Personal side Alvo Von Alvensleben in Canada and Ireland figures
A biographical sketch traces German financier Alvo Von Alvensleben from a Vancouver Victoria waiter to a boom era speculator. It details alleged Kaiser's money ties, wartime internment, and cross Atlantic intrigue including a Seattle link and a claim of Newfoundland style espionage. The piece shifts to Irish political turmoil context with Burke Cavendish stabbing and Balfour reforms, praising reformers Morley Trevelyan Birrell and noting threats to Sir HAMER Greenwood in Canada.
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Alvo von Alvensl
Germany
Berlin
Union Club
Victoria
Vancouver
New York
Dominion Trust Company
Arnold
Hearst
British Empire
Canada
Admiralty
England
America
Seattle
von Alvensleben
Alvo von Alvensleben
South America
Canadian born Hamer Greenwood named Chief Secretary for Ireland
Sir Hamer Greenwood, newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland under British rule, is a Canadian by birth who grew up in Ontario. He served in wartime recruiting and raised battalions, earning praise from Lloyd George who helped secure his hereditary baronetcy. The post is noted as highly demanding and dangerous in Irish governance.
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Arthur J. Balfour
England
Ireland
Parnell
Bloody Balfour
John Morley
George Trevelyan
Lord Macaulay
Augustine Birrell
Hamer Greenwood
Britain
Sir Hamer
Canada
Sir Hamer Greenwood
Union Administration
Great Britain
Ontario
Lloyd George
Greenwood
Mr. Greenwood
Mr. Hamer Greenwood
Foster
Mr. Gladstone
Frederick Cavendish
Duke of Devonshire
General Cameron and the damned barrier at Fort Garry
General Donald Cameron, then Captain, accompanied William McDougall in his Red River expedition to Rupert’s Land. Metis barred Fort Garry entry. Cameron’s convoy met the barrier as Provencher’s party refused passage. He demanded passage, but the Metis stood firm and the barrier remained. He later married a Tupper daughter and became commandant of the Royal Military College Kingston before retiring in 1896.
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Donald Cameron
Canada
William McDougall
Red River
Rupert's Land
Great Western
Hudson's Bay Company
Cameron
Captain Cameron
McDougall
Provencher
Ottawa
Pembina
Fort Garry
St. Norbert
Sisterhood of the
Grey Nuns
St. Boniface
Archbishop Tache
Father Richot
Charles Tupper
Halifax
Royal Military College
Kingston
Dingwall
Scotland
Allies Buy Shares in German Industries Amid Market Panic
German markets slump as Allied investors buy into key industries. Americans lead, then French and British, taking control of Maizena firms and iron works. Germans seek defense via preference shares with extra voting power as the mark remains weak and postwar value uncertain.
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Germany
Berlin
American Maizena Company
Labor Party
Dispatch
Oldest Commercial Traveler Robert Herring Dies at 87 in Montreal
Robert Herring aged 87 who touted himself as Canada’s first commercial traveler died in Montreal. His long career and claim to be first commercial traveler highlighted his obituary in local notices.
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Robert Herring
Canada
Montreal
Enormous Hay Prices Strain Saskatchewan Feed Supply
A severe hay shortage in northern Saskatchewan drives prices to as high as 100 dollars a ton. Last fall's ample supply was sent to drought areas in western Saskatchewan and Alberta, and a long winter worsened feed scarcity. Local stockmen report exhaustion of remaining hay despite the record price.
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
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Lord Frederick Cavendish
Lord Spencer
Vice Regal Lodge
Liffey
London
James Carey
Queen's
Dublin
Phoenix Park
General Cameron
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