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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1924
Page
3
Ottawa reports Parliament will open on February 5 led by Premier King. The session marks the 14th Parliament since Confederation and may last into summer. A constitutional amendment to limit Senate veto power is anticipated, but faces opposition tied to Confederation and the North America Act.
The Pas Manitoba reports a half million dollar deal to buy the Little Nell arsenical iron mine at Beaver Lake Saskatchewan from A J and J W Collette of The Pas. Final terms require $100,000 paid in two years and $409,600 in machinery and improvements invested over that period. Arsenic demand rises as an insecticide, fueling interest in northern Canadian ore bodies.
Reports say the Catholic Mirdite and Malissore tribes join the revolt as the Tirana government imposes martial law at Podgadets. The rebel front reportedly stretches from Malessia to Dibra. A political tribunal sentences three former Albanian premiers and a former minister to death by default.
The Senate and House paused to remember former President Woodrow Wilson. President Coolidge Cabinet and invited guests attended in the chamber as Dr. Edwin Alderman of the University of Virginia delivered an address on Wilsons life and wartime achievements.
New York reports two full cargoes of Canadian flour totaling 120000 barrels were sold for immediate shipment to Russia. Shippers see this as evidence of grain shortages. A separate incident at the University of Saskatchewan involved a furnace pipe leak causing $500 in damage. nine students lost books and personal effects but were insured.
Representatives from farmers, mortgage companies, and provincial governments of the three prairie provinces met in Winnipeg to discuss mutual problems in loan handling. The talks, organized by the Canadian Council of Agriculture and the Mortgage Loans Association, aimed to cultivate understanding and define ways to improve credit terms.
Local elder J. H. Higinbotham recalls record cold winters in December 1884 when temperatures supposedly plunged to 56 degrees below zero and froze a bottle of mercury. He notes further freezes of coal oil red ink and seven year old whiskey amid a harsh 1893 Turkey Trail train journey from Lethbridge to Medicine Hat.
Winnipeg reports Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dr. J H Grisdale hopes freight rates on cattle from Canada to Great Britain will drop to about 15 per head. He cites ongoing negotiations in the Old Country and notes a cut could open a market for 800 to 1,000 pound steers. He also comments on a potential oat seed shortage and positive farmer sentiment after Western Canada meetings.
London papers marked the 21st anniversary of Orville Wrights first powered flight at Kitty Hawk North Carolina with prominent features and pictures of the Wright brothers. The Daily Mail published a message from Orville Wright noting the modesty about his initial achievement compared with later aviation advances.
Dr. Isa Amyot deputy minister of health told the Dominion council of health that requirements for medical examination of European immigrants have produced a high health standard among new arrivals at Canadian ports. He cited the $200 fine on steamship companies for transporting diseased persons as very effective.
Sir Robert Falconer announced that the University of Toronto board has decided to increase annual tuition for University College students from $40 to $75, starting September 192:. The university examination fee remains $10, making total fees $85 rather than the current $50.
Spillers Exporting Western Canadian grain from their Vancouver elevator. A steamship Tenpaisan Maru carried 16 000 bushels. The plant now loads at 15 000 bushels per hour.
Holland Montreal W. Van Heeckeren, known for Western Canadian farm work, is named CPR agent in Rotterdam. He will guide prospective emigrants, highlighting Canada farming advantages and opportunities for settlers.
Family patent flour has advanced 30 cents per barrel here to $1.05. Higher costs of heat are the cause, increasing the price at the point of sale.
The Canadian Pacific Great Lakes steamship service ran its full fleet for seven months for the first time since 1913. Flour transport reached about 300,000 tons with approximately 75 percent exported, highlighting Canada’s growing industrial export activity.
Funeral services for Samuel Gompers were held at the Elks Club with a large crowd. The procession moved to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown for interment as thousands gathered and listened via radio from nearby streets.
McGill University plans an inter collegiate radio debate to be broadcast on CHYC TM. Negotiations are under way with New England institutions as part of a cross border contest set to air in the near future.
The legislature is unlikely to meet before February. An early January session was anticipated, but delays from the natural resources conference and Premier Greenfield's eastern trip push back the start beyond the hoped for time.
Saskatchewan legislature approves changes to the Liquor Bill. The board may raise liquor sale outlets to 25 in the province and lower per person limits to two gallons of beer and one gallon of wine daily. Individual single sales may reach ten gallons of wine or two gallons of hard liquor with 14 day intervals. A permit system may be adopted if abuses arise.
Former President Millerand launched his bid against the Herriot government at a 1200-cover banquet of the National Republican League. He delivered a lengthy fighting speech urging Republicans to join in forming a centre bloc to control the French Parliament, denouncing the government as threatening order finances and security and noting dominance by the revolutionary socialist party.
President Coolidge endorses the merit system as the most successful and efficient basis for personnel policy in both public service and private business. The statement was read to the National Civil Service Reform League’s forty-fourth annual convention. He cautions that no system is perfect but lauds merit as the real foundation for staffing.
Representative Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican on the House naval committee, urges a resolution to empower the president to call a conference of white nations around the Pacific to discuss economic, commercial and political understanding. He cites Japan’s stance at the League and warns of open war preparations. Australia is willing to join, with Australia, Canada or Honolulu as possible conference sites.
New York reports that the shining silver dollar, the old-time cartwheel, will reappear in general circulation this Christmas after years of absence. The silver dollar had faded from use for a decade as Hindus buried wartime silver in India.
Cairo reports Ziwar Pasha's government declined to call a national parliament despite petitions from parliamentary leaders and various groups to King Fuad.
Ottawa reports Cabinet discussions on restoring the Crow's Nest rate schedule after a prairie provinces appeal. Parliament may be summoned February 5 as officials draft an order-in-council with Governor-General concurrence. An official declaration is expected Saturday.
Alberta farm exports to the Orient show striking growth in the grain trade. Over three years exports increased by more than 9,000,000 bushels versus 1922, with 1923 grain exports rising by about 2,000,600 bushels and 1924 forecast to exceed 8,000,000. By October exports were up 6,750,000 bushels and November and December remained very strong.
Arthur Deverley Baxter, managing editor of the London Daily Express, predicts prohibition support by Lloyd George and Liberal parity as the likely next move in British politics. He believes Lloyd George has the matter under consideration and that prohibition will feature prominently in the Liberal appeal to the people.
Esthenian Foreign Minister M. Pustha says Berlin evidence will be shown to the League of Nations proving Moscow financed the revolt at Reval. He accuses the Soviet Government of arming the insurrectionists and providing ten million Esthenian marks.
Shareholders in the Hearst Publishing Company of Winnipeg are told they will recover less than ten cents on the dollar. F A William of Killarny Manitoba warns the estate's $30,000 investor may fail. Joseph Xavier Hearst, president of the firm, is missing and a receiver has been appointed.
Moose Jaw reports the Saskatchewan Registered Seed Grain Co operative Association began large scale work with two carloads of seed grain arriving. Earlier the firm limited season activity to handling seed grain in small lots at the Gillespie grain elevator.
The legislature passed a motion authorizing 25029 dollars for immigration purposes. The funds are mainly to cover the cost of bringing nine Hebridean fishermen to the west coast of Vancouver Island, Victoria, British Columbia.
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