Mussolini Seeks Italian Emigration to Canada
St John New Brunswick December 24 Captain G Franci arrived from Canada aboard the Minnedosa to assess Italian emigration prospects. He will discuss with Ottawa immigration officials, citing Italian farmers eager to work in Canada and develop Western lands. If talks succeed, Franci plans to bring a number of settlers in coming months to acclimate before spring. King George of Greece faces possible throne abolition amid republican gains debated by Britain France Yugoslavia and Romania.
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St. John
N.B
Mussolini
Italy
Canada
G. Franci
S.S. Minnedosa
Franci
Col. Dennis
Immigration Department
Ottawa
Ile
France
Kentucky Bloody Christmas Killings Shock Perry County
Perry County Kentucky reports four dead and a sixth in serious condition after Christmas shootings. Victims include Deputy Sheriff William Smith and John Richmond. others named Hays J D Matthews and Jerry Dunn. Dennis Phillips wounded, later in custody. Smith killed Christmas Eve during a pistol fight at Phillips home.
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Hazard
Perry County
William Smith
Hays
J. D. Matthews
Barger
John Richmond
Jerry Dunn
Dennis Phillips
Smith
Phillips
Another Boycott At Saskatchewan Sale By Sheriff
A crowd near Kindersley, Saskatchewan, halted a sheriff sale of farmer J. E. Butterworth’s livestock, implements, and household goods. The auctioneer postponed as the crowd hissed, one harness item bought for 1.50 was returned to Butterworth, a long-time resident who moved from Swift Current, debt tied to the British American Oil Company.
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Saskatoon
J. E. Butterworth
Kindersley
Butterworth
Aepong
Prairies
Swift Current
British American Oil Company
Wheat Inspections Report From Winnipeg
Wheat inspections for December 24 show 2 110 cars including 1 846 contract grades versus 836 cars a year ago. Coarse grain totals reach 276 cars, compared with 1 240 last year. Foreign wheat grades list No 1 Nov 749 No 2 Nov 606 Nov 444 No 4 4191 No 5 Nov 542 No 6 12 feed ofamutty 8 no grade 26 rejected 26 other grades 14.
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Winnipeg
Hospital Christmas Concert Delights Patients
Patients at the hospital enjoyed a one hour Christmas Day concert at noon featuring Lakey's Orchestra and St. John's Church Choir with vocal solos by James Isherwood BEG Macdonald and F Blackburn, piano by C N Harper, fairy bells by B S Hodges, and an extra number by Isherwood due to Mrs A P Burns being indisposed. The program was arranged by Assiniboia Chapter No 3 Royal Arch Masons.
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Lakey
St. John's
Assiniboia Chapter No
Royal Arch Masons
Lestor to Speak at City Hall Meeting Tomorrow
Vancouver's Mr Lestor will address a public meeting at Medicine Hat City Hall at 8 oclock tomorrow evening. He has spoken here before and requires no introduction to local residents.
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Has. Lestor
Vancouver
Governor General's Son Made Clean-Up Wall St. Securities
Lieut. Osborne Culter Wood aged 26, aide to the Governor General Wood in the Philippines, admitted making between 700000 and 800000 dollars in Wall Street securities speculation conducted by cable from Manila.
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Wall St. Securities
New York
the Times
New York Times Company
Associated Press
Osborne Culter Wood
Wood
Philippines
Wall Street
Cable
Manjic
Worcester Citizens Offer Skin for Boy Burn Victim
Worcester Mass December 26 A Christmas appeal for skin grafts to heal nine year old Ralph Orcutt drew hundreds of volunteers at the city hospital. Surgeons planned twenty inches of graft skin and reserved fifty volunteers to supply enough skin to spare the boy from crippling burns suffered last July.
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Worcester
Mass
Ralph Orcutt
City Hospital
Sila
Ralph
Eight New Yorkers attempt death during Christmas
Despondency during the holiday led eight people in New York to attempted self harm. Four men inhaled gas, one woman jumped from a roof, another drank poison, and an unidentified man jumped beneath a subway train. Five died soon after. others are in critical condition according to police records.
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New York
Pollice
Snowfall Hits Four Inches In City Weather Notes
The Pacific Coast storm moved into Alberta with four inches of snow measured by H Hassard, city meteorologist, at noon today. The barometer shows cold weather but not a storm, a reading shared after a request from Cox in Chicago. Weather officials seek data on a pressure area across the boundary and contacted Western Canadian stations.
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Alberta
H. Hassard
of. Cox
Chicago
Hiassard
Canada
Manitoba Cabinet Ministers Reelected in By-Elections
Electors in Mountain and Carillon returned Charles Cannon and A Prefontaine by strong margins after cabinet elevations. Maurice Duprey failed to win Carillon as an independent. Fraser narrowly saved his deposit in Mountain as Conservatives mobilized top speakers. Majority in legislature remains one.
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Mountain
Charles Cannon
George M. Fraser
Carillon
Albert Prefentatine
Maurice Duprey
Winnipeg
Fraser
Prefontaine
Mr. Duprey
Manitoba
Weather Outlook for Western Cities Turns Colder
The West sees a drop in temperature with snow in several areas. Vancouver and Edmonton report cloudy skies while Saskatoon and Calgary face snow and cold. The forecast calls for mostly fair and cold conditions in the west with light snow flurries today and Thursday.
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Vancouver
Cloudy
Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Moose Jaw
Saskatoon
Fair
Nelson
Calgary
Winnipeg
CPR Officials Transferred in Alberta District Moves
An official notice from General Superintendent J M Cameron states Colin D MacKintosh shifts from Lethbridge to Edmonton as superintendent while J L Jamieson moves from Edmonton to Lethbridge. MacKintosh arrived at Lethbridge in 1918 from Medicine Hat. Jamieson, formerly with Medicine Hat’s mechanical dept, has held posts in Kenora Vancouver and Edmonton. Jamieson is a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police member and related to local figures John Herron and C F Jamison.
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J. M. Cameron
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calgary
Colin D. MacKintosh
Lethbridge
Edmonton
J. L. Jamieson
MacKintosh
Medicine Hat
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
John Herron
M.P
Pincher Creek
Wnd
C. F. Jamieron
Mystery surrounds burning of Maine murderer John Snow
In Damariscotta Maine the body of John Snow was burned in a cottage yesterday after he killed his wife and son and then himself. Lincoln County authorities refused to confirm who took part while Snow’s ashes were found in the farm cottage ruins and his bones buried in the farm grave.
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Damariscotta
Maine
John Snow
Lincoln County
Jefferson
Snow
Whitefield
Jewett
Rebels Gain Rail Network Role in Mexican Struggle
Mexico City dispatches report former military commander Alfred Garra has joined General Enrique Estrada’s rebels as director of railroads, with J. O. Llano heading railways for the Obregon government. Federal forces pursue a 35-strong rebel band in the Esperanza district. Colonel Sevrino Leal is killed after an ambush.
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el Paso
Texas
Alfred Garra
Zacatecas
Genral Enrique Estrada
Revolutionista
J. O. Llano
Obregon
Mexico City
Tampico
Leopoldo Rebaje
Daniel Herrara
Esperansa
Ctor
Sevrino Leal
Venizelos to Study Greece Situation Before Any Return
In Athens Venizelos plans to visit Greece without reentering politics, provoking mixed official reactions. Liberals hope he may take the reins again, while Republicans seek clarity on his aims as he studies the situation firsthand. Reports from Paris and Athens indicate he may return temporarily as adviser, not to form a cabinet, with departure set for December 29 and a January 2 assembly meeting anticipated.
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Athens
Venizelos
Greece
Paris
Venizeios
Legislative Assembly
Athen
National Assembly
Murder at St John minister's home shocks town
Mrs Clara Whiteside wife of Rev Arthur Whiteside was found dead in her Fast St John residence. Police suspect robbery and a possible wild animal attack damaged the scene. The body shows severe head injuries with a blunt instrument and a torn lining from a bed. The husband was away in Manitoba.
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ST. John
N. B
S. John
Clara Whiteside
Arthur Whiteside
Manitoba
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