Stars at the Walker Theatre Winnipeg Season Debuts
The Walker Theatre announces a star filled new year season led by James Neill with Edythe Chapman Elsie Esmima i Josephine Sparks and Robert Morris directing. Other highlights include Lillian Russell Chauncey Olcott and Otis Skinner in multiple productions with Canadian settings and classic plays.
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Winnipeg
Theatre Beautiful
James Neill
Louis James
Lillian Russell
New York
C. P. Walker
Walker Theatre
Walker
Henry Arthur Jones
Ethel Barrymore
Elsie Esmiami
Charles Clary
Josephine Sparks
Robert Morris
Chauncey Olcott
Wll
Richard Carle
Chicago
Shubert
Lew Field
Montgomery and Stone
Astor Theatre
Klaw
Erlanger
Jim Murphy
Daniel Sully
Texas
John Drew
Jack Straw
Persecution of Jews in Finland Drives Jewish Population
Russian authorities in Finland trigger a wholesale persecution using anti Semitic statutes driving Jews from homes. Reports speak of terrible suffering, loss of life, starvation, and exposure as severe weather compounds their plight.
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St. Petersburg
Finland
Refused Admittance of Canada Song at Ipswich Hippodrome
A music hall singer Harriet Vernon performed a song titled Canada asking about sending sons to Canada. The Maple Leaf number was sung but the audience was denied entrance. The Canadian party was led by N B Colcook Ontario government agent.
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London
Canada
Harriet Vernon
John Ball
Ipswich Hippodrome
N. B. Colcook
Ontario
Canada’s Great Mineral Deposits Lecture Highlights Cobalt Wealth
Toronto audience hears Professor W. G. Miller provincial geologist argue Canada has vast mineral resources with silver and cobalt deposits. He notes past cobalt finds at Port Arthur and in Great Bear Lake, urging balanced development between mining and agriculture and warning against overemphasizing farming in Ontario.
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Canada
Toronto
Ont
W. G. Miller
Canadian Club
Port Arthur
Great Bear Lake
Great Northern
Stiller
Ontario
Indian Ferman Continues in Calcutta After Attacks
In Calcutta the assault on British authority persists despite a new summary trial act and Morley reform remarks. Public Prosecutor Hume survived two bomb blasts as revenge for prosecutions. A similar Jan assault on Hume’s life previously failed when a bomb exploded outside the carriage. A Bengali crowd hailed the attacker as a hero.
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Calcutta
India
Viscount Morley
House of Lords
Hume
Pankhursts Freed After Holloway Sentence
Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter Miss Christabel, leaders of the suffragette movement, were released from Holloway jail after serving their sentences rather than pay fines. A large militant crowd greeted them and a four deep, quarter mile procession followed through the west end.
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Pankhurts
London
Pankhurst
Christabel Pankhurst
Holloway Jar
West End
Queen’s telegram to General Booth on Salvation Army
London reports Queen Alexandra sent a telegram to General Booth praising his work and wishing success for his cataract operation. Booth’s doctors say his recovery is on track and his sight should be restored.
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Salvation Army
London
Alexandr
General Booth
Alberta Pork Commission Reviews Danish Co operation Model
The Alberta Pork Commission in Edmonton discussed J. H. H. Sorensen of Denmark and his evidence on Denmark’s co operation system. The insights are presented as a foundation for Alberta farmers considering a similar co operation scheme to mirror Denmark’s perceived success.
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Alberta Pork Commission
Edmonton
Pork Commission
J. H. H. Sorensen
Denmark
Sorensen
Alberta
Italian immigration not seen as threat to Canada says envoy
Montreal Baron Mayor Des Plan ches, Italian ambassador to the United States, says Canada need not fear future Italian immigration. He explains most immigrants come from southern Italy with a mild climate, while northern Italians are hardier and prefer to stay home.
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Montreal
Baron Mayor Des Planches
United States
Canada
Italy
Homesteads for Women in Ottawa Visit Applicants
Miss Binnie Clark, who has farmed in the northwest for three and a half years, visits Ottawa to discuss government plans offering free land to suitable migrants from the Old Country.
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Ottawa
Ont
Binnie Clark
Northwest
Old Country
Ascension of Jesus and the Holy Spirit at the start of a new year
The lesson highlights the ascension of Jesus and the coming of the Holy Spirit as the power for believers to live as Christ taught. It urges waiting in Jerusalem for the Spirit to empower the apostles to witness to all nations and anticipates the restoration and establishment of God's kingdom.
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Luke
Jesus
Israel
Jerusalem
Egypt
Moses
Heaven
Lord Jesus Christ
Boycott Tensions Persist as Austria Seeks Turkey Aid
The Austrian ambassador alleges Britain could end the Turkish goods boycott, but Britain shows no sign of interference. Turkey hints indemnity might appease Vienna, while the boycott expands daily, and public sentiment in Constantinople grows wary.
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Constantinople
Britain
Turkey
Austria
Old Ave Pensions and Lloyd George Speech
Liverpool David Lloyd George addressed a meeting here where women were barred to avoid suffragette protests. He denounced the veto of Liberal bills in the Lords and warned the country would shatter the throne of King Lansdowne. He claimed funding old age pensions without tax on bread or disruption to industry.
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Liverpool
David Lloyd-George
House of Lords
Lansdowne
Charles the First
McKenzie Aims Small Flotation for Canada
Toronto President William McKenzie of the Canadian Northern says his trip to Britain aimed at a small flotation. He achieved this with ease as conditions were favorable for legitimate Canadian investment. He noted no new plans, focusing on completing western railways he had worked on the past year.
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McKenzie
Toronto
William McKenzie
Canadian Northern
Britain
Delaware to be christened with water at Newport News
If Delaware plans succeed, the giant twenty thousand ton battleship Delaware to be launched Feb. 5 will be christened with water at Newport News. The Kentucky had whiskey poured on her hull when she entered the water, a Kentuckian custom noted in history.
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Newport News
W.C.T.U
Delaware
Kentucky
Veesel
Diamond Business Falling Off in London Report
The Ne Beers Diamond company reports fiscal year ended last June with profits down nearly 10 million. Gains were 220,000 compared with 13,000,000 the prior year, reflecting a slack year for luxury goods during a low mood period.
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London
Ne Beers Diamond Company
Morinville Drilling Could Extend Through Winter
American Oil Co. carries on petroleum boring at Morinville Alberta with workers skilled in prospecting. Guertin reports drilling through winter and notes a prior oil strike in California in similar strata.
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Morinville
Alta
American Oil Co
Guertin
California
New Carnese Lab Machine Measures Entire Human Body
Experimenters at Carnese Nutrition Laboratory claim a device that can measure every energy, organ, and tissue in the human body exactly. The invention promises to revolutionize medical science.
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Boston
Carnese Nutrition Laboratory
Need Young Priests for Mackenzie Mission Seminary
Pioneer Roman Catholic missionaries in Northern Canada grow too old and a push emerges to raise funds for a seminary in the Mackenzie Valley. The plan seeks to recruit younger French Canadian men to prepare them for missionary service and sustain the cross’s work in the region.
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Canada
Mackenzie Valley
Strawberries Hit Several Districts in October
The autumn in Nova Scotia was notably fine and mild. Strawberries have been nicked in several districts of the province during the last week of October.
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Nova Scotia
Prosperity In New Brunswick Boosts Farmers Merchants
Business in New Brunswick remains brisk with a strong year for farmers merchants and manufacturers except lumber operators who face a dull season. The potato crop yields top quality and farmers sell at about a dollar a barrel on a rising market.
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New Brunswick
Cochrane Town Lots Sell Rapidly at Northern Junction
A Toronto Globe report details 145 Cochrane town lots sold at public auction for 50425 dollars as the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway reaches the junction with the National Transcontinental. Buyers face a muddy approach to the sale at the new townsite while foreseeing rapid future growth from timber and farming opportunities in a strategic rail hub.
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Canada
Ontario
Cochrane
Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway
National Transcontinental
W. M. Scanlan
Toronto Globe
North Pole
Toronto
Temiskaming & Northern
North Bay
Berks
Great Britain
Abitibi
Frederick House
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Don Cochrane
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