British Empire not in decline says Ontario Premier
Premier G. Howard Ferguson of Ontario told the Canadian Press in London that Britain shows no signs of decadence. He praised postwar improvements in Scotland and Ireland, noted better agriculture, and forecast stronger imperial ties and overseas interest as unemployment drives consolidation of imperial forces.
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London
Eng
G. Howard Ferguson
Ontario
Canada
Ferguson
Britain
Europe
England
Scotland
Ireland
Ontario Wheat Pool Gains Ground in Ontario Meeting
At a Chatham gathering the Ontario Grain Pool is praised for a year of operation and growing farmer support. Colin Bunell of Manitoba Wheat Pool and H A Gilroy of United Farmers of Ontario spoke on progress. David L McCreary was re elected to the pool board.
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Chatham
Ont
Ontario Grain Pool
Ontario
Colin H. Bunell
Winnipeg
Manitoba Wheat Pool
H. A. Gilroy
Alvinston
United Farmers of Ontario Co-Operative Company
David L. McCreary
Wallaceburg
Kent County
Ontario Pool Directorate
Gilroy
Lord Hailsham Expected But Not Joining Empire Union Visit
Ottawa reports that Lord Hailsham will not travel to Canada with the Empire Parliamentary Union, despite Baldwin’s absence as Prime Minister. The visit was anticipated for the last week of August.
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Ottawa
Lord Hailsham
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Canada
Empire Parliamentary Union
Mussolini Receives Nobile for Italia Disaster Report
Premier Mussolini holds a meeting with General Umberto Nobile to review his first report on the Italia dirigible disaster. The Italian leader had advised a full cabinet inquiry into all aspects of the North Pole airship loss.
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Rome
Mussolini
Umberto Nobile
Italia
North Pole
Farewell Luncheon Held for Dr R C Wallace in Winnipeg
Dr R C Wallace soon to take the presidency of the University of Alberta received a farewell luncheon in Winnipeg from members of the Manitoba Mining Associations. Col H F Osler presented the tribute on behalf of the group.
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Winnipeg
R. C. Wallace
University of Alberta
Manitoba
Wallace
H. F. Osler
Vesuvius Erupts as Naples Mounts Emergency Cordon
Mount Vesuvius erupts over Naples with smoke and lava visible for miles. Authorities set a base cordon to bar tourists from the danger zone as troops guard the area.
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Naples
Italy
Vesuvius
Legion denounces Union Jack use at Kingston meeting
The Ontario branch of the Canadian Legion, in convention here, condemned draping desks with the Union Jack and urged it be used only as a sag.
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Kingston
Ontario
Canadian Legion
Italian Submarine Disaster Claims Twenty-Seven Crewsmen
Twenty seven crew members perished aboard the Italian submarine F-14 after a collision in the upper Adriatic. Reports say the men died at their posts with fortitude, as divers spent 34 hours rescuing and lifting the sunken vessel. Captain Well and Commander Fasulo led from the conning tower.
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Rome
Adriatic
Captain Well
Fasulo
Well
Pilgrims at Ypres Gather for War Commemoration
Eleven thousand British veterans including 3000 women gathered at Menin Gate on August 8 for a solemn service honoring fallen comrades in the Ypres salient. Attending were the Prince of Wales, Lady Haig, Admiral Jellicoe’s widow, and other war leaders as about 20,000 joined in singing O Valiant Hearts. The service was simple yet impressive.
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Ypres
Belgium
Menin Gate
Prince of Wales
Haig
Britain
Victorius
Jellicoe
Storm Sweeps Central Florida Citrus Belt
Storm moved from East Central Florida into Winter Haven and other central citrus towns. Winter Haven reported gales around 75 miles per hour after earlier 40 mph winds. Officials fear for vast citrus orchards laden with fruit as the storm damages communities along its path from the Atlantic coast inland.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Winter Haven
Tampa
Saskatchewan Wholesale Society aims to open 200 stores
W Moss Thrasher secretary of the Co-Operative Movement Saskatoon announces the Saskatchewan Wholesale Society sponsored by the United Farmers of Canada to sell goods at near cost. He expects about 200 stores in the first year and 700 to 800 trading units overall to cover the province with preference to cooperative-friendly districts.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Saskatchewan Wholesale Society
United Farmers of Canada
W. Moss Thrasher
Empire marketing begins at home in national park
A Union Jack inscription reads Empire marketing begins at home as part of a national park feature promoting a government scheme to identify British products.
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London
National Park
Robbery Targeting Armored Car in St Paul
Bandits used ear gas bombs to blind the driver and five guards of the Sweeney Detective Bureau armored money car in St Paul Minnesota. They robbed 20000 in currency. Police seek suspects and details of the incident.
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St. Paul
Minn
Sweeney Detective Bureau
Canadian telephone line reaches coast to coast stage three
The new eastern line of the Bell Company uses five lines and 350 tons of copper with nine repeater stations. This marks stage three of the all-Canadian route from Winnipeg to the Lakes in 1924, following 1922 and 1924 predecessors, as construction moves toward Rockies and Pacific right‑of‑way for coast‑to‑coast service.
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Fort Will.u
Bell Telephone Company
Winnipeg
Alberta
Head of the Lakes
Rockies
Dominion
English Aristocrat Loel Guinness Plans Pittsburgh Move
Hon Mrs Loel Guinness and her husband relocate to Pittsburgh as he oversees his father's business. Before marriage she was Hon Joan Yarde-Buller, daughter of Lord and Lady Churston.
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Loel Guinness
Pittsburgh
Guinness
Joan Yarde-Buller
Lord
Churston
Greatest Crop in History Foreseen for Western Canada
Winnipeg report predicts a record 450000000 bushels of wheat as the 1928 harvest opens across the prairie provinces. Yields range 25 to 40 bushels per acre in cutting areas with barley rye and oats above ten year averages. Hail hurt Saskatchewan but total output expected to rise with increased acreage.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Leslie Boyd
Board of Grain Commissioners
British Harvest Help Ottawa Move Arranged
The British Government has arranged for harvest help to move from the British Isles to Western Canada. The British Government Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Railway will run the program, placing workers in harvest jobs on arrival and winter farm work thereafter. The Dominion and provincial governments will assist, with return fares provided for those unable to find winter employment.
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Ottawa
British Isles
Canada
Department of Immigration and Colonization
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway
Old Country
Aircraft collapses wing in Atlantic test crash
During a final test across the Atlantic an aircraft at 125 mph showed a wing wobble. The wing failure sent the plane nearly vertical to about 450 feet, then it fell and crashed through a fence and into a hangar corner, stopping as a crumpled wreck on the field road.
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Atlantic
English School Girls Debut Two Month Canadian Tour
Twenty five English school girls arrived in Canada under the Imperial Daughters of the Empire for a two months tour. They will visit maritime provinces Northern Ontario Central Canada the Rockies and the West to sample Canadian life and return October 11.
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Montreal
Canada
Imperial Daughters of the Empire
Maritime Provinces
Ontario
Rockies
West
Croatian parliamentary leader dies from wounds in Zagreb
Stefan Raditch, Croat peasant parliamentary leader, died in Zagreb from wounds suffered on June 20 when radical deputy Punica Ratchitch fired six shots during a parliamentary session. Two were killed including Raditch's nephew, and four wounded as Croatia faced martial law implications and troop patrols to quell unrest.
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Vienna
Stefan Raditch
Zagreb
Croatia
Raditch
Punica Ratchitch
Ratitch
Disabled veteran treks to Ottawa for pension renewal
Joseph McIntosh, a returned soldier from St. John New Brunswick, wore a placard reading the message about his pension loss as he began a long trek to Ottawa to seek renewal of his $110.75 monthly pension.
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St. John
N.B
Ottawa
Joseph McIntosh
Message To Women On Equality From Ishbel Macdonald
Miss Ishbel Macdonald during a Toronto visit with her father J Ramsay Macdonald issued a message to Canadian women about public life. She argued women should cooperate with men in public affairs but rejected the notion of equality comparing them to A and B in the alphabet.
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Toronto
Ishbel Macdonald
J. Ramsay Macdonald
Canada
French Airmen Killed in Bourges Plane Crash
Captain Labbe and three assistants died when their aircraft crashed at Bourges near the end of a 24 hour flight. The plane burned and the charred bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
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Paris
Labbe
Bourges
Extension of Preference Expected Soon
Ottawa reports a forthcoming regulation to raise Empire labor and materials in British imports from 25 to 50 percent to qualify for the British preferential tariff. Customs rules and enforcement will follow, with Hon. J. A. Robb’s return abroad awaited before final decisions. The change aims to curb foreign finish work labeled Made in England and reshape Canada’s import trade.
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Ottawa
Canada
J. A. Robb
Great Britain
England
Air Express Inaugurated Route Links Canadian Cities
A new air route connects Toronto Ottawa and Montreal with Rimouski steamship service. Western consignments move faster with two day gains over regular express schedules as parcels filed for delivery via Canadian Pacific Express and air freight between major centers.
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Canadian Pacific Express
Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
Rimouski
Vancou
Harvest Exodus Underway As Railways Prepare Extra Box Cars
The harvesters rush to move grain from the West to Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick with return fares from Winnipeg at 20 and 25 dollars. The Canadian National plans harvester excursions August 9 to 31 and will care for traveling families. Railways prepare for movement using over 40,000 box cars. 79 locomotives, including 13 Mikado types, are loaned by Eastern lines. Grain carriers move east through the Lakes at about 1,240,000 bushels daily.
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Leuy
Winnipeg
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Eastern Lines
Rich gold strike reported near Lake Athabasca
Ed Meyers, Fort Chipewyan trader, confirms a rich find along the north shore of Lake Athabasca east of Black Bay in Saskatchewan. Jack Hersey reportedly struck the site after years of search. University tests show ore with high mineral content, and one assay suggests about $45 per ton in quartz shipped south.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Lake Athabasca
Black Bay
Saskatchewan
Ed. Meyers
Fort Chipewyan
Jack Hersey
Charlie L’argent
Leaves Big Fortune: Loewenstein Dies in Channel Drop
Capt. Alfred Loewenstein, Belgian financier, died over the English Channel on July 4. The Evening News reports he lost 60 million dollars in the three weeks before his death and that 40 million was left to be shared by his wife and son.
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London
Eng
Alfred Loewenstein
English Channel
Evening News
Loewenstein
Hickman Sentenced to Hang for Kidnapping Slaying
William E. Hickman was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin on October 19 for the slaying of 12 year old Marian Parker. Judge Douglas Edmonds overruled nine defense objections before confirming the second hanging date for the youthful kidnapper who killed the schoolgirl last December in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
William E. Hickman
San Quentin Penitentiary
Marian Parker
Douglas Edmonds
May Defer Old Age Pensions in Ontario
Ontario may defer old age pensions for another year as a survey ordered by Premier Ferguson likely won’t be completed before the next legislative session. The bill could surface on the eve of the forthcoming election.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
Ferguson
Le Vine Purchases Bremen Junkers Plane for Transatlantic Flight
Charles A Le vine buys a Junkers Bremen type aircraft for 100000 marks about 23850 dollars for delivery to Dessau Germany next week as the first trans Atlantic airplane passenger.
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Dessau
Germany
Charles A Levine
Junkers
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