Lancashire textile strike shuts down mills and blocks streets
The great cotton strike in Lancashire involves about 200,000 weavers with 700 mills idle as pickets patrol and unions claim 130,000 workers have joined the walkout. Spinners face a ten percent wage cut vote within ten days while 500,000 threatened unemployment looms.
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Manchester
Eng
Lancashire
George Titt
Tradés Union
Ingland
Sir Horace Wilson
Ottawa
Cabinet Ends Long Meeting On Ottawa Reports
London Aug 28 Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet finished a lengthy session at six o'clock amid crowds at 10 Downing Street awaiting Ottawa Conference reports. Baldwin presented trade agreement updates while India and the annuities dispute with the Irish Free State were discussed. Several ministers were absent due to travels or illness.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Downing Street
Ottawa
Stanley Baldwin
United Kingdom
India
Liverpool
Sir John Gilmour
Scotland
Gilmour
Rebels in Ecuador Set Up Provisional Quito Government
A rebel faction aided by soldiers formed a provisional government in Quito today as loyal troops surrounded them and called for a parley. They back Weptai Bonifaz, elected president last fall, who would assume office next month, while Moreno’s government claims Bonifaz is ineligible due to Peruvian parentage. Congress sided with Moreno last month.
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Bree Cse Osi Reatte
Guayaquil
Quito
Ecuador
Weptai Bonifaz
Moreno
Bonifaz
Congress
Hitler Von Papen Hold Secret Berlin Conference
Berlin reports that Chancellor Franz Von Papen and Adolf Hitler met for a secret luncheon with General Kurt Von Schleicher present. Papen denounced Hitler's impulse and urged stabilization, defending a measured government program and equal justice while opposing forced coalitions and extremist measures.
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Berlin
Franz von Papen
Adolf Hitler
Kurt von Schleicher
von Papen
Munster
Germany
Franz, von Papen
National Socialists
Hia
Hetch Ketchy project toll rises to 94 lives
Aug 29 report from Livermore Ca states rescue crews halted search for five workers trapped in the Coast Range tunnel as the Hetch Ketchy water project toll reached 94 after retracting earlier claims of four recovered bodies and confirming one identification, Chester Simondsen, 30.
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Livermore
Calif
San Francisco
Coast Range
Chester Simondsen
Storm takes toll as six go missing in Vancouver area
Vancouver reports a southwest gale on Monday maimed four men and two youths. A sixteen foot launch with Howard Johnston Bob Wilson Henry Hughes and Bill Cummings was found adrift in Howe Sound. Fred Gillespie 16 and George Olson 21 are missing after leaving Hopkins Landing by canoe.
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Vancouver
Gulf of Georgia
Howe Sound
Howard Johnston
Bob Wilson
Henry Hughes
Bill Cummings
Fred Gillespie
George Olson
Hopkins Landing
MacDonald and Thomas Travel to Balmoral for Ottawa Report
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and J. H. Thomas journeyed to Scotland to meet King George at Balmoral. They will present to the King a report on the Imperial economic conference held in Ottawa.
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George
London
Ramsay MacDonald
J. H. Thomas
Scotland
Balmoral
Ottawa
Counterfeit Ring Raided in Vancouver on Hornby Street
Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided a Hornby Street house in Vancouver early this morning and arrested two men, William Dunn and William Richardson, suspected of operating a counterfeit ring flooding the area with plaster-molded 50 cent pieces. The coins were produced using babbit metal and finished with fine files.
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Vancouver
B. C
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Hornby Street
William Dunn
William Richardson
Drowns Two Daughters in Baptism Prank Tragedy
In Tuscaloosa, Mrs William A. Simmons 25 led her three daughters to a lake last night claiming to show baptism rites. She and Dorothy 8 perished, Marjorie 6 and Louise 10 survived after aiding searches. Louise located the bodies with help from a motorist.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
William A. Simmons
Louise Simmons
Dorothy
Marjorie
Chinese Raiders Terrorize Mukden in Night Attack
Flames and gunfire swept Mukden Manchuria as hundreds of Chinese raiders rose in the night. Reports said fights spread through the city with Japanese forces responding to the assault near air bases and loyal districts.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Davis
SCO
Hun Hopu
Neége Air Base
Pair Faces Public Whipping Over Abused Boy in Ohio Case
In Gallipolis Ohio Aug 29 a probate judge ordered a man and woman to be publicly horsewhipped for neglect of their three year old son Loren Hochter found in a dark room, starved and mute. Loren was taken to the Gallia county children's home for treatment and care. The Hochters claimed Loren was the illegitimate child of the husband.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
Loren Hochter
Sylvester Hochter
Treat
Ment
Gallia County
Loren
Trans Atlantic search continues for missing flight crew
Harbor Grace researchers report Lee and Bodhkon given up as lost after five days at sea. Old timers fear the Green Mountain Boy did not reach its projected crossing while hope remains for possible rescue by a passing ship.
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Lee
Bodhkon
Harbor Grace
Nild
Aux
Newfoundland
Bochkon
St.Johns
Solberg
Carl Petersen
North Atlantic
New York
Merasheen Island
Paradise Sound
Oslo
John Bochkon
Clyde Les
North America
Sweden
Barre
Vermont
Des Moines Milk Blockade Marks Farm Holiday Pickets
Des Moines, August 28. Lines of farm holiday pickets remained around the central Iowa market with fewer on duty than yesterday. Trucks were halted at the blockade or pass through after ferried persuasion from pickets. Milk drivers and distributors sought truces while some trucks were escorted by deputies to market. Governor Warren officially recognized the holiday movement inviting restraint.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Zounil Bluffs
Ars
C. F. Keeling
Keeling
Warren
Boy Injured in Rifle Incident Near Peace River
Floyd Johnson, 46, Medicine Hat school boy, was accidentally shot by his brother during a friendly scuffle over a .22 rifle near Reno 33 miles north of Peace River Alberta. The bullet pierced his left side and lodged in the lower left lung but his condition is not serious. a delicate operation may remove the bullet.
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Peace River
Alto
Floyd Johnsons
Medicine Hat
Reno
Nouth
Here
Floyd
Percy
Johnson
C.P.R
Thirteenth St
Douglas
River Country
Conference on Agriculture Services Opens in East
Toronto August 29. Hon. Robert Weir minister of Agriculture opened the conference on agriculture services aimed at pooling Dominion and provincial expert resources for the Canadian farmer. He said officials from every province would seek a plan to help farmers shed loss making enterprises such as keeping inferior dairy cattle and to push profitable measures.
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Toronto
Conference On Agriculture Services
Robert Weir
Dominion
Manitoba university endowment losses spark theft case
Four days before his first court appearance, John A. Machray University Governor and Church of England Chancellor faced revelations that about 100000 of Manitoba's 1.6 million endowment may be missing or stolen. Rockefeller Institute and Isbister trusts are gone. other funds depleted. Only a 250000 church fund remains intact. Machray, 67, hospitalized, faces theft charges of 47000 with possible more charges after audits. Audits show thefts over two decades affecting university and church funds across Manitoba and Western Canada.
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Winnipeg
John A. Machray
Church of England
University of Manitoba
Rockefeller Institute
University
Isbister
Machray A3 University
Board of
Machr
Rupert’s Land
Monae
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Machray
Jim
Kiwanis Convention Opens in Prince Albert
At Prince Albert National Park the Western Canada Kiwanis district three day convention opened with formal welcomes from officials including deputy mayor G. E. Brock. International president Carl E. Endicott of Huntington, Indiana attends as members report a fatal incident earlier in the night with an effigy burn in the shore bonfire.
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Frince Albert
Moke
Waskesia Lake
Prince Albert National Park
Western Canada
Kiwanis
G. E. Brock
Carl E. Endicott
Huntington
Indiana
Three drown in Stewart road disaster near Portland Canal
A car collided with a truck on the Stewart Higher road, toppled over Portland Canal rocks, killing three aboard and trapping others. Mr and Mrs George Naysmith and W Mowatt of Premier BC died, while A Scott the driver and Mrs Mowatt were rescued by Petty Officer Weyman from H M S Delhi. Two others escaped. a Delhi diver searched the wreck. Mr and Mrs Naysmith had wed about a month ago.
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Stewart
B.C
Portland Canal
George Naysmith
W. Mowatt
H.M. S
Infants Stricken by Paralysis Sparks School Delay
Fear grips Stavely as three infantile paralysis cases erupt Thursday and Friday, with three more under quarantine at the Oviatt home after Delmar Oviatt contracted the disease. No deaths by Sunday, and school opening postponed to September 12 due to the outbreak.
Doctor issues health alert amid outbreak in Coulee area
A health officer warns of a spreading illness with several afflicted cases including Walker and his daughter Marjor Crumley. Dr Stewart urges early precautions as Delmar QO School plans to open a Coulee in the near future.
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Walker
Wry O. Walker
Marjor
H. Crumley
Delmar QO
Showa
Early Winter Sends Forces Near Grain Ports
Fragmentary navy report notes ships moving grain from northern ports toward Britain and continental markets. Mentions Hudson Straits, 2,000,000 bushels, and high seas near Vond de Sierren as forces near the region.
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Hudson's
Brits
Vond de Sierren
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Saint John
N.B
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J. A. Mollisor
Nerepis
New Brunswick
Conference Upon Agriculture
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Minister of Agriculture
Calcens
O. Jolliffe
Board of ‘Bovernors
John R. Major
Comptroller-General's Department
Burgar
Canada
St. John’s College
St. John’s Cemetery
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Stavelly
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