Mayor Bulivant Defends Power Plant and Gas Efforts
Mayor Bulivant explains low voltage due to overloaded transformers from 15 year old equipment and outlines a $15,000 upgrade. He cites sinking fund payments, tax stability, and upcoming debt obligations while defending Parsons’ British contract and recent power plant upgrades. He details gas drilling actions, cost savings, and municipal wells cemented under government supervision.
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Bullivant
Watson
Tria
Tter
le Company
Médicine Hat
Rey
Algary
Huck
Canja Cement Co
Toth
Bulivant
Carada Cetent Co
Wreck of Norwich City Reefs Off Gardner Island
Pape Pago Samoa December 4 reports three Norwich City crew rescued on Gardner Island reef with eleven lives lost after the freighter wrecked Saturday. Pago Pago December 11 rescue ships report twenty five lost and three survivors, as marooned Norwich City crew face dangerous reefs while authorities seek to save twenty one aboard.
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Gardner Island
Pago Pago
Samoa
Trongate
Norwich City
Garriner Island
Here
Stermer
J P Noonan Dies in Washington Fire
Jas P Noonan vice president of the American Federation of Labor and president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers died in Washington from burns after an early morning apartment fire.
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J. P. Noonan
Washington, D.C
Jas. P. Noonan
Amerian Federation of Labor
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
J A Kings Candidature Committee Rooms Invited Contact
Residents urged to stay in touch with J A King for Mayor campaign. Committee rooms listed at 606 3rd St next to Western Meat Market with phone contact 2676 for information and outreach.
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J. A. King
3Rd St
Western Meat Market
Fort Churchill Now Deserted For the Winter
Winnipeg notices that Churchill, Canada's northern ocean port, is deserted for winter as George Kidd and the Muskeg Special depart. Hundreds of summer workers have left, and only a few hardy pioneers remain to endure isolation until spring.
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Winnipeg
C. P
Canada
Churchill
George Kidd
Department of Railways
Hudson Bay Railway
Fort
Real estate deal completes for third street newsstand property
Negotiations closed yesterday with T G Allen purchasing the ten foot by back-lane property on Third Street where his newsstand stands. G E Hotson acted for Safeways Co Ltd in the transaction.
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T. G. Allen
Third St
G. E. Hotson
Safeways Co. Ltd
Lord Byng Expected to Recover and Sail for South Africa
A London bulletin reports Lord Byng is much debilitated by recent illness but showing progress. Doctors expect eventual full recovery from lung congestion and hope he can sail for South Africa. December 20 projection noted by physicians.
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South Africa
London
C. P. Cable
Lord Byng
Nine Newfoundland Boats Missing With 70 Aboard
A Halifax style disaster unfolds as nine Newfoundland vessels vanish with about seventy people aboard, including four women, after leaving St John for Bona Vista ports. Searchers Meigle and Beatle covered wide sea areas but no survivors found. In a separate report Meadow Lake confirms C L Galbraith, a Sask druggist, was found after four days lost in the woods.
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St. John
C.P
Newfoundland
Burin Peninsula
Bona
Hunter Meadow Lake
Sask
C. L. Galbraith
Edam
Galbraith
One Of Explorers Hits Out By Train From Pas Lo Woz
Winnipeg December 4. Richard Pearce editor of The Northern Miner and member of the MacAlpine party now being taken out of the North by aeroplanes will arrive in Winnipeg at 3 30 this afternoon. Pearce left The Pas last night on a Canadian National Railway train not waiting to come south with Andy Cruickshanks who is expected to fly to Winnipeg today.
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Winnipeg
G. P
Richard Pearce
The
Northern Miner
MacAlpine Party
North Country
Pearce
Pas
Canadian National Railway
Andy Cruickshanks
Sarniadoc Crew Safe After Lake Ontario Wreck
Prescott Ont dispatch reports all crew members including stewardess Mrs Gill aboard the steamship Valley Camp which reached Prescott Harbor after 36 hours of battle with Lake Ontario following the wreck of the Sarniadoc on Main Duck Island.
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Sarniadoc
Toronto
Toronto Evening Telegram
Prescott
Ont
McGill
Main Duck Island
Valley Camp
Prescott Harbor
Lake Ontario
Tugs Strive to Keep Soo Channel Open Amid Ice
Four tugs from Thompson Towing and Wrecking Co. battle severe cold to move 45 freighters through the upper locks at Sault Ste. Marie Michigan Ontario border. After a weekend storm and record twelve below zero, ten inch ice and drifting slush slowed progress, but tug crews managed to free about 30 freighters Sunday and Monday as winter tightens its grip.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Thompson Towing and Wrecking Company
Michigan Sault
Defamation Case With Latimer Heads to Trial Phase
Penticton B C December 4 Charles Oliver head of a local Chemical Company was committed for trial on a forcible seizure charge linked to the tar and feathering of Dr W E Latimer on November 25 Bail set at 2000 Oliver to choose speedy or jury trial A defamation of character suit by Dr Latimer against Oliver was filed in Supreme Court seeking damages connected to earlier statements and the case continues with court actions and police inquiries
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Penticton
B.C
Charles Oliver
Chemical Company
W. E.latimer
Oliver
J. R. Brown
B. C
W. E. Latmer
H. H. Boyle
Vernon
M. M. Colquhoun
Mr. Boyle
Dr. Latimer
Pioneers theme inspires Montreal speaker at Medicine Hat
Leslie Bell of Montreal spoke on Pioneers to a large audience at the Canadian Club dinner in the Cecil Hotel. The crowd praised his account of Canadian frontier history from Cabots and Champlain to Selkirk and No 1 locomotive, urging pride in a more glorious Canada.
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Leslie Bell
D.C.L
K.C
M.P
Montreal
Cecil Hotel
Medicine Hat
Le@jie
Justice Walsh
Quebec
Bell
Canada
Cabots
Cartier
Champlain
Frontenac
la Salle
Nova Scotia
P.E.I
Cape Breton
Acadiana
Paris
Winnipeg
Hudson Bay Co
Nor’ Westers
Simpson
Hearn
McKenzie
Courier du Bois
Voyaguers
Great Tract
R.N.W.M.P
Countess of Dufferin
C.P.R
Ellerton
Canadian Club
O Cattada
J. A. Robb
M. Clemenceau
Doctor Stresemann
Everton
Canadian Club of Canada
Dominion Board reserves decision on Alberta coal rate disputes
Ottawa and Edmonton reports show the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners delaying ruling on amounts due from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific for hauling Alberta coal to central Canada in 1928 at the trial rate of 36.75 per ton. CN claims 159,153.77 and CPR 31,647.86 with disputes over difference between tariff and trial rate. Ontario and Alberta officials argue the movement serves national interests and should reflect actual movement costs.
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Ottawa
Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Railways
Alberta
Central Canada
Alistair Fraser
National
Canadian Pacific
G. Prevost
Prevost
Ontario
J. Earl Lawson
Lawson
United States
Sail
Edmonton
J. E. Browntoa
Mackenzie King
Marcus
Clover Bar
Communist Army In China Now Bandit Horde
Amoy December 4 report says the Communist army once a bandit horde ravaging the countryside south of Fuchien north east of Kwangtung now operates in southern Kiangsi. Outlaws entered Kangshaw last Sunday looting and murdering about 100 Chinese officials and gentry. The U S Catholic Mission with eighteen nuns and priests seeks authority protection but details are unclear.
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Amoy
Karictfin' Myst
Fuchien
Kwangtung
Kiangsi
Kangshaw
United States
Kahchoy
Employment Conference Seeks Federal Help For Unemployment
Winnipeg December 4 resolutions urged Dominion government to aid winter jobless relief. Delegates from provincial and municipal bodies and labor leaders criticized lack of federal representation and disputed minister Heenan that unemployment is solely a provincial concern. They noted record Western unemployment and criticized immigration policy and railway labor agreements that import workers.
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Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
Peter Heenan
Canada
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Parsons
Parson Company
Ald. Hole
Manitoba Rolling Mills
Fort Churchill
Railway Dept
Urho
I, Blackburn
Norman Pearce
Latimer
TAR and Feathers
Leslie Bell On “Pioneers
France
Upper Canada
General Simcoe
Cyl. Young
Young
York
Britain
John Galt
McNabb
Ottawa River
Lord Selkirk
Thames
Grand Rivers
Selkirk
Fort Douglas
Fort Gibraltar
North West Trading Co
Ndr’ Westers
China
Riverside School
City Hall
I. Bullivant
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