Fronts See Heavy Fighting Across Europe in Latest Reports
French troops repulsed German attacks on the west front with strong resistance along a strip nearly three quarters of a mile long. Russian forces regain ground along two thirds of a two mile front between Fey En Haye and Moselle as Austrian and Polish fronts report pressure and retreats. In Poland, Russian armies defend Warsaw area against Teutonic thrusts while Vistula and Bug battles intensify. Petrograd claims strong Russian attacks and retreats in East Galicia. Vienna notes Austrian gains near Krasnik as Gallipoli fighting yields heavy losses for the Entente.
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Fey-En-Haye
Moselle
Poland
Warsaw
Petrograd
Vistula
Bug
Galicia
Gnila Lipa
Zlota Lipa
Vienna
Krasnik
Oil Inquiry Appoints Commission on Oil Company Practices
The Department of the Attorney-General has ordered a full inquiry under public matters law into oil companies. Judge Carpenter is named Commissioner with power to probe promotion incorporation management and stock exchange activities. Edmonton’s Frank Ford is advisory counsel. Public tips welcome. The Commission will convene in Calgary on July 18 and in Edmonton later.
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Department of the Attorney-General
Carpenter
District Court
Frank Ford
K.C
Edmonton
Attorney General’s Department
Calgary
Planing Mills Wins Its Suit Against Imperial Bank
Justice Hyndman rules for Medicine Hat Planing Mills in a mechanic's lien case over the Redcliffe bank branch. Judgment totals 96.06 for the plaintiff against the Imperial Bank, with costs to apply. If costs exceed the verdict, the bank gains the surplus. Crossley Brothers may face judgment for the claim and costs if not previously entered. The total claim is 1,350.06.
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Medicine Hat Planing Mills
Imperial Bank and
Crossley Bros
Justice Hyndman
Imperial Bank
Crossley Brothers
RedcHff
Canadian Casualties Rise in Frontline Toll
Ottawa reports Sunday through Monday casualties slightly over 100 with 31 members of the 8th Battalion among the missing. totals: killed 1,658 wounded 6,403 missing 1,766 overall 9,829. First Overseas Contingent was 33,000. thus casualties approach one third. Many wounded have returned or will return.
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Ottawa
White Defeats Welsh in Ten Round Bout
New York July 4 Charlie White outpointed Freddy Welsh in a ten round fight last night. White won five rounds to four with one even.
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New York
Charlie White
Freddy Welsh
White
Welsh
Winnipeg says Conservatives paid Libs for election petitions
Fullerton commission heard Hon. J. H. Howden recount that twenty five thousand dollars was supplied by Dr. Simpson and passed to Liberal organizer William Chambers by Conservative G. H. Newton. Newton had told Chambers to expect the other twenty five thousand if they did well. The plan started with fifty thousand dollars and was cut in half.
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Fullerton Commission
J. H. Howden
Howden
Dr. Simpson
William Chambers
G. H. Newton
Newton
Chambers
Carlton
Major Norman Robson Reviews Frontline Toll in Maple Creek
Major Norman Robson of Maple Creek, second in command of the 8th battalion, is back on furlough from the front due to gas illness. He spent 21 days in the trenches on his last trip and returned nearly unclothed, wearing a private’s uniform. He describes gas as terrible for eyes and lungs, causing hemorrhages and widespread fatigue.
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Norman Robson
Maple Creek
Ian Hamilton
Horse with broken fore leg near Dunmore
A horse bearing a broken fore leg was seen yesterday on the opposite side of Dunmore near the diverging Elkwater and Eagle Butte trails. The Mounted Police were informed but refused to euthanize the animal until ownership could be established.
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Dunmore
Elkwater
Eagle Butte
Po- Nce
British coal magnate to head US munitions purchases
D A Thomas, a British coal magnate, will oversee buying British war munitions in the United States and Canada. He arrived aboard the liner St Louis, escorted by two British torpedo boats, and may stay through the war. He boarded a J P Morgan yacht for the trip to Morgan's Long Island home.
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Charce
United States
Canada
St. Louis
Thomas
America
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
Long Island
Mechanics Sought by British Commission at Coast
The city reports the British Commission at the coast is hiring mechanics to travel to England. Applicants who wish to go to England have been asked to fill out application blanks and submit them soon.
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England
Recruiting Grows as 68rd Regiment Forms Force
Eleven men joined the local 68rd Regiment at the armory this morning with more passed pending wives’ consent. About 150 men expected. boarding houses sought for quartering at 75 cents daily. Notable enlistee Walter “Bill” Agland, a Surrey native with prior service in the Royal Dragoons and South Africa, rejoined after 13 years with the Imperial army.
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68Rd Regiment
Davidson
Arthur D. Smith
Walter Bain
Edward A. Stone
Harry Capelin
Lawrence B. Vincent
Walter J. Agland
Henry Arnold
Arethus A. Dale
Walter James Agland
Bill” Agland
Bill
Surrey
London
First
Royal Dragoons
Chitral Cider
India
Africa
Innishi New Dragoons
Lake Crissey
Six Thousand Acres of Wheat Flows From Alberta Venture
The Medicine Hat Grain Co led by W. B. Finlay and F. M. Ginther emerges from the Canadian Wheatlands collapse to cultivate a vast Alberta wheat frontier. Their plan evolves from failed bankruptcy era schemes to a new farm operation, promising a spring 1915 harvest boom as they build and drill large tracts in Southern Alberta.
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W. B. Finlay
F. M. Ginther
Redcliff
F. M. Gunther
Medicine Hat Grain Co
Finlay and Ginther
England
Alberta Land Co
The
Ginther Land Co
Billie
F. M
W. B
Unfortunate farm hand buried after fatal plow accident
Walter Richardson, employed by James Myers at Bowell, was crushed when his plow toppled. The body was brought to the city and funeral services were held at Jessop Nott's chapel. The death followed the plow accident discovered some time after the idle implement was seen.
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Walter Richardson
James Myers
Bowell
Jessop Nott
Richardson
Holt Identified as Suspect in Morgan Plot
Information points to Frank Holt the would be assassin of J P Morgan as Irie P Muenter a former University of Chicago student who disappeared from Harvard after his wife died in 1906. A Chicago associate says Muenter rehabilitated himself as Holt and he knew him as Holt at Vanderbilt and Cornell.
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Chicago
Frank Holt
J. P. Morgan
Irie P. Muenter
University of Chicago
Harvard
Muenter
Holt
Vanderbilt University
Cornell
Obituary: Joseph R. Bruce Former Intercolonial chief editor
Joseph R. Bruce formerly chief editor of the Intercolonial Railway died at Shediac Cape, New Brunswick. The notice notes his longtime leadership role and place of death. He was a prominent railway journalist and editor.
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Joseph R. Bruce
The
Intercolonial Railway
Shediac Cape, N.B
Submarines Deadly Work
The British steamer Craigard of 3286 tons was sunk Saturday by a German submarine while en route from Galveston to Havre. The crew landed at Plymouth after lifeboats marked Craigard Leith were spotted at Penwith. The Anglo-Californian, 7303 tons, bound from Montreal, arrived at Queenstown with twelve dead including the captain and eight injured after a submarine attack.
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Craigard
London
Plymouth
Montreal
Queenstown
Dominion Day Pigaid At Hawkes Ranch
A large crowd gathered at Hawkes Ranch for Dominion Day 1414 hosted by the Presbyterian church districts Dunmore Feld mans Lake Gros Ventre Longfellow and Woolchester. The event featured lunch in two sittings and a football match won by Dunmore 5 to 3 followed by youth races.
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John Hawkes
Dunmore
Feldman's Lake
Gros Ventre
Longfellow
Woolchester
Hawke Ranch
Feldmans’ Lake
Presbyterian Church
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