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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
12
Miss Emma Cavan hosted a large party at Queen's Paradise Ranch inviting friends. Guests arrived around six p.m., skated at Queen Anne's Creek by moonlight, then returned for midnight tea and a whist game before leaving around three thirty a.m.
The Beggar Prince Opera Company arrives for two nights in Medicine Hat starting March 9. They present Fra Diavolo followed by Circus Clown with Zelina and Lorenzo at the center of a romantic plot. The production includes a dramatic bedroom scene and a hidden troupe leading to comic moments.
A stormy scene drives Lorenzo to a zealous rage as masking of jewel thieves and the plotters behind his rift with Zelina unfolds. The work ends happily with grand music and lively incidents. Packed opera house urged. reserved sale opens Saturday at 16 a.m. at Souch's drug store. Free list suspended.
James Ramsay faced a police court for non support of his wife amid allegations of cruelty and neglect. Magistrate Trayton ordered six months imprisonment but suspended it on the condition he leave town. Ramsay departed that night with Captain Duncan Ross as the Newa-best paper in Alberta reports.
The Provincial Government backs the Compensation Act as relief for workers while opponents pose as champions of labor. The piece denounces agitators who weaponize grievances to block reform and urges lawmakers and workers to distinguish genuine aid from self serving manipulation.
Edmonton reports government revisions to the Compensation Act lowering applicability to buildings up to thirty feet and expanding coverage to death or total disability. Dependents burial benefit rises to two hundred dollars while weekly payments increase to seven dollars fifty. A new clause exempts farmers, with the act effective January 1, 1909.
Under the Alberta Noxious Weeds Act the penalty for neglecting to destroy weeds increases from 50 dollars to x00 dollars. Authorities outline the change as a stronger enforcement measure to compel landowners to remove invasive species promptly.
A lumberman warns bed ties price and scarcity have driven railways to lower tie thickness requirements. Five years ago ties six inches thick were standard. now three inch fastened ties pass on many lines. He notes heavier rolling stock and rising tie costs push railways to lengthen tie life and seek substitutes such as steel or cement ties as a remedy.
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