Fielding Budget Adopted by Narrow Liberal Majority
Ottawa reports the Fielding budget passing by a majority of eight after an eleven day, highly charged session. Crowds filled galleries and lobby areas as Liberal W. S. Fielding defended the plan, pledging reciprocity with the United States and restrained spending. The vote on the main budget followed a prior division on the Forke amendment.
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House
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Winnipeg
A. W. Neill
Comoxiberni
British Columbia
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No Man's Land
Labor
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Waterloo
United States
W. S. Fielding
Liberal Party of Canada
Canada
Liberal Party
King
Meighen
Chamber Endorses Oil Drilling Plan In Medicine Hat
At a luncheon in the Hotel Cecil the Chamber of Commerce directors endorsed City Council action with the Thompson syndicate to drill for oil within Medicine Hat city limits. Gas rights are to be reserved to the city or guaranteed not to be wasted by the syndicate.
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Aancru
Cecll
Thompson Syndicate
Medicine Hat
New Cabinet List Issued in Britain After Change
London May 25 The official cabinet list shows Lord Robert Cecil as Lord Privy Seal and J C A Davidson as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Baldwin holds the premiership and exchequer. He failed to recruit Sir Robert Horne or Austen Chamberlain from the Lloyd George government. Britain’s territorial army now total 140000.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
Robert Cecil
Lloyd George
Chequers Court
Arab treaty signed affirms independence and Palestine in Arab zone
London reports that May 35 Kilag Bassin of Hedrax signed a treaty between his government and Great Britain. The accord recognizes Arab independence and places Palestine within the Arab zone, but leaves the current Holy Land government unchanged.
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London
Kilag Bassin
Hedrax
Great Britain
Palestine
Holy Land
Canadian Shot by Detroit Woman
Detroit police hold a woman for investigation after Chester Monohan, 26, died from wounds received at a doorway of a resort in Detroit. The resort is described as operated by negroes and the victim came from Redorleton, NOD. The suspect’s name is being withheld by police.
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Detroit
Mich
Chester Monohan
Redorleton
Nod
Monahan
Banking Committee votes down four motions in Ottawa
The banking and commerce committee rejected four motions including calling Merchants Bank officers as witnesses, extending bank charters a year, appointing a royal commission on rural credits, and revising the Bank Act every five years. The discussion touched on failures, farmer influence, and potential Bank of Montreal involvement.
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Ottawa
Banking and Commerce Committee of the House
Merchants Bank
J. T. Shaw
Montague Allen
C. D. Macaron
Night clothes fire kills Verdun woman in stove accident
Montreal May 20 0 Mrs Oliver Brunet seven of Verdun died yesterday after her night clothes caught fire while she looked into a stove.
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Montreal
Oliver Brunet
Verdun
April immigration shows big increase in Canada
Ottawa reports immigration during April totalled 9.60 and 44 percent higher than April last year. The British immigration counted 4,671 compared with 2,048 in April of the previous year.
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Ottawa
Crescent Heights Telephone Line Burned Isolates Heights
A late night fire burned a hundred-pair line serving Crescent Heights, destroying a city shack on the hillside near the vat bridge. Subscribers were isolated while efforts to restore service continue. building loss is estimated at 75 to 100 dollars and suspects are believed to be road workers. Firemen used a hose wagon from the hilltop to fight the blaze.
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Crescent Heights
Prominent Far East Merchants Urge Outside Intervention
Vancouver passengers from the S S Empress of Australia express grave concern over China’s crisis. Editor St G W Woodhead calls China bankrupt politically and financially and says central authority is powerless amid provincial defiance. Col Alsander Reiss notes internal strife harming foreign business as Sun Yat Sen’s return fails to unite militarists.
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Australia
China
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Tientsin
Oith
Woodhead
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Col
Alsander Reiss
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Reiss & Co
Hong Kong
Ching
Canadian Major Pete Anderson To Lecture On Escape From Germany
Col Pete Anderson DSO will lecture at the G W A hall at 5 90 p m Saturday night on how he escaped from Germany. He was captured April 21 1915 and was the only Canadian officer to escape. He served as second in command of the 9th Battalion Edmonton at Valcartier before transferring to the 3rd Battalion as a major.
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Pete Anderson
G. W. OV. A. Hall
Germany
Edmonton
Valcartier
Armstrong theft trial reveals brown parcel sighting
Edmonton reports at Armstrong theft trial show former Postmaster George 3s Armstrong seen boarding a westbound street car at McDougal and Jasper on Sunday August 10 1919 carrying a brown paper covered parcel under his arm. Andrew H Allan testified Friday about the evidence.
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McDougal and
Jasper Avenues
Andrew H. Allan
Armstrong
Plot Discovered in Soviet Georgia Leads to Executions
A Pravda dispatch from Tiflis reports fifteen persons in the Soviet republic of Georgia, described as princes generals or noblemen, executed for involvement in an active counter revolutionary plot. Names are not released. Separate item notes a typhoid epidemic in Munsonville Quebec causing fourteen deaths.
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Soviet Republic of
Georgia
Tiflis
Pravda
Boost Your City to the Final Letter
A compact civic exhortation urging residents to support and promote their community. It emphasizes boosting local lodges streets homes goods and neighbors to propel progress and discourage negativity or obstruction. The piece frames collective effort as key to forward movement.
Communist Strike in the Ruhr Grows as Thousands Rally
The Ruhr strike widens with about 20 000 steel workers and miners joining protests near Elberfeld. Police headquarters in Gelsenkirchen seized. negotiations continue with authorities for workers goals. A large mine explosion damages the Rhine Hene canal, draining harbor water and endangering coal shipments to France. Berlin reports armed bands marching on Essen and requests German police reinforcements from occupied districts.
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Communist Commission of Control
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Rhinenes Canal
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Baest
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Sib
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Ithine-Hene Canal
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Rhine
Essen
London
Berlin
Essén
Cosgrove to speak at Kilkenny outdoor meeting
Dublin May 25 President Cosgrove will address an outdoor political gathering at Kilkenny next Sunday marking his first public appearance in months. The move signals government confidence that Ireland is returning to normal conditions. Separately authorities captured a band of irregulars in west Ireland with arms ammunition and explosives.
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Cosgrove
Kilkenny
Ireland
West
Nineteenth Century East Crisis Telegram Update
Delegates discuss peace or war as Greek and Turkish disputes intensify. Greek representative M Vemtvelos speaks of mounting tensions and the threat of escalation, while European powers press for restraint and a negotiated settlement amid mounting military concerns.
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Lousoane
Geestou
Mtiens
Greece
J Ruley of Stone Sentenced to Six Months
The text records Jesse Bates, in Saskatoon area, sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail with hard labor after a trial related to a theft or related charge. Details are garbled but indicate imprisonment and a punitive sentence.
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STONE
Jesse Bates
Greene
Cain
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