13 Mar 1923
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1923
Page
1
Tennessee faces widespread destruction from a Sunday night storm with at least 30 dead and nearly 100 injured. Deaths toll rises toward 40 in Chicago reports, with millions in property damage and hundreds unaccounted as Pinson and Deanburg suffer severe losses.
Edmonton reports the provincial irrigation council will shrink to a single member, chairman L. Charlesworth, at month end. N. Houston, longtime secretary since the Jethbridge Northern project, will depart, earning $6,000 yearly, matching the chairmans salary.
In Victoria on March 13 18 year old Dorothy Savage an employee at Hud son’s Hay company store fell from a 40 foot elevator shaft and died shortly after.
The Free State secret service cooperated with Scotland Yard to track Irish rebels in Britain. Dublin disclosed 100 prisoners taken in weekend raids in England and Scotland, brought to North Wall, accused of aiding the rebel campaign with war materials. Charles Diamond named. previously fined for urging Feld Marshal French’s assassination.
A New York raw sugar market report shows Cubas selling at 5% cents cost and freight as a three year high. About 200000 bags were sold to refiners in the market surge on March 14.
Montreal March 13 Canada Steamship Lines refused to cut rates to Port Colborne arguing it would force changes to lake freight. The company did cut a two cent rate for cargo from Fort William to Buffalo to fill ships, hoping ore cargoes would follow. The plan failed as ore did not materialize and the Grant Morden was laid up. Enderby testified before the commission on grain freight rates.
March 13 report notes a special act to authorize borrowing for seed grain purchases. The act would allow municipalities and mortgagees to make advances under restricted terms with registration on Land Titles to cover principal and interest. Advocates say it strengthens protections for seed financing.
In the House of Commons Sir Robert Sanders said the Importation of Animals Act 1922 will take effect April 1. Landing sites at Birkenhead Manchester Glasgow and Cardiff will be approved by then with Bristol added later. Proposals included Aberdeen Leith Newcastle Hull Harwich London Southampton and Falmouth to broaden access.
Edmonton legislator Mrs Nellie McClung accuses proponents of irregularities and forgeries in beer petition signatories, while Robert Pearson defends committee legality under the Direct Legislation Act. Debate adjourned as government members seek orderly consideration.
About fifty to sixty prominent prairie farmers and livestock men joined a tour at Strathmore Farm led by George H. Flatton of the CPR to showcase silage use and trench silo efficiency. Attendees included R B Bohannon Libbala G Burland Calgary. T Carlyle Calgary. Norman S Clarke Didsbury. Ald Campbell Edmonton. Miriam Green Ellis Edmonton Bulletin. and others from Alberta and Saskatchewan agribusiness and farm groups.
Edmonton march 13 special to The News. Free medical services and hospital care for indigents under the provincial health department cost 45258.75 in 1922 with doctors' fees totaling 22480 pounds. Services were mainly in the southern part of the province with limited care at Lake Saskatoon and Athabasca. Local improvement units funded the care, doctors on monthly salaries, and charges were levied against recipients' lands if they owned property.
Kulmenton March 1 special to The News. Public accounts committee questions Dr Latdhin on health waters and Melhnosle of the department of agriculture about the 1922 grasshopper campaign. Campaign cost around 258 thousand with arsenic price rise to at least 60 cents a pound, 22 supervisors paid, and expenses charged to municipalities. Forage saved valued at 248 million, based on departmental questionnaires and provincial experts. The committee adjourned to Friday. additional testimony planned from Prof Strickland and Van Gosell. Witnesses not sworn to avoid a formal inquisition.
Premier Creenfield faces questions on a potential budget delay due to outside business trips. The session heard hoarseness and throat trouble while debates over Domestic Animals Act amendments and stock limits continued. George Langley of Saskatchewan Co operative Elevator Co. and others pressed Premier Lot Fracken to protest a tax on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Classified ads are touted as fast sellers in The News.
Under Section XI of the City Charter a public meeting will be held in City Hall Council Chamber at 8 p m on Wednesday March 14 to discuss awarding the contract for removal of garbage and cleaning of cesspools.
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