Bolsheviks Bombarded Berlin Advance Reports
Berlin reports say Caimbrai was shelled by long range British guns with heavy calibre rounds striking the town. Other dispatches note Soviet and Allied actions across Europe and the Middle East as forces clash near Mes sines Armentieres and Ypres and Allied raids reach Paris with German air sorties.
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Berlin
Caimbrai
Army
London
Japan
Siberia
Terauchi
House of Representatives
Reuter
Shanghai
Tokyo
Harbin
Manchuria
Semenoff
Messines
War Office
Armentieres
Ypres
Paris
la Pompelle
Avevourt
Lorraine
Moncel
Medicine Hat City Council Deliberates Wide Agenda
City council discussed diverse items including water use, expropriation powers for fallow plots by April 15, and a proposed resolution to the legislature. They invited the Alberta Retail Merchants Association to hold its convention here and reviewed health department staffing and vehicle needs.
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Alberta Retail Merchants’ Association
Medicine Hat
Evans
Edmonton
Provincia
Calgary
Clarke
Retail Merchants’ Association
Ald
Well and Hutns
Board of Health
Civic Employees’ Association
Marshall
Lang
Red Cross Campaign Subscription Office Notice
Missed Red Cross collectors can subscribe at the office during the day. Payments accepted at 018 Third St. for convenient access.
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Third St
Close Land Office Shuts Down In Medicine Hat
The Dominion Land Office in Medicine Hat closed today with a door notice stating the office is closed and transferred to Lethbridge. Calgary inspector J W Martin announced the official closure, surprising local citizens and farmers awaiting land business.
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Dominion Land Office
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
J. W. Martin
Calgary
Dominion Land Agencies
Alberta
3B. C
Public warned against buying from claimed returned soldiers
Citizens told to refuse purchases from individuals claiming veteran status unless they show a certificate signed by the president and secretary of the Great War Veterans Association to prove bona fides.
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Great War Veterans’ Association
Red Cross campaign notes by Bennett and Mrs Waagen
At a Fifth Avenue Methodist meeting Mrs Waagen of Calgary opened the Red Cross drive with a dignified speech on the work ahead. R B Bennett traced the movement from Henry Durant to global reach, praising the army medical corps and the protection of the red cross for front line relief. He urged workers not to beg but to give, noting the excuses some offer and stressing duty and sacrifice.
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R. B. Bennett
Canada
Red Cross
Fifth Ave. Methodist
Waagen
Calgary
Woo
Red Cross Society
Bennett
Henry Durant
Army Medical Corps
Canada to impose nationwide liquor ban starting April first
Ottawa reports Canada will nearly end liquor sales by April 1 as regulations prohibit manufacture of intoxicants after that date. Quebec beer and Ontario native wine manufacture are allowed until year end under exceptions, with full provincial prohibitions in force by May 1, 1919.
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Ontario
Quebec
Ottawa
Canada
Order-In- Council
Unions Seek End to Steel Duty in Canada
Toronto unions in the building trades league pass a resolution urging the federal government to remove the steel duty. The March 12 meeting endorses action to reduce costs for construction and industry.
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Toronto
Building Trades’ League
City offers vacant lots to horticultural society for cultivation
City council hears a request from the horticultural society to empower expropriation of all vacant lots not cultivated by April 15. Aldermen debate fairness and long term weed control as owners largely ignore garden requests and one suggestion includes seizing prairie land for use.
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THE
Horticultural Society
Ald
Holson
Bennett
Lang
Medicine Hat council debates militia fund payouts
Acting Mayor Marshall reported protests over payments to the 174th Battalion militia in Medicine Hat. The council faced an unitemized $750 grant and a $150 barracks fix cost, with officials seeking vendor details from merchants before approving further vouchers.
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Marshall
Capt
Sutherland
Militia Department
174Th Batt
Medicine Hat
Pyper
Ife
Buskit
Ald. Burns
Finance Committee
Father buries two children in house fire
William H. Bartshot of Ferry Point Alberta travels to Calgary to bury his two children aged one and two who perished in a farm house blaze last week while the father was away fetching coal and the mother fetching water. The house burned and was demolished within fifteen minutes.
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Calgary
William H. Bartshot
Ferry Point
Alberta
Deserter Henry Hough Found Guilty in Calgary Court
Henry Hough of Rocky Mountain House was found guilty in police court for resisting the Military Service Act. He failed to report and refused to wear a uniform when rounded up, proclaiming himself a conscientious objector and stating no one should fight. Sentence was deferred for a week.
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Calgary
Henry Hough
Rocky Mountain House
Hough
Non- partisan League denounced for pro Germany ties
March 2 Pant Minu reports a meeting where Governor Hornquist and executive secretary Arthur Leswende charged the Non- Partizan League with opposing U S entry to the war and aligning with Verma, pacifist, and socialist elements seen as pro Germany.
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Tive
League
United States
Non-Partizan League
Germany
Provincial Farm Labor Bureau Opens in Medicine Hat District
The Department of Agriculture opened a farm labor bureau in room 20 chuckvale block. Mr H Hassard will head the work for the Medicine Hat district. Farmers seeking help should call and register with the number of men required and wages offered. No charge to farmers or laborers. The bureau aims to aid greater production.
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Department of Agriculture
Chuckvale Block
Mr. H. Hassard
Medicine Hat
Reason for Bacon Sale Policy in Canada Explained
Calgary dispatch reports from Edmonton that Minister Dun can Marshall says Canada will not ban bacon sales because supplies are piling up. He cites France willing to buy 140 million pounds but unable to finance. the United States won’t lend as it protects its own bacon.
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Calgary
Edmonton
Duncan Marshall
Dominion
Canada
France
Marshall
C. A. Dunning
United States
Headless body found near Valley Inn under murder inquiry
In Hamilton on March 12 workmen discovered a headless male corpse on a hillside by the Valley Inn. The body was stripped save for socks and some garments. Coroner Stopkins labeled it a murder case and police seek identification. department may involve the Attorney General.
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HamIlton
Valley Inn
Stopkins
Attorney General's Department
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