Liquor Act Amendments Centralize Distribution In Province
Edmonton reports a major Liquor Act amendment plan to centralize distribution under the provincial vendor with drugstores phased out by month end. New vendor warehouses planned in Edmonton Calgary and Medicine Hat with prescriptions still allowed for medical use. Government denies referendum plan though UFA caucus will scrutinize the draft.
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U.F.A
Suy
Edmonton
J.E. Brownlee
Attorney General’s Department
Calgary
Executive Council
Greenfield
R. C. Bawards
UFA
House
Lethbridge
Medicine Hatlinggists
Prairie provinces seek control of resources in new settlement plan
Ottawa discusses returning natural resources to Saskatchewan and Alberta. Prime Minister Mackenzie King argues for a fresh start ignoring past transactions, ending subsidies in lieu of lands, and requiring Dominion Parliament approval for any agreement.
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Ottawa
Toba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Mackenzie King
King
Yasurat Tenaurone
Manitoba
Prairie Provinces
Rey Prairie
Ugdp
Mouiés
Vince
Courad
W. L. Macken
Eng
Lost Sheep Herder Survives Four Days in Blizzard
Raymont Feb 25 A. Brumenger sheep herder for Knight-Watson Ranching Co. endured ninety six hours in a raging blizzard near Midele Coulee ranch twenty below zero with no food or sleep. He drifted with the storm while herding his flock and was found and hospitalized with severe frostbite likely requiring amputations to fingers and toes.
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Raymont
C Brumenger
Knight-Watson Ranching Co
Brumenger
M& Herd
M&idlé
Bryner
Greenway
Rioting and Bloodshed Reported in Moscow
A dispatch from Copenhagen dated March 1 reports serious rioting in Moscow linked to a railway strike. The conflict, described as bloodshed, originated from labor unrest and disruptions on the rail lines.
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Moscow
Copenhagen
Berlin
Helsingfords
Finland
Coroner's Jury Probes Captain's Death at Sea
Keywest Florida February 28 The coroner's jury resumes inquiry into Captain B Chute of the British schooner Leslie Brothers killed at sea last week The crew claims death by own actions three bullet wounds found on the body could have caused death and the arrest of the crew follows conflicting testimony earlier in the inquest lasting two sessions.
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Keywest
Fla
B. Chute
Leslie Brothers
Japs Secure German Secrets Says Berlin Report
Berlin reports that Japanese government agents have obtained key German military and naval secrets. The information cites the German star shell production process and contact fuse formulas, used for range finding, plus certain submarine plans and other naval secrets, said to harm the German Empire.
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Berlin
February heat record set in Tampa
In Tampa Florida the temperature rose to 88 degrees today and 84 yesterday marking the highest February heat in 30 years. The record for February was 85 degrees set in 1891.
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Tampa
Fla
Scheidemann Claims Germany Solely Responsible for War
Former German chancellor Philipp Scheidemann told the Students' association in Copenhagen that responsibility for the World War rests exclusively with Germany. The Exchange Telegraph dispatch notes the Copenhagen lecture as the source of the claim.
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London
Philipp Scheidemann
Students’ Association
Copenhagen
Exchange
Dorothy McCall Suffers Skull Fracture After Fall
Dorothy McCall of Didsbury, eight years old, fractured her skull in a fall from a bobataigh but is expected to recover.
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Dorothy. McCall
Didsbury
Four Sets of Twins Increase Poteet Family in Bee Spring
Brownville Kentucky February 28 four new babies born to Willie Poteet and his Bee Spring wife raise the family to twelve children. Poteet married five years and the first eight children were four pairs of twins. All the children are reported doing well.
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Brownvile
Willie Poteet
Bee Spring
Poteet
Ontario to Have No Election This Year
Premier Drury states the government will not seek a provincial election in the near term. He rejects speculations of a summer vote and says elections should occur only when the government feels it has good reason and the people demand it.
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Toronto
Drury
Dail Debates Probe Treated as Propaganda Says Griffiths
In Dublin the Dail resumed its second day of questions with Arthur Griffiths defending the treaty against what he called propaganda. Eamonn de Valera shouted Shame as opponents of the treaty attempt to use the Dail to harass the government. In Belfast Commandant General McKeown led 500 IRA men to seize Athlone barracks, the Provisional Government taking over the post with the tricolor raised before ten thousand onlookers.
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Ublin
Marti
Dail
Arthur Griffith
Dent
Daii
Eamonn de Vadiéra
Griffith
Jail Break With Razor Hooks Perry County Inmate Escape
Seven inmates tunneled from the Perry county jail in Pinckneyville Illinois last night using a razor to dig the shaft and steel from their shoes to saw bars. Sheriff Trimming learned of the breakout after Sam Gilmer a prisoner was recaptured at Duquoin.
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Pinckneyville, Ill
Perry County
Trimming
Sam Gilmer
Duquoin
Geology Talk on Southern Alberta Formation at City Hall
Citizens urged to attend a 8 o'clock address at city hall by F W Hanna general manager of Canada Land Irrigation Co. The talk covers The Geological Formation of Southern Alberta and aims to inform local oil development.
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F. W. Hanna
Canada Land & Irrigation Company
Alberta
Johannesburg Plunged Into Darkness After Power Plant Staff Walkout
Johannesburg, March 1, in total darkness except for a few lighting plants that kept some areas lit. The blackout followed the power plant staff striking and abandoning their posts amid protests over protection from the seer st ont, Reuters reports from Johannesburg.
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London
Johannesburg
Reuter
Johannesberg
Lord Dewars Says Profiteering Reaches Sudan
In a London speech Lord Dewars warned profiteering has spread to the Sudan with the price of wives doubling since the war. He cited rising costs and economic hardship affecting families and communities abroad.
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Lord Dewars
London
Sudan
Sheriff and Clerk of the Court Amalgamated
Special to the Newn: The office of Sheriff or Clerk of the Court has been amalgamated at Bat, according to the Attorney General. The Legislature on Tuesday adopted a policy of consolidation. The start date was set for February 1, 1922.
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Edigionten
P&b
Bat
Hop
C. KR
A. Shear
Mary Pickford Draws Down 10000 A Week
Mary Pickford testified she splits earnings with her mother, denying claims of business representation by Mrs. Cora Wilkernting. She noted her daughter began on stage at age five earning 8.80 weekly and started in films at 15 earning 25 dollars, with Adolph Zukor reported to have raised her pay to 10000 weekly last week.
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New York
Mary Pickford
Charlotte Pickford
Cora Wilkernting
Adolph Zukor
Mary
Steamer in Distress Near Tiverton Bay of Fundy
An unidentified heavily loaded steamer is in distress about three miles from Tiverton, Bay of Fundy, reported to Digby by telephone. A second large steamer that had stood by since daylight left the scene at 10 o clock and headed for Digby.
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Digby
N.S
Tiverton
Bay of Fundy
US Relief Sends Coin To Starvation Belt In Russia
A trainload of the first coin purchased with a US congressional appropriation of 24 million dollars reached Tearlyn in the Saratov region on February 25, marking the start of aid in the famine zone. Twenty five trains from Novo Rossysk are heading to hunger points, with six ships at Novo Rossysk and two at Odessa since February 4 as unloading proceeds.
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Moscow
United States
Tearlyn
Saratov
American Relief Administration
Novo Rossysk
Black Sea
Odessa
Provisional Government Pledges Irish Postings and Elections
Dublin March 1. Richard Mulcahy announces plans to protect Irish interests at the Dail Eireann session. He says the Republican army will occupy and guard posts vacated by British troops and will not interfere with upcoming elections, with the Anglo Irish treaty as the issue and to abide by its results.
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Dublin
Arratl
Richard Mulcahy
Dall Hirean
Tuscaloosa man arrested in Rome killing case
Forty eight years after the Peter Mooney murder in Rome Georgia, George Nichols a Tuscaloosa resident was arrested on a warrant sworn by Birmingham attorney George W Favora. The warrant cites alleged disclosures in divorce proceedings as triggering the arrest.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Peter Mooney
Rome
George Nichols
George W. Favora
Birmingham
Nichols
Fielding in Washington to discuss trade reciprocity
Ottawa reports that Finance Minister William Fielding travels to Washington to explore a U S Canada trade reciprocity pact. Officials say no cabinet decision yet on reopening talks, but Fielding is sounding out the situation as Fordney Tariff impacts Canadian exports, especially farm products, with a planned meeting today with President Harding.
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Ottawa
Can. Press
Washington
Hon. W
Fielding
United States
Canada
William 8. Fielding
Harding
White House
Canadian Pacific Earns Dividends Amid Global Slump
New York March 1 Canadian Press J K L Ross a former Igander and horseman aboard the Aquitania to England says business will not return to normal before 1993 at the earliest. He notes Canadian Pacific Railway stock in flourishing condition and claims it is the only railway earning dividends with an expected 7 34 percent payout this year.
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New York
J. K. L. Ross
Igander
England
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific
Dilworth Carras Elected In Municipal District Vote
In the municipal district election W J Dilworth and F J Bohnet are listed with vote tallies. The by law changing representation to a ward system was approved by 97 to 32.
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W. J. Dilworth
Tees
F. J. Bohnet
S¢tows
T. N. Adsit
Mesars
Dilworth
Carrab
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J. B. Brownlee
Shepherd
Per Pra Ree
Germany
Ontario
Arthur Griffiths
AMD
Nafs Rar Stest
CARRA
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