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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1925
Page
8
A wireless from the steamer Weat Ora wa 2300 miles west of the Columbia River reports engine failure and drifting helplessness. The crew pleads for help and indicates repairs are not expected until engines are fixed.
Receipts at Calgary stockyards show 2165 cattle and 15 cars to unload with steady demand for butcher cattle and hog prices down. Cattle top at 6.50 for choice butcher, cows 2.74 to 4.25, calves 4 to 4.25, feeders 4.95. hogs around 11.10 to 11.25. Winnipeg reports 1840 cattle and calves, 2500 hogs, 200 sheep and lambs with fair demand, hogs stronger, lambs at 11.25 top, sheep 5 to 9.50.
George Bernard Shaw closed the Fabian Society course with a vision of a socialist life: four hours of work, eight hours of rest and four hours for personal care and leisure. He argued equal income for all, universal communistic education, and supported birth control and divorce as trial and error marriages.
Ottawa reports Premier King announced Parliament will convene January 7 after cabinet review. The government had hoped for December 10 but chief electoral officer’s report made the earlier date impractical. Gazetted seats total 226 with 15 existing and 11 pending returns. 11 more seats await gazetting, affecting opening notice.
Springfield reports W H Workman of Loami after two years without teeth ate beefsteak thanks to improvised dentures carved from hardwood. He formed impressions with cardboard, smoothed surfaces with a broken pane, and finished the setup after lengthy effort. Local dentists called the result perfect.
Ten Philadelphia schoolgirls calling themselves the Philadelphia hobbies arrived in Victoria aboard the Empress of Russia after their baseball tour in Asia collapsed due to lack of funds. They had played in Japan after visiting Hongkong, drawing crowds of up to 20,000 for their first appearance, but the group faltered and ended the trip stranded.
Fragmentary dispatch notes Hendays on the Franco-Spanish frontier with Madrid warning of an imminent material crisis as friction rises and diplomatic signals sharpen between nations.
Delegates from 38 towns and 13 villages attend the Alberta Union convention with Mayor Charles W. Frederick greeting Peace River. Saunders reports flourishing union finances and notes the meeting as the best attended yet. Delegates appointed to the resolutions committee include W. S. Ball, J. H. Montgomery, and others with city and village representatives. Afternoon features a viewing of The Calgary Stampede at Regent theatre followed by a Calgary theatre party at Capitol theatre. convention ends Thursday.
Argentine heavyweight Lulis Angel Firpo aims to resume boxing in Canada next spring after a bout in England. He will fight in Britain first, then Canada, then the United States in a bid for another title chance. A Los Angeles dispatch says Jack Dempsey is open to a Firpo rematch before he faces Harry Wills in July.
Swift Current reports J A Tweedie Pennant was fined four hundred dollars and costs in provincial police court for selling liquor in his pool room on October 29 election day. Two liquor enforcement operatives testified they went to Pennant, acted drunk, bought several drinks, and purchased a bottle of whisky which tested 25.64 percent alcohol by weight.
George Haystead has opened club rooms in the Huckval Block and seeks members at a nominal fee. A smoker will occur soon to formally organize the club and elect officers. Upcoming plans include amateur boxing bouts and winter hockey, with hockey players especially welcomed.
Quana November 28 Our experience so far leads us to believe there is a very considerable field for the application of oil power for transportation purposes in Canada. C R Brooks chief of motive power Canadian National Railways told the Engineering Institute of Canada at yesterday's discussion of the newly developed electric car.
Classified price list from Winnipeg shows wheat oats barley flax and rye quotes across Nov Dec May and July periods. Prices cover cash and track markets with Nor common grades and various feeds for wheat and oats.
Winnipeg reports a bullish run in deferred wheat futures with July at 1.52 1 4 as November and May rise 5 cents. Public buying through commission houses drives gains while exporters are light. Argentine weather rumors and long profit taking shape the session despite occasional sell pressure. Coarse grains and flax show firmer tones amid overall market strength.
Harold Grange starred for the Chicago Bears in a snowbound 14 to 13 win over the Columbus Tigers as 20 000 fans cheered. Vic Foley and Bobby Ebber drawn for bantamweight title bout in Toronto signed by St Charles club for December 1. Oakland reports semipro baseball as an industrial hazard after a jaw fracture injures Is L French. workers paid medicals and time off by state commission.
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