Unanimous judgment ends news rate monopoly in Canada
The Canadian Pacific railway must end discrimination against Western Associated Press by applying equal rates to all news deliveries. The rail board ruled CPR can not impose lower tariffs for its own service and ordered a uniform rate to be drafted within a month. The decision ends CPR news monopoly and may reshape news distribution across Western Canada.
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Ottawa
Board of Railway Commissioners
Western Associated Press
Winnipeg News Gathering Association
Canadian Pacific Railway
G.N.W. Telegraph Companies
Winnipeg
Telegraph Company
Concluides
St Wing
Western Associatedress
Canada
Railway Commission
C. P.R
C.P.R
Associated Press
W.A
W.A.P
Railway Commissioners
C.P.R. Railway Company
C.P.R. Telegraphs
Western Camila
CPR
Montreal
Western Associated
Saskatchewan Crop Yields and Farm Assets in 1909
The Saskatchewan Bureau of Information and Statistics reports 1909 totals for wheat oats and barley with yields per acre and province ranking. It notes farm values totaling 178 million dollars and 12 500 harvesters aiding the season across the province.
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Saskatchewan
Bureau of Information and Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Dominion
Union
Minnesota
North Dakota
Kansas
United States
Illinois
Iowa
Saskatoon Milling and Elevator to Build Large Flour Mill
Saskatoon milling interests merge to form a mammoth new flour mill on Seventeenth Street with a connected large elevator. Tenders are called for machinery and sanitine, and construction starts soon. The site will join the existing elevator network and expand the company’s facilities in western Canada.
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Amate
Saskatoon
Sask
Saskatoon Milling and Elevator Company
Wilson, Leslie Company
Canada
Seveneenth Street
Taxicabs for Winnipeg Organizes Local Venture
Winnipeg businessmen form a taxicab company and place an order for ten air cooled cabs to be shipped by February 1. The fleet aims to be running by bonspiel week with cars costing about 3700 dollars each. Headquarters will be in the Winnipeg garage.
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Winnipeg
Winnipegers
Canada to Field Eleven Vessels Naval Bill Includes Four Cruisers
Ottawa reports Laurier unveils a Canadian navy plan with eleven ships costing about eleven million dollars to build and three million annually to maintain. The fleet includes four Bristodian cruisers and six River-class destroyers, with construction partly inland. London’s Times lauds Laurier but notes Borden’s criticisms of the plan.
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Navy
Ottawa
House of Commons
Wilfrid Laurier
L. P. Brodeur
Sir Wilfrid
Canada
Atlantic
Wilfrid
Naval Service of
R. L. Borden
Germany
Great Britain
Britain
Mr. Borden
F. D. Monk
Lachine
London
the Times
Toronto
Dramatic End to Brazen Cattle Thief Dutch Henry Shot
Moose Jaw Saskatchewan reports that the outlaw known as Dutch Henry, a eight year cattle thief and horse rustler, was killed in a duel with a mounted RNWM policeman near Big Muddy river after resisting arrest. The death is unofficially confirmed and will relieve southern ranchers plagued by raids.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Dutch Henry
Big Muddy River
Here
R.N.W.M
Big Muddy
South Country
Rumor of Dutch Henry Death Debunked by Montana Police
Montana police headquarters at Wood Mountain say there is no truth to the claim that the border outlaw Dutch Henry was shot by a policeman in the south country. Settlers from the district corroborate the denial.
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Moose Jaw
Dutch Henry
South Country
Montana
Wood Mountain
Winnipeg’s Low Death Rate Across the Continent
Winnipeg reports a death rate of 12.1 per thousand for last year, among the lowest on the continent. Cleveland follows at 13.2 while New Orleans stands highest at 20.6.
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Winnipeg
Cleveland
New Orleans
Daredevil Louis Paulhan Breaks Altitude Record at Exhibition
At the international mid winter aviation meet in Los Angeles a French flyer Louis Paulhan soared to 5,000 feet in a glassy frame of wood and silk. He stayed aloft fifty minutes forty six seconds before a crowd of 40 006 as Curtiss and Willard chased with their planes. Paulhan's feats included multiple flights and a dramatic descent. Curtiss proved fastest machine in a speed test and Santo Dumont records were shed during the afternoon of aviation progress.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Louis Paulan
France
Paulhan
Glenn 4. Curtiss
F. Willard
Thefternoon
Curtiss
Farman
Glenn H. Curtis
Glenn Curtiss
Santos Dumont
C. B Hermon
Hamilton
Willand
Lincoln Beachy
Roy Knabenechne
Increase in British Trade in 1909 Exports Rise
Board of Trade figures show 1909 exports at £469,744,809 up £13,000,900 from 1908 while imports total £624,740,517, up £32,000,000. December exports reached £43,424,818, up nearly £6.9 million. imports £60,785,883, up about £4 million. Raw cotton imports in December fell by about £140,000. cotton grain exports and grain exports rose nearly £1.5 million.
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London
Board of Trade
Aged Woman Dressed as Man in Montreal Arrest
A 70 year old man calling himself Wm Dubois was jailed for vagrancy. Claimed to be a woman Adelina Dubois after, medical exam, and was moved to the women’s jail. She had worn men's clothing since age 28.
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Montreal
Wm. Dubois
Adelina Dubois
A Poor Defence by H. C. Frick on trust excuses
Frick cites a Pittsburg divine who rebuked a tobacconist for Sabbath business. The shopkeeper retorts that selling cigars for five cents is charity, underscoring perceived excuses and palliation in moral defenses.
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H. C. Frick
Pittsburg
Oil Fields of Alberta Prominent Winnipeg Investors Form New Company
Winnipeg reports a five million dollar Athabasca oil venture led by Winnipeg citizens to tap Northern Alberta resources. The merger plans a Fort McMurray development, an Edmonton line, and aims to supply lubricating oil to nine cities within a thousand miles. Officers include E. F. Hutchings and W. C. Lieatikow with directors from Marshall Oil and major banks. Ontario and U.S. interests hold two thirds Canadian capital.
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Edmonton
Pavny
Standard Oil Company
Royal Alexanera
E. F. Hutchings
Fist
W. C. Lieatikow
G. H. Ruth
Marshall Oil Company
Marshalltown
Iowa
Alfred von Hammerstein
John Galt
Thomas Kelly
John McCrea
Arthur Stewart
G. F. Carruthers
United States
Cox
T. O. Davis
Prince Albert
T. W. Taylor
Minneapolis
Robert Jones
Lincoln National Bank of Chicago
J. Wieser
First National Bank of Dakota
J. McKenna
Mulock
Loftus
Armstrong and
Lindsay
von Hammerstein
Athapasca
Dominion
Ottawa
Frank Smith
Fort McMurray
Winnipeg
Has Found Garden of Eden Site in Hairlah, Near Baghdad
According to Journal De Stampoul Sir William Wilcox British adviser to the minister of public works believes he has located the Garden of Eden at Hairlah a flourishing oasis about 250 kilometres northwest of Baghdad The Euphrates there allegedly splits into four arms symbolizing the four rivers of Eden and the deluge is seen as flooding from irrigation dikes built by pastoral dwellers in the plain.
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Constantinople
de Stampoul
William Wilcox
Hairlah
Oasis
Bagdad
William
Euphrates
Tigris
Two New Senators Named for Nova Scotia
Ottawa reports Edward M. Farrell of Nova Scotia and William Roche former Halifax MP appointed to fill two Senate vacancies in Nova Scotia. The seats had been vacant for more than a year.
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Ottawa
Edward M. Farrell
N.S
Legislative Assembly
William Roche
M.P
Halifax City
Senate
Nova Scotia
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Railway Board
C. P. R. May Abannon Western News Service
Western
Laurier
Daredevil Flight
Pauthan
Prince of Aviators
Alberta
Standard Oil
Garden of Eden
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