22 May 1914
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 22, 1914
Page
1
Fragmentary rail timetable text shows Arrivals for P. RB. Passenger Service with numbers and times including 4.20 percent 6.45 percent 8.45x and other figures, indicating a disrupted or incomplete schedule. No clear events or names present.
Canadian schools mark Empire Day with patriotic activities on the day before Victoria Day. Originated about fifteen years ago by Sir George Ross to foster intelligent loyalty among youths, emphasizing the flag, liberty, and Empire institutions over mere flag waving.
Alberta authorities are urged to adopt Judge Robson of Manitoba’s stance on oil stock sales. He requires proof stock is not speculative and a bona fide oil well before sale, plus a sound financial statement. The piece argues for a blue sky law to protect the public and legitimate firms from fraudulent oil ventures.
Ratepayers are called to vote next Wednesday on a 14000 grant to the General Hospital to cover operating deficits purchase equipment and fund plant extensions from the past year. The hospital has long operated with minimal municipal support while neighboring cities provide more.
The discussion details rising hospital costs across western cities. Regina Calgary Edmonton Medicine Hat all increased annual support to hospitals to cover equipment and maintenance. The board seeks added ratepayer approval for a plan to build a new, more suitable hospital reflecting community needs.
The Daughters of the Empire plan a Flag Day observing by placing a large flag on school grounds. They will sell small flags to fund the effort and foster loyalty to the Union Jack as a symbol of the British Empire and its ideals.
The Supreme Court decision says Alberta cities cannot license moving picture theatres, as the province imposed the license. It means municipalities cannot regulate show content and that the province must assume full responsibility for exhibition quality.
Calgary Herald discusses Standard Oil options for Alberta oil, weighing potential control by the octopus of big oil rivals or by British interests. It questions Standard Oil’s possible actions if Alberta fields develop, including shutting wells, testing leases, and taxing oil output similar to Ontario’s cobalt mines.
The piece honors Sir John Campbell Hamilton Gordon seventh Earl of Aberdeen on the twenty first anniversary of his appointment as Governor General and notes his birth in Edinburgh in 1847 and education at St Andrews and Oxford. It lists historical dates and figures plus short anecdotes and obituaries from the era.
Washington May 22. Brig Gen Horatio Gibson U S A retired marked his eighty seventh birthday with many visitors at his home. Born in Baltimore he graduated West Point in 1847 and served in the Mexican War including Vera Cruz Puebla and the capture of Mexico City. He also served with distinction in the Civil War and remains noted as the oldest surviving graduate of the military academy. At 87 he still shows fighting spirit and offered his services to President Wilson when the Mexican situation worsened.
A Conservative member for Kingston argued that the wreck of the Farmers Bank was due to the criminal mismanagement of the general manager and rejected the Minister of Finance’s blaming of the former Treasury Board. He called the policy of reimbursing depositors a pernicious precedent.
President Wilson will travel to Raleigh next month for the unveiling of a Capitol grounds monument honoring Southern Confederate women. The $10,000 gift from Col. Ashley Horne funds the memorial designed by August Lukeman, featuring a grandmother reading to a boy as a sword rests nearby.
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