City Council debate over road work and Sixth Avenue surfacing
The City Council discussed road policy sparked by J A Bell who urged surfacing Sixth Avenue instead of broader road work. Allegations arose that the City Engineer acted without Public Works committee authorization, prompting a plan to meet the engineer and review the whole situation. The Jubile e Celebration committee received approval to decorate the City Hall and streets, and a memorial cairn site near the old barrack square was approved with city funding.
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J. A. Bell
Sixth Avenue
Second
Third
Public Works Committee
Warham
Ald. King
R.N.W.M. P
Ald. Simpson
Patterson
Vullivant
Mr. Bell
Second St
City Hall
Ald. Parrish
Ald
Meryer Bullivant
Ashburner
Bullivant
Parrish
Warnam
Public Works Department
Warhaam
City Business Man Injured In Accident
James Rae Jr aged 25 years suffered serious internal injuries in an auto crash three miles southeast of Dunmore on the old Elkwater trail. Bert Cunnings drove the car skidding into a ditch. Rae was trapped beneath the vehicle and later freed. Rae has a ruptured kidney and other internal injuries. he is progressing as well as can be expected.
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James Rae
Dunmore
Elkwater
Rae
Bert Cunnings
Cunnings
Cannings
Iaffer
Medicine Hat
MacCharles
Reduced Wheat Acreage
London August 22 Canadian Press Cable. World Wheat Conference committees report progress after a day of talks on proposals from the exporters and importing nations. Two fold actions contemplated. exporting countries aim at a 15 percent production cut next year while importing nations seek to boost consumption. US Farm Bill powers allow land to be taken out of cultivation. Delegates doubt reduced acreage will curb output due to possible higher yields.
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London
United States
Rotary Club Drops Carnival Plan This Fall
The Rotary Club has decided not to hold a carnival this fall and will stage another form of entertainment later in the season with details to be announced.
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Rotary Club
Saskatchewan Farmer Pushes Socialized Banking Plan
Saskatoon August 22 United Farmers of Canada vice president Grea ickerton tells the Royal Commission on Banking that Canada must establish a socialized system of banking currency credit and insurance to provide credits for new productive equipment and a medium for exchanging goods and services. He argues recovery requires specialized credit facilities free from gold standard restrictions and interest charges.
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Saskatoon
Canada
Grea Ickerton
Sask
United Farmers of Canada
Royal Commission On Banking
Crop Conditions Improve Across Prairie Provinces
Canadian crop report from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes another hot clear week with local showers, enabling rapid cutting and threshing in southern districts. Maturity rush in Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta suggests general cutting this week while markets show varied wheat prices.abad
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Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Truck Collision Kills Eight Farmers in North Carolina
Eight farmers died and three were critically injured when their tobacco truck collided with a Seaboard Airline gas powered passenger train near Lumberton North Carolina. The truck carried tobacco bound for the Fairmont market and occupants were from Deep Run ten miles from Kingston.
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Lumberton
N.C
Seaboard
Hamblet
Wilmington
Fairmont
Deep Run
Kingston
Quebecers Riot Over Longer Day Dictum
Between 500 and 600 municipal workers stormed into the city hall of Jonquiere Quebec protesting a proposed longer working day. Mayor P Simard called for provincial police reinforcements fearing trouble but no property damage occurred.
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Jonquiere
Lake St. John
P. Simard
Quebec
Quebec City
Farmers Laud Banking Facilities Amid Calls for Cheap Money
In Edmonton Aug 71 farmers testified to the Royal Commission on Banking urging cheap money as wheat prices sag. Harry Bell Namao said many farmers face debts based on $1 to $1.50 wheat now due with wheat selling half as high. A D Martin Edmonton urged provincial banker committees to review bank credit decisions. The committee heard from Edmonton Chamber of Commerce and others supporting a national central bank and cheaper credit.
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Indmonton
Royal Commission On Banking
Harry Bell
Namao
Canada
Mr. Bell
A. D. Martin
Edmonton
Lord MacMillan
Commission
Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
City of
W. R. Howson
Liberal Party
Alberta
Joseph A. Clarke
Edmonton Economic Club
Clarke
Election heat in Nova Scotia voters choose parties
Two arrests and fights marked the Nova Scotia provincial election as voters went to the polls to decide between the Conservative government of Paemier G. Harrington and the Liberal party led by 43 year old Angus L. MacDonald.
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Halifax
Anp
Nova Scotia
Paemier G. Harrington
Liberal Party
Angus L. MacDonald
Stormed Seine blockade breaks strike on barges in France
French authorities using fire hoses disbanded a dawn blockade by striking bargemen on the Seine at Conflans Ste. Honorine. The crowd of primarily Belgian sailors carried boat hooks and resisted boarding. Thirty men were arrested on rebellion charges.
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Conflans
Nations Move To Aid Depression Stricken Austria
Paris reports immediate aid to Austria by lifting export restrictions. The United Kingdom France and likely Italy plan to adjust quotas on Austrian goods as part of a broader economic reorganization for Austria Hungary and neighboring nations Szecho Slov AK Romania Yugoslavia.
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Paris
Austria
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Hungary
Szecho-Slovakia
Jugo-Slavia
Rumania
Sleeping sickness epidemic hits St Louis area
Dr J R Leake of the US Public Health Service reports a severe sleeping sickness outbreak in the St Louis region with 15 deaths and 149 ill in the past day. The item notes the scale of the epidemic as the most serious the country has known.
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St. Louis
J. R. Leake
United States Public Health Service
Cuban Legislature May Be Dissolved and New Cabinet Carry on Govd
The Cuban government faces a power struggle as supporters urge dissolving Congress and ruling de facto until elections. Violent mobs kill two and attempt lynchings in Oriente province while authorities pledge to pursue Machado regime allies.
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ABC Society
Radical Revolutionary Cellular Union
de Cespedes
Congress
United States
Sumner Welles
Machado
Roosevelt
Gerardo Machado
Santiago
Oriente
Julio Heredia
Arsenio Ortiz
A.B.C. Revolutionary Society
Heredia
Luis D. Spayne
Palma Soriano
Hechevarria
A.B.C
Jose R. Barcelo
Castillo de la Fuerza
Principe
Demetrio Castillo
War Department
Red Deer Man Faces Death Penalty for Stanford Wife Murder
David A. Lamson of Red Deer Alberta is tried in San Jose for the murder of his wife Arlene Thorpe Lamson on the Stanford campus May 30. Prosecutors say the death penalty will be sought. Lamson pleads not guilty as jury selection begins. The case has drawn wide attention after his shocked exclamation at the scene.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Red Deer
Alta
Arlene Thorpe Lamson
Lamson
Stanford University
Y.W.C.A
Stanford
University
Attorn
Allan P. Lindsay
Lamgon
Hustlers take lead in two out of three title series
The Hustlers defeated Safeway 7 to 1 in the first game of a two out of three series for the cup, played in Reden rather than Medicine Hat. The crowd stayed tense as Hustlers rallied with key hits in the fourth to sixth innings, breaking the game open after a scoreless start.
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Miss McBean
Safeway
Husters
Hustlera
M. Skidy
Rindahl
Wyatt
Tam Maillard
Rose
Hustlers
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