King of Italy Escapes Death From Bomb
In Milan King Victor Emmanuel III narrowly escaped a bomb blast during a tour to open the Milan fair. A time bomb hidden in a lamp post base killed 15 and injured many near Piazza Guid o Cesare as the king arrived ten minutes late. Mussolini oversaw the manhunt and a 100000 strong mass meeting was held in Cathedral Square to praise the monarch.
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Milan
Italy
Victor Bomimanuel
Assascination
Guillo Cesare
Victor
Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel
Cathedral Square
Pietro Fedele
Giampaolili
Bliss Carman Awarded Medal at Royal Society Meeting
Bliss Carman M A LL D FRCS renowned Canadian poet laureate receives the Lorpe Pierce medal from the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding literary achievement. He will be presented the medal at the Royal Society meeting in Winnipeg on May 22.
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Winnipeg
Ottawa
Bliss Carman
Ll.d
F.R.C.S
Poet Laureate of
Canada
Lorpe Pierce
Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society
London Lord Mayor Cannot Visit New York With Gilded Coach
Lord Mayor Sir Charles Bath cannot travel to New York this year to bring his ancient coach and footsmen. He regrets missing Mayor James J. Walker’s invitation, stating he is too busy with eight months left in office and booked for banquets nearly every night.
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London
New York
Charles Bath
James J. Walker
League Against Alcoholism forms Manitoba Prohibition Alliance
A resolution to appoint a 50 member provincial commission to study future organization and policy for the Manitoba Prohibition Alliance was adopted at the annual meeting. The alliance may rename itself the Manitoba League Against Alcoholism. A second resolution condemned government liquor control as a sale system lacking any effective control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Manitoba Prohibition Alliance
Manitoba League Against Alcoholism
Alberta Coal Showdown Signals Step Toward Public Pricing
KB J Dinning announced the Alberta coal advisory board aims to publish pit mouth prices and place coals on a preferred list submitted to Ontario’s fuel controller J A Elis. The Ontario rate of 6.75 dollars sparked a first round victory, with operators urged to unite with the Alberta Government to protect Ontario consumers. Canada’s League of Nations status noted as boosting Canadian responsibility and world role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Provincial Coal Standards Board
Alberta
KB. J. Dinning
Ontario
Dinning
J. A. Elis
W. W. McBain
Emondton
Government's CHCY license renewal questioned in Commons
In Ottawa a House inquiry asked if the government plans to refuse renewing CHCY Edmonton's broadcasting license. Minister P J Cardin said he would later address the matter, while H E Spencer and J S Woodsworth pressed for a definite answer. The Speaker kept the question on the order paper.
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Ottawa
CHCY
Edmonton
International Bible Students
H. E. Spencer
U.F.A
Battle River
House of Commons
P. J. Cardin
Marine and Fisheries
Air
Spencer
J. S. Woodsworth
Labor
Winnipeg North Centre
Speaker
Endorses Hudson's Bay Route for Montreal Harbor
Captain Joseph E. Bernier, Arctic explorer, urged favoring the Hudson's Bay route in a local service club address. He warned Montreal's growing population and Canada’s trade would congest the port, necessitating a new outlet via Hudson Bay. He also noted the St Lawrence waters receding and called for river damming to keep docking levels for liners.
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Montreal
Joseph E. Bernier
Dominion
Canada
Hudson's Bay
St. Lawrence
Net Debt Of Canada Reduced By 87 Millions
Ottawa reports a net debt decrease of 87,160,784 for the fiscal year ending March 31. Total ordinary revenues rose to 410,144,559 while ordinary expenditures reached 306,708,741. Tax revenues shifted with customs at 155,571,770 and income tax at 56,547,570. interest on public debt was 120,780,973. pensions totaled 36,195,858.
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Ottawa
Canada
Department of
Fall Grains Winter Well in Ontario Reports
Ontario reports indicate fall wheat alfalfa and other clovers survived winter in better condition than expected. Essex and Kent counties show some seeding, other counties little or none. Plowing is widespread in Southern Ontario amid a general grain shortage and high demand for farm labor especially boys aged 15 to 17 brought out by the Department of Colonization.
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Toronto
Ontario
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Essex
Kent
Department of Colonizaion
Amalgamation Unites Western Canadian Vinegar Firms
Western Vinegars Limited forms from the amalgamation of several Western Canadian vinegar manufacturers. The new company consolidates production under a single corporate entity.
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Western Vinegars, Limited
Senator Bill Seeks Medal for Clarence Chamberlin Flight
A Senate bill proposes awarding Clarence D. Chamberlin the Congressional Medal of Honor for his non-stop flight from New York to Germany last summer. Senator Brookhart of Iowa introduces the measure.
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Washington, D.C
Clarence D. Chamberlin
New York
Germany
Senate
Brookhart
Iowa
All British Settlers For Western Provinces Arrive in Winnipeg
A large party of some 400 British settlers arrived in Winnipeg last week aboard Canadian Pacific lines to take up farming work in the Western provinces. The group included 32 teenage lads brought under Manitoba Government Agricultural Department auspices and disembarked at St John on the Montcalm before reaching the city by special train. Prof. Co. R. Hopper of Manitoba Agricultural College welcomed them at the depot and oversees similar newcomers for the government.
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Winnipeg
British Isles
Canadian Pacific
St. John
Montcalm
Dominion
Agricultural Department
Manitoba
Co. R. Hopper
Manitoba Agricultural College
Canadian Creative Art Question Sparks Library Meeting
Fred Landon of the University of Western Ontario argued that Canada has not yet produced a great Canadian novel and that creative arts in music and drama remain to come. Dr George H Locke spoke of a possible loose federation of British Library Associations centered in London to unite library activity across the empire.
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Tornto
Fred Landon
University of Western Ontario
Ontario Library Association
George H. Locke
Toronto
London
United Kingdom
Empire
German stenography record claimed by Dr Hans Januschat
Dr Hans Januschat official Reichstag stenographer announces world speed record in shorthand. At a recent contest he wrote 470 syllables per minute for three minutes.
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Hans Januschat
Reichstag
Januschat
Park Site For Ottawa Confederation Park Sold
The Russell hotel and theatre buildings to be razed for a central Ottawa Confederation Park were sold with the underlying property for 1 125 000 dollars. The deal closed after a joint session of counsel for the property owners and the federal district commission set the purchase price.
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Ottawa
Russell
Confederation Park
Federal District Commission
Westminster Glee Singers Tour Canada In Grand Repertoire
The Empire Singers present a Canadian tour by the Westminster Glee Singers featuring over a hundred pieces from sacred and secular traditions. Led by male altos tenors basses and boy sopranos from British cathedrals they perform across cities from Halifax to Victoria under royal patronage and travel mainly via Canadian Pacific lines.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
America
Westminster Glee Singers
Canada
Dominion
Australia
New Zealand
Straits Settlements
India
Ceylon
Great Britain
Halifax
Victoria
Aid Communist To Escape Berlin
Otto Braun a Communist writer facing treason charges was freed by seven sympathizers from a Berlin criminal court room. He had permission to see his fiancee when seven well dressed men burst in with revolvers and carried Braun and his fiancee away. One assailant was captured in the corridor and would not identify himself.
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Berlin
Otto Braun
Braun
Criminal Court
English Captain Aims to Fly Madrid to New York by Air
Captain Reginald Forch Truelove, former Gosport chief instructor and Spanish army aviator trainer, plans a June Seville to New York flight via the Azores. He has not chosen a plane yet but will use a light machine.
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Madrid
America
Reginald Forch Truelove
Gosport
England
Associated Press
Seville
Spain
New York
Azores
Education as cornerstone of social progress in Saskatchewan
Saskatoon speakers urge education over sensationalism as a bulwark against mob rule. J. W. Barnett cites jazz influence in Chicago, argues education safeguards democracy, equality of opportunity, and world peace, warning that mere talk without belief undermines leadership in education.
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Chicago
Barnett
Bill Thompson
Stray Ballots Do Not Alter South Ottawa Vote Result
A royal commission report by Justices Magee and Hodgins concludes stray ballots did not change the 1926 South Ottawa provincial election outcome. They found no criminal act but faulted returning officer F. M. Scott for carelessness, irregularity, negligence, and incompetence.
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Toronto
Ottawa
Justice Magee
Justice Hodgins
W. E. N. Sinclair
G. H. Ferguson
F. M. Scott
South
Western Professors Honored by Royal Society of Canada
Ottawa council approves the Flavelle medal for Professor A. P. Coleman of the University of Toronto and the Tyrell medal for Hon. Senator Thomas Chapais of Ottawa. Western Canada candidates for society membership include Prof. D. C. Harvey of Manitoba, Prof. Robert H. Clark of British Columbia, Dr. Lloyd L. Dines of Saskatchewan, Prof. Stanley Smith of Alberta, and Prof. Justin B. Delury of Saskatchewan.
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Ottawa
Ont
Royal Society of Canada
Flavelle
Society
A. P. Coleman
University of Toronto
Tyrell
Thomas Chapais
Coleman
Chapais
Western Canada
Cc. Harvey
University of Manitoba
Robert H. Clark
University of British Columbia
Lloyd L. Dines
University of Saskatchewan
Stanley Smith
University of Alberta
Justin 8. Delury
Radio Waves Raise Storms Says White Star Captain
Captain W H Parker of the Homeric claims wireless waves intensify storms on land and sea. The vessel, arriving a day late after 40 foot waves damaged windows, witnesses ongoing turbulent weather and unusual global temperature records. Parker warns March 7 featured record cold in Cairo and heat in London amid rising radioactivity and storm violence.
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New York
W. H. Parker
White Star
Egypt
Riviera
Cairo
London
Will Stay On the Job Chicago Mayor Thompson vows to remain in office
Mayor William Hale Thompson says he will not resign after a primary where most of his backers lost. He notes ward committee gains and the sanitary district as reasons to stay. Crowe’s defeat by Judge John A. Swanson removes his condition to quit.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Robert E. Crowe
Crowe
John A. Swanson
Deneen
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Acces
League of Nations
Herbert FB. Ames
League
Clared
Sir Herbert
B.S
Finance
John Walter
The
London Times
National Council of Education
Western Provinces
Empire Singers
Saskatoon
J. W. Barnett
Alberta Teachers’ Alliance
Saskatchewan Teachers’ Alliance
G. M. Weir
Saskatchewan Educational Association
Thompson
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