Unanimous ruling ends CP monopoly on Western news
The Canadian Pacific Railway faces a ruling that press and telegraph rates for news distribution must be equal for all providers. The railway commission declares CP must drop discriminatory rates and file uniform tariffs within a month, ending twenty years of CP news dominance in Western Canada.
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Western Associated Press
Western News Service
Ottawa
Board of Railway Commuisioner
Preas
Winnipeg News Gathering Association
Canadian Pacific Railway
G.N.W. Telegraph Companies
Wwe
Wainwipeg
Telegraph Company
Railway Commissioners
Western Associatedress
Canada
Railway Commission
C. P.R
C.P.R
W.A.P
C.P.R. Railway Company
C.P.R. Telegraphs
W.A P
CPLR
C_P_R
Montreal
Board of Railway Commissioners
Saskatchewan Crop Yields Boost Prairie Ranking in 1909
Saskatchewan produced 4,086,000 bushels of wheat and 6,980,000 oats with yields of 22.1 and 47.1 bushels per acre respectively, ranking third among provinces. Farm values topped 132.5 million including grain, milk products, and assets. harvest aid included 12,500 harvesters brought from the east for seven trips across the province.
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Saskatchewan
Minnesota
North Dakota
Kansas
United States
Clinois
Iowa
Saskatoon Milling Firms Merge to Build Large New Flour Mill
Mills Ama.amate Saskatoon announces amalgamation of Saskatoon Milling and Elevator with Wilson Leslie forming a large western Canada flour mill. Tenders are issued for machinery and building on Seventeenth Street with an attached elevator, expanding existing elevator lines.
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Saskatoon
Taxicabs for Winnipeg Enter a Local Fleet
Winnipeg business men organize a local taxicab company ordering ten Franklin aircooled cabs at about 3700 dollars each. Deliveries to arrive by February 1 with the system planned to run by bonspiel week. Headquarters will be in the Winnipeg garage and the company reports no eastern connections.
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Winnipeg
Winnnipegers
System
Canadian Naval Bill Expands Fleet to Eleven Vessels
Ottawa reports that Sir Wilfrid Laurier announced a plan to build an eleven‑vessel Canadian navy costing about eleven million dollars with three million annual maintenance. The fleet includes four Bristol Class cruisers and six River Class destroyers, built mainly in Canada at about thirty five percent of the cost abroad.
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Navy
Ottawa
House of Commons
Wolfrid Laurier
L. P. Brodeur
Sir Wilfrid
Canada
Atlantic
Naval Service of
R. L. Borden
Germany
Great Britain
Britain
Borden
F. D. Monk
Lachine
London
the Times
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Toronto
R. M L. Borden
Dramatic End to Staten Cattle Thief
Reports say Dutch Henry, a famed border cattle thief, was shot and killed by a mounted RNWMP officer at Big Muddy river moose jaw. Police deny the claim and await official verification as settlers confirm no truth to the rumor.
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Staten
Moose Jaw
Sask
Henry
Big Muddy River
Here
R.N.W.M
Dutch Henry
Big Muddy
Ted Henry
South Country
Montana
Wood Mountain
Winnipeg’s Low Death Rate Among Continental Cities
Winnipeg recorded 12.1 deaths per thousand last year, one of the continent’s lowest rates. Cleveland followed at 13.2 while New Orleans topped at 20.6.
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Winnipeg
Cleveland
New Orleans
Daredevil Paulhan Soars to 5000 Feet in Aerial Feat
Louis Paulhan, the French aviation ace, reached 5000 feet altitude in a mile-high flight at the mid winter aviation event in Los Angeles before a crowd of about 40 000. His 50 minute ascent ended with a triumphant parachuting landing close to the grandstand as Curtiss and Willard tested rival machines. Curtiss showed speed by beating the Santos-Dumont record in takeoffs and climbs, highlighting rapid progress in aerial navigation.
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Paulhan
Paulin
Paulban
Glenn H. Curtiss
C. F. Willard
Curtiss
Glenn H. Curtise
Cur ‘Tise
Paul‘han
Glenn H Curtiss
Santos Dumont
C. B Herman
Hamilton
Willand
Lincoln Beach
Roy Knabensehne
Trade Volumes Rise Sharply Across Year 1909
The Board of Trade reports year ending December 31 1909 exports at £469 744 809 an increase of £13 000 000 48 from 1908 while imports total £624 740 517 up £32 000 000. December exports reach £43 424 818 up £6 000 0 0 and imports £60 785 883 up nearly £4 000 000. December raw cotton imports fall about £140 000 versus 1908. cotton and grain exports rise about £1 500 000 that month.
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London
Board of Trade
Aged Woman Dressed as Man in Montreal Arrest
A 70 year old man calling himself William Dubois was jailed for vagrancy in Montreal. He resisted being housed with men claiming to be a woman. Jail doctors confirmed Adelina Dubois and she has worn men's clothes since age 28 before being moved to the women’s jail.
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Montreal
Wm. Dubois
Jar Hospital
Adelina Dubois
A Poor Defence and a Cleveland Trust Exchange
H C Frick criticized a trust noting that excuses and palliations are common even when caught red handed. He recalled a Pittsburg divine arguing with a tobacconist over Sabbath business, the shopkeeper retorting that selling cigars for 5 cents was charity.
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H.C. Frick
Pittsburg
Oil Fields of Alberta Prominent Winnipeg in New Oil Company
A Winnipeg led firm, bound by five million dollars, forms Athabasca Oil and Asphalt Company to develop Alberta oil and asphalt near Fort McMurray. Officers include KE F Hotchings and W C Liestikow, with directors such as John Galt and Robert Jones. The merger plan targets Edmonton supply via a new pipeline, with two thirds Canadian capital and one third American. The Dominion government supports prospecting with 30,000 dollars. Ottawa cites optimistic reports on soon abundant production. The headquarters will be in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
Western Canada
Athabasca Oil and Asphalt Company
Northam
Alberta
Edmonton and Great Waterways
Fort MecMurmig
Edmonton
Nl and Asphalt Company
Standard Oi
Auncheon
Royal Alexamera Re
KE F Hotchings
Jomes Kelly
John McCrea
Arthur Stewart
G. F Carruthers
United States
Cox
T. O. Davis
Prince Aibert
T. W. Taylor
Minneapolis
Robert Jones
Lincoln National Bank of Chicago
J. Wieser
First National Bank of Dakota
J. McKenna
Mulock, Loftus
Armstrong and Lindsay
Alfred von Hammerstein
von Hammerstein
Athapasca
Dominion
Ottawa
Frank Smith
Fort McMaurray
British adviser pinpoints Garden of Eden site in Hairlah
According to De Stamrrbon, Sir William Wilcox, adviser to Britain's public works minister, locates Eden at Hairlah, 250 km NW of Baghdad. He states the Euphrates splits into four arms there, linking to Eden rivers and suggesting the deluge was the plain's flooding due to dike failures by pastoral communities.
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Constartinante
de Stamrrbon
William Wilcox
Public Works
Hairlah
Bagdad
Fden
William
Two New Senators Named for Nova Scotia
Ottawa announces the appointment of Hon Edward M Farrell of Nova Scotia and former Halifax city MP William Roche to fill two senate vacancies. The seats had been vacant for over a year.
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Ottawa
Edward M. Farrell
N.S
William Roche
M.P
Halifax City
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Standard Oil
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