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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
3
Premier Mackenzie King signals government could seek dissolution if national consensus shifts. He notes the Liberals would advise the Governor General on dissolution only when necessary and stresses continued governance amid current difficulties. King's remarks compare past shifts to today and caution against rushing to a parliamentary break.
August 22 Jenner district farmer William Maxie, age 59, was killed when a horse dragged him for forty five minutes after he entered Jerry Fisler’s pasture to catch it. Survived by a widow and two daughters, Marlon 13 and Alice 3. He had farmed in the Jena district since 1910.
The Overseas Educational League's sixth party from Candia visits Lake Windermere and Invermere British Columbia. Capt A H McCarthy leads a Mount Logan ascent as part of the program with golf boating tents and excursions at CPt Bungalow Camp and Invermere homes. They travel by road toward Banff and Calgary and Edmonton with planned stops en route.
The Mail and Empire reports a planned merger of ten major western baking plants into a single company under joint management. Negotiations are complete, with public financing and an initial securities offering expected within a week or ten days. The 9 plants will be located at strategic Western Canada points and operate as a going concern.
Providence reports at a Federal hearing on the Mackinac boiler blast that Chief Engineer John Grant knew of the dangerous boiler condition before departure. Edward Cassidy testified he warned Grant that the boiler could blow up and Grant replied I know it. Walter Parent corroborated Cassidy’s testimony.
United States ambassador Arthur Bailley Blanchard was found dead on the corridor floor of Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal shortly after midnight. The body showed no signs of violence and appeared due to natural causes. a night watchman discovered him after his registration as A Bailley Blanchard of Rochester.
Four Indigenous delegates who had traveled to London to petition King George for grievances returned via Ottawa in a weary, disheartened state. They reportedly failed to secure an audience, despondent on their way home near Kamloops.
Joseph Donnelly, a young resident near Hamilton, was badly beaten by a Saltfleet farmer after being refused a job. He is hospitalized with multiple fractures as police investigate the assault.
Reports from Camp Grant say six Black soldiers of the Eighth Infantry Illinois National Guard were killed and many injured this afternoon when a howitzer exploded.
Paris. Finance Minister Caillaux and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill opened talks on terms to settle France's debt to Britain totaling £623,000,000. Caillaux expressed hopeful for an agreement after meeting with reporters.
Varis Aug The Deanville casin e earned LAS HME francs as the house percentage during Saturday night’s play on its gaming tables. The Paris Midi says this is a record for a single night not only at Deanville but for all casinos in France and Monte Carlo.
A well known Medicine Hat resident was seen midday with bulges and arms full of ham sacks of flour and an electric lamp. He claimed he was returning from the community Karnival and told the constable to watch for the laden family booty when the missus and children bring it home.
Inquiries into the eight British missionaries kidnapped on August 6 remain fruitless. The group includes Bishop Mowll formerly of Toronto and five women. They were taken at a holiday resort in Szechuan where communications are unreliable. Reports say the captives are safe and treated well by their captors.
Delegates en route to the tenth annual meeting in Winnipeg discuss proposals to establish a probation bureau, crime prevention in homes and schools, and allow short prison terms plus corporal punishment for first time young offenders. Judge Coakesworth notes spanking as a humbling measure without physical harm.
A vast cache of gold and precious stones was uncovered yesterday in a tailor’s house once tied to the czar. The trove, including diamonds, had been sealed behind a wall since the revolution and implicates tailor Lidval now reportedly involved in banking.
John Lewis international president of the United Mine Workers accepted an invitation to a Hazleton conference between anthracite workers and citizens of the coal regions. The meeting will be open to the press and public, and will be held at noon tomorrow in Hazleton, according to John Uhi, Wilkes-Barre citizen committee chair.
A University of Chicago medical student John Henry Kinship and companion Janes Mitcham were attacked by eight men in Little Italy after an insult to Inez Parise and sisters. Kinship died from a crushed skull, four assailants confessed, Archi Carlini led the group. two others died in a separate gunfight.
London reports the new Uncle Tom's Cab in edition for English theatregoers includes Charleston numbers and Them Cotton Pickin Blues. It features a staged shooting of the villain Tom, removal of Eliza and the hounds, Jim Crow added, a wedding cake finale, and Little Eva dying as before.
Reports from special correspondents to The Journeys indicate that in central and northern parts of the province, crop prospects on August 14 were well advanced and expected to yield good results. Predictions say conditions are above average for the season.
An auto went off the road on St Aubroise street in Montreal last night turning turtle and trapping its occupants. A woman passenger Layrette Gauthrier, 22, died from a skull fracture while another occupant was severely injured.
Department of Agriculture reports 2.222 billion bushels of wheat produced in 22 countries on August 19, up from 2.156 billion last year. The nations shaded accounted for 72 percent of the world crop outside Russia and China.
A New York report notes the 1925 market will cost U S investors about 1 billion dollars to fraudulent stock schemes and Ponzi like promoters. The Better Business Bureau finds the gold brick cult still thriving and cheating many in 1924 as well, signaling another risky year ahead.
The school bond committee announced the Fall term starts Tuesday September 1. Beginners classes open at Riverside Montreal Blum Elizabeth Alexandra and Earl Kitchener schools. Admission begins at age five on September. Parents of away children should see principals to keep places open. Due to ordinance amendments wine law took effect August 1. Labor Day remains a school day.
London Aug 256 The world follows the Prince of Wales South American trip and the British post office cannot locate him. A Daily Express squib notes a message from the Prince to cadets and schools was sent to H.R Princesa of Wales, H.M.S. Repulse and returned marked address unknown.
Chicago August 22 Wilosm Darling Shepherd foster father and principal heir of William Nelson McCuintock and recently acquitted of McClin tock murder denied reports that Louis Alterie provided 75008 for his defense. Shepherd says he has never met Alterie or had any contract with him. Funds were raised by his partner Robert Stell and others.
Ottawa August 26 Premier King is expected to speak at Richmond Hill on Saturday September and to announce the government’s intention regarding the dissolution of Parliament Indications point to a general election in the fall King will be accompanied by V Graham and Charles Murphy. Six hundred more motor cars from the United States visit Toronto daily and over two million dollars are spent during the two and a half month tourist season.
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