Japan fears 10000 Oshima islanders lost in disaster
Cable reports a new island near the Izu peninsula has appeared as the island of Oshima disappeared with about 10,000 inhabitants feared dead. Tokyo and Yokohama suffer major devastation with thousands killed and hundreds of thousands homeless. Premier Yamamoto urges unity and reconstruction efforts as nations offer relief.
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Yamamoto
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Yokohama
James F Fisher Honored by Cypress Club in Medicine Hat
A large crowd of Medicine Hat citizens gathered at the Cypress Club to honor James F. Fisher as he prepares to leave Friday for Montreal to join the Canadian Pacific Railway air and brake demonstration staff. Fisher, a locomotive engineer since 1882, retired on pension after 51 years with CPR and Intercolonial, credited with over two million miles and never having a passenger hurt under his watch.
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Canadian Pacificc Railway
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Intercolonial
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Nova Scotia
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Winnipeg
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Norman Davis
A. W. Lang
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H. L. Tweed
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Percy Schutte
Martyn Oliver
Cypreus Orchestra
J. S. Jones
P Schutte
B. White
P. Gaynor
Wheat pool approved in Alta with 45 percent signed
Calgary reports that Alberta trustees moved forward with a wheat pool plan as forty five percent of the provincial acreage has signed on. The decision comes as farmers respond to cooperative pooling efforts amid fluctuating markets.
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Calgary
Prince of Wales Holiday in Canada Draws Interest
London reports the Prince of Wales plans a holiday trip to Canada with extensive descriptions of his Alberta ranch. The Daily Mail praises him as a worthy ambassador of empire and notes his second Canadian visit will still strengthen Canada Britain ties despite reduced official significance.
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Prince of Wales
Canada
Alberta
The
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Tree Planting Talk Delights Chamber Luncheon
Today's Chamber of Commerce luncheon featured an address on tree planting by Mr. James Murray, a district agriculturist for Southeastern Alberta. The full remarks will appear in tomorrow's News.
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Chamber of Commerce
James Murray
Cistiet Agicnutiuist
Alberta
Japanese Finance Minister Likely Declares Ten Day Moratorium
From Tokyo dispatches it is reported that the Japanese finance minister may announce a ten day moratorium. The message suggests swift action in response to economic pressures and domestic concerns.
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Naonasaki
Tokio
Polygamy Still Sues In Turkey Efforts to Restore Practice Continue
In Angora Turkish lawmakers press to legalize polygamy after it was abolished by a national assembly resolution over a year ago. Salih Hodja proposes five bills to legalize plural marriages, but Mustafa Kemal Pasa opposes them and the measures fail in votes. Also reported is a clearing house return of 282.91 dollars this week versus 283.768 last week and 27 0748 the year prior.
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Angora
Turkey
National Assembly
Salih Hodja Haa
Mustapha Kemal Pasa
Corfu Bombarded and Seized by Warships in Rapid Action
The island of Corfu has been bombarded and captured by warships after a ten minute warning to residents. Armenian and Greek refugees from Turkey comprise much of the population. Italy moves to close the Adriatic as part of a broader plan. Janina, the site of an Italian mission murder, is highlighted on the map.
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Albania
Tallan
Turkey
Italy
Adriatic Sea
Janina
Musselman Sees Pool Plan Fail for 1923 Crop
Winnipeg reports J B Musselman of Saskatchewan Co operative Elevator Co warns new heat pools may operate in Alberta and Saskatchewan to handle the 1923 crop. The Saskatchewan wheat pool failed to secure acreage, threatening nationwide action. Manitoba has dropped the plan for the year.
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Winnipeg
Alberta
Saskatchewan
J. B. Musselman
Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company
Wheat Pool
Wheat Pool Organization
Manitoba
Home Bank of Canada Winding Up Delayed by Judge
Justice Fisher adjourned for two weeks on petitions to wind up the suspended Home Bank of Canada. The court questioned power to act within ninety days of suspension on August 17, as Curator A B Barker continues reports to the minister of finance from branches nationwide.
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Toronto
Justice Fisher
Arthur Hawkes
Home Bank of Canada
Ottawa
A. B. Barker
Home Bank
Dominion
Waugh calls Germany able to pay indemnities
R D Waugh former Saar Valley commissioner told Winnipeg Canadians Germany can pay the indemnities and should be required to do so He said Germany could not pay while France pursues Ruhr policy and he returns to take chair of Manitoba Liquor Commission administering a new government sale system
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Germany
R. D. Waugh
Saar Valley Commission
Winnivery
Waugh
France
Manitoba Liquor Commission
Fire destroys the Ffotel Imperial at Narragansett Pier
A fire at the Ffotel Imperial on Narragansett Pier, Providence, Rhode Island, caused by suspected defective wiring, destroyed the building today. The estimated loss is 80,000 dollars with no injuries reported.
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Providence
Narragansett Pier
Hoh
Bert
Beatty Heads on Canadian Pacific Inspection Tour
Montreal September 6 El W Beatty president of the Canadian Pacific Railways begins his annual inspection tour with a party of directors. The itinerary includes Toronto Port Arthur Fort William Winnipeg Regina Moose Jaw Medicine Hat Calgary Revelstoke Vancouver Victoria Skagway Penticton Nelson Kootenay Landing Crews Nest Macleod Edmonton Saskatoon Winnipeg and return by September 29.
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EL W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railwy
Canadian Pacific
Herbert Holt
Augustus Nanton
Winnipeg
J. K. L. Ross
HW. N. Tilley, KC
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Fort William
Brandon
Regina
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Medicine Hat
Calgary
Revelstoke
Vancouver
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Canadian Pacific Coast Steamship Service
Penticton
B.C
Nelson Kootenay Landing
Crows Nest
Macleod
Edmonton
Saskatoon
Revolutionary force defeats Brazilian state troops at Poneko
Reports from Napusidao dated September 6 say a group of Brazilian revolutionaries defeated state troops at Poneko and are advancing toward Senta ius de Livraento along the Uruguayan border.
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Poneko
Verdeix
Senta Ius de Livraento
Italian Forces Occupy Islands West of Corfu
A Trieste dispatch reports Italian forces have occupied islands west of Corfu. The Greek fleet is ordered to retire to the Gulf of Volos to avoid contact with Italian warships. Two members of the Italian mission were arrested, with Greece hoping to arrest the remainder soon as the League Council seeks a settlement.
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Gulf of Volo
Trieste
League Council
Italian Occupation of Islands Near Corfu Reports
Reports from Rome and Athens indicate Italian forces have occupied Merlera Fano and Mathraki northwest of Corfu while the Greek fleet withdraws to the Gulf of Volo to avoid clashes. Confiscation of arms by Italian authorities is ordered in Corfu.
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Rome
Merlera
Fano
Mathraki
Corfu
Athen
Gulf of Volo
Aegean Sea
Athens
An Yat Sen Seizes Control of Hunan Province
Shanghai dispatch reports Cbao Keng Ti hastened from Chang Sha to depose as military governor and place Hunan under San Yat Sen, the South Chinese constitutional leader, solidifying control of the province.
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Shanghai
Harding Named in Nobel Peace Prize List
Copenhagen Sept 6 The late President Harding is named among about thirty proposed Peace Prize recipients per Christiania Aftenposten Others include Jane Addams Secretary Hughes Lord Robert Cecil J M Weynes Signor Nitti Carl Lindhagen and Elha Brandstrom Also Winnipeg grain board refuses elevator tariff increase applications as announced by Chief Commissioner Leslie Jo Boyd.
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Coperhagen
Harding
Christiana Aften Posten
Jame Addams
Hughes
Robert Cecil
J. M Weynes
Signor Nitti
Carl Lindhagen
Stockholm
Elha Brandstrom
Red Cross
Winnipeg Board of Grain Commissioners
Leslie Jo Boyd
Canada Colonization Association Brings 200 Farmers to Prairies
Eighty prospective land buyers and settlers from Iowa Illinois and Indiana, guided by the Canada Colonization Association, were sent to Alberta and Saskatchewan to inspect recommended farms. Twenty entered via Winnipeg and sixty via North Portal, part of a June through today movement opening the prairies to U S farmers on tours of inspection.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Iiowa
Illinois
Indiana
The
Canada Colonization Association
Alberta
Saskatchewan
North Portal
United States
Praires
Youngest Canadian murder suspect faces preliminary trial
Peter Sawicki, 12 or 13, held in Dauphin jail awaiting a preliminary murder trial for the killing of Mrs. Anna Kunka at Fine River. He said he acted on his mother’s instruction, during coroner’s inquest after a fight that left his mother injured. The incident arose from cattle roaming Sawicki grain fields.
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Peter Sawicki
Dauphin
Ele
Anna Kunka
Fine River
Pine River
Paul Sawicki
Kunka
Sawicki
Convicted man fined for fake alarm and public official dies
Convicted in police court yesterday afternoon for sending in a false alarm of fire on Monday night. Jack Murphy was fined $10 and costs, with one month in jail if not paid. St R Scovell, public school inspector of Muskoka, died at Bracebridge.
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St R. Scovell
Muskoka
Bracebridge
Atkins Re elected Leader of Canadian Bar Association
Sir James Atkins reelected as president of the Canadian Bar Association during the union’s annual session in Montreal Manitoba today. The Manitoba lieutenant governor’s name appears among the officers as the assembly formally closes its proceedings.
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James Atkins
Manitoba
Canadian Bar Association
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