Unanimous ruling ends Western News monopoly in Canada
The Canadian Pacific railway and G N W Telegraph face a board ruling that presses must be sold at uniform rates for news delivery and retransmission. The decision ends CPRs discriminatory practices and requires tariffs to be filed and equal access across Western Canada.
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Ottawa
Board of Railway Commissioners
Winnipeg News Gathering Association
Wrich
Canadian Pacific Railway
G.N.W. Telegraph Companies
Winnipeg
Respondente Rega
Telegraph Company
Associated Press
Western Associated Press
Canada
Railway Commission
C. P.R
C_PLE
W_A.P
Railway Commissioners
W.A.P
O.P.R. Railway Company
C.P.R. Telegraphs
C.P.R
Saint Scan Civides
C.plr
Western Canada
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Terlney
Cana
Saskatchewan Crop Yields and Farm Assets in 1909
Saskatchewan produced large wheat and oats crops in 1909 with wheat at 90,256,000 bushels and oats 105,465,000 bushels. The report lists average yields, farm values totaling 178,421,961 dollars, and notes substantial eastern harvesters aiding the harvest across the province.
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Yietu
Deis
Barney
Imese
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Union
Minnesota
North Dakota
Kansas
United States
Illinois
Iowa
Askatchewan
Saskatoon To See Large New Flour Mill Complex
A merger of Saskatoon Milling and Elevator firms creates a mammoth flour mill project. The new facility on Seventeenth Street will include a large connected elevator and expand the companys existing network of elevators as tenders for machinery and construction are issued and work begins.
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Amate
Saskatoon
Sask
Saskatoon Icea Elevator Company
Wilson, Leslie Company
Canada
Seventeenth Street
Taxicabs for Winnipeg Fleet Planned
Winnipeg taxicab company formed by local businessmen aims to launch within a week. Ten air cooled cabs ordered at about 3700 dollars each, delivery by February 1, with Winnipeg garage as the initial headquarters and no eastern connections.
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Winnipeg
Winnipe
Shire Place
Winnmnipegers
Canadian Navy Bill Expands Fleet To Eleven Vessels
Ottawa announces Canada will build eleven ships instead of seven with four Bristol class cruisers, one Broadis type, and six River class destroyers. Maintenance budget about three million dollars annually. shipbuilding cost estimated at eleven million. The bill follows the Militia act with no conscription. London’s Times lauds Laurier and questions Borden’s opposition.
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Navy
Ottawa
House of Cousmons
Wilfrid Laurier
L. P. Brodeur
Sir Wilfrid
Canada
Atlantic
Wilfrid
Naval Service of
R. L. Bonien
Germany
Britain
Mr. Borden
F. D. Monk
Lachine
London
the Times
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Toronto
R. J. Borden
Dramatic End Reported for Notorious Cattle Thief
Moose Jaw reports that Dutch Henry, eight year cattle thief and rustler, was killed in a duel with a mounted policeman near Big Muddy river. The officer reportedly shot the thief after a failed arrest, ending a long border pursuit. Local officials caution the claim is unofficial and unverified. Montana authorities deny the shooting, confirming no truth to the rumor.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Henry
Big Muddy River
Here
R.N.W.M
Dutch Henry
Big Muddy
Bacon
South
South Country
Montana
Wood Mountain
Winnipeg Death Rate Among Continent’s Lowest
Winnipeg reports a death rate of 12.1 per thousand for last year, among the continent’s lowest. Cleveland is next at 13.2, while New Orleans stands highest at 20.6.
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Winnipeg
Cleveland
New Orleans
Record Flight Breaks Altitude in Mid-Winter Air Meet
Louis Paulhan of France soared to 5 000 feet at the international aviation tournament in Los Angeles. He stayed aloft fifty minutes and forty six seconds before a controlled descent, triggering cheers as Curtiss and Willard moved to the course.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Louis Pauhan
France
Paulhan
Paulun
Glenn H. Curtiss
C. F. Willard
Panthan
Curtiss
Farmay
Glenn H. Curtise
Santos Dumont
C. B Herman
Hamilton
Willand
Lincoln Beachy
Ror Knebensehne
Big Increase in Trade in London 1909
The Board of Trade reports for the year ending December 31 1909 show exports at £469,744,809 an rise of £13,000,000 and imports at £624,740,517 up £32,000,000. December exports reach £43,424,818 up £60,000 over 1908 while imports total £60,785,885 up nearly £4,000,000. December 1909 raw cotton imports fell about £140,000 from 1908. Cotton and grain exports rose about £1,500,000 in December.
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London
Board of Trade
Aged Woman Dressed as Man in Montreal Arrest
A seventy-year-old man calling himself Wm Dubois was arrested for vagrancy in Montreal. Heated resistance at the jail hospital revealed the detainee is a woman named Adelina Dubois who has worn men's clothing since age 28 and was moved to the women's jail.
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Montreal
Wm. Dubois
Adelina Dubois
A Poor Defence
H. C. Frick cites a naval or political trust defense with excuses and palliation. A Pittsburg divine argued with a tobacconist over Sabbath business insisting selling cigars for 5 cents each is charity.
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H. C. Frick
Pittsburg
Oil Fields of Alberta Form New Winnipeg Company
Winnipeg reports the formation of Boundless Resources with five million dollars capital to exploit Northern Alberta oil wealth. The merger includes Canadian and American interests, led by E F Hutchings and Alfred Von Hammerstein, with headquarters in Winnipeg. Prospects at Fort McMurray and Athabasca area shown promising. plans cover a Edmonton rail line and rapid expansion, with government support and anticipated employment growth.
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Standard Oil
Winnipeg
Canada
Athabasca Oil and Asphalt Company
Alberta
Edmonton
Nl and Asphalt Company
Pavny
Standard Oil Company
Auncheon
Royal Alexandra
E. F. Hutchings
W. C. Lieatiko
G. H. Ruth
le Marshell [i] Company
Marshalltown
Iowa
Alfred von Hammerstein
John Galt
Thomas Kelly
Tohn McCrea
Arthur Stewart
Dominion
Ottawa
Frank Dnith
Fort McMurray
Scientist Locates Garden of Eden Near Wairlab Oasis
Sir William Wilcox, adviser to Britain’s public works minister, identifies a site at Wairlab about 259 kilometers northwest of Baghdad as the Garden of Eden. He argues the Euphrates section splits into four arms, matching the four rivers of Eden, and suggests the deluge arose from flooding across the plain between the Euphrates and Tigris.
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Garden of Eden
Constartinente
Torral de Sterbonl
William Wilcox
Public Works
Wairlab
Bagdad
Faden
William Suggsts
Euphretes
Tigris
Two Nova Scotia Senate Vacancies Filled
Ottawa announces Edward M. Farrell speaker of the Nova Scotia assembly and former Halifax city MP William Roche are named to fill two senate vacancies. The posts had stood open for more than a year.
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Ottawa
Edward M. Farrell
N.S
Nemy Iv
William Roche
M.P
Halifax City
Nova Scotia
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Railway Board
Western News Service
Bureau of Information and Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Laurier
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