Montreal Hosts Diverse News Involving Officials And Accidents
A Montreal driven week features a fund drive for Rev Chinigny, a public health association in Montreal, an economic shift with a Customs law payment by Boyd Ryrie Campbell, a new Municipal Association backing mayoral candidates, and a near collision in Hamilton affecting a World’s Fair train. Also covered are church sermons, resignations, and various national and international political, medical, and transportation items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malo
Hooper
Montreal
Father Chin-igny
Narcisse Belleau
Quebec
Privy Council Department
Dundas
Ont
Messrs
Boyd, Ryrie and Campbell
Citizens’ Municipal Association
American Public Health Association
Mexico
United States
Canada
Hamilton
Dominion Methodist Church
Ottawa
Benson
Father Stark
Brantford
Battle Creek
Chicago
Hugh John Macdonald
The
Machinists’ Association
Mr Stead Plans London Model Newspaper Venture
Mr Stead promotes a project to start a model London newspaper with him as model editor. It relies on 109000 subscribers paying 26 shillings for bonds of twenty shillings each, with 5 to 10 percent returns tied to circulation targets of 100000 or 200000. Stead’s capital includes twenty shares. The scheme hinges on large public uptake, a rarity among would be publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stead
London
Humbu
Timbuctoo
Electricity on the Pyramids Tale of a Leyden bottle shock
In Sir W. Sienems memoir an Arab guide warns against magic as explorers atop the Cheops pyramid cause a strange electric display. A wrapped wine bottle becomes a Leyden bottle, emitting sparks and shocking the sheik, who crashes down the steps as his party flees, leaving the party in control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir W. Siemens
Pyramid of
Cheops
Alread
Pyramid
Harvest yields in Britain and Ireland a mixed year
An English correspondent reports this year’s wheat crop is low in Scotland and Ireland due to dry weather, with total UK wheat area near 1.956 million acres yielding about 48.5 million bushels. Barley and oats yields posted, potatoes abundant, hay scarce, and north England and Ireland lifting overall outcomes.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
Great Britain
Isle of Man
Channel Islands
United Kingdom
Emancipated Women in Scotland’s Census Findings
The Scotch census analysis shows women employed across many trades formerly restricted to men. It notes 556,564 women work alongside 1,220,388 men, with female numbers rising in commerce since 1881 while agriculture shrinks. It cites 11,662 women as employers and 52,644 as self employed, concluding women have achieved emancipation.
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G. O. Trevelyan
Jenny Geddes
Great Britain's Debt in Round Figures Over Time
The United Kingdom’s debt stands at about 3.355 billion dollars. Comparisons show 1689 debt near 3.221 million and Victoria era debt at 4.251 billion. Under Victoria the total fell about 21 percent, with roughly 33.0 million paid off in the year ending March 31. The first census in Britain occurred on March 10, 1801.
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United Kingdom
William II
Victoria
Britain
The Time Without a Watch Curiously Accurate Clock Method
The article describes a curious experiment to tell time using a thread, a shilling, and a tumbler. With a steady hand the coin pendulates inside the glass and, after eight normal strikes, the observer notes the time as eight o clock, inviting further unbiased testing.
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Bern
Kleptomania in Sicily Exposes a Thiefly Wife
A Palermo physician documents a case of kleptomania where a well-bred wife steals items from shops and her husband’s home. The consultant spots hidden valuables and notes the husband’s promise to return missing articles for guidance, but the couple disappears with the goods after the visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Palermo
Gil Blas
Don Raphael
Camilla
Philippine Islands
Notable Lives and Letters From An Era Of Royals and Scholars
The item surveys figures from royalty and culture, noting Countess of Varese Pen, Miss Todd, and Leon Rochefort with references to Paris, Boston, and London. It mentions Dr. Frederick A Cook, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Drummond, Miss Frances Willard, and Oscar Wilde in a mosaic of public figures and their pursuits.
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Countess of Varese Pen
Adare
Abraham Lincoln
Missie Todd
Leon Cynthiana
Rochefort
London
Paris
Phillips Brooks
Boston
Frederick A. Cook
Peary
Green
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston Court House
Justice Holmes
Henry, Drummond
Glasgow
United States
Europe
Front Day Coach Tragedy in Calamity Train Crash
Woodstock’s Mr I Fr Powell survived a westbound collision when the front car telescoped into the second. The wreck left many dead and injured. Powell fears about 70 lives were lost as flames consumed twisted cars. He was shaken, with a thigh and side injury, and recalls cries from beneath the overturned carriage. A final note mentions a palm fact.
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I. Fr. Powell
Woodstock
Battle Creek
Powell
Mr. Powell
Railways in Palestine and the Damascus corridor
A great railway system is under construction across the Holy Land. A French concession covers Beyrout to Damascus with a narrow gauge line in progress. An English syndicate builds a Halfa to Damascus route along Carmel, Nazareth and the Jordan to Bashan plains, opening Syria’s agricultural and commercial access to the East.
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Holy Land
Beyrout
Damascus
Halfa
Range of
Carmel
Esbarlon
Nazareth
Mount Tabor
Jordan
Galilee
Bashan
Syria
Auditors and the Treasury Board in government control
The passage discusses the Auditor-General as the government’s financial watchdog. It explains his independence, role in verifying appropriations, and power to veto or refer disputes to the Treasury Board and Parliament. It traces historical shifts toward joint credit systems and outlines examples of his oversight over public expenditures and accounts.
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Protestant Teachers’Convention
Montreal
S. P. Robins
Commercial Cable Company
New Caledonia
Toronto
Cameron
Royal Military College
Kingston
Ont
Charles H. Tupper
Dominion
United States
Auditor-General
Treasury Board
Finance
Justice
House of Commons
Council
Tre
Auditor General
Sena Eral
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Herbert Spencer
Andrew Clark
Admiralty
Robert Knox
Armagh
Lucania
Cunard
Queenstown
Justin McCarthy
Gladstone
London Lancet
Leslie Keely
Keely
London Times
George Dibbs
New South Wales
Andrew Benner
Ridgeway
Buffalo
Mionera
Honolulu
Australia
John C. Peters
New York
George Chivay
Legation
Washington
Dalton Gang
Cushing
O. T
Women’s Christian Temperance Union of
Osceola
Neb
Senate
Blarney Castle
Midway Plaisance
Lord Vivian
Italy
Rome
Theodore Hebert
Marquis of Conyngham
Maharajah
Dhuleep Singh
Spezzia
Rio Janeiro
William
Charles
Uruguay
Landtag
Reichstag
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Mahomet
Marquis of Dufferin
MacMahon
Queen Victoria
Talbot
Prince of Wales
Brazil
Admiral Mello
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Herbert Bismarck
Fort Victoria
Lobengula
Eugenie
Signor Giolitti
Brussels
Congo
Kirundu
Stanley Falls
Aldershot
Duke of Connaught
Sergius
Paul
Elizabeth
Czar
France
Women In
Kleptomania
Frances E. Willard
Lady Somerset
Clarence E. Long
West Polman
Oscar Wilde
Oscar
Redwood
New Zealand
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Hungary
Kossach
Komatu
Imperial Family of
Japan
Berlin
Gilbert
Patience
Richard A. Proctor
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
George W. Childs
Henry Ward Beecher
Jno. Brougham
Lester Wallack
Wm. J. Florence
Greene Halleck
Palestine
Ottawa Nota
Exsail
the of Railways and Canals
Louis Coste
Auditor-Genera
Mackenzie
Auditor-Ge
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