Taft Praises British Law At Ottawa Bar Meeting
Former President Taft addressed the Canadian Bar Association in Ottawa praising British law and lawyers. He noted U S debt to British law, welcomed friendship between nations, and joked about adding 18 district judges to enforce the 18th amendment as judicial light cavalry amid case rushes.
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Ottawa
Wiliam Howard Tait
United States
Canadian Bar Association
Taft
Justice Riddell
Toronto
American Bar Association
America Association
Montreal
Canada
Executions of Petrograd Plot Suspects Reported
Sixty one people were executed by the Bolsheviks over the Petrograd plot, per a Pravda dispatch. Included were sixteen women linked to sheltering male participants, and princes Constantine Toumanoff and Sergius Oukhtomsky among those executed for spying or sending information abroad. Six individuals on the list were described as American spies or couriers.
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Riga
Petrograd
Pravda
Constantine Toumanoff
Sergius Oukhtomsky
Russia
Unemployment Conference Doubts on Ottawa meeting
Ottawa delegates hesitate on calling a conference of financial interests and employment service council members. Hon. G D Robertson, labor minister, has not yet ruled on the resolution. Uprising in Nicaragua quelled as 3,000 troops reinforce the Honduras frontier, preventing broader Central American involvement.
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Ottawa
Employment Service Council
G. D. Robertson
Labor
Nicaragua
Managua
Honduras
Fire Devastates Annapolis Royal in Digby Incident
A lighted cigarette allegedly ignited piles at the Queen's Hotel rear, triggering a fire that destroyed about one third of Annapolis Royal, a historic town in Nova Scotia famed as Canada's oldest white settlement and a scenic residential center north of Virginia and the U S.
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Digby
N.S
Queen's Hotel
Annapolis Royal
Virginia
Canada
Dominion wide amalgamation resolution passed unanimously
A resolution urging immediate Dominion wide amalgamation plans was unanimously adopted by the executive committees of the Great War Veterans Association the Army and Navy Veterans and the Grand Army of United Veterans in Vancouver British Columbia and will be sent to all Damiaign. the action seeks concerted wartime unity across veteran groups.
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Vancouver
B.C
Great War Veterans
Army and Navy Veterans
Grand ‘Army of United Veterans
Damiaign
Question of mandates to be discussed at League assembly
A new note to Great Britain France Italy and Japan addresses the mandate issue and its treatment for classes A and B. The note has been submitted to the League of Nations assembly in Geneva for consideration.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Assembly of the League of Nations
Geneva
Milestone Mail change brings Capt Barradell as proprietor
The Milestone Mail changes hands to Capt T Barradell MC from Derby England. Barradell served in the Great War with the North Midland Field Ambulance and Nor thumbrian Field Ambulance seeing action on the Somme Flanders and Champagne fronts and earning the MC for gallantry in evacuation duties under shellfire. He previously served with the 1st V B North Midland Brigade Bearers and Sherwood Foresters Bearer Company.
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Saskatchewan
Milestone Mail
GiAsh
T. Barradell
M.C
Derby
Eng
Barradell
North Midland Field Ambulance
Northumbrian Field Ambulance
Somme
Flanders
Champagne
Royal Horse Artillery
V.B., North Midland Brigade
Sherwood Foresters
1St
Grain Dealers Elect Officers at Calgary Meeting
Grain men elected officers at the Western Grain Dealers Association annual meet in the Grain Exchange Calgary. M J Thordarson of N Bawlf Grain Co Calgary became president H O Heimbecker of Parrish and Heimbecker Calgary was elected vice president and D O McHugh was re elected secretary treasurer. Annual reports were approved. Seattle reports a women life saving corps of eighteen mermaids who have passed official tests to qualify as life savers at bathing resorts.
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Calgary
M. J. Thordarson
N. Bawlf Grain Company
Western Grain Dealers’ Association
Grain Exchange
H. O. Heimbecker
Parrish and Heimbecker
D. O. McHugh
Seattle
Soviet Forbids Investigation Of Relief Commission
The Russian Soviet Government declines to permit the International Russian Relief Commission to investigate the famine in Russia. Foreign Minister Chicherin forwarded the note to Britain, Italy, France, and Belgium, stating the Soviet position.
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Moscow
International Russian Relief Commission
Russia
M. Chitcherin
Great Britain
Italy
France
Belamt
Zionist Leaders Debate Funding for Palestine Colonization
Dr Arthur Rugin, head of Zionist colonization, said a yearly sum of tmlf million pounds for several years could settle 100000 Jewish families in Palestine within three years. Dr Chaim Weizmann argued Britain seeks more than a Suez protectorate, seeing lasting interest in Jewish settlement.
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Carlsbad
Czecho-Slovakia
Arthur Rugin
Zionist Colonization Department
Zionist Congress
Tmlf
Palestine
Chaim Weizmann
Zionist Organization
Great Britain
Suez Canal
Zion
Sinn Fein Invited To Conference In Inverness
The British Cabinet invites Mr. de Valera to send delegates to a conference with Cabinet Ministers at Inverness on September 20. Ireland must remain within the Empire, with Ulster fears to be allayed by reaffirming Northern Ireland cannot be coerced.
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London
de Valera
Inverness
Daily Mail
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Cattle Stealing Charged in Cross-Border Case
Montana rancher James R. Leach and cowboy James Muir were bound over for trial at Coutts on charges of cattle theft from Wallace, Ross and Webster outfits. Evidence shows brand running. Leach allegedly confessed in Chester. Montana sheriffs gathered up the stolen cattle and turned them over to Canadian owners.
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Lethbridge
Alta
James R. Leach
Montana
James Muir
Coutts
Wallace
Ross
Webster
Brand
Morgan
Liberty County
Leach
Chester
Lake freight rise for grain shipments on the lake
Lake freights on grain from Fort William and Port Arthur to Georgian Bay points have been advanced 1% cents a bushel this week. Officials of the vessel owning companies say the increase stems from demand in Chicago for tonnage and Canadian shippers must pay a premium to lure boats to the lake head for cargoes.
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Winnipes
Lake
Fort William
Port Arthur
Georgian Bay
Chicago
Lake Head
Preparing For Elections Ottawa Requires Ready Machinery
The article describes prepared electoral machinery for a general election. Writs will trigger dispatch of official forms and full printed instructions to returning officers nationwide. Except for Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island, provincial voter lists exist and will be updated under the Dominion Elections Act with revising officers and registrars appointed as needed.
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Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Prince Edward Island
Grain Shipments Break All Records On Canadian Pacific Lines
Winnipeg reports record grain movement surpassing eight million bushels shipped east via the Canadian Pacific Railways western lines. Wheat and grains handled include 5 419 cars totaling 7 402 354 bushels and 580 cars of other grains totaling 4 020 400 bushels. Early harvest and prompt market turnout by farmers drive the influx and congestion in Montreal.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railways
Western
Montreal
Graphite Found Near Salvns on Skeena River
Dr. Stanwood of Los Angeles reports graphite discovery near Salvns on the Skeena River in British Columbia. The sedge area is about 1,500 feet wide and six miles long, with the note that every dollar spent in your hometown benefits the local community.
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B.C. Prince. Rupert
B.C
Stanwood
Los Angeles
Salvns
Skeena River
Lloyd George cigar gift tied to Irish peace hopes
The British premier Lloyd George thanked anonymous American donors for cigars tied to the Irish peace effort. In Fort William Ontario E W Beatty discusses government economy and freight rates, urging rate cuts when financially feasible to support Canada’s railways and traffic movement.
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Loandon
Mr. Lloyd George
United States
Fort William
Beatty
Canada
Unemployed Men Refuse Harvest Work in Canada
Ottawa reports the Employment Service in Victoria, British Columbia registered about 1,600 men for prairie harvest work in the week ending August 20. When work was available, only around 600 of the registered men accepted, signaling a prolonged period with little or no work prospects.
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Ottawa
Employment Service of Canada
Dominion
Employment Service
Victoria
B.C
Prairie Provinces
Greek advances and Turkish retreat amid Asia Minor clashes
General Headquarters reports Turkish forces driven from new positions in Asia Minor after a tentative reoccupation overnight. Turkish attacks Tuesday night failed, and Turkish losses are unofficially placed at 12,000 killed and wounded while Greek losses remain heavy but unconfirmed.
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Asia Minor
Food For Starving Russia Arrives On US Steamer Phoenix
A Letin Tele despatch from Moscow reports the United States steamer Phoenix delivered the first American relief food to Petrograd for starving Russian children. The ship sailed from Hamburg as the relief agency also sent the first Moscow to Samara train. A separate fire near Trent in the Italian Tyrol destroyed Molterno village, leaving seven hundred homeless and prompting government relief deliveries.
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Riga
United States
Phoenix
Petrograd
Russia
Letvin Telegraph Agency
Moscow
Hamburg
American ‘Relief Administration
Samara
Rome
Molterno
Trent
Tyrol
Segents
Hunger Striker Janney Ordered to Galt Hospital
On the thirty third day of his hunger strike Captain E L Janney is ordered by the jail physician to be removed to Galt hospital for forcible feeding to keep him alive The second month of the strike shows his heart weakened and concerns grow among friends and Justice officials.
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Lethbridge
E. L. Janney
Galt Hospital
Janney
Sinn Fein to Meet Cabinet Committee on Dublin Ireland
London reports say Sinn Fein leaders will meet a special cabinet committee in Inverness on Sept 20 to clarify six British conditions for dominion status. Prime Minister Lloyd George’s letter stresses nonultimatum intent and seeks settlement with Eamonn de Valera aiming for Ireland remaining in the British Empire with possible League of Nations and Imperial Conference memberships.
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London
Lloyd George
Eamonn de Valera
Dublin
Inverness
Sinn Fein
Ireland
St Universal
de Valerai
Hungarians Capture Outpost in Austrian Front near Mattersdorf
Hungarian forces led by two parish priests overpowered Austrian sentries at Sagersdorf. Two garrison members were killed and many wounded. The Hungarians moved on Agendorf and advanced toward Mattersdorf, the Burgenland Government seat. Reinforcements arrived and captives were released. the priests were later imprisoned and nearly lynched in Weiner Neustadt.
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Vienna
Agendorf
Mattersdorf
Burgenland
Stephen Varga
Sagersdorf
Karl Schmidt
Drassburg
Weiner
Neustadt
Canada oil production in fiscal year ends March 31
Canada produced 187 016 barrels of oil in the year ending March 31, totaling 6 454 571 gallons. The bounty totaled 98 163 dollars and issued to producers under the incentive program.
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Ottawa
Canada
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Lorimer
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Carstairs, Alta
Sinn Feinn
Garrizon
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