Reparations cut off if Roumania refutes stay in Hungary
Peace Conference notes warn Roumania that reparations under German and Austrian treaties will be halted if requisitions persist. Hungary sees Roumanian seizures of food and farming equipment while a frontier bridge wreck blocks goods. Archduke Joseph reportedly resigns. coalition government forms with Socialists.
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Bucharest
Hungary
Archduke Joseph
Paris
The
Peace Conference
Supreme Council
Roumania
Austria
Supy
Zurich
Vienna
Supreme Coun
Mexico may offer chance to apply League principles
London reports Britain cooperates with the United States to resolve Mexico’s expulsion of its chargé d'affaires. The idea is that Mexico could provide an opportunity to apply League of Nations principles and a potential US welcome for such settlement. Washington notes Carranza and advisers pushing to confiscate foreign oil properties despite protests from nations with Mexican investments.
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Mexico
London
Britain
States
United States
League of Nations
League
Washington
Carranza
Mexico City
Great Timber Lands Found in Labrador by Air Expedition
Curling Md Aug 23 The Boston expedition reports extensive timber lands in Labrador discovered during an aerial survey. They say millions of cords of pulpwood could be cut and shipped directly via streams. The group halted returning when their steamer Granville hit an iceberg and suffered boiler trouble.
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Labrador
Granville
Iceberg
Curling
Boston Ex
Pedition
Gulf of St. Lawrente
Hog found in cold storage after twenty six years
Federal investigator uncovered a frozen hog in the Detroit Refrigerating Company plant during a Saturday search. Records show live hogs sold for five cents a pound on August 16 1893 while the Detroit market price that Saturday was above 23 cents per pound.
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Detroit
Ministers meeting on irrigation split plan planned in Medicine Hat
W A Buchanan M P and 8 J Shepherd depart from Lethbridge by motor to Medicine Hat to present a resolution from the Western Canada Irrigation Association. Col Nelson Spencer chairs the special committee as they seek federal and provincial action on funding main canals and irrigation districts. The group hopes to press Ottawa and Edmonton if needed and meet with Hon A Meighen and Hon J A Calder.
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Lethbridge
W. A. Buchanan
M. P
J. Shepherd
Medicine Hat
Western Canada Irrigation Association
Dominion
Col
Nelson Spencer
M.P
F. S. Leffingwell
M.L.A
Warner
D. J. Wiley
J. D. Wilson
Maple Creek
Wood
U.S.A
C. A. Magrath
Ottawa
Arthur Meighen
J. A. Calder
Edmonton
Tory
Meisighen
Canada
Calder
Swift Current
President Woods
U.B.A
Woods
D. W. Hays
Canada Land and Irrigation Company
Spencer
Meighen
Authorities Victimized Over Smuggling Case at Frontier
Berlin reports suggest authorities were outwitted in a plot to smuggle 20 million marks across the German Swiss frontier. The agency says smugglers and detectives who chased them in airplanes have reached Switzerland with the loot. Earlier dispatches claimed arrests or detentions of all conspirators after interception near Nuremberg.
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Berlin
Sarts
Switzerland
Nuremberg
Bavaria
Viscount Grey Set to Sail for New York in September
London reports Viscount Grey, newly named British ambassador to the United States, will sail for New York on September 16. The announcement confirms the timing of his transatlantic journey.
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London
Viscount Grey
United States
New York
Brantford Coal Dealers Raise Price to 12.50 a Ton
Brantford coal dealers advanced coal prices from 12.00 to 12.50 per ton, affecting local buyers and urging customers to stock up before the hike.
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Brantford
Euler rejects resignation to clear MacKenzie King path
Toronto August 28 W D Euler Liberal MP for North Waterloo said in an interview he has no plan to resign his seat to make way for W L Mackenzie King and will remain North Waterloo's representative for some time. In Kitchener August 22 the Daily Telegraph editorialized on Glengarry farmers refusing King and stated North Waterloo could provide a seat for Mrs King.
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Toronto
W. D. Euler
North Waterloo
Toronto Globe
W. L. MacKenzie King
Euler
North
Waterloo
Kitchener
Ont
Glengarry
Daily Telegraph
King
Bolshevik Fleet Disabled in Gulf of Finland Actions
Stockholm reports the Bolshevik Fleet defending Petrograd has been completely disabled. Kronstadt defenses bombarded by British warships are said to have been destroyed.
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Gulf OF Finland
Stockholm
Petrograd
Kronstadt
Indemnities of Peace Treaty Won’t Be Collected
Baron Von Dem Busche Hadsenhausen, former German minister to Argentina, says in a Buenos Aires Herald interview that treaty indemnities are too high to ever be paid and the League of Nations will null or reduce them. He predicts Germany will regain its former supremacy.
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Buenos Ayres
Baron von Dem Busche Hadsenhausen
Argentina
Buenos Ayres Herald
League of Nations
Germany
France Recovers Material From Germany Postwar
Paris reports from the Bureau of Industrial Reconstruction indicate Germany has returned about 27 000 tons of war seized material to France. Similar quantities are being loaded for shipment. Three thousand French machines have already been identified in Germany.
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Paris
Germany
Bureau of Industrial Reconstruction
France
Spanish Wheat Crop Slightly Below Demand For Year
Spain's wheat crop is forecast at 26,000,000 metric hundredweight for the year, while consumption reaches 40,000,000, requiring foreign imports to cover the gap. General J. Pershing arrived in Milan from Verona, greeted by authorities and American, British, and French communities.
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Madrid
Spain
Milan
Italy
J. J. Ferghing
Verona
Doctors of Calgary Decline Bartender Roles in Liquor Act Talk
Calgary doctors at a Alberta Medical Association meeting voiced they will not serve as bartenders under the present liquor act. They deferred action on the issue to the Alberta Medical Association gathering in Calgary in September.
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Calgary
Calgary Medical Association
Alberta Medical Association
Sugar and Raisin Prices See Double, Fiscal Market Moves
Sugar prices rose 50 cents per hundred pounds in Vancouver on August 23. In Fresno on August 24 the California Associated Raisin Co directors announced price increases near 100 percent with Muscats Sultanas and Thompsons priced at 10 12 and 11 8 cents per pound respectively, up from 5 1 2 6 1 2 and 6 3 4 cents.
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Vancouver
Fresno
Calif
California Associated Raisin Co
Things Not Looking Very Rosy in Silesia
London reports a bleak Silesia picture from Polish circles. All electric works stopped and the country shrouded in darkness. Newspapers cannot print as 95 percent of workers strike and factories paralyze from coal shortages.
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Silesia
London
Murphy Crop in Old Ontario Below Average
Estimates from growers and dealers show potato yields in old Ontario at 85 bushels per acre over the first two weeks of August, well below the 86 year average of 116. Recent copious rains may improve prospects as drought relief arrives.
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Murphy
Old Ontario
Toronto
Ontario
Admiral Jellicoe urges dominions end dependence on British Navy
London reports Admiral Sir John Jellicoe told a Wellington luncheon the early war showed shortages of docks and destroyers and urged schemes to lessen dominion security reliance on the British Navy. He stressed the need for preparedness and diversified naval resources.
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London
Wellington
New Zealand
Sir John Jellicoe
Dominions
Meighen Visits Swift Current Delegation Hearings
Hon Meighen attends luncheon at the Cosmopolitan with over one hundred visitors and prominent citizens. Mayor Brown notes Calder’s detention at Swift Current to meet delegations as Meighen addresses irrigation needs and drought impacts across Alberta and surrounding regions.
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Arthur Meighen
John Calder
Swift Current
Cosmopolitan Hotel
Horse influenza raging in Idaho near Lewiston
Lewiston Idaho Aug 25 Dr A J Powell reports influenza among horses in the Gifford section near Lewiston with several deaths. He vaccinated about 140 head in the area as the outbreak spreads and vaccination efforts begin.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Gifford Section
A. J. Powell
Powell
Gifford
North Dakota Wheat Crop Estimated at 50 Million Bushels
Dr. B F Trowbridge of the experimental station estimates North Dakota will yield about 50 million bushels of wheat this season with an average of eight bushels per acre.
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Fargo
N. 2
B. F. Trowbridge
North Dakota
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Suth
South Country State Irrigation Committee
Grey
Hors DE Combat
Pershing
Tion
J. A. Calder Dominion
Old Man Ng Gost
Admiralty
Jellicoe
Sity
Cosmopolitan Today
Brown
Mr. Meighen
Frank Leffingwell
Ff. Fort
First St
Dumbheller
Monarchs
Drumheller
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