Turks At Smyrna Amid City Flames Reported Conflagration
Despatches from Athens describe a fire started by a Turkish sergeant in Smyrna’s Armenian quarter, with civilians killed, refugees flooding in, and European protections failing as Kemal Pasha pledges to march on Constantinople. Estimates place fatalities around 160 with higher figures feared.
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Smyrna
Athens
London
Smyrne
United States
Hevter
Lamartine
Metropaitan
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Constantinople
Daily Mall
Smaysina
Geddes Praises U S War Effort at Police Conference
Sir Auckland Geddes told visiting delegates that America played a great role in ending the world war and dismissed critics as ignorant, malicious, or a 'fac.' He and John W. Davis cited Rudyard Kipling’s belittling remark and urged vigilance against discord.
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New York
Sir Auckland Geddes
United States
National Police Conference
America
John W. Davis
Great Britain
Rudyard Kipling
Geddes
U S Shopmen to Sign Separate Peace With Individual Railroads
Chicago policy committee authorizes B M Jewell to sign separate peace pacts with individual roads. Agreements follow New York terms with minor changes to mollify union opposition. Railroads to bring back existing and striking workers within 30 days. only violent offenders excluded.
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U.S
Jewell
Baltimore
New York
Saskatchewan Considers Moratorium as Wheat Prices Rise
Premier Praoning hints government may declare a moratorium if debt collection and wheat prices threaten farmers. A full-day creditor conference weighed measures to curb farmers selling wheat at harvest, but no moratorium resolution emerged. Banks and major creditor groups attended along with many legislators and government members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina
Saskatchewan
Chas. Praoning
Mir
Irmnning
Saskatchewan Stockgrowers’ Association
Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company
Board of Trade
The
Legislatire
Ager
Bank of
Vonmeree
Sir John
Ife
Syrian Girl Saves Three Boys At Whirlpool Then Dies
In Bierui Syria a 14 year old girl Ruth Maniangen rescued three bathing children from a dangerous whirlpool near Alm Tilius orphanage. She pulled them to a rock but collapsed and died before a lifeboat arrived.
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Bierui
Syria
Alm Tilius
Ruth Maniangen
Dutch Farmers May Come to Canada Emigration Scheme Discussed
Baron J C C Sandberg, representing the Dutch government, says Canada may receive experienced Dutch farmers under a government assisted emigration plan. He met with Minister Charles Stewart and other Ottawa officials after interviewing them in Toronto.
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Canada
Ottawa
Holland
J. C. C. Sandberg
Toronto
Charles Stewart
Interior
Baron Sandberg
MacMillan plans Arctic Bowdoin voyage in July
Explorer Donald B. MacMillan reports a successful recent trip to Baffin Land and plans to sail again from Wiscasset, Maine aboard the Bowdoin in July. He says the key finding is that Baffin Land is a narrow peninsula, not a large landmass as previously mapped. An embargo delays Canadian shipments through western rail lines, except for food and necessities, to ease coal strike shortages.
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Wiscasset
Maine
Donald B. MacMillan
Arctic
Bowdoin
Baffin Land
New York
Canada
New York Central
Uackawanna
Lehigh Valley
Erie
Two B C Miners Buried Alive In Middlesbro Colliery
Two experienced miners Sam Crawford and Lewis Shearer were buried by a rock fall at Middlesbro Collieries in British Columbia. Their bodies were recovered within an hour but resuscitation attempts failed. Australia Maintains Universal Service: Defence Act remains unchanged.
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B.C
Middlesbro
Sam Crawford
Lewis Shearer
Revelstoke Hosts Eastern Investors Delegation Visit
Horace Manning of the Revelstoke Board of Trade welcomed a 127 member delegation from the British House of Commons and Montreal Board of Trade touring Canada. Officials entertained the visitors as Manning urged Eastern Canadian investors to curb U S influence in provincial commerce.
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Revelstoke
5.C
British Columbia
British House of Commons
Montreal Board of Trade
Canada
Horace Manning
Revelstoke Board of Trade
Manning
United States
Regulations Sought on Canadian Cattle Exports
Winnipeg report notes the Canadian Council of Agriculture seeks UK quality controls and seasonal regulation to avoid floods of Canadian cattle and maintain standards when the embargo ends. It appeals to the Dominion Government via the agriculture and trade ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Great Britain
Canadian Council of Agriculture
Dominion
Ministers of Agriculture and Trade and Commerce
Two Men Die In Dust Explosion At Terre Haute Plant
Terre Haute Ind two men are dead and damage is estimated at three million dollars after a dust explosion and ensuing fire destroyed the American Hominy Co plant. Fred Stevens and an unidentified man are confirmed dead and others may be trapped. About sixty workers were at the plant when the blast occurred.
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Terre Haute
Ind
American Hominy Co
Fred Stevens
Beattie Woman Sees Relief from Dreadful Pains
A Beattie Washington resident reports severe pains and fever lasting over two months, crediting Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing distress and restoring health after other remedies failed.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Manitoba Legislators Discuss Moratorium Question
Manitoba officials weigh a possible provincial moratorium on farmer debt as lenders and government consider support options. Cabinet and loan representatives debated timing while United Farmers of Manitoba prepare a board discussion, with bankers urging restraint and avoiding credit disruption.
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Manitoba
Wlanipes
Neil Cameron
Fromether
United Farmers of Manitoba
W. R. Wood
Association
Dunning
Saskatchewan
Regina
John Aird
Saskatchewan Sells Debentures
Saskatchewan sold twenty year five per cent debentures for 97,652 to Dominion Securities Corporation of Toronto in a syndicate with Dillon Read of New York at a net cost of 5.19 percent. Nine tenderers submitted bids across four bases for fifteen and twenty year issues bearing 6 and 51 percent. Empress of Australia arrives at Victoria with large passenger list and Oriental cargo. Major Yates Brown of the Indian army is a passenger en route to Montreal for the Canadian colonization scheme.
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Regina
Sask
Dominion Securities Corporation
Toronto
Dillon, Read and Company
New York
Saskatchewan
Orient Victoria
B.C
Empress of Australia
Yates Brown
Montreal
Vancouver Harbor loan advance reported by Ottawa
The Government advanced 254600 dollars to the Vancouver Harbor Commissioners for July harbor improvements. The total authorized loan is five million dollars, with 3295000 dollars advanced to date.
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Vancouver Harbor
Ottawa
Cattle quarantine strict enforcement noted in Jersey voyage
England tightens cattle rules to stop foot and mouth spread. Eighty H W Bull and Sons of Brampton used two special steamers to move Jersey cattle to Canada, reaching Quebec aboard the Batsford. Cattle were transferred in the Channel Islands, crates were demolished after transfer, and the Batsford sailed on without entering any port in the Atlantic.
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Toronto
England
Bull and Sons, Brampton
Channel Islands
Canada
Jersey
Quebec
Batsford
Channel
Atlantic
Soldier author’s gift to Red Cross funds tubercular soldiers
The Canadian Red Cross Society has received 1538.25 from Col. A. EB. Scott of Quebec City to be used for tubercular soldiers as the Red Cross sees fit. The donation represents royalty proceeds from Coronel Scott’s book The War As I Saw It.
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Toronto
Canadian Red Cross
A. EB. Scott
Quebec City
Red Cross
Coronel Scott
No Immediate Action From Disarmament Committee Planned
The assembly disarmament committee will not act now on a plan to cut armaments. It approved a resolution urging further study and a regional treaty draft, citing the Great Lakes pact as a model and asking governments for views before the next assembly.
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Disarmament Committee
Geneva
France
Great Britain
Assembly
M. de Jouvenel
Robert Cecil
England
Great Lakes
United States
Canada
H. A.L. Flasher
Mr. Fisher
Mixed Committee On Disarmament
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Lenton
Broprae
Torkieh Wealars
Coriege
Hmerna
Chicago
B. M. Jewell
Ares
JNU Res
Torbay
Payer
Abvo
Jakes
Explorer
Australia
A. Wy. Reynolds
the Progress, Naicam, Sask
Eastern
Agricultural Council
Indiana
Britain
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