Provisional Germany Canada Trade Pact Signed At Ottawa
Germany and Canada reach a partial trade accord via the German consul and Canadian finance minister to apply minimum tarif rates to many Canadian manufactured articles. The move ends surtaxes imposed by each country and follows years of tense tariff disputes tied to Britain and Franco-Canadian pacts. Winnipeg also reports 1300 homestead lands opened for settlement, with specifics on townships east of the 1st meridian and notes on snow delays and suitability.
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Ottawa
Canada
Otswa
S.quet
Rut Lanf
Laspevieal Gering
Tor Cansa
Ami
Fielding
Tuaitintier
Germany
Canwia
Berg Etsterea
Great Briain
United Kingdom
France
Winnipeg
English Buyers Purchase 10000 Acres of Alberta Coal Lands
E H Morphy of Morphy Ewing and Bradford, representing English clients, buy 10000 acres of coal lands along the Pembina river at Alberta from Purchard of St Paul. Purchase price stated as 1,100,000 dollars. Two years earlier Burchard and associates bought the lands on speculation.
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Britishers Bay
Alberta
St. Paul, Minn
E. H. Morphy
Morphy, Ewing & Bradford
England
Purchard
St. Paul
Pembina River
Burchard
Morphy
Eight Millions for Improvements on Soo Railway
Soo Railway officials plan an eight million dollar program for improvements and new construction this year. Work will be directed from the Minneapolis general office and aims to strengthen the northwest network amid a positive financial outlook.
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Northwest
Soo Railway
Minneapolis
Taber By-law passes to fund gas and water testing
Taber residents approved a by-law to raise 15,000 for testing gas and water, though the passage was by a narrow margin.
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Taber
Develop Northern Waters Elmonton Seeks Great Lakes Link
J. K. Cornwall, Peace River MLA, promotes northern Alberta waterways linking 3500 miles of navigable rivers and lakes. He cites German seaports for information, studies wireless telegraphy for ships, and urges rapid northern development despite Paris flood devastation reports.
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Great Lakes
Alberta
Th North
Cornwall
Ant
Corneil
Barracks and fleet plans for Halifax naval scheme
Ottawa outlines government defense scheme including two new brigades, an admiralty dockyard, and two battle cruisers. Halifax to host Atlantic naval headquarters with a 1 549 man contingent. annual upkeep estimated around 2.4 million dollars, covering barracks staff and vessels.
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Otawa
Loenwad
Halifas
Admiralty
Halifax
Atlauntic
Niobe
Threix
Bristos
Esquimalt
Rainbow
January Trade Totals Break Records Across Import Export
Trade totals for January reach over fifty one million dollars with a 30 percent rise. January imports amount to about thirty million two hundred fifty five thousand eight hundred and two. exports of domestic products total twenty million two hundred fifty eight thousand four hundred six. For ten months, imports surpass six hundred fifty three million with exports of domestic goods around two hundred forty one million three hundred seventy five thousand two hundred nineteen. The customs revenue for the month reaches four million six hundred six thousand four hundred two.
Cost of staff and loaf less than five percent of family food bill
Mr W Thompson asserts consumption of bread is under five per cent of a typical family budget while amusements cost six times as much. He cites higher bread costs amid urban prosperity, notes wages in bread making exceed foreign levels, and argues farmers must prosper for national growth. He cites Canada’s prairie arable land and urges restraint from luxuries.
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W. Thompson
F. W Thompsen
Maresing Sarector
Ogilvie Fieur Mills Co
Phere de Oo
Tife
London
Canada
Prairie
Canadian policy advice from a wartime correspondent
A foreign desk columnist argues that Canada should pursue a considered policy to prepare for worshippers and rebuild in a way that supports stabilization, balance, and measured actions. The piece stresses prudent planning and gradual adjustment rather than abrupt shifts in response to the current upheaval.
Toronto Penulation Announced by Cirsetory Furures
A terse notice from Cirsetory Furures reports Toronto's Penulation 402577 with a brief reference to a forthcoming announcement and a numeric code 1402567.
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Toronto
Plans for Grand Prairie settlement and river transport
Mr. Oliver told Mr. Cornwall that an agriculturist will visit Peace River country next summer to pick a site for an experimental farm in the Grand Prairie. Thirty townships surveyed will be opened for settlement once plans are accepted, with project costs totaling about 3.6 million annually for a new naval fleet including the Rainbow.
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Oliver
Cornwall
Domigiot Department of Agriculture
Peace River
Grand Prairie
Gladstone Honored as Peer in British Service
Herbert John Gladstone secretary of state for home affairs and prospective governor general of British South Africa has been raised to the peerage. An Eton and Oxford man with a long Liberal career he served as private secretary to his father in 1880 81 and held posts including lord of the treasury under secretary of the home office commissioner of works and chief whip before 1906.
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London
Herbert John Gladstone
Home Affairs
British South Africa
Gladstone
Eton
University College
Oxford
William E. Gladstone
Treasury
Home Office
Yoong Man
Liberal Party
Hudson Bay Fur Exports Through St John For London Sales
The Hudson's Bay Company's furs valued at over half a million dollars passed through St John New Brunswick recently for the February sales in London.
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St. John
N.B
Hudson's Bay Company
London
Rockefeller Dividend Boosts Rockefeller Holdings
The Standard Oil of New Jersey directors declared a quarterly dividend of 15 a share. John D. Rockefeller will receive a 4,050,000 cheque on March 1 for his 27 percent stake. Since 1898 dividends total 451,722,000 with Rockefeller at 118,000,000. Since 1892 the trust’s profits reach 1,100,000,000 with a surplus fund near 300,000,000.
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Rockefeller
New York
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
John D. Rockefeller
Owl
Rockefeler
Whch
Record Rush of Immigrants at Halifax Port
Immigrants arrive in large numbers with 1000 aboard the Tunisian and similar totals on the Urania from Rotterdam and the Express of Britain from Liverpool. By February first the season’s arrivals are double the prior year with 6693 passengers this season versus 2002 last season.
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Halifax
Street Railway Franchise Sought in Moose Jaw Meeting
Moose Jaw city council received an application from an eastern syndicate for a 20 year street railway franchise. The group promised operation within a short term and council decided to launch a street paving program to be completed before next winter.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Military Airship Demonstration At Aldershot Fail Safe
The large airship launched from the Farrborough balloon factory and flown over Laffins Plains Aldershot Camp before returning to its shed. It maintained control at several hundred feet, faced a stiff breeze, and traveled at pace, showcasing a craft far larger than its predecessors at 170 feet in length with side propellers and a below body framework.
Battleship Torpedoed in Gulf of Jouan clash
Admiral Jonquieres reports that a Patrie torpedo hit the Remabliane during practice in the Gulf of Jouan. The Patrie and Republique are turret ships of 14 635 tons with four 12 inch guns each. Patrie finished at La Seone in 1906 and Republique at Brest in 1906, each with 793 crew.
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Toulon
Jonquieres
Gulf of Jouan
Patrie
Republique
la Seone
Brest
Eaton offers 250000 to build wing in memory of founder
J C Eaton of the T Eaton Co pledges a 250000 gift to construct a wing of the new general hospital in Toronto in memory of his father, the late T Eaton. The donation aims to fund medical facilities and public health services for the city.
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Toronto
J. C. Eaton
T Eaton Co
T. Eaton
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