Hostility in Glasgow Over Bus Service Continuance
Glasgow amid the general strike saw widespread attacks on buses and tram cars. Mounted police responded as crowds damaged vehicles, with hundreds withdrawing from bus services and one tram overturned.
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Glasgow
Parkhead
Belfast Ireland
Holyhead
Fishguard
Irish Free State
Britain
Belfast
Dublin
Ulster
Portsmouth
Eng
Moscow
British Isles
Gregory Zinovieff
Third Intrnationale
London
City Council Passes 38 Mills Tax Rate for 1926
Special meeting approved a 38 mills tax rate for 1926 after Arbor Day postponement. Medicine Hat Militia Rifle Association sought permission for a river rifle range near Redcliff, with city solicitor noting firearms ban. amendment proposed to exempt the range from the bye law.
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Medicinie Hat Militia Rifle Association
Crow
Sald. Davidson
Redcliff
Premier to form coal supply committee in House
Gitawa May 6 King plans to move a motion creating a special House committee to probe coal supply sources. The proposed members include Armstrong Lambton Hury Campbell Fatard Fleming Garland Gershaw Howden Laphrre McLean Nicholson and Rogers. Rt Rev Dr J Bidwell resigns as Bishop of Ontario after serving since 1913. a new bishop is unlikely before fall.
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Gitawa
Premer King
Messrs
Armstrong
Lambton
Hury
Campbell
Fatard
Fleming
Garland
Bow River
Gershaw
Medicine Hat
Howden
Laphrre
McLean
Melfort
Nicholson
Rogers
J) J. Bidwell
Ontario
Doings In Parliament Ottawa May 5
In Ottawa on May 5 the budget debate continued with R. McIntosh Liberal North Battleford and Hon. Robert Rogers Conservative Winnipeg South active on the floor. The Senate sat as the petition from J A Collins claiming a Peace River seat was debated, awaiting the Speaker's decision Thursday.
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Ottawa
R. McIntosh
North Battleford
Senate
J. A. Collins
Peace River
Alberta
D. M. Kennedy
Robert Rogers
Winnipeg South
Cabinet to Meet on Franc Fall After Dollar Slide
Paris reports an extraordinary Cabinet Council convened for tomorrow to address the steep drop of the franc, which traded at about 1.73 dollars per franc this morning. Finance Minister Peret returns to the capital as the franc weakens further and crosses the 82 to the dollar mark after the Bourse closes.
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Paris
Briand
Peret
Alaskan set to search Arctic seas on final voyage
Captain George H. Wilkins leads the Detroit Arctic expedition aboard the Alaskan with pilot Eielson. They depart Fairbanks today, fly 400 miles north of Point Barrow, cruise 200 miles east and west, then return to Barrow carrying a radio outfit. The Alaskan has a cruising range of 1500 to 2000 miles.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
George H. Wilkins
Arctic
Eielson
Point Barrow
Barrow
Wilkins
Hidennis Dominates Chester Cup Stakes in Easy Triumph
In Chester on May 5, Mrs. L. Huntley Walker’s Hidennis won the Chester Cup Stakes by two lengths. Aga Khan’s Vermilion Pencil finished second and William Singer’s Ixia took third. The race valued £2,550 and extras.
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Chester
Hidennis
United Livestock Growers Barred From Calgary Stock Yards
May 4 Chief Justice Simmons refused to extend the interim injunction restoring the United Livestock Growers to the Calgary Livestock Exchange. The group remains suspended by the exchange and cannot handle cattle or other live stock for its shippers at the stock yards.
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United Livestock Growers
Calgary
Simmons
Calgary Livestock Exchange
Livestock Exchange
Poisonous liquor kills five in Levis inquest opened
Five men living in Levis Quebec are dead from alcoholic poisoning. An inquest is being conducted as details remain scarce while investigators await the inquiry’s outcome.
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Quebec
Levis
Gaunt Still On The Stand At Customs Probe
John W. Gaunt head of the Montreal firm Gaunt and Company testified before the Customs inquiry committee about importing German dolls and toys. He admitted arrest on a charge of blank certified invoices and pleaded guilty to facilitate the case.
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Ottawa
John W. Gaunt
Montreal
John W. Gaunt Company
Customs Inquiry Committee
C. S. Tyndale
Gaunt
H. H
Stevens
Newspaper compositors end strike in England
Rugby and Leeds reports say newspaper compositors returned to work claiming their strike unconstitutional. The Yorkshire Evening News continues to publish with volunteer staff helping print all editions.
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Rugby
Eng
Leeds
Yorkshire Evening News
Beatty Addresses Canadian Pacific Railway Shareholders
Montreal May 4 E W Beatty chairman and president addresses at the annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He discusses improved conditions and higher gross turns in the final quarter, and warns against rate equalization plans that would reduce revenues. He opposes subsidies or preferential rates and stresses sound railway act provisions and tax burdens.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
FE. W. Beatty
Sild
Canada
Railway Commission
Tarias
Winnipeg grain inspections show drop from last year
Wheat inspections yesterday totaled 186 cars with 1718 contract grades, down from 203 cars a year earlier. Coarse grains reached 90 cars, slightly below last year’s figures.
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Winnipeg
Wheat prices edge higher on firmer market in Winnipeg
Wheat market in Winnipeg shows a firmer tone after a brief dip. Reports from London that strikers agreed to discharge foodstuffs from ships lifted prices with May at 1.51 1 2, July 1.50 5 8, October 1.54, and intraday gains of 2 cents to 2 1 2 cents. Trade volume slim but buying by New York linked houses remained steady. Atlantic export weak, Vancouver export firm. coarse grains steady with higher cash market.
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London
Metropolitan Railway Company
Central London
Financial London
Charabancs
New York Exchange
Winnipeg
New York
Atlantic Sea
Board
Vancouver
Kennedy election case sparks heated Ottawa debate
Ottawa May 5 The House spent most of yesterday debating a point of order on a petition by R B Bennett challenging D M Kennedy Progressive for Peace River seat. Premier King cited the Controverted Elections Act and court proceedings as a key issue. Speaker Lemieux reserved a decision likely Thursday.
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Peace River
R. B. Bennett
Calgary West
Collins
King
House of Commons
Bennet
Mr. Bennet
Saskatchewan
House
Donaldson
Bennett
Kennedy
Mr. Collins
Collings
Kiwanis Club Music Day Delights Members
Kiwanis Club held a music focused luncheon with vocal and piano solos and duets by Mrs. David W. Hays C. H. Harper and F. Blackburn. Selections included Down in Derry Trees Marchita The Star Dance of Dwarfs Revolutionary Etude It Was a Lover and His Lass and By the Waters of Minnetonka. Applause showed strong enjoyment.
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Kiwanis Club
David W. Tays
C. Hf. Harper
F. Blackburn
Hays
Jin Derry
Cox
Trees
Rasbord
Blackburn
Marchita
Premier Poultry Farm leads provincial egg contest week
Out of thirty contestants in the provincial egg playing contest the Premier Poultry Farm of Medicine Hat tops the list for production with ten White Leghorn Bullets laying sixty eggs in the week.
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Medicine Hat
Census enumeration to begin June first in Medicine Hat riding
Census Commissioner Bryce Mitchell, in charge of enumeration for the Medicine Hat federal riding, has organized 65 enumerators across 19 sub districts for a 150 by 100 mile area. Training sessions will be held in four locations this month, with head counting starting June 1 and completion expected by June 10 in urban areas and shortly after in rural districts.
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Bryce Mitchell
Medicine Hat
W.mcphail
Statistical Department
Ottawa
Conservative Convention to Elect Officers in Medicine Hat
Conservatives are reminded of a convention at Moose Hall 10 C F Block tonight. Officers of the Medicine Hat Conservative Association will be elected and a candidate nominated for the new Medicine Hat riding covering Medicine Hat, Redcliff, Dunmore and nearby areas.
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Moose Hall
C.F. Block
Medicine Hat
Norge dirigible voyage advances toward Spitzbergen
The Norge expedition sails from Trosk toward Spitzbergen under Captain Roald Amundsen. Daily Spitzbergen weather reports indicate favorable conditions for the flight to King's Bay as the crew continues its Arctic journey.
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Leningrad
Russia
Amundsen-Elsworth
Norge
Trosk
Spitzbergen
Roald Amundsen
King’s Bay
Martinovitch Re-captured at Oshawa
Fred Martinovitch a Calgary convict notorious for a December escape has been trapped by the Dominion fingerprint system and is detained in Oshawa Ontario for transfer to Alberta. He faces a two year term at Prince Albert penitentiary.
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Calgary
Fred Martinovitch
Oshawa
Ont
Alberta
Prince Albert
Martinovitch
E. J. Carr
Albert Train
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