Week's News Canadian Highlights Deaths and Disasters
A scattered Canadian and international roundup notes several deaths including Robert McMeekin and Mrs Henry Gillard, with fires killing two children near a prairie town. The report mentions library funding at McGill, a Montreal police audit, shipwreck near Alexandria Bay, and various political and social events across Canada and Britain, including strikes, murders, and international diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert McMeekin
Valkeith
Peter Redpath
McGill U Mg
Montreal
Wats
London
Robert Colgror
Ceaney Engineers
Ingston
Sone
John Abbott
Henry Gillard
Hamilton
Detroit
Toronto
St. Clair Flats
New Westminster
John McMurray
Gravenhurst
Hoboken
Alexandria Bay
United States
Mackenzie Bowell
Canada
Australia
Father Hamnon
Ont
John Thompson
Electric Street Railway
Winnipeg
Orville Sills
Frankford
Sills
Butler
No Whales in the Gulf Stream Mystery
The article notes whales avoid the Gulf Stream and that Yankee whalers mapped its bounds. Franklin learned this from New England whalers and published a 1770 chart for mail packets between American coast cities and London, not to chart the stream but to guide ships away from whales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Stream
Europe
Franklin
New England
London
St. Louis Republic
Vancouver envoy predicts bright prospects for Canada sugar trade
Rain Walker, British vice consul and agent for the Canadian Australian steamship line now in Vancouver, says prospects are bright as the Miowera sails and Capt Stott is not blamed. Honolulu merchants welcome the line for opening a New sugar market, replacing San Francisco buyers. Sugar contracts expire in three years, after which Canada may lead in sugar trade.
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Vancouver
T. Rain Walker
England
Australia
Stott
Honolulu
San Francisco
Walker
Canada
Range of ages in trees and quirky urban facts
A list ranks tree ages from elm at 300 to yew at 3290 years and notes New York City’s past year spending on school amusement and drink. It also covers definitions of padding from bombast to Corsican terms, word histories, and a miscellany of curiosities including Salvation Army restrictions in Finland and Bible dissemination progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Pamphela
Greece
Corinth
Finland
Salvation Army
Salvationists
Globe
New York
Consul Smith
Liege
Belgium
America
Willie
Smythe
James
Tompkins
Wall Street
Going Over the Traps in Ontario Woods
Captain Barker recalls a winter trapping day in Ontario. A split trek between two camps tests endurance, fading blazed markers, freezing cold, lost directions, and the life-saving sound of a partner’s rifle shot guiding to the log camp where a hearty meal awaits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario Woods
Barker
The Power of Love and a Child's Quiet Influence
A mother's and father's deep joy with newborn Joseph becomes a tale of love and growth. The boy's life awakens their gentleness, courage, and faith, yet ends early. Their enduring devotion reshapes their lives, guiding kindness to others and the memory of little Joe endures beyond death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
Joe
Snowy Rest in Cabin Scene Echoes Nature’s Cabin Comfort
A fragmentary line paints a rustic scene where removing snow reveals a simple cabin interior. The speaker contrasts a hard spruce bed with a “downy couch” imagined as an inviting, restful shelter for weary souls.
Empress of Austria Stops Train Derailment
A Paris dispatch reports the Empress of Austria, riding horseback, noticed a pile of stones on the railway near the Buda-Pest express. She and her groom moved the obstruction as the train passed, narrowly avoiding a possible disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Paris
Jumble of quick quips and social banter humor
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century page. Jests cover money, marriage, propriety, and social observation with lines about tramps, editors, children, and jesting neighbors. Notable bits include a policeman, a grocer’s joke, and a judge noting a prize in a baby show.
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British
Lord Dunraven
Molly Morgan
Newmarket
Corbin
St. John
Bann
Ireland
Gladstone
Loydon
Westminster
Cleveland
Senate
Count
Countess of Paine
Stowe
Windsor
Prince and Princes of Wales
Sandringham
Spain
Brooklyn
N.Y
West Superior
Wis
Bay
Chicago Corporation
Kraus Jg
Frederick L. Mathias
Postal Telegraph Company
Mayo
Carter Harrison
Daisy Garland
Daugh
Garland
Waston
F.C. Vincent
Fresno
Cal
Ontario
Awrey
Salvaj
Army
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Gen. Ballington Booth
Register
Mr. Booth
Gen. Booth
Guatemala
Lima
Peru
Central America
Calbuco
Chile
Nebraska
Frankfurter Zeitung
Cassel
Avelan
Madrid
THE
Wildcats
Bil
Alice
Sateful
Robbie
Master George
George
Emma
Orchid
John
Robby
Papa
Ethel
Mamma
Mrs. Muggs
Fills
Roland Riter
Higgins
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