Important Measures To Reduce Cable Rates In Canada
Ottawa reports Hon Rodolphe Lemieux proposes regulating wireless and cable messages under the railway commission to enable cheaper rates. The plan targets press messages at six cents per word and deferred messages at twelve, aims for a state owned cable, and aligns with broader imperial and trade policies. The Franco-Canadian treaty treaty ratifications are set for February 1. Mackenzie King introduces immigration reform and strengthens border controls. Edmonton notes CNR main line construction to proceed in spring with a focus on the Edmonton to Causeaven corridor and branch lines to Wewak and Calgary.
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Ottawa
Rodolphe Lemieux
Canada
Railway Commission
Lemieux
London
Paris
W. L. Mackenzie King
Oliver
United States
Edmonton
Wm. Mackenzie
McKenzie
Causeaven
Weegreville
Calgary
Mackenzie
Meckenzie
Fhigland
Edison storage battery tested on Newark West Orange street car
May supersede trolley as engineers and traffic men head to West Orange New Jersey for the first practical test of Thomas A Edison’s storage battery. The trial on a Newark to West Orange car could lead to Philadelphia service and the removal of trailer wires, with broader aims toward aerial navigation.
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New York
West Orange
N.J
Thos. A. Edison
Newark
Philadelphia
Alberta Aid Sought for Pacific Grain Route
Edmonton plans to secure Alberta government help for a scheme to boost shipments from the province via a western route to Britain. The plan includes an independent Vancouver terminal elevator and a grain boat line between Vancouver and Liverpool, proposed by Caneian-Mexican Steamship Company general manager Alan T. H. Worsnop.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Alan T. H. Worsnop
Caneian-Mexican Steamship Company
Ind Monton
Vancouver
Liverpool
Duke Conspiracy Unveiled in Guadix Cottage
A counterfeit operation led by the Duke of Benevento and Marquis Lombay was discovered in a cottage near Guadix. Reports say the Duke of Benevento and Lombay have been arrested and many prominent persons are said to be compromised.
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Mefrid
Hias
Guadix
Duke of
Benevento
Lombay
City name change proposal targets Westminster Frebbly
The Vancouver master board of trade recommends dropping the name New and adopting Westminster Frebbly as the city’s official name. The proposal will be considered by the legislature in this session.
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Vencouver
New Weert
Master Board of Trade
New
Westminster
Diet to Cure Consumption Through Milk Strippings
A self help diet claims to cure consumption by large milk intake from a healthy Jersey cow. It cites rapid weight gain, reduced coughing, and a case of Mrs A. KE who gained about 40 pounds in three months after starting the milk regimen and recovering without medicines.
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A. KE
Farmers Accept Government Draft for Hog Supply Plan
Edmonton farmers and the United Farmers convention approve a government draft requiring yearly hog supplies to a co-operative pork packing plant in exchange for a state-backed plant. The agreement follows months of deadlock and a grant of 50 000 dollars to the project.
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Edmonton
United Farmers Convention
Forty Girls Die In Fire At Elis Building Philadelphia
A devastating blaze at the Elis Building on Third and Walnut streets traps more than two score girls, with many injured escaping. The fire is thought to have started on the third floor used by Shoemaker & Sons shirtwaist makers. four other firms occupied the building. All workers were female.
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Philadelphia
Elis
Third
Walnut
Shoemaker & Sons
George Brown Named European Manager of CPR
George McL. Brown appointed European manager of the CPR to succeed the late Archer Baker. The rapid appointment comes as Sir Thames Shaughnessy and G. M. Rosworth are in London, Rosworth overseeing the steamship service. Brown had previously left Montreal in 1908 for London to replace Allan Cameron as general traffic agent.
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George Brown
Montreal
George McL. Brown
C.P.R
Archer Baker
Thames Shaughnessy
G. M. Rosworth
London
Brown
Allan Cameron
Mr. Brown
CPR Steamship Service
Great Meteor Buries Itself in North Dakota Earth
A meteor 65 inches wide and several tons buried six feet in Carrington North Dakota. It illuminated the country for a full minute before impact and caused earthquake-like vibrations. The object stayed hot for 94 hours and now resembles dull red ore.
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Grand Forks
N.D
Carrington
Paullhan Sets World Cross Country Flight Record
Louis Paulhan of France wins a $10,000 prize for a 45 mile cross country flight in a Farman biplane, breaking S F Cody’s 40 mile record. Watchers, including 60,000 spectators, saw Paulhan fly from the Lucks Baldwin ranch near Arcadia to the Sierra Madre foothills and back in a dramatic display.
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Cody
Los Angeles
Cal
Louis Paullan
France
Farman
S. F. Cody
Alderstat
Eng
Paulhan
Meat price protest sweeps Ohio cities with vegetable diet plan
In Columbus a resolution urged residents to skip meat for thirty days and live on vegetables nuts and fruit as a remedy to high prices. In Cincinnati suffrage group members pledged to abstain from butter meat and eggs until prices fall. Cleveland reports a shop closure and pork chop cuts while a 7000 strong meat strikers campaign grows with a 30 cent egg club proposal attracting hundreds.
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Columbus
Ohio
Representatives Tidrick
Williams
High Price Committee
Cincinnati
Susan B. Anthony Club
Gibson House
Cleveland
Army of
Frank Krause
Canada’s Nickel Deposits Urged for Government Control
Arthur Wilson told the Canadian Mines and Mineral Committee that Canada should seize control of its nickel deposits. He noted Canada holds three-fifths of the nickel controlled by the American Nickel trust and urged Imperial urgency to enable wartime shipbuilding advantages for Britain.
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Ottawa
Arthur Wilson
Dominion
Toronto
Mines and Mineral Committee
House of Commons
Canada
American Nickel Trust
Wilson
Great Britain
World Wheat Output Shatters Records in 1909
Russia leads with a harvest of 783 million bushels the largest on record. U S Department of Agriculture returns from a dozen countries show a net gain of 387 million bushels over 1908, lifting world wheat production by nearly 12 percent.
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Washington
Russia
U. S&s. Department of Agriculture
India
Zeppelin Airship Plan Between London and Hamburg
Count Zeppelin develops a new 984 foot dirigible for air traffic between London and Hamburg carrying 300 persons. Negotiations for landing sites are under way.
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Count Zeppelin
Berlin
London
Hambere
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Mackenzie King
Frank Oliver
CNR
Nickel Mines
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