyn
Aiter My General’s Department Wias
Boy Undergoes Lung Operation in Plymouth
Edward Bibeau a six year old from Plymouth is recovering after surgery to remove a two inch screw from his right lung in Boston doctors say he is on the road to health and expected to recover fully.
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Boston
Edward Bibeau
Plymouth
Lord Elgin to Tour Canada and Windsor in 1928
The British United Press reports Lord Elgin plans a Canada trip in October and an Ascan Windsor visit in February, as announced by sources in London.
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London
British United Press
Lord Elgin
Canada
Ascan
Windsor
Forest Fires Are Still Spreading Across Northwest
Forest fires in the northwest show little headway as flames spread. Two more deaths are reported from the blaze: Jefferson Secena of Cuma Arizona killed by a falling tree near Bonners Ferry Idaho. Lundstrum, an elderly woodsman, died fighting a fire near Donald British Columbia. Priest California, an old mining town on the Big Oak Flat road to Yosemite, was wiped out and fifty people became homeless.
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Missouri
Mont
Aug. C
Jefferson Secena
Cuma, Ari
Bonners Ferry
Idaho
Lundstrum
Donald
B.C
Priest
Calif
Big Oak Flat
Yosemite Valley
Bawdy House Accusation Shadows Ottawa Campaign
Ottawa in campaign turmoil as Geo B Nicholson claims a public building in Ottawa is a bawdy house with a paid keeper. Government ministers are away on the trail, Liberals promote maritime tours, and Ontario is targeted in the final weeks amid civil service reactions.
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Ottawa
Sir Henry Drayton
Maritime Provinces
Ontario
J. A. Robbin
Hon. CG
A. Dunning
Saskatchewan
Civil Service
Geo. B. Nicholson
East Algoma
North Bay
Prices Break at Close Wheat Markets in Winnipeg
Winnipeg prices slipped in a dull session with sparse trading as May futures saw some buying and October and December futures finish lower. Cash wheat remained quiet while flax and oats showed initial strength before giving back gains amid a generally weak market. weather prospects improved late crops with showers in Manitoba and western areas.
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Winnipeg
New York
Mantaba
Widespread Russian Uprising Report Reaches Romania
Bucharest reports say a serious and widespread insurrection threatens Russia with peasants and intelligentsia allied against Soviet extremists. Romania orders frontier measures to curb refugee influx as details remain scarce.
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Bucharest
Russia
Credulous Man Loses Savings to Gypsy Scam
Simon Quattroschi of Niagara Falls Ontario lost 632 dollars after trusting two gypsies posing as phrenologists. He withdrew his savings to give them for a promised miracle, but the women disappeared with the money when the illness failed to cure.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Simon Quattroschi
Simon
France May Ratify Debt Agreements
Paris August 6 A report in the Chamber of Deputies lobbies said the government aims to seek parliament approval to ratify the US debt agreement before sessions end next week and also the deal with Great Britain. Premier Poincaré won support on a sinking fund bill and faced votes on tobacco control and other financial measures.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Great Britain
Poincare
Treasury
Premiier
Bank of France
Vancouver to get CN Hotel of 500 rooms
Ottawa reports Vancouver will gain a five hundred room Canadian National hotel with an estimated cost near four million dollars. The government plans direct CN R construction, replacing the earlier plan for a syndicate to build and lease the property. The city will forgo eight million in promised MacKenzie Mann work as obligations shift to CN R.
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Ottawa
Vancouver
MacKenzie & Mann
Nnional
C.N.R
Wheat inspections show rise in grain quality counts
Winnipeg reports inspections of wheat on the previous day with 41 cars, up from 30 last year. Contract grades stand at 32, while coarse grains total 41 compared with 48 a year ago.
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Winnipeg
Pioneers of the CPR Retire After Four Decades of Service
C P R officials retire after forty four years with the railway the pair having begun in 1832 and serving as auditors for freight and telegraph receipts and passenger receipts. engravers gold watch malacca cane and travelling case gifts are presented by CPR officers and staff in Toronto and Montreal offices.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
C. J. Flanagan
J. H. Shearing
J. Leslie
Leslie
Messrs. Flanagan
Shearing
A. Watt
Flanagan
W. J. Sutcliffe
C.P.R
Auditor's Department
Winnipeg
Montreal
Drastic Sentences Against Winnipeg Bandits
Three men convicted for attempting to loot the Naval Bank branch in Winnipeg on July 16 receive a total of 38 years in prison and 130 lashes. Fred Wagner gets fifteen years, 40 lashes. William Jenkins ten years, 40 lashes. Martin Moran nine years, 40 lashes. Wagner had prior charges for attempting to maim John Matheson. Magistrate R. M. Noble presided in the police court.
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Winnnipeg
Naval Bank
Oy Magistrie
R. M. Noble
Fred Wagner
John Matheson
William Jenkins
Martin Moran
Saskatchewan Twister Destroys 8 Granaries
Severe early morning hailstorms across Southern Saskatchewan damaged crops and property. A twister at Chaplin destroyed eight granaries and caused heavy crop losses with rain and hail trailing behind. Storms originated near Moose Jaw Regina and tracked through Montmartre Reuta Regina QuAppelle districts.
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Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
Chaplin
Hall
Moose Daw
Grade Eight Exam Results Named Many Successful Students
Grade VIII examination results list numerous students led by Mary Albright Isabel Anderson and Charles Edward Arrowsmith with many others named. Fort William welcomed visitors from Woodruff Wisconsin traveling 450 miles on horseback.
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Mary Albright
Isabel Anderson
Charles Edward Arrowsmith
Jean Avery
Harold Roy Ayling
Arthur C. Backham
Rose Kathleen Baldwin
William Todd Begg
Freeda Ballantyne Bell
Doreen Genevieve Bestard
Gertrude Blaney
Norma Louise Boyd
Kenneth A. Breakell
Thelma Briggs
Dorothy Brown
Isabell Brown
Laurence Boyd Bruce
Eleanor Bullimore
Dorothy Bullivant
Franklyn Bullivant
Wynn Edmund Foster
Ella Foughty
Robert Fowler
Ethel Galloway
Jean Eleanor Gardner
Harris Garlough
Phyllis Grace Gerow
Fern Muir Gillespie
Mabel Godfrey
Everett Metcalfe Gordon
Rudolph Gothenquist
Beatrice Kayson
Iris K. Grisedale
Otto Raymond Hansen
Sverre Anna Hansen
Wallace Harper
James Clare Harris
John Morris
Esther Ruth Hatley
Oliver Wesley Hawkins
Hilda Hawthorne
Robert Lee Hewitt
Mable Hole
Fred Irwin
Edith James
Dave Jardine
Verna Johnson
Edith Rachel Kennedy
Edwin Killins
Donald King
Alex Kinnaird
Sterling King
Bernice Irene Laing
Mary Norma Lillian Laws
Hilda Lay
Stafford Leslar
Michael John Leonard
Fort William
Woodruff
Wis
Kansas Heat Wave Sets Record Across States
Kansas cities report temperatures above 100 degrees with Salina at 109. The heat uncovers drought, water shortages, and about sixteen Kansas towns above 100 degrees as farmers abandon fields. In Shanghai, cholera and heat claim hundreds daily as the city endures its hottest day in thirty years.
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Kansas City
Kas
Salina
Kansas Points
Shanghai
Canton
Tropical Storm Off Bermuda Heads Toward North Atlantic
A tropical storm of marked intensity moves north from Bermuda toward the North Atlantic coast. The Weather Bureau warns ships to expect gales tomorrow and Sunday along the coast.
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Washington
Bermuda
Weather Bureau
North Atlantic
Newspapers Have Right To Report Criminal Cases
Montreal August 6 Judge Enright refused a local lawyer request to bar reporters from taking notes at a criminal trial upholding the press right to report proceedings.
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Enright
Montreal
Liberals To Choose Candidate Tonight In Ottawa
A Liberal convention will be held in the Oddfellows Block on Third Street at 8 o clock for nominating a candidate in the forthcoming Federal election. Officers of the Federal constituency association will be elected. Hon. Charles Stewart will address the gathering along with the candidate. All Liberal supporters are invited.
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C.C
Charles Stewart
Oddfellows
Third Street
Federal
Mackenzie King
Compulsory voting proposed in Cape Town parliament
Hon. D. F. Malan, South Africa interior minister, plans to introduce compulsory voting for parliamentary elections at the next House of Assembly session. The move mirrors Australia's recent Compulsory Voting Act with a two pound penalty for nonvoters.
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Capetown
South Africa
D. F. Malan
Interior
House of Assembly
Australia
Russia Buys 1000 Western Horses For Export West
Whnilpeg Aug 6 The Russian Government orders 1000 Western Canadian horses with plans for hundreds more. Purchases spread across Southern Saskatchewan Alberta and BC districts. A single Canadian Pacific train with fifty cars will move the stock to the Atlantic coast. Horses weigh 1000 to 1100 pounds and suit Russian farms.
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Canadian Pacific Railway
Moose Jaw
Atlantic
Ashcroft and
Kamloops
Rare form of dysentery blamed for Vista deaths
The mystery illness that killed five people near Vista and sapped Patrick Malone at the Southern Pacific hospital in San Francisco is identified as a rare dysentery strain known as the shiga bacillus. Dr. George Carson announced the finding of the germ, named after its Japanese discoverer, as the cause of Malone’s illness and the deaths in the Vista area.
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San Francisco
Vista
Vev
Patrick Malone
Southern Pacific
Orient
George Carson
Malone
Carson
Autoist Injured After Pole Crash in Beaverton
Beaverton Ont Aug 6 A car driven by L Cif of Cannington struck a telegraph pole rebounded under a locomotive and was tossed into a ditch. He was only slightly injured as the auto was almost totally demolished with only one wheel intact.
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Beaverton
Ont
L. Cif
Cannington
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