Flax Seed Scarcity Prompts Medicine Hat Trade Action
A Alberta Linseed Oil Co official says flax seed is scarce and three thousand bushels are available for Medicine Hat farmers. Seed will arrive around March 20 and be sold at cost on a first come, first served basis through the Medicine Hat Milling Company. If by law passes April 14, construction of a local flax plant would begin, employing many workers and involving contracts for elevator, mill, and warehouse.
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Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Milling Company
Alberta Linseed Oil Co
Medicine Hat Builders Exchange Forms Calgary Draft
An organizational meeting at the Opera House elected officers for the Medicine Hat Builders Exchange. John Trimble as president and Geo Worthy as vice president, with J D Everard as secretary pro tem. The group adopts a Calgary draft constitution, sets open shop and union wage scales, and seeks provincial federation delegates for March 11 in Calgary.
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Medicine Hat Builders Exchange
Opera House
Calgary Exchange
W. B. Marshall
John Trimble
Geo. Worthy
J. D.everard
Calgary
Federation of Builders Exchanges of Alberta
Drainage Plan Aims to End City Gutter Flooding
City faces spring floods as Ice is Cem removed from gutters. City Engineer Grimmer says next year a surface swage system will solve drainage. Each block to receive thorough drainage when implemented. A. P. Burns offers a monthly payment plan for home building this year.
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Grimmer
A. P. Burns
Separate school district questions clarified by CADOUX letter
Father CADOUX writes to the Medicine Hat News defending separate school concepts. He cites the ordinance principle tying taxes to ratepayers of such districts and argues subsections concern district readjustment, not funding. He asserts Canadian law permits separate districts within public school areas.
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Medicine Hat News
Puc
Cadoux
P.P. B
Reciprocity debate shapes Canadian coast industries
William Sloan of Nanaimo argues reciprocity will boost fishing lumbering and mining in British Columbia while Aberdeen Board of Trade endorses the plan. London press warns Laurier faces practical and moral pushback if Ottawa presses ahead despite Ottawa and Washington objections.
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British Columbia
William Sloan
Nanaimo
Prairies
Aberdeen, Sask
Aberdeen Board of Trade
Neely
M.P
Fine Program at the Star Electric Theatre
An afternoon and evening show at the Electric Star Theatre offered three animated features. For the Girl's Sake presents gripping drama with original storytelling and strong performances. A Rummage Sale delivers 25 minutes of brisk, humorous escapades. Alda closes the bill with a beautiful, strikingly told story.
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Electric Star Theatre
Powers
Néstor
Alda
Vaux Appointed General Passenger and Traffic Manager
Toronto March 6 Mr G W Vaux formerly of the Grand Trunk Railway was named General Passenger and Traffic Manager of the Canadian Northern Railway in a landmark railway move.
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Toronto
G. W. Vaux
Grand Trunk Railway
Canadian Northern Railway
Four Thousand Women Apply as Immigrants to Canada
London reports Mr Howel of the C P R states four thousand women applicants seek immigration to Canada as potential settlers.
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Howel
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C.P.R
Canada
Record Flight Over Mediterannean Sets Overseas Distance Mark
Lieutenant Bague flew from Antibes to Gorgara off the Italian coast in more than 200 kilometers, establishing a new overseas flight record. His Bleriot monoplane landed damaged on Gorgara after a swift southward route diverted from Ajaccio Corsica.
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Italy
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Medicine Hat Agricultural Society to Host Large Spring Stallion Show
A meeting of Medicine Hat's Agricultural Society outlines plans for a spring stallion show on April 6 and 7 with about 20 imported stallions. Directors Starks and Fleming to coordinate visitor transport. A $1000 gold prize from Sir Thomas Shaughnessy for the best 100 pounds of hard red wheat at the November show is announced, aiming to boost district participation and prestige. The by law on debentures is debated and kept in its present form for the year.
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Agricultural Society
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J. Fleming
C. S. Pingle
Dr. Holt
J. E. Howson
Dr. Hargrave
A. J. Matthews
J Benson
R. J. Rice
KE. Pearson
E. J. Starks
W. Huckvale
Messrs Starks
Fleming
C.P.R. Irrigation Company
Thomas Shaugnessy
Medicine Hat
Tors
Medicine Hat Agricultural Society
Murderer Confesses in St Leonard De Nicolet Killing
Hormisdas Trepanir, 45, of St Leonard de Nicolet, was arrested for stabbing Maurice Plouffe and smashing his skull with an axe after a drinking bout. Trepanir confessed the motive was money Plouffe supposedly carried, though authorities doubt the sum. Trepanir and his family await transfer to Three Rivers jail for the inquest.
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Maurice Plouffe
St. Leonard de Nicolet
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Hormisdas Trepanir
McCaskell
Three Rivers
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Trepanir
Plouffe
Joseph Lord
Ploufe
Trevanir
Colonial Hotel
Should the Women Have a Vote Debate in Parish Hall
A Friday Society meeting debated extending suffrage to women on par with men. Proponents Northam and Mrs. Finch argued for equality while Rovers and Mrs. Northam opposed. Northam cited the movement’s 1848 origins and gains in Wyoming Colorado Utah Idaho plus municipal school and taxpayer suffrage in several states.
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Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
Fangas
Daring Young Bandit Attempts to Hold Up Express Office
Vancouver reports a young bandit named Richard Armstrong tried to rob the Dominion Express office in Revelstoke. He fired on the clerk and wounded Chief of Police Party before being overpowered after a twenty minute standoff and jailed.
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Revelstoke
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Vancouver
Richard Armstrong
Dominion Express
Armstrong
Doctor Gives His Blood To Save Dying Patient
Montreal March 6 a Hotel Dieu patient owed her life to a physician Dr Charles St Pierre who offered his own blood after relatives failed to appear. A pint of blood was exchanged and the operation successful though the doctor grew greatly weakened. The patient is safe and recovering.
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Montreal
Hotel Dieu
Charles St. Pierre
Ordinary pauper misidentified in Clements disappearance
The Weekly Journal claims a solution to the May 1907 disappearance of F S Clements, brother of Lord Leitrim, who boarded the St Louis as a stoker. It suggests an unknown man buried as a pauper in Bonchurch Isle of Wight was misidentified as Clements due to a misread portrait in the Police Gazette.
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London
Weekly Journal
F. S. Clements
Lord Leitrim
Clements
United States
St. Louis
Bonchurch
Isle of Wight
Police Gazette
Fire at St Petersburg theatre kills ninety
Ninety persons died and forty injured when a moving picture theatre burned on Sunday in St. Petersburg. Flames broke out during the showing and rapidly engulfed the building trapping patrons as rescuers near exits could not reach the panicked crowd.
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St. Petersburg
Moving Picture Theatre
Women Suffrage Debate Sees Narrow Favor in Massachusetts Meeting
The article records a public discussion on women's suffrage with mixed views. Mrs. Hench advocates affirmative policy citing equal pay and better laws, while Mrs. Northam argues most women prefer home life. The Massachusetts vote ends affirmatively by three votes.
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Rogers
House of Commons
Market Report From Liverpool and Winnipeg Cattle and Wheat Prices
Liverpool reports steady cattle market with light supply and steady Saturday quotes. Canadian steer prices range 12 to 13 cents per pound. Winnipeg shows May 92 3 4, July 94 1 8, Oct 88 5 8 for wheat futures, cash wheat around 89 1 4 to 84 1 4, oats and flax values listed.
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Liverpool
John Rogers Aml Company
Birkenhead
Winnipeg
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London Duke of Connaught to Visit Kaiser in Canada
London dispatch reports the Duke of Connaught plans a visit to the Kaiser, according to a Berlin Sunday Time day source. The proposed itinerary includes travel to Canada.
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