Germany financing crisis worsens as France proposes controls
London reports Premier Poincaré drafts drastic measures to curb Germany’s finances under a moratorium plan. Expropriation of customs mines railways forests and currency and trade supervision would be governed by international committees in Berlin with Ruhr occupation kept in reserve.
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London
Germany
Poincaire
France
Allied Conference
Reichsbank
Berlin
Ruhr
Daily Telegraph
Jove
Sir Robert Horne
Lloyd George
Poincare
Golfinks
Premier Poincare
Harding Proposes End to Railway Strike Meeting Planned
Washington reports President Harding urged immediate end to the railway craft strike with seniority questions to be settled by the Railroad Labor Board. Shop craft leaders consider a general conference with railroad labor executives while unions resist broad concessions. Warren Stone called a Friday conference to avert transportation collapse after a request from shop craft chiefs.
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Washington
Harding
Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
Tuio
Cleveland
Warren Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Railroad Brotherhoods
Stone
William H Johnston
International Association of Mechanics
J. F. Noonan
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Brotherhoods
Mr. Stone
Woman fined for dog attack in Bracebridge case
In Bracebridge on August 7 Magistrate Clark fined Mrs. David Owen of Shanty Bay fifty dollars and three months in jail after her dog mauled Mrs. William Campbell of Walkers Point. Campbell suffered severe bites to knee and face in the incident tied to a grazing lease dispute with government property.
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Bracebridge
Clark
David Owen
Shanty Bay
William Campbell
Walkers Point
Owens
Proverty
Lampbell
Owen
Railway Board Quiets Canada Strike Fears
In Ottawa the first meeting of the conciliating board for railway workers and companies took place and anxiety over a strike eased. Alexander Smith chaired with Isaac Pithblade for the companies and James Simpson for the men. The body focused on organization today. Next session set for Montreal at 10.30 Thursday.
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Ottawa
Canadian Railways
Alexander Smith
Isaac Pithhblade
James Simpson
Montreal
Assassins To Be Hanged After Reprieve Talks
London reports the attorney general refused to sanction an appeal to the house of lords for Joseph O Sullivan and Reginald Dunn who face execution on August 10 for the assassination of Field Marshal Wilson. Thirty thousand petitioners including mayors, army officers, and professionals seek reprieve.
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London
House of Lords
Joseph O'Sullivan
Reginald Dunn
Field Marshal Wilson
Metropolitan
Balloonists soar in Gordon Bennett race at Geneva
In Geneva on August 7 50 000 spectators watched the Gordon Bennett balloon race begin. favorable weather sent the balloons south toward Germany with potential future drift southeast toward Constantinople as altitude rises.
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Geneva
Germany
Constantinople
Eight year old boy moved by truck driver near Marquette
Winnipeg police probe a case of an eight year old boy taken for a joy ride by a truck driver and dropped on the prairie near Marquette, almost the width of the province from Winnipeg. The driver’s name is not known. Weather notes for several cities follow.
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Winnipeg
Marquette
Train Collision in Missouri Leads to Heavy Casualties
A Missouri Pacific fast passenger train crashed into a local train near Sulphur Springs on August 7 after the engineer reportedly ignored a block signal. Thirty seven killed, 138 injured, with death toll feared to rise above fifty. The wreck occurred near Glass Creek, sending coaches into a 50-foot embankment and killing the engineer Matt Glenn. Fireman Edward Tinsley seriously injured. Looting by onlookers followed the disaster.
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Mississippi
Forth Worth
Texas
St. Louis
Cannon
Matt
Stinger
No. 4
Glenn
Sulphur Springs
Cliff Cave
Here
Texas Points
Cuinon
William Hall
W. O. Peasley
de Soto
St. Loula
Federal Leaders Speak in Ontario In Latest Addresses
Ottawa reports both Mackenzie King and Arthur Meighen set out views on the past session. King speaks this afternoon at Leamington during a picnic gathering, while Meighen plans a speech tonight in Kingston outlining party positions to Canadians.
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Ottawa
People of
Canada
Mackenzie King
Arthur Meighen
King
Leamington
Kingston
Redglife gas field and franchise offered to Medicine Hat
City council considers an offer by Laidlaw Blanchard and Co for the sale of the Red cliff gas field to Medicine Hat. Council approves pursuing purchase if pricing and arrangements are workable. Unemployment conference in Calgary discusses aiding unemployed through federal highway work and local policy on job refusals. Police report July cases and finances. Beaver Dam camping ground relation to city ownership examined.
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Redglife
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Messrs
Huckvale
Adams
J. W. McLane
Lethbridge
Vauxhall
Attorney General's Department
Attorney Generals Department
Beaver Dam Camping Ground
Conference at Ottawa on share of aid to municipalities
Dominion and provincial authorities met in Ottawa on September 6 to decide each government’s winter plan to aid municipalities. Resolutions urged municipal representation and continued or expanded federal provincial support. Other measures call for a land settlement campaign for city workers and broadening the housing scheme to aid farmers homes for resident hired help. Action on Western harvest labor aimed to guarantee workers’ transport home.
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Dominion
Ottawa
Canada
Manitoba's United Farmers sworn in cabinet at noon
The new Manitoba cabinet led by Premier John Bracken was sworn in at noon. Members include Education Minister John Bracken, Provincial Treasurer L. M. Black, Attorney General R. W. Craig, Agriculture Neil Cameron, Public Works W. R. Clubb, and D. K. E. McLeod. Bracken plans elections in The Pas and keeps economy and efficiency as guiding goals.
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F. M. Black
United Grain Growers
Bracken
Wingipeg
Manitoba
Norris
Joohn Bracken
L. M. Black
R. W. Craig
K.C
Winnipeg City
Neil Cameron
Minnedosa
W. R. Clubb
Morris
D. KE. McLeod
Arthur
Black
Public
Immigration Department
Cameron
McLeod
Pas
United Grain Growers Ltd
Ruperts Land
P. A. Talbot
la Verandrye
United Farmer
Ton
T. C
Winnipeg
John Bracken
United Farmers of Manitoba
Progressive Party
Fraud charge stalks man after air squadron loan
Toronto August 8 police detain Parnell O Sullivan at Sault Ste Marie on a 1100 dollar fraud charge. He claimed the loan funded an aircraft squadron to carry Nyour to Michigan and that a woman lent the money to start the scheme. He said he would return to Toronto in two weeks cleared.
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Toronto
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Parnell O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan
Nyuor
Michigan
O’sulivan
Torofte
Wheat and alfalfa samples impress at Many Island Lake
The News viewed farm product samples from Many Island Lake. Colonel Sissons showed two wheat exhibits from his farm and a neighbor's, claiming yields near thirty five bushels per acre and uniform quality. He presented second growth alfalfa with first crop yielding just over five tons per acre. Two hundred fourteen loads averaged over a ton per load from the forty acre field, a potential Medicine Hat crop yield record.
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Island Lake
Colonel Sissons
Col. Sissons
Medicine Hat
Nanton seeks PUA Board probe into gas supply and rates
Nanton town council in Alberta with Canadian Western Natural Gas applies to the Public Utility Board to investigate gas supply and fair rates. Judge A A Carpenter indicates a hearing likely set for August 23. The move ties to Calgary’s earlier rate case and a dispute with Lethbridge over a rate hike from 3 8 1/2 to 4 8 cents.
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Calgary
Nanton
Canadian Western Natural Gas, Light, Heat & Power Co
Alberta Public Utility Board
A.A. Carpenter
Publ
H. B. Pearson
Canadian Western Natural
ue.Heat and Power Co
Itanti
Yoauld
Lethbridge
Public Utility Board
Cable outages hit transatlantic links in Britain
London reports most of the Commercial Cable Company and Western Union lines idle after an Irish irregulars force seized the Commercial Company station at Penstance in southwest England. Only three cables remain operable, all tied to Western Union.
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London
Commercial Cable Company
Western Union Company
Great Britain
Western Union
Penstance
England
Erie
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