23 Dec 1925
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1925
Page
1
Local stores report improved Christmas sales over last year due to better crops and higher grain prices. Merchants who stocked for winter report repeat orders to wholesale houses. Banks and railways express belief that Canada is entering an era of prosperity with a revived West.
The text outlines varied approaches to child welfare across provinces with aims for closer coordination under central oversight. Saskatchewan’s Commissioner Reynolds heads the Child Protection Bureau responsible for child welfare and Mothers' Allowances, while Manitoba reorganizes under a 1924 welfare act establishing a Department of Child Welfare.
Public Welfare establishes a department with A Percy Paget as first director to oversee Mothers' Allowances and new provisions for immigrant and unmarried parents. A 1925 Alberta act creates a Superintendent of Child Welfare and enlists Mark McLeod and others in shaping and enforcing the program.
The Ottawa Citizen argues that the Alberta Progressives cannot win rural credits single transferable vote or provincial control of natural resources by cooperating with the government alone. It says they should enter the Liberal caucus to convert Liberal members on these policies as Quebec opposition remains to the alternative vote.
The Eamonton Bulletin reports that Tre CO. PL OR has not claimed the $25,000 provided by Parliament to cover losses from hauling Alberta coal to Ontario at $7.00 per ton last summer. Government auditors would reveal actual costs and losses if Chenus were filed, implying railways may not lose money on Alberta to Ontario coal traffic, prompting questions from Ontario coal miners and users about potential profits and seasonal usage.
The notice lists CP railway train service with routes including Vancouver Calgary Montreal Winnipeg and Toronto. It shows daily departures from Winnipeg Montreal Toronto and Calgary to various destinations and specific times such as 6.30 p.m 7.25 a.m 8.20 a.m and 10.10 a.m. with stops at Kootenay Landing Retlaw Lomond Lethbridge Aldersyde and others.
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