07 Aug 1911
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1911
Page
1
The Free Press reports confirmed black rust in Manitoba grain. While not disastrous, experts warn conditions could worsen without favorable winds and bright sun. Last week’s weather hindered ripening. some fields show rapid rust spread in affected districts.
Winnipeg dispatch reports Hudson's Bay Co will offer steamboat summer excursions to the Arctic Circle next year. District Manager Mr. Fughl notes a 2000 mile route from Athabasca Landing to Grand Rapids and Fort McMurray with boat transfers, estimating round trip cost under 400 dollars.
Rev. J Adams Smith a Manitoba University graduate and Boundary Creek missionary lies in a hospital with a broken pelvis after being thrown from a horse. He crawled to a nearby house for hours before help arrived and later preached at church despite the injury. A medical exam in Cardston confirmed the break and he is progressing well.
Members of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America gather in Scranton from across the United States and Canada for their annual convention opening here tomorrow.
Listing notes a half room cottage on Balmoral Street with $200 down and $20 monthly payments. Contact Pettet at 366 Toronto Street for details.
A Sunday lightning bolt at Elkwater Lake struck a camping party from Medicine Hat. Gerald Drake suffered hair loss and leg burns while Hazel Drake and others received leg burns. Mr. Finlay aided the injured and a dog was killed. Mrs Drake and family plan to return to the city.
Ottawa and nearby regions report varying local gains and losses with Liberal hopes in Russell and Murphy strong, Conservatives aiming in Glengarry and Nipissing Retain in North Lanark. Tory and Liberal efforts spread across Ontario with nominations in Morden Lisgar Port Arthur and Montreal Labor rally.
General Cincinnatus Leconte was welcomed in Port au Prince as revolutionary leader and expected to be elected president by a national assembly. A new ministry replacing the Simon administration was announced with Zanor as War Minister, Cauvin as Interior, Guilbaud for Foreign Affairs, Laroche Public Instruction, Belland Agriculture, and Sanearicq Finance.
Two train loads of farm laborers, the first of the year, passed through the city en route to the far west. Many were foreigners shifting from Eastern Canada, with several Eastern Ontario youths aboard hoping to work the harvest and then homestead. Few women were on the trains and more arrivals were anticipated this afternoon.
In London Aug 7 the House of Commons opened a pivotal debate as A J Balfour moved to censure the government over the Veto Bill. The chamber buzzed with peers and prominent diplomats amid high tension over the government’s push to limit Lords powers and pressure from home rule critics.
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