Legislature Adjourns After Busy Edmonton Session
Edmonton reports the legislature adjourned after its busiest day, with 19 bills passed and two new departments created for railways and telephones and municipalities. Premier Sifton sworn in as minister of railways and telephones, A J McLean as minister of Municipalities. Calgary charter amendment debated, medical groups settle their exam dispute with Alberta University Senate to set admission examiners.
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Sifton
A. J. McLean
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University of Alberta
Unique Bill for Ontario House
Knox Church in Toronto has applied to the legislature for a private bill. It would authorize using rents after minister and assistant salaries are paid to supplement salaries of poorer city churches. The church owns valuable Toronto properties with returns exceeding local needs.
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Knox Church
Toronto
Premier Yuan Shikai Rejects Republic in China Crisis
A Peking dispatch reports bonds as forced contributions by princes' clan officials amid pro Anglo Japanese intervention talk. In Nankin Yuan Shikai publicly refuses to accept a republic, signaling unresolved peace conference matters and possible Beijing consultation.
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Yuan Shi Kai
London
Peking
Daily Telegraph
Tokio
Nankin
Republic
Yuan Shi
Building Boom In Medicine Hat Drives City Growth In 1911
The year 1911 saw Medicine Hat rise to second in Dominion building permits, trailing only Guelph. New towers include Becker Block, Imperial Bank building, Beverage’s Furniture Store, Bank of Montreal, Monarch Theatre, C P R Freight Shed, Linseed Mills, Hutchinson’s Leather, Rolling Mills, Alberta Foundry, and several hotel and station upgrades. The era closes with a bustling outlook and plans to outpace rivals next year.
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Dominion
Medicine Hat
Guelph
Canada
Becker
Imperial Bank
Beverage's
Bank of Montreal
Monarch Theatre
Linseed Mills
Hutchinson's
Rolling Milla
Alberta Foundry
Medicine Hat Printing and Publishing Co
Beverage
Ready’s
Hutchinson
Rolling Mills
Cosmopolitan
Alberta
CPR's New Rail Port Opened on Vancouver Island Coast
Victoria December 21 A CPR milestone as the first train reached Port Alberni from Victoria 134 miles away in about seven hours. G M Bosworth and R Marpole accompanied the trip marking the new E N Railway extension 57 miles from Wellington into timber land and mineral potential. Port Alberni at the head of Alberni canal now offers year round port access to the Pacific with CPR aiming to shorten trans Pacific voyages and provide a true Dominion terminal.
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Victoria
Vancouver Island
Port Alberni
Orient
Pacific
G. M. Bosworth
R. Marpole
C.P.R
British Columbia
E. & N. Railway
Wellington
Alberni Canal
Pacific Ocean
Vancouver
Domnion
Public Service Investigation Planned by Government
Ottawa notes a government decision to launch a thorough inquiry into all public service departments. Morine is chosen for his experience in Newfoundland administration and legal standing. The effort may extend and complete the Cassels inquiry into the marine department with expert support enabled by a forthcoming amendment to the inquiry act.
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Ottawa
Public Service
Inquirien
Russia and Persia At War In Serious Fights Reported
Teheran December 21 reports serious fighting between Persian Constitutionalists and Russian troops. The clashes near key towns intensify the ongoing conflict as both sides rally forces and seek advantageous positions amid strained ceasefire efforts.
Postal Companies Move Important
New York December 21 Minor M Davies newly named superintendent of telephones for the Postal Telegram Cable Company says the construction department will build additional heavy copper wires between key points on the system. The aim is to extend telephone service to independent telephone companies.
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New York
Minor M. Davies
Postal Telegram Cable Company
New Freight Rates In Force April 1st
Regina December 21. In answer to inquiries of the board of trade a telegram says the new rates must be put into force April 1 1912 in accordance with a Supreme Court of Canada decision. The board will seek an order to require printing a record of all freight charges and a refund of overcharges if the Privy Council ultimately rules for the board.
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Regina
Board of Trade
Board of Railway Commissioners
Supreme Court of Canada
Privy Council
Changes in Ottawa fruit inspection and department reshuffle
Ottawa December 20 Hon Martin Burrell has dismissed about six fruit inspectors and plans reorganizing the fruit section of the agricultural department. Support grows for a separate fruit commissioner as Burrell, a fruit farmer, pushes reforms. The Conservation Commission meeting January 16 will discuss forming a department of public health, to be recommended to government.
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Ottawa
Martin Burrell
Burrell
Ion
Department of Public Health
Montreal
The
Conservation Commission
Public Executions in France to End
Paris reports the council of state urging the minister of justice to privatize executions by carrying them out inside prisons. Minister Cruppi backs the reform and plans to introduce the bill promptly. The measure is widely approved and expected to pass.
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France
Paris
Council of State
German naval bill eyed as provocation to Britain
Berlin reports Kieler Neueste Nachrichten cites a planned naval bill with a seven year outlay of 50 000 marks in total, 10 000 000 marks per year. The Germania warns it could provoke England into war while Freisinnige Zeitung doubts heightened tensions and Germany's plans.
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Berlin
Kieler Neueste Nachrichten
Centre Party
The
Germania
England
Freisinnige Zeitung
Russia Refuses to Admit All Jewish American Citizens
In St. Petersburg on December 20, Foreign Minister Sazonoff says Russia will not back United States recognition of passports issued to American Jews. He notes the issue does not involve the foreign office and that interior ministry or consuls have no objections to entry for Jewish American businesspeople. The agitation targets agitators and revolutionists who migrated to America during unrest, not ordinary Jewish merchants.
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St. Petersburg
Sergius Sazonoff
United States
Russia
Novoe Vremya
Strike Breakers Not Two Strikers In River City Shooting
Brandon dispatch reports Arthur Ellstora and John Gibbons, both Grand Trunk Pacific strikers, injured in a rifle attack at a Rivers hotel. Alfred Thomas, a strike breaker, jailed in Rivers on shooting charges. George Leary also wounded. all taken to Wheatland then hospital in Brandon. Ellstora in critical condition with little hope of recovery.
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Brandon
Arthur Ellstora
Grand Trunk Pacific
John Gibbons
Rivers
Alfred Thomas
Toronto
Thomas
Ellsford
Ribbons
Geo. Leary
Wheatland
C.P.R
Real estate deals on Rows and Braemer Street lots
Four lots on Rows street advertised with $20 down and no payments until May. H. C. Pettet & Co. offers 50 ft lots on Braemer St. East at $200.60. Promoted as good buying. contact H. C. Pettet & Co. at 366 Toronto Street.
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Thias
H. C. Pettet & Co
Braemer St
Toronto
Canuck Elected to British House
The by election in North Ayrshire Scotland resulted in the Liberal ALEK Anderson losing his seat as solicitor general for Scotland to Conservative Capt. D Campbell by 271 votes. Anderson previously held the seat by 354 votes. Campbell is a Canadian and financial agent of Glasgow.
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Simcoe
Ont
Scotland
House of Commons
North Ayshire
Scot
Taft Returns After Busy New York Visit
President Taft left New York at midnight to return to the White House after thirty busy hours. He spoke at five dinners and laid the corner stone of a home for the blind while Christmas shopping and meeting political leaders. His final address was to the New York Young Men's Republican Club where Senator Borah of Idaho spoke and drew applause for his attack on lawless big business.
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New York
White House
New York Young Men’s Republican
Borab
Idaho
Borah
Grand Jury Probes Dynamite Conspiracy Faces Clancy
Los Angeles witnesses describe Ortie McManigal meeting E A Clancy a San Francisco labor leader in government offices. McManigal testified he was told by J J McNamara to meet Clancy during a west coast dynamiting expedition. Grand jury expected to indict four to six people by week’s end.
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Los Angeles
Ortie McManigal
Dynamitard
McManigal
E. A Clancy
San Francisco
J. J. McNamara
Clancy
Grand
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Trouble at Peg Over R C Decree Sparks City Debate
Winnipeg dispatch reports Mrs. Frederick Brewer of Logan Ave entangled in a marriage dispute tied to the No Temere decree. She is Catholic while her husband is Protestant and they married by Presbyterian rites. The couple faced admission refusals to see a hospital patient, with Orange Lodge Grand Master Noble condemning the incident as proof of hierarchy backing the decree.
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Winnipeg
Frederick Brewer
Logan Ave
St. Boniface Hospital
Orangemen
Direct Threat Against Quebec Manufacturers
In Quebec City discussion on the United Shoe Machinery Company investigation Mr. Falconer called the royalties paid by John Ritchie a direct threat to Quebec manufacturers. The exchange centered on whether Ritchie should disclose books correlating to about 97,000 in royalties, with tension over potential records and urging action against the firm’s practices.
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United Shoe Machinery
Quebec
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Falconer
Cosgrain
United Shoe Machinery Company
John Ritchie
Falponer
Coagrain
Ritchie
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