Nomination of Candidates for Federal Contest
Ottawa reports official nominations in 27 federal constituencies between 12 and 2 pm on October 75th. Candidates deposited $206 with returning officers. withdrawal forfeits deposit. Nomination areas include Quebec Ontario Manitoba British Columbia Saskatchewan Alberta and Yukon. Elections now set for October 29 with a week extended to distribute ballots.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Yukon
Canada
French Casualties In Syria Figure Revealed
France has suffered 6042 killed or wounded in Syria since taking the League mandate. Premier Paiileye disclosed the total to the finance committee, noting casualties from prior campaigns remain unrecorded in the present tally. The Syria mandate was assigned to France by the Allied Supreme Council on April 25, 1920 and confirmed by the League on July 23, 1932.
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Paris
Syria
France
League of Nations
Paiileye
Chamber
Saedia
Supreme Council of the Allied Powers
Giant British Dirigible K-33 to Test Midair Plane Launch
The British airship K-33 will soon begin experiments to launch and recover a Te-53 aircraft in midair. A trapeze apparatus under the airship will allow the Te-53 to hook on during launch and return. The plan envisions airships acting as mother ships for a swarm of hornets to harry the enemy from clouds of smoke.
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London
Britain
Victoria observes Anzac Day as holiday
The Victorian Legislative Assembly passed a bill making Anzac Day April 25 a public holiday in the state. Anzac Day marks the Gallipoli landing by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and honors their service to the Allied war effort.
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Melbourne
Legislative Assembly of
Victoria
Gallipoli
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation Leader Returns
After a peace pledge signed by 35,000 BC school pupils last May at The Hague Peace Palace, Harry Charlesworth, secretary of the BC Teachers' Federation, has returned home to Victoria.
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Victoria
Peace Palace
Hague
Holland
British Columbia
Harry Charlesworth
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
Edmonton Post Office to Expand with New Wing Next Year
Dominion Government may undertake extensions to the Edmonton post office involving a new wing next year. An order-in-council has authorized purchasing nearby property at about 52000 dollars, with part of the sum already paid.
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Edmonton
Dominion
Last rites for Brig Gen H N Ruttan with full honors
Winnipeg mourns Brig Gen H N Ruttan as citizens from all walks of life attend a burial with full military honors. In a separate note, reports say Japan may send six girl tennis players to the United States in 1926 for tournament competition.
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Winnipeg
H. N. Ruttan
Japan
United States
Maritimes Seek Freight Rate Reductions
An expert brief prepared by F. C. Cornell for the Maritime provinces petitions the Canada Board of Railway Commissioners for substantial freight rate cuts. It argues Maritime geography and product mix justify reductions for shipments to Western and Central Canada and for freight passing through North Atlantic ports.
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Board of Railway Commission
F. C. Cornell
Maritime Provinces
Board of Railway Commissioners For Canada
Maritimes
Western
Central
Canada
North Atlantic
Trade With Russia Dodges Early Prospects Under Baldwin
Right Hon. Arthur Henderson, former Home Secretary, said there are no early signs of restored trade with Soviet Russia while Baldwin leads Britain. He noted Canada could ship wheat and agricultural implements if Russia regains wheat production, and warned export industries in Britain suffer without improved diplomacy. He added a majority favor admitting Germany to the League of Nations to ease tensions and boost peace.
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Ottawa
Russia
Britain
Baldwin
Arthur Henderson
Home
MacDonald
Canada
Henderson
Germany
League of Nations
Veteran Arctic skipper hints at further voyages
Captain J E Bernier, 74, commander of the Canadian Government auxiliary schooner Arctic, told newspapermen he is willing to sail again if needed and hopes for a pension if earned. He recently returned from a northern voyage after a bad fall off Greenland, with X rays planned to check his bruised side. The Arctic voyage may be his last at the helm.
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Quebec
J. E. Bernier
Arctic
Bernier
Ottawa
Greenland
Vancouver Port Forecast Big Grain Exports 1925 26
Leslie HK Boyd predicts Vancouver will export at least 65 000 000 to 70 000 000 bushels of grain in the 1925 26 shipping season. He cautions no official statement but bases his forecast on general market conditions.
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Vancouver
B.C
Leslie HK. Boyd
K.C
Grain Board of Canada
Boyd
France Repeals Rye-Addition Rule On Flour
France plans to return to using pure wheat flour as this year’s abundant harvest allows removal of the four per cent rye addition required last year. The law mandating rye in wheat flour will be abrogated to resume full wheat usage.
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Paris
France
Youth party studies Canadian farming in Alberta
A party of 20 youths led by Miss Ethel Nicholls traveled from Regina aboard the White Star liner Regina to Alberta to study Canadian agricultural methods. The delegation plans to inspect farms, observe cultivation techniques, and report findings for classroom and future work.
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Montreal
Ethel Nicholls
Regina
Alberta
British firm seeks direct Saskatchewan butter shipments
A J Mille and Company London sent W illespie as Regina's first representative to Britain in search of Western butter for direct English imports. He urged Sask. co operatives and other firms to ship directly, praising Saskatchewan butter gains and forecasting a major rise in Western dairy trade to Britain.
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Regina
United Kingdom
A. J. Mille and Company
London
Willespie
Saskatchewan
Saskatchews
Co-operative Creamertes
Gilleside
New Zealand
Great Britain
Would Abolish Level Crossings In Toronto
Ontario attorney-general W F Nickle calls for complete abolition of level crossings after the Scarboro Junction tragedy where six people died in a CN flyer collision. He rejects half measures like mandatory stopping at crossings as unsafe.
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Toronto
Scarboro Junction
Canadian National
W. F. Nickle
Ontario
Canadian National Railways
Britain Moves Against Red Activities in London Raids
Police raided the Communist party headquarters and a London branch office, arresting six officials as papers and publications were seized. The party warned of a new attack on the working class while pledging to strengthen itself and resist the government.
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London
Communist Party
Branc
Communist Political Bureau
Iingland
Paris considers counter-proposal on war debt to U S
French government plans a counter-proposal to the United States on funding the wartime debt. Paris reports a five year breathing spell with France paying 40 million dollars annually, a plan Washington’s debt commission has studied without final decision. The move suggests Washington’s terms were rejected.
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Paris
United States
America
Ministry of Finance
Washington
Debt Commission
France
United Press
Canada Emigration Plan Discussed by W Bruce Walker
W Bruce Walker Canadian director of European emigration explains in an interview that interviews will replace the typewriter and personal touch will substitute for correspondence to recruit settlers for Canada. He says agriculturists are wanted to pave the way for unemployed in industrial surplus. The Morning Post regrets misperceptions that England’s day is done and most of its population lives on doles.
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London
Eng
Canada
W. Bruce Walker
Morning Post
Welker
Dominion
the Post
Annual Sheep and Swine Show in Regina
The Exhibition Association board set November 3 4 and 5 for the sheep and swine show and the dressed poultry show on November 3. Prizes totaling $450 will be awarded. Judges include Professor M C Herner from Manitoba Agricultural College for poultry, Professor J Wood for sheep, and L Hancock and A P Potter for swine.
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Regina
The
Exhibition Association
M. C. Herner
Manitoba Agricultural College
A. J. McKay
MacDonald
Man
J. Wood
L. Hancock
Winnipeg
British Columbia School Trustees Open Convention
Dean H T J Coleman of the University of British Columbia criticized culture as meaningless and artificial while addressing the opening session of the British Columbia School Trustees Association annual convention in Victoria.
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Victoria
Dean H. T. J. Coleman
University of British Columbia
British Columbia School Trustees’ Association
Fires Cut Fur Production Across Pacific Northwest
Forest fires and dense smoke last summer swept areas from Northern British Columbia to Southern Oregon. Fur-bearing animals were rearing young, reducing pelts this year and lowering output for the season.
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Olympia
British Columbia
Oregon
Talented French Artists Arrive in Canada
A new company of French actors arrives in Montreal for a season of French comedy brought by J. A. Gauvin. They crossed from Europe on the Melite and stayed in Quebec a week before opening in Montreal. The photo lists the cast and notes two members absent.
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J. A. Gauvin
Montreal
Paris
Europe
Melite
Quebec
Mme
Marcelle Geniat
M. Georges Colin
M. Jean Garat
M. Jean Martini
M. Paul Mauce
M. M. Herraud
M. Rene Plancard
M. Rene Montis
Marthe Marsans
Maia Floriani
M. Adeline Fournier
Marguerite Courtan-Lambert
Jeanne d’Herblay
Imperial Made Goods Urged by British MP at Ottawa
Lady Cowan a British MP and Inter parliamentary Union delegate urged Ottawa University Women’s Club to promote Imperial made goods among Canadian women. She highlighted England’s patriotic work, motto Our Country First, and predicted expanding female public service including a future woman premier.
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Ottawa
Canada
England
Lady Cowan
House of Commons
Interparliamentary Union
Ottawa University Women’s Club
British Women's Patriotic League
Andy Cowan
Jong
Sandow Dies In England While Working As Health Expert
Eugene Sandow once hailed as the world’s strongest man died October 14 in London after a motor accident years earlier. A German by birth, born 1867, he trained the public in physical culture and was named professor of physical culture to King George in 1911.
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Sandow
Fneland
George
Conference on Seamen's Strike Heads for Sydney
Mr Justice Powers of the arbitration court summons a conference of all parties to the dispute for October 1 in Sydney. The strike, though unofficial, affects all Australian states with serious shipping disruption as ports Freemantle and Perth are labeled black by British owners and seamen alike.
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Melbourne
Australia
Justice Powers
Arbitration Court
Sydney
Freemantle
Perth
England
Security Pact Aims to Prevent Future European Wars
British foreign secretary Austen Chamberlain and Sir Cecil Hurst urged delegates to back a Locarno style security accord. Optimism rose that Germany and Poland might reconcile frontiers and a mutual guarantee under the League of Nations covenant could secure lasting peace. The Polish corridor and Polish-Czech issues remained in dispute as talks continued.
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Cecil Hurst
Germany
Chamberlain
Poland
Locarno
France
Europe
Ontario Gold Production Forecast for 1925 Reaches 30.5 Million
If the July and August rate of gold production in Ontario is maintained through the year, Ontario's total gold output for 1925 is projected at 30,500,000, higher than the 1924 total of 25,669,203.
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Toronto
Ontario
Britain May Consider Loans To Aid Migration
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce discusses government free loans to Dominions like Canada Australia and New Zealand to promote migration. A transport committee chairman argues loans from 706 million to 3060 million free of interest for five years with repayment at period end plus five percent interest and a five percent redemption fee.
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London
Dominions
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Doles
Japanese Explorer Discovers Coral Island Group
A Japanese explorer M. Inouye reports discovering more than ten coral islands in the South Seas with an estimated total value of 200,600,000. The isolated atolls lie about 350 sea miles off Mindanao Philippines and will be publicly located after the International Geographic Association is informed. The islands are uninhabited and not yet charted.
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Tokio
South Seas
M. Inouye
Japan Geographical Society
Mindanao
Philippines
International Geographic Association
Plane Released From Dirigible Putham
An experiment released an airplane from the airship Re 33. Lieutenant R LeHaga Haig, chief test pilot, released a monoplane from about 3000 feet and it flew successfully. After a 30 minute cruise the plane was reattached and the pilot resumed solo flight as the dirigible continued its cruise and returned to mooring.
Meteorite Arrives in Aberdeen Weighing Seven Tons
The third largest meteorite in the world has arrived from Greenland aboard the Danish schooner Sokongen. Captain Pederson reports a seven ton weight. Sikimes claim the meteorite fell in 1918 and has been dragged to the coast on dog sleds since 1923.
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Aberdeen
Greenland
Sokongen
Pederson
Sikimes
Missionaries Sail For China From Vancouver
A group of United Church of Canada missionaries left Vancouver for Shanghai after delays caused by conditions in China. Led by T. Edgar Plowman the party plans to proceed inland to the Sichuan province in West China, after more than two months waiting for sailing permission.
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Toronto
China
United Church of Canada
Vancouver
Shanghai
Szeehwan Province
West China
T. Edgar Plowman
Grain Growers Meeting Set for Saskatoon in January
The Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association plans its annual meeting in Saskatoon likely during the third week of January. The decision followed a meeting of the G G G A executive and the women's section in Saskatoon.
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Stegina
Saskatchewan Grain Growers
Asao
Saskatoon
Cautionary Note From Michigan Neurology Professor
Camp, a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, warned the Interstate Postgraduate Assembly of Physicians in St Paul that fear can cause stomach trouble and jealousy may trigger acute heart disease.
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St. Paul, Minn
Cart
Camp
University of Michigan
Inter- State Postgraduate Assembly of Physicians
Romanian War Debt Funding Breaks Ground in London Talks
Romanian Finance Minister M. Tul exko in London reports a tentative agreement with the British Government to fund Romania profits debt of £25,000,000 owed to Great Britain.
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Bucharest
Romania
M. Tulexko
London
Great Britain
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Tipo
Soviets
Western Grain Port
U.S
King George
Coral Island
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