Market Report Shows Wheat Prices Likely to Rally
The April 13 1905 market report notes a shift from recent bear sentiment in July and September wheat. It cites lower world shipments and falling visible supply as factors that may push prices up, with Europe and Asia demand supporting U S exports. Manitoba seedings face delays from frost and dry spells while lake navigation opens next week.
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Fort William
Bradstreets
Argentina
Australia
India
Russia
America
Japan
Asia
Europe
Spain
Manitoba
Lake Navigation
Lake Front
Canadian
In Store Prices Listed for Fort William and Port Arthur
Prices valid today for in store purchases at Fort William and Port Arthur locations. Includes standard items with values noted for current discounts and availability.
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Fort William
Port Arthur
Winnipeg Grain Prices and Market Report April Update
Winnipeg price list notes higher No. 2 white oats demand and firm millseed while No. 3 oats rise. Barley and flaxseed show mixed shifts with soy prices steady and vegetables including rhubarb dipping. Hogs and beef firmer on eastern markets. butter, cheese, eggs and hides hold steady or advance slightly as shipments and demand evolve.
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Shorts
Winnipeg
Fort William
Fort William Basis
Northwestern
West
California
Ontario
Manitoba
Express
ASTRONOMER PLANS CONNECTION TOWERS ACROSS CONTINENT
Boston reports Prof Otto Klotz government astronomer for Canada in talks with Prof Pickering Harvard to build a special observation tower at Harvard for geodetic work. Additional towers planned at Seattle and Vancouver to link observations from both coasts. Klotz will bring his telescope to Cambridge next summer and then proceed to Seattle and Vancouver after Harvard work.
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Boston
Mass
Otto Klotz
Ottawa
Department of the Interior
Pickering
Harvard University
Harvard
Seattle
Vancouver
Atlantic
Klotz
Plague Outbreak Reports Reach Victoria From Sydney
Advices from Sydney reveal bubonic plague in Sydney and Brisbane with one death reported before the Miowera sailed on March 20. The outbreak is spreading to Brisbane as well.
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Victoria
B.C
Sydney
Brisbane
Pinkerton Detective Case Tags CPR Conductor in Theft Trial
Calgary dispatch reports Pinkerton agents watching CPR conductors from Winnipeg to Vancouver. Conductor McLennan faces a theft by a servant charge later reduced to simple theft after defense request. Key testimony from Pinkerton Fred Hardwick and employee George White reveals disputed alibi and conflicting claims. Royal party entertainment changes noted as Earl Grey's visit looms.
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Calgary
N.W.T
Pinkerton
C.P.R
Winnipeg
Vancouver
McLennan
Duffus
J.P
Crowsnest Pass
H. A. Allison
P. J. Nolan
Nolan
Colonel Sanders
Fred Hardwick
Macleod
George White
White
Loop
Fernie
Hardwick
Lethbridge
Mr. Roy
Secret Service
Manitoba Seeks 90000 Immigrants for Farm Work This Year
Manitoba immigration chief J. J. Golden says the province will need about 90 000 incomers for seeding haying harvesting and farm labor for the year an increase from about 50000 last year. He notes most European immigrants stay and many eastern visitors return after a harvest to seek homesteads and work in the west.
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Manitoba
J. J. Golden
Separate Schools Debate at Centre Toronto Conservative Meeting
Dr Beattie Nesbitt urged opposition to forced separate schools in the west and backed national schools as Canada’s policy. He praised Mr Bristol on school questions and public ownership of franchises. Nesbitt pledged a legislative resolution against enforcing separate schools and against Dominion interference with provincial rights. He refused temporal power for Rome.
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Toronto
Beattie Nesbitt
E. J. Hearn
Canada
Bristol
William Ardagh
Army Ladder Climber Benson Visits Ottawa
Fred W. Benson, C. B., director of the transport and remount department of the British army, arrived in Ottawa from Toronto and is a guest at government house. Benson, a Canadian by birth, joined the British army 34 years ago and rose to major general on merit without family or money support.
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Ottawa
Ont
Fred W. Benson
C. B
Transport and Remount
Toronto
Government House
Benson
Mortimer Clark’s Wife Ill Forces Change in Visit Plans
The Toronto edition reports Mrs. Mortimer Clark, wife of the lieutenant-governor, is gravely ill. Her health prevents him from hosting the governor-general and Countess Grey during their planned visit to Toronto.
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Toronto
Mortimer Clark
Countess Grey
Tor
Brandon Plans New Collegiate School Building
At a special school board meeting Brandon unanimously approved erecting a new collegiate school for high school work. A by law will be sent to ratepayers, with construction to begin if approved. Estimated cost is 4,000 dollars. The eight room building will include a large assembly hall and is to be completed next year. Archbishop Matheson and Professor Cochrane urged separate collegiate facilities.
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Brandon
Matheson
Cochrane
University of Manitoba Board
Boundary Question in Canada Offhand Plan
The Globe suggests a quick path to resolving the boundary issue by bringing together six representatives including Roblin Campbell Whitney and Foy to confer with Laurier and Mulock. A unanimous line on southern Keewatin between Manitoba and Ontario could be accepted by both provinces, though other unseen difficulties may remain.
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Toronto
Globe
Roblin
Campbell
Whitney
Foy
Crown Lands
Wilfrid Laurier
William Mulock
Keewatin
Manitoba
Ontario
Exclusion of Japanese Bill in British Columbia
Consul-General Nosse met the prime minister to protest a BC bill aiming to exclude Japanese. Sir Wilfrid allegedly promised disallowance. Nosse told a correspondent Canadians should not chase Japan markets while BC enacts hostile limits, noting the US and others expanding Japan trade. BC is deemed ultra vires for interfering with emigration.
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Ottawa
Nosse
British Columbia
Wilfrid
Japan
Toronto
Canada
Gamey Censure to be Expunged from Journals
Toronto report states MPP R. R. Gamey plans to move to rescind and expunge the house resolution of June 26 1903 that censured him over the Gamey Stratton bribery case. He gave notice for a motion to strike the censure from the journals and acknowledge the commissioners’ conduct.
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Robert Boswell Gamey
Manitoulin
Montreal Captain Reinstated After Short Hearing
Captain Love of Montreal No 5 police district is restored to command by the police committee after an inquiry into alleged payments for protection. Five witnesses failed to appear, prompting Alderman St Denis to say they seemed afraid to testify. Alderman Walsh's motion to reinstate passed unanimously.
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Montreal
Que
Captain Love
No. 5
Recorders Court
The Astron omer Royal Faces a Grim Trade Barroom Wager
In a George and Dragon saloon a woebegone group laments low consols and a sinking economy. A lone voice declares one man whose business is looking up, the Astron omer Royal.
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George and Dragon
Astronomer Royal
Venezuelan Castro Rejects Arbitration Demand Amid Tense Deal
Caracas reports General Ybarra says Castro will not pull the New York and Bermudez Asphalt case from Venezuelan courts nor re submit the Olcott matter for arbitration even if the entire American armed forces arrive. The reply is described as undiplomatic by diplomats, with several foreign governments warned of its text.
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Caracas
Castro
New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company
Olcott
Venezuela
Alexandro Ybarra
American State Department
Bermudez
Washington
United States
Bowen
Legation
Teetotalism Hits London Coffeehouse Fashion
A London cable reports teetotalism becoming fashionable in the West End and city. Managers note high profits from aerated waters equal to beer as patrons shift from alcohol, with Claridge’s Langham and Savoy confirming the trend and older habits fading. Charles Moore recalls past scorn for nonalcoholic drinks at the Cheshire Cheese.
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London
West End
Claridge’s
Cecil, Langham and
Savoy
Charles Moore
Cheshire
House of Johnson
Personal Union debate sparks imperial governance questions
A London special reports Sir Frederick Pollock noting a Canadian lawyer’s suggestion of a personal union between Britain and Canada akin to the Stuarts era. The piece warns such a move could empower a king to break deadlocks, seen as a revolution rather than reform, while no proposal endangers empire war decisions without home government consent.
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London
Frederick Pollock
Imperial Organization
Royal Colonial Institute
Great Britain
Canada
England
Scotland
Morocco Reform Proposal and Tangier Mission
The Tangier Times correspondent reports advisers to the Moroccan sultan favor inviting the French mission to return from Fez to Tangier and officially communicate the sultan's definite rejection of proposed reforms. It is believed Germany will accept the sultan’s invitation to send a mission to Fez to negotiate a new commercial treaty and discuss European guarantees for Morocco’s integrity.
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London
Tangier
the Times
Morocco
Fez
Germany
Strange Shooting Affair at St. Paul
In St. Paul Minnesota William Williams aged 88 a steamfitter shot John Keller 16 in bed then shot the boy's mother after parleying both victims fatally wounded No reason for the attack is known.
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St. Paul, Minn
William Williams
Fredericks
Keller
John Keller
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OLD World News
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