Protein Content Maps Shift Wheat Pricing in West
Saskatoon January report before the Royal Commission reveals a new wheat geography based on protein content. George Forrester from Baker Oats Milling cites annual ratings guiding pricing alongside weight moisture and flow. Grain companies allegedly divert cars to sample and grade wheat, paying premiums to handlers rather than producers, as inspectors validate high priced lots.
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Saskatoon
Royal Main Commission
George Forrester
Baker Oats Milling Company
George W. E. Rose
Robin Hood Mills
Indust
British Press Supports High Council In Booth Crisis
London dispatch notes uninvited tributes to General Booth while British outlets rally behind a high council plan to retire him from active duty. The Daily Mail backs a five member regency and criticizes secrecy. weather reports follow with cold across western Canada and snow in Ontario and Quebec.
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London
Umwell Booth
Salvation Army
Iitish
High Council
Ooth
The
Daily Mail
Booth
the Mail
Port Arthur
Winnipeg
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Calgary
Vancouver
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
Indian Massacre Fears in Punitive Expedition at Agua Prieta
Phoenix reports fears that members of a punitive expedition against Geronimo’s Apache band may have been massacred by Indians. Agua Prieta officials sent riders into the Sierra Madre to locate the missing party as border tensions rise. Also, ten influenza deaths were reported in Winnipeg this week. Rev Vernon H MacNeill becomes pastor of McDonald Baptist Church in Edmonton.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Geronimo
Agua Prieta
Douglas
Sierra Madre
Winnipeg
Vernon H. MacNeill
Cranbrook
McDonald Baptist ‘Church
Edmonton
Majesty’s Handicap Deepens as Ill King and Queen Suffer
London reports Queen Mary and King continue under medical care with illness and weakness persisting. Cold weather and biting winds exacerbate conditions as doctors and nurses apply full resources. the royal family expresses cautious optimism but notes no improvement.
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London
Mary
Wheat prices regain losses in short Winnipeg session
The Winnipeg grain market showed a brief recovery with prices 2 cents higher for most of the day and 1 to 2 1/8 cents higher at close. New York Chicago interests bought, Liverpool closed 1 4d to 1 2d lower, cash bids firmed, trade slow. Oats and barley gained modestly, flax and rye also rose in morning trading. There was a solid demand for grain overall.
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Winnipeg
Sesson
Esterday
New York
Chicago
Liverpool
Vance
Premier Brownlee Denies Central European Immigration Ban
Edmonton January 13 Premier Brownlee stated Alberta is not party to any policy excluding Central Europeans. He spoke from home while recovering from influenza clarifying Toronto reports that Alberta and Dominion governments planned an immigration restriction. He noted no agreement or policy, only a 1929 labor survey limiting Central European farm labor may be needed after absorbing last year’s arrivals.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Europe
Toronto
Brownlee
Journal Today
Toronto News
Alberts
Dominion
Central
Provincial
Labor Department
Essex Challenger 30 Hour Test Gets British American Supply
Gasoline and oil for the 30 hour test of the Essex Challenger, started today, are supplied by the British American Company. The car is fitted with Gutta Percha tires.
Three NY People Die From Gas In New Years Tragedy
Bodies of Miss Nora O’Donnell aged 40 and Miss Clark and Joseph Brendel were found in a gas filled top floor apartment in midtown New York. An employee of the gas company repairing a gas stove discovered the trio, believed dead since New Year’s Eve.
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New York
Tan
Clark
Nora O'Donnell
Joseph Brendel
Murder by Son Over Inheritance in Polish Village
In Grod a 20 year old peasant Adam Olesnik killed his step mother and her three children with an axe to prevent losing his inheritance upon her planned wedding. He hid the bodies in a well and confessed after neighbors alerted police.
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Warsaw
Poland
Adam Olesnik
Vilage
Grod
Quebec to Stand Firm On Air Rights
A Gazette despatch from Quebec reports the Quebec government will not be bound by Ottawa or Washington opinions on the proposed radio broadcasting station. It says Quebec will yield no air rights nor rights to its streams, insisting on maintaining its sovereignty over provincial air and water rights.
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Washington
Ottawa
Montreal
Gazette
Quebec
Razw
Alberta Raw Fur Production Falls in 1927 28 Season
Official figures from Alberta government fur branch show total raw fur valuation for 1927 28 at 1 661 691 down from 2 256 368 in 1926 27 indicating fur scarcity. Muskrats lead with 300 015 pelts valued 390 150. badger 15 915 pelts worth 318 380. coyotes 20 150 pelts 302 50. weasels 109 687 pelts 191 952. silver foxes 1 630 pelts 114 100. The report notes scarcity echoed by trappers and buyers.
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Imonton
Alberta
Fadger
Victoria Hotel in Charlottetown Destroyed by Fire
Charlottetown Prince Edward Island January 12 The Victoria hotel a large 100 room hostelry valued at over 200000 was destroyed by fire which broke out about five this morning and still raged at ten thirty guests escaped in night attire and were cared for by neighbors one guest recovered 450 from his room and another tied sheets to escape from a window firemen fought twelve streams of water to save adjoining buildings the hotel company valued the property at 250000 with 100000 insurance
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Charlottetown
S. S. Shatford
Halifax
S Neet
G. P. Strong
Dorion
Charlottetown Hotel Company
Farmers liable for 100000 in co operative failure
Windsor Ontario report says Essex and Kent County farmers face liability of 100000 linked to the collapse of the Canadian Tobacco Growers Co operative Company of Kingville. Stock subscriptions were signed but not paid by tobacco grower members.
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Windsor
Ont
Essex
Kent County
Grain inspections report from Winnipeg in January
Winnipeg on January 12 reports grain inspections with 500 cars of wheat and 300 contracted grades. Last year inspections reached 1,400 cars of wheat and related grades.
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Winnipeg
Situation Grows Serious for King Amanullah's Forces
Reports from Peshawar dated January 12 say rebel forces under Bachai Sakao continue to skirmish with Afghan troops led by King Amanullah. The situation remains serious as twenty five Russian women are evacuated by air to Tashkent in Turkestan.
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Peshawr
India
Bachai Sakao
Amanullah
Afghanistan
Tashkent
Turkestan
Alberta rancher heir to title and seat in the Lords
Calgary reports Charles John Percival of Priddis Alberta will not seek a seat in the British House of Lords and plans to remain an Alberta farmer. He owns about 515 acres and says he has grown to love Alberta life, expecting royal communication but not eager to leave the ranch for coronet duties.
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Alberta
House OF Lords
Calgary
Earl
Egmont
Charles John Percival
Priddis
Earl Rancrkes
Earl of Egmont
Comesas
CN and CPR Branch Line Plans Face Parliament
Montreal January 12 Sir Henry Thornton CN chairman outlines CN and CPR branch line programs for Western Canada. CN aims to start new lines this summer and run through three seasons. Discussions with Canada and public opinion urged before parliamentary decision.
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Henry Thornton
Montreal
Canada
Sir Henry Thornton
Canadian National System
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Pacific Railways
Canadian National
Alberta railways may post eight hundred thousand surplus
Edmonton reports that the Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway and associated lines under government control could show an operating surplus around 800 000 for 1928. Minister Vernon W. Smith says the figure may be two to three times 1927 273 000 as December accounts are finalized. Increased grain passenger and freight traffic drive the rise across E C and B C Pembina Valley and Alberta and Great Waterways lines.
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Edmonton
Dunvegan
British Columbia Railway and Associated Lines
Alberta
Vernon W. Smith
E.C
B. C
Pembina Valley Railway
Alberta and Great Waterways
B.C
G.W
Salvation Army Reform Sparks Family Power Struggle
Ford C. Ottman cites Herbert Booth and Evangeline Booth in a clash over centralized control within the Salvation Army. The reform movement seeks to shift appointment power from the General to a High Council, reviving old tensions from the Booth family era and prompting resignations.
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Thie Salvation Army
Evangeline
Army
High Council
Herbert Booth
United States
Herbert
Salvation Army
William Booth
Bramwell Booth
Territorial
Booth
the Salvation, Army
Ford C. Ottman
Fifty Gallon Still Seized Near Winnipeg
Government Liquor Control officers raided a farm near Winnipeg and seized a fifty gallon still in operation. Samuel and H ftter were arrested and appeared in court charged with operating the still and remanded for one week.
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Winnipeg
aJn
Government Liquor Control Department
Dominion Preventative Service
Samuel
H Ftter
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N. Y
Cameyuad Vies
Geo. &. Williams
Medicine Hat ‘News
St.” John's
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Earl of
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Lord Lovat
Prov
G. H. Wood
Wond Gundy Co
ROYAL
Ir Force
John Maitland ‘Salmond
Royal Air Force
Hugh Trenchard
Prince Edward Island
Dollin
E B. W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Charles A. Dunning
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Struggle In Salvation Army
Les Wibberley
Kellar Kab and
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