TORIES TO HAVE LARGEST GROUP IN NEXT HOUSE
Ottawa reports the general election ends with Rt Hon Arthur Meighen leading the largest group in the next House of Commons. Conservatives win 115 seats, Liberals 7, Progressives 20, plus independents and others. Eight cabinet members lose seats. Quebec and Maritime results show heavy Conservative gains elsewhere. Agnes MacPhail remains the sole female MP.
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Ottawa
Canada
Arthur Meighen
House of Commons
Labor
King
W. E. Foster
James Murdock
G. N. Gordon
Ies
G. P
Maritime Provinces
Ontario
Quebec
E. L. Paienaude
Prairie
Manitoba
Alberta
New Viceroy of India Succeeds Earl of Reading
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, agriculture and fisheries minister and former president of the board of modification, is named viceroy of India to replace the Earl of Reading who retires next April. He is MP for Ripon and heir to Viscount Maldon.
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Earl of
Reading
London
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Agriculture and Fisheries
Board of Modification
India
Mr. Wood
Viscount Malifax
Anul
Ripon
West Riding
Yorkshire
Stanley Baldwin
Chinese leper moved to Lazarette colony after farm discovery
Nandime BC-Wong, found days ago by provincial police on a vegetable farm near South Walington, was taken aboard a boat and moved to the Lazarette leper colony at Bentick Island. Wong's shack and all belongings were burned and his faithful dog was killed.
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Nandime
Wong
South Walington
Lazarette
Bentick Island
Saskatchewan opens Farm Management department
The Department of Farm Management at the University of Saskatchewan is established under Professor William Allen. It will conduct an economic study of Saskatchewan farming in 1926, selecting field material during the spring and summer months.
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Regina
University of Saskatchewan
William Alen
Saskatchewan
Remade Ancient Roadway London Cornhill Closed Three Weeks
London streets halt as Cornhill closes for three weeks to rebuild the ancient Thoroughfare from Mansion House to Leadenhall Street. An army of laborers works day and night to restore the main city artery used since Roman times.
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London
Cornhill
Mansion House
Leadenhall Street
New French Cabinet Formed With Painieve as Finance Minister
The new cabinet, led by Premier Painieve, reorganizes key posts. Briand remains foreign minister while Chautemps takes justice, Schra interior, De Monzie works, and Daladier becomes war minister. Caillaux is absent from the new lineup amid the debt and currency issues.
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Painieve
M. Painieve
Gnance
Aristide Briand
M. de Monzie
M. Daladier
Emile Borel
Commerce
M._ Chau
M. Caillaux
Disastrous Blaze Hits Pethcodiac Village Business District
A severe fire in Pethcodiac New Brunswick destroyed five stores and three houses after sweeping through the village’s business section. Estimated damage exceeds 46000 with several other buildings including a hotel scorched. Fire origin unknown despite bucket and hand pump efforts by volunteers. The village’s fire losses near half a million dollars in recent years, repeatedly hitting the business area.
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Pethcodiac
N.B
Fie
Mitchell challenges court martial jurisdiction in Washington
Col. William Mitchell fights the legitimacy of his court martial after securing retirement of three members. He argues the alleged offenses do not fall under the articles of war, claiming the court lacks authority to try him. In China, Sun Chuan-Fang advances toward Hsuchow slowly due to limited rail.
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Col. Mitchell
Washington
Col
William Mitchell
Pékin
Sun Chuan-Fang
Hsuchow
Kiangsu
Chang ‘Ytso-Lin
U S Apple Crop Forecast For This Year
The department of agriculture forecasts the U S apple crop at 16400100 bushels this year down from 179000000 last year. The department notes the average person eats about half an apple daily, reflecting per capita consumption.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Department
London Weather Dips Between Hail Sleet and Rain
In a single day the London hotel and shopping district saw hail sleet rain and thunder within ten minutes of each other. Visitors were told that real fogs occur only in winter, sparking disappointment.
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London
Navy marks 150th birthday with optimism for future
The United States Navy celebrated its 150th birthday with expressions of optimism about the morale of the first line of defense and assurances that leaders face the future with confidence despite past events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Navy
Conn hunter bags largest New Brunswick moose head
E C Rogers of Putnam Connecticut secured the largest moose head taken in New Brunswick forests during the 1925 hunting season. The antlers span 64 inches. Rogers earned the trophy in the Bald Mountain district on the Miramichi river country.
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Fredericton
N.B
E. C. Rogers
Putnam, Conn
New Brunswick
Germicide Surgery Advocated at Surgeons Congress
At the fifteenth annual congress of the American College of Surgeons the board of regents announced launching a germicide campaign. They plan research and propaganda for antiseptic and germicidal methods to replace the knife in many minor and some major operations.
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Philadelphia
American College of Surgeons
Board of Regents
College
Lord Lister
League seeks Balkan neutral zone and security pacts
The council of the League of Nations envisions a neutral demilitarized Balkan zone between Greece and Bulgaria with conciliation commissions to settle local conflicts. It aims to spur Balkan security pacts and possibly broaden the Locarno framework toward European disarmament, stressing arbitration over war.
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Paris
Greece
Bulgaria
Balkans
Council of the
League of Nations
Council
Germany
Europe
Balkan
France
Greatoritain
Italy
Japan
Siberian whale hunt fleet reaches Seattle harbor
The Kommandoren, mother ship of the Vega Whaling Company of Sandefjord, Norway, arrived with four steam whalers after taking 16 000 barrels of whale oil from the Bering Sea off the Northeastern Siberian coast. The operation, the first off Siberian shores in years, operated under a Russian government concession.
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Seattle
Awith
Bering Sea
Siberia
Kommandoren
Vega Whaling Company
Sandefjord
Norway
Siberian
Penn Defeats Oxford in Prohibition Debate
The University of Pennsylvania debate team defeated Oxford University in Philadelphia upholding the affirmative of the question on prohibition.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Oxford University
Wheat Pool Plans to Acquire Elevator Network
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool delegates authorize the board to negotiate with the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company to acquire its elevator system. The pool has pursued own facilities since early, establishing Saskatchewan Pool Elevators Ltd and targeting sites with 10,000 or more acres under contract and shipping stations with 30,000 plus acres. By 1925, 86 elevators have been purchased or erected and are operating for the 1925 crop.
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Regina
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators Limited
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Seed Growers lease Moose Jaw plant
The Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers' Association won unanimous shareholder approval to lease the Moose Jaw plant for a year with a purchase option. The plant, capable of 250000 bushels, will operate this week to clean and register wheat oats barley and flax for the Canadian Seed Growers' Association. E G Booth MSA appointed superintendent and W E Walker BSA will serve as Dominion seed inspector. The facility will also offer custom cleaning for Moose Jaw district farmers at a nominal fee.
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Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
Regina
Saskatchewan Registered Seed Growers’ Association
Canadian Seed Growers's Association
E. G. Booth
M.S.A
W. E. Walker
B.S.A
Dominion
M. P. Tullis
Association
Quaker Coats Manager Comments on Plant Extension
Thomas Reynolds, local manager for the Quaker Coats Company, says an extension to the Saskatoon plant is contemplated though no definite timing is set and no purchase of property would occur without such plans.
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Saskatoon
Thomas Reynolds
Quaker Coats Company
Hugo Stinnes Son Flies to United States
Dr. Edmund Stinnes eldest son of the late Hugo Stinnes secretly departs for the United States amid family quarrels and disputes with bankers and receivers over the remnants of the Stinnes fortune.
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Hugo Stinnes
U. S
Berlin
Edmund Stinnes
United States
Stinnes
Tokyo to London flight duo lands in Rome
Twe Japanese aviators Abe and Kawachi, who recently completed a Tokio to London flight, have arrived in Rome.
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Rome
Abe
Kawachi
Tokio
London
Diplomat sails aboard Empress of Canada for China talks
Britain’s minister to China Sir Ronald MacLeay sails from Vancouver aboard the Empress of Canada for the Chinese customs tariff conference opening in Peking on October 26. Delegates include Mr. B C Newton Colonel Sydney Peel and Lady Delia Peel with Lady Macleay.
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Great Britain
China
Ronald MacLeay
Empress of Canada
Vancouver
Orient
B. C. Newton
Sydney Peel
Robert Peel
Viscount Peel
House of Commons
Ronald
Peking
Delia Peel
Lady Macleay
Message From Wrecked Coaster Found Off Graham Beach
A bottle with a note from the lost coaster Haysport Number 2, missing since January 1926 with four crew aboard, was found near Graham Beach by Cordillo of Butedale. The message reads we are wrecked at Mill Bank Sound with no hope of escape from drowning and is signed Steamer Haysport.
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Cordilla
Butedale
Graham Beach
Mm Meesage
Mill Bank Sound
Partington
Addison
Polley
Wood
Cordillo
Haysport
Toronto Honors Robert J. Fleming
Toronto paid tribute to street railway magnate Robert J. Fleming with a citywide two minute pause in traffic and somber crowds at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. The body lay in state from 12.30 to 2.30 pm and was interred at Mount Pleasant cemetery after the service.
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Toronto
Robert J. Fleming
Timothy Eaton
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Explosive Riots in Damascus Spark French Bombardment
Refugee accounts credit French actions for deadly Damascus riots after rebels executed in the city prompted a large tribal uprising led by Hassan El Kharrat. Civilian quarters Chagour Medan Babsergi suffered 48 hours of shelling with periodic bombardment extending six more hours despite pleas for cessation.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Damascus
Beirut
Hassan el Kharrat
Hassan
Chagour
Medan
Bab Tuma
Mezzi
Bab-es-Salahiyeh
Babsergi
Gamelin
Statement Of Trade Very Encouraging
Canada reports a rise in exports and imports for the year ending September 30. Exports total 1,158,290,739 dollars, up from 1,073,463,570 in 1924, while imports reach 852,623,241 dollars, versus 826,166,002 in the previous year, according to the Dominion bureau of statistics.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Home rulers in India draft a Magna Charta
A Delhi conference led by N C Kelkar plans constitutional demands for native states. The keys include independent judiciary, elected state assemblies, executive accountability, autonomous local institutions, and free speech within law. The package is framed as an Indian Magna Charta.
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Delhi
India
N. C. Kelkar
Manitoba Feeder Show Opens in Winnipeg Amid Strong Entry List
The third annual Manitoba stocker and feeder show opened in Winnipeg with about double last year’s entrants. Peizgan Indian dewcy from Brochet Alta captured first in the three year old carlot class. Babovski and Finkelstein from Rondane Alta won multiple awards including second, third, fourth and fifth in the same division and second in the two group of five. James Db. McG Brandon Man won in the 3 and half class with Lloyd Co-operative Association taking the second Earlings.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Brochet
Alta
Carlot
Brandon
Man
Lloyd Co-operative Association
Regina Liberal Leader McIntosh Elected West's Only Editor
C R McIntosh of North Battleford won as Liberal candidate and becomes the sole western newspaper editor elected. He publishes the North Battleford News and has led Saskatchewan Press Association and the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association.
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Regina
C. R. McIntosh
N Battleford
Didate
North Battleford News
Saskatchewan Press Association
Saskatchewan
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Birthmark Boy in Constantinople Sparks Turkish Folklore
Devout Turks pilgrim to a Bosphorus home where a peasant couple has a son born with a birth-mark on his right leg resembling the national emblem, the star and crescent. Telievers deem it a sign of future greatness and the phenomenon draws interest from Turkish medical circles.
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Constantinople
Bosphorus
Turkey
Telievers
Alberta By-Elections Planned After Six MPs Vacate Seats
Premier Greenfield announced six by-elections to fill vacancies in the Alberta Legislative Assembly caused by members running in the Dominion election. The by-elections are set for about December 20 rather than a full general election.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Greenfield
German Coal Imports Signal Maine Fuel Relief
Portland dealers expect 4000 tons of German coal to arrive in about five weeks to ease Maine’s fuel shortage. The coal comes in stove, egg and nut sizes and will be priced near Welsh coal, marking the first such import since the war.
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Portland
Maine
Notable Potash Deposit Struck at Buddingen Works
A new deposit of potash salts of exceptional quality was found at a depth of 06 yards at Buddingen potash works after three years of continuous borings. The operation is subsidized by the Baden government, with the company established three years ago.
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Freiburg
Germany
Buddingen
Baden
Thinks Women Will Lead Philadelphia Speech
Dr Wiai Dell of Liverpool argues before the American College of Surgeons that women’s rise in politics and industry signals a degenerate male sex and a shift in social leadership.
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Philadelphia
W. Wiai Dell
Liverpool
England
American College of Surgeons
Australia’s Wheat Yield in 1925-26 Season
South Australia records a wheat yield of 32,964,000 bushels for 1925-26, averaging 13.10 bushels per acre. The figure rises by about two million bushels from the prior season, reflecting improved harvest output.
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Adelaide
Australia
South Australia
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Lon
Robert Rogers
Robert Borden
Rogers
Norris
George Perley
Ialand
Montreal
Agnes MacPhail
Odward Frederick Lindley Wood
Establiches New Department
Ketchikan, Alaska
Nabesno
Alaska Steamship Company
Ketchikan Wharf Company
Chicago
Wil
W. Th. Baldwin
Missouri Pacific
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Justice
M. Chautemps
the Interior
M. Schra
Agriculture
Jean Tour
M. Thiphos
Paul Morel
M. Durafour
M. Anteriou
U. S. Navy
Whalers
Oxford
Wheat Pool
Wark Island
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