Sacco and Vanzetti Awaits Execution After Court Rulings
Moves to stay the death sentence failed in Dedham and Boston as Judge Thayer denied a new trial and reviewed revocation of sentence. Authorities kept guards at prisons and consulates amid anonymous threats and bomb incidents tied to the controversial case.
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Boston
Mots
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
State
Charlestown
Dedham
Mass
Webster Thayer
Superior Court
Vancouver
United States
United States Immigration
Tastings St
Sacco
Vanzetti
London
Aldwych
Underground Railway Company
Massachusetts
Justice Sanderson
Supreme Court
Fuller
Prize awarded best essay on Confederation
Montreal August 1 The Vancouver Province writer D An McGregor won the gold medal for best editorial on Confederation its purposes and achievements. Second place tie awarded two silver medals to Charles Gantier Le Droit Ottawa and C Smith Herald Calgary. Bronze not awarded. extra silver for second place substituted. A similar weekly contest will be judged soon by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association for best editorials in weekly papers.
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Montreal
D. An McGregor
Vancouver
S. C
Charles Gantier
le Droit
Ottawa
C. Smith
Herald
Calgary
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Canada Land and Irrigation Co. Reopens Under New Manager
The Canadian company announces its discharge from receivership by the English Court. The Board of Directors appoints D. W. Ways, formerly manager during government operation, as the new manager, and the company resumes normal operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada Land and Irrigation Co. Ltd
C. C. Baker
D. W. Ways
Dominion
London Press Praises Opening of Peace Bridge
London editorials react to the Bridgeburg ceremony opening the Fort Erie Buffalo peace bridge. The Daily News calls it a stroke of good fortune after Geneva’s naval conference collapse and a calm counter to war talk. Other papers stress Canada and the United States retain distinct identities yet share beneficial ties.
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London
The
Daily News
League of Peace
Canada
United States
Great Britain
United States of America
Daily Express
Xpress
Europe
Morning Post
Bridgeburg
Geneva
Vancouver Chinese Feud Deepens After Killing Probe
Vancouver police with a search warrant seized papers from Kong Wang Tang above the newspaper offices amid tensions in Chinatown. The split in the Society last year pitted pro Tankow er Communist supporters against Nanking moderates, with rumors of a Soviet agent and large propaganda funds stirring dissension.
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Vancouver
Kong Wang Tang
Chinatown
Tankower
Canada
Soviet Council of Russia
Royal visit and veterans parade plan in Calgary
The Prince of Wales and Prince Edward travel through Canada with calm rests and ranch life ahead at BE P Ranch before Vancouver. In Calgary veterans from WWI and other campaigns will be reviewed, with nursing sisters present, as preparations call for a parade and detachments led by Legion officials and branch presidents.
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Cartier
Vancouver
Sudbury
Algary
Prince of Wales
Prince Wee
Calgo
Hy. Wilson
The
Canadian Legion
Rious
Uase
Laser Hotel
WR. B
Threshing Begins in Gretna with 25 Bushel Yield
A Gretna Man sweep reports the season's first threshing yields twenty five bushels per acre. The Canadian Pacific Railway agricultural department relayed the update from Gretna Manitoba.
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Winnipeg
Gretna
Man
Agricultural Department
Canadian Pacfic Railway
Are Cutting Winter Wheat Lethbridge Harvest Under Way
The Southern Alberta winter wheat harvest is underway near Lethbridge with 58 pound grain samples. Farmers W Griffin southeast of Lethbridge and D R Esater west of Lethbridge report 50 and 400 acre fields being worked. Rye deliveries and threshing are starting at Taber and Fincastle elevators as winter wheat cutting expands this week.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
W. Griffin
D. R. Esater
Taber
Fincastle
Ott
Peterson
Wheat Prices Bump Down on Prairie Weather News
Wheat prices eased on reports of warmer prairie weather with only Outlook Saskatchewan noting a frost. October wheat fell to 1493 8, December to 145? per bushel as traders chased demand, while coarse grains declined and millers bought cash wheat sparingly. Export sales Monday reached 1,000,000 bushels.
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Winnipeg
Outlook
Sashk
Chiang Kai Shek suffers severe check near Pongpu Anhwei
Reports from reliable sources state General Chiang Kai Shek leadership of the Nationalists has taken a heavy defeat near Pongpu in Anhwei. About seven thousand casualties are reported among his troops and one thousand wounded have been brought to Pukow across the Yangtse from Nanking.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai Shek
Nanking
Pongpu
Anhwei
Pukow
Yangtse River
Derelict Submarine In Pacific May Be Unreported Disaster
Mystery surrounds a derelict submarine spotted between Honolulu and Yokohama by the steamer Liberator. A search failed to identify the vessel or its crew as poisonous fumes from the hold hindered inspection. Some believe the hulk may be the remains of an unreported sea disaster.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Yokohama
Liberator
Calgary Drowning Claims 16 Year Old Sidney Smith
Sidney Smith a 16 year old resident of Riverside drowned in the Bow River near St. Patrick's Island just before 7 30 p m Monday evening. He waded from the breakwater toward the island and got beyond his depth. An alarm rung to the Central fire hall but darkness halted the search for the body.
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Calgary
Sidney Smith
Riverside
Bow River
St. Patrick’s Island
Riverside Boulevard
Earl and Countess of Haddington Visit the West
Aug 9 Winnipeg. Earl of Haddington and Canadian Countess Sarah Cook pass through on the Trans-Canada en route to Minto ranch near Nanton then Banff Lake Louise Vancouver and Honolulu. He owns Mellerstain Scotland and favors horses and industrial plants though this trip is mainly leisure.
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Winnipeg
Earl of Haddington
Sarah Cook
Montreal
Canadian Pacific
Trans-Canada
Minta Ranch
Nanton
Banff
Lake Louise
Vancouver
Pacific
Honolulu
Lord
Lady Haddington
Ranft
Western Canada
Duke of Devonshire
Thirteen Entrants in Dole Race to Honolulu Declared
The Dole air race to Honolulu trims entrants to thirteen. Art Goebel plans to drop his engine and use a drained raft as survival craft. Martin Jensen, the five gallon can aviator, would abandon his plane and rely on forty seven empty cans for buoyancy. Goebel also carries a rubber lifeboat ready to inflate quickly.
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San Francisco
Anc
Tonohily
Art Goebel
Martin Jensen
Goebel
Fear of Building Collapses in London After Subterranean Threat
London authorities fear the Royal Exchange and nearby structures may be undermined by three subterranean streams near Walbrook Langbourne and Sharebourne. The Commercial Union Insurance Building collapse near Cornhill worsened traffic and raised concerns of further danger though no injuries were reported.
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London
Royal Exchange
Commercial Assurance
Cornhill
Bank of England
Royal Echange
Lombardy Street
Rotary hears report on the Boy Scout Camp at Elkwater
Rotary President Dr. Jas McLeod presided as W. H. Williams described Medicine Hat Scouts two week Elkwater camp with 150 Scouts and 100 Cubs at Dunmore. Volunteers including Dr. Dixon and John Flath helped organize tents meals and supplies for a well run camp with swimming parades flag routines and merit inspections.
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Rotary
Elkwater
Jas McLeod
Rotary Club
W. H. Williams
Scouts of
Dunmore
Dixon
John Flath
Monarch Theatre
Wikwater
O. C
Jim Castle
Frank McCartney
George Bacham
Williams
Tuberculosis Test Clears Cows as Fit for Slaughter
In Portland on August 9, five months after initial signs prompted condemnation by U S inspectors, ten cows were tested for a proposed TB theory by Dr George Kirkpat Tek. Three cows were slaughtered and later deemed free of tuberculosis by Inspector A F Dinez, marking a key result of the official clinic sponsored by health authorities and research groups.
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Portland
Ore
United States
George Kirkpat- Tek
A. F. Dinzec
Ty Health Buran
Five Year Truce Urged by Miners
A mass meeting of 16 000 miners in Newcastle urged a five year truce between capital and labor for the new non political Miners Union. Speakers included George Spencer and Havelock Wilson condemning A J Cooks Miners Federation. Industrialists like Sir George Flunter attended as delegates arrived by special trains and buses.
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London
Winnipeg grain inspections report overview
Graen inspections from Winnipeg dated August 9 show wheat inspections at 152 ears this year versus 74 last year, with a contract grade of 64. Coarse grains inspected total 45 compared with 47 in the prior year.
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Winnipeg
Death of Rev Canon Armstrong at St Georges Trenton Ont
The Rev Canon F W Armstrong rector of St George s Anglican church Trenton Ont since 1891 died at his home Swidly after a lengthy illness. He was in his 80th year.
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Canon F. W. Armstrong
St. George’s Anglican Church
Trenton
Ont
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C.L
Marguerite Shaughnessy
Prince
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Braeside
Senator McDougald
DYAL
Hin
Chiang
Earl and Countess of
Haddington
West
City OF
Medicine Hat
WM. Hall
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