Georgian Bay canal debate ties Canada’s wheat trade
In Ottawa Senate discussions Senator Casgrain argued the Georgian Bay canal would cut costs from farm to global markets, lowering ocean freight to Liverpool and boosting Canadian and U S wheat exports. The debate touched cattle trade fears and British embargoes, with senators and ministers weighing disease risk and protectionist tensions.
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Ottawa
Ont
Senate
Casgrain
Canada
Georgian Bay Canal
Montreal
Liverpool
New York
Chicago
United States
Georgian Bay
Belcourt
Power
Earl of Carrington
British Board of Agriculture
Sgain
Scott
Lougheed
Charles Curver
Russia Masses Troops at Turco-Persian Frontier
Five thousand Russian troops are ordered from the Northern Caucasus to the Turco Persian border as detachments move toward the front. The buildup follows Turkish Persian boundary disputes near Tabriz, with Moscow reportedly preparing a demonstration against Turkey. Britain and Russia previously agreed to supervise the trouble, while German interests may be drawn in.
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St. Petersburg
Caucasus
Russia
Turkey
Persia
Tabriz
Germany
Great Britain
England
Wireless for Steamships Montreal Signal
The Canadian Pacific railway company will install Marconi wireless on all Atlantic vessels. Empress ships are equipped and contracts cover complete installation on remaining ships. Communication will reach across hundreds of miles via thirty stations on the Canadian Newfoundland coasts or British stations, linking with other equipped vessels. Allan Line has four vessels and Dominion Line three already equipped.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Marconi
Newfoundland
Allan Line
Dominion
Harriman Castle Near Arden Under Winter Work
Workers continue at the E. H. Harriman residence two miles east of Arden New York despite winter weather. The project has run three years with an estimated one year to finish and a monthly payroll of around $1,000. The house mirrors old English castle design and may total about $4,000,000.
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Rush Harriman
Newberg
N. Y
E. H. Harriman
Arden
Exclusion League Lobbies Congress to Expel Orientals
In Seattle the Asiatic Exclusion League of North America passes a memorial urging immediate federal action to exclude Japanese Chinese and Koreans from American shores. The notice warns that Orientals in the country pose a threat and pledges citizen intervention if Congress delays.
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Seattle
Wash
Asiatic Exclusion League of North America
Congress
America
Agress
CPR Offers Land for Alberta College Site
The CPR proposes half a section of land near Montreal for an Alberta college site with the condition that Sien ten work be featured in the new agriculture program.
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Montreal
C.P.R
Alberta
Dispute Over Indian Lands Holds Up Prince Rupert Railway
After five weeks of talks with the government, Vice-President Wainwright and solicitor D Arcy Tate of the G T P left for Montreal with the chief issue unsettled. Further negotiations by correspondence may yield a March settlement. the railway seeks to award a line from Prince Rupert costing over eight million if resolved. The province claims reversionary rights in 13000 acres of lands bought from the Dominion, a claim the railway advisers doubt, but would share one quarter of sale proceeds if recognized. The province, preferring to administer its lands, rejects this offer and blocks plans to lay out the acreage.
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Victoria
KB. C
Wainwright
D’arcy Tate
G.T.P
Montreal
Urther
Prince Rupert
Railway
British Columbia
Asiatic Exclusion League Plans North American Alliance
A committee on constitution and law formed at the Fyclusion league convention in Seattle is preparing a large agitation to create the Asiatic Exclusion league of North America. The league will have a salaried chief executive team and a board of vice presidents from each region, with San Francisco slated as headquarters.
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Seattle
Asiatic Exclusion League
North America
Pacific Coast
Fyclusion League
Labor Temple
Asiatic Exclusion League of North America
League
San Francisco
Labour shortages in British Columbia prompt emigration drive
Lord Brassey at the Central Emigration board noted scarce labor in British Columbia slowing railway and industry work. Boards reported emigrants to Canada found jobs quickly. A resolution to promote emigration was passed unanimously. Thirty eight Lambeth pauper children volunteered to emigrate to Canada.
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London
Lord Brassey
Central Emigration Board
Britsh Columbia
Canada
Lambeth
Earl Dudley Opposes Coercion Policy in Lords
Lord Dudley former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Bal four ministry declares absolute opposition to coercion in the house of Lords. He urges conciliation and quick redress of grievances including land distribution causing cattle driving in Roscommon and western counties to restore England Ireland friendship and governability.
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London
Earl Dudley
Ireland
House of Lords
England
Roscommon
Navy plans four 20000-ton battleships and more ships
Secretary Metcalf told the house naval affairs committee Washington that the administration's program includes four 20000 ton battleships plus additional cruisers scout ships and submarines. He asked for 6 279 000 in this session for new ships and said 3000 more sailors are needed to man ships now in or about to be commissioned.
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Washington, Pn.c
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Metcalf
Transatlantic steamship rates to be restored
The Canadian Associated Press reports after a conference of transatlantic steamship companies that first and second class fares will return to the old basis and may rise in some cases while third class fares revert to their former levels.
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London
Associated Press
trans-Atlantic Steamship Companies
Seed Wheat Prospects Reported in West Moose Jaw
Farmers with the board of trade report potential seed wheat production of 100 000 bushels in the district direct from growers. Bench samples left at the board office are described as splendid and indicate a high quality seed crop in the west.
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Moose Jaw
Board of Trade
Board
Life and faith in the Cana healing lesson
The lesson centers on life through Christ and faith that brings healing. It discusses Jesus as source of eternal life, the resurrection, and the binding power of belief, citing the nobleman’s son case in Cana and the man’s journey from faith to family salvation. The text emphasizes persistent prayer and that faith moves when Jesus speaks a word.
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American Press
Jerusalem
Galilee
Peter
Jesus
Cana
Nathanael
John xiv
Capernaum
Hell
Philemon
War Supplies to Philippines Sped by Chartered Vessels
Government plans to move war material and supplies to Manila using chartered tramp steamers and extra high capacity ships. Existing routes from San Francisco to the Asia Pacific coast plus regular troop ships and the Dix freighter are being augmented to accelerate landings. Specific convoys include the China, Sherman, Buford, and Creek with cartridges and powder shipments noted.
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Philippines
San Francisco
War Department
Asiatic
Dix
Seattle
Washington
Manila
China
Sherman and Buford
Transport Creek
East and West at Variance in Dominion Sheep Breeders Split
A split in the Dominion Sheep Breeders Association follows eastern western tensions over advertising Ontario bred sheep. An Ontario deputation with Ontario breeders met Hon Nelson Monteith the provincial minister of agriculture seeking government help to form the Ontario Sheep Breeders Association. The minister asked them to return in a week with a definite scheme.
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Toronto
Ont
Dominion Sheep Breeders’ Association
Ontario
Nelson Monteith
Ontario Sheep Breeders’ Association
Dominion Association
West
Lord Strathcona to Visit Montreal Over Fast Service Plan
Reports say Lord Strathcona the Canadian high commissioner in London will visit Canada soon for the fast service question. He favors Quebec as the summer port for the fast line, replacing Halifax year round. A compromise may see the C P R establish a fast service with support from the Dominion government.
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Montreal
Lord Strathcona
London
Canada
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
Quebec
Halifax
C.P.F
Dominion
Army Corps Ordered Out Paris For Morocco Crisis
Le Matin reports that due to the gravity of the Morocco situation, mobilization orders have been issued for the entire army corps and the elationia troops including the famous Spahis stationed in French garrisons. Spain's refusal to train in a military demonstration shifts the burden to France to restore order.
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Paris
le Matin
Morocco
Enlonia
France
Spain
Ambassador Takahira Leaves for Washington Ambassadorship
Baron Roger Takahira vows friendship between the United States and Japan as he sails from Liverpool to New York to assume the role of Japanese ambassador in Washington. He emphasizes amicable negotiations and broad mutual understanding.
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London
Japan
Roger
Takahira
America
Washington
New York
Liverpool
Etruria
Model License Law Aims to Limit Licenses in Kentucky
A Louisville report states a model liquor license bill ready for the legislature would tie license numbers to population, make license life depend on law obedience enforced automatically, and remove saloon politics from the scene.
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Louisville
Monument Planned for Bell Memorial at Brantford
Brantford Ontario news notes a Bell Telephone Memorial committee meeting deciding to invite sculptors and artists to submit designs for the national monument funded by over forty thousand dollars in subscriptions.
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Bell
Brantford
Ont
Bell Telephone Memorial Association
Cruisers of Fourth Squadron Headed to Esquimalt
The fourth cruiser squadron led by Cresey Eiy lus Hague Brilliant and Indefati is coming to Esquimalt Victoria British Columbia for a naval visit.
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Esquimault Victoria
B.C
Cresey
Eiylus
Hague
Brilliant
Indefati
Esquimaulin
Supremacy of Air Is Aim of Nations
London report on a lecture by aeronaut A.K.E. Gaugron arguing all great powers seek aerial supremacy. He dismisses heavier-than-air machines as unreliable for war, favors dirigible airships as the future warship, notes France and Germany invest in air power, and says nations are building staffs of practical aeronauts to master this new military field.
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London
Mea Trades Journal
John Sullivan
Northwest
Canada
Birkenhead
Sullivan
A. K E. Gaugron
Society of Arts
Germany
Czarina bans smoking by St Petersburg court ladies
The Czarina forbids court ladies to smoke, with Princess Galitzine tasked to inform nobility that tobacco smells are not tolerated at receptions and bars. The order shocks Russia's society, as many highborn women and officials are known to smoke, including the grand mistress who smokes and wears gloves to hide nicotine stains. Only Mademoiselle d Honneur reportedly abstains among the empress's companions.
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Czarina
St. Petersburg
Galitzine
Russia
Stroganoff
Honor
Gelenistcheff
Ozeroff
Heyden
Mademoiselle d’Honneur
Darmstadt
Pullman Porters receive year end bonuses for 1907
Checks totaling nearly 200000 dollars were given to about 4000 Pullman car service employees as appreciation for merit and courtesy shown to the traveling public in 1907. Bonuses of 175000 dollars were mailed to 1153 conductors and 2617 porters as one month’s pay each, placing recipients on the roll of honor.
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Pullman
Chicago
Pullman Palace Car Company
Car Service
Car Service Department
Prison reforms proposed for Ontario central prison
A special Ontario government committee on prison labor plans to sell the central prison and build a new provincial reformatory just outside Toronto. It urges ending the public account contract and price system, switching prisoners to outdoor work, and abolishing the striped suit and dark cell while introducing technical education calisthenics and military exercises.
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Toronto
Ontario
Provincial Reformatory of
War Imminent Says Paris Temps Editor on Japan US Clash
Chicago editor Ll-Henri Labrue of the Paris Temps tours America and predicts war between Japan and the United States is certain. He cites significant Japanese preparations and Europe’s awareness, hoping to inspect both navies before any clash.
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Chicago
Tll
Henri Labrue
Paris Temps
Japan
United States
Europe
Rockefeller's Summer Playgrounds Planned Near Lake Wilderness
John D. Rockefeller plans new summer playgrounds on upper Lake Wilderness near the Canadian border for boys. The project envisions frontier life campaigns against Indians, trapping expeditions, and homing, with a famous scout leading efforts.
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