Western Associated Press Wins Ban on CPR News Monopoly
The Canadian Pacific railway must end its news service discrimination in Western Canada. The unanimous Railway Commissioners ruling orders CPR and GNW Telegraph to publish uniform tariffs. WA P gains equal access for its news matter at comparable rates across the region.
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Canada
Associated Press
Winnipeg
Ami
Board of Railway Commissioners
Railway Commission
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ottawa
Board of Railway Commssioners
G.N.W
Telegraph Company
CPLR
C.P.R
W.A
W.A.P
Railway Commissioners
C.P.R. Railway Company
C.P.R. Telegraphs
Saskatchewan Crop Totals Report For 1909 Declares Wheat Oats Output
Saskatchewan’s 1909 crop report shows wheat 90,255,000 bushels from 4,085,000 acres with yield 22.1, oats 105,465,000 bushels. barley 7,533,000 bushels from 244,000 acres. The total farm value for all crops and livestock reaches $152,539,242 with 174,421,961 agricultural assets.
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Saskatchewan
Dominion
Union
Minnesota
North Dakota
Kansas
United States
Illinois
Iowa
Skatchewan
Province of
Saskatoon Mills to Build Mammoth Flour Mill
Amalgamation of two local firms the Saskatoon Milling and Elevator Company and Wilson Leslie Company will develop one of western Canada’s largest flour mills. Tenders for machinery are called. Construction starts at once on Seventeenth Street with a adjoining large grain elevator. The firm already operates a long line of elevators to be expanded.
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Amate
Saskatoon
Sask
Comanies
Atoon Milling and Elevator Company
Wilson, Leslie Company
Canada
Seventeenth Street
Taxicabs for Winnipeg Move Forward
Winnipeg businessmen organize a local taxicab company ordering ten air cooled cabs to arrive by February 1 with system running by bonspiel week. Cars priced about 3700 dollars each and the Winnipeg garage will be the initial headquarters.
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Winnipeg
Winnipegers
Canadian Navy Plan Expands To Eleven Vessels
Ottawa reveals a navy plan replacing seven vessels with eleven, costing about eleven million dollars to build and three million annually to maintain. The fleet includes four Bristol class cruisers, one Broadbeach type cruiser, a smaller type, and six River-class destroyers. Maintenance is projected at three million yearly. construction may occur mostly in Canada.
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Ottawa
Wilfrid Laurier
L. P. Brodeur
Candian
Seni
Wilfrid
Canada
Atlantic
Sir Wilfrid
Naval Service of Canada
R. L. Borden
Germany
Great Britain
Britain
Borden
F. D. Monk
Lachine
London
Times
Toronto
R. Borden
the Times
Dramatic End to Brazen Cattle Thief
Moose Jaw reports the shooting of Dutch Henry a famed border cattle thief killed in a duel with a mounted policeman at Big Muddy after the outlaw tried to shoot the officer’s horse. Local officials caution the account is unofficial and unconfirmed, but Montana sources deny the tale.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Dutch Henry
Big Maddy River
Here
R.N.W.M
Big Muddy
Herrow
Montana
Wood Mountain
Winnipeg Low Death Rate Among Continent's Lowest
Winnipeg reports a death rate of 12.1 per thousand for last year. Cleveland follows with 19.9 while New Orleans reaches 20.6, marking Winnipeg as among the lowest on the continent.
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Winnipeg
Cleveland J
New Orleans
DAREDEVIL FLIGHT AMAZES LA AVIATION CROWDS
In Los Angeles a French aviator Paulhan set altitude records at 5000 feet during a mid winter aviation tournament before about 40 000 spectators. He flew fifty minutes forty six seconds before Curtiss and Willard accompanied the descent.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Lons Paulaan
France
Paulhan
Paulman
Tom
Glenn J. Curtiss
F. Willard
Paulban
Fernoon
Carties
Farman
Glenn H. Curiss
Iss
Paul
Curtias
C. B Herman
Hamilton
Willard
Lincoln Beachy
Roy Knuxbenschue
Big Increase in Trade for 1909 in London
The board of trade shows twelve months to December 31 1909 exports at £469 744 809 an rise of £1300000 over 1908 while imports reached £624 740 517 up £32000000. December exports were £43424818 up nearly £6900000 from December 1908 and imports £60883 up about £4000000. Raw cotton imports in December fell about £140000. Exports of cotton and grain rose about £1500000 in December.
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London
Board of Trade
Aged Woman Dressed as Man in Montreal Jail
A 70 year old identified as William Dubois was arrested for vagrancy in Montreal. In jail hospital the inmate claimed to be a woman Adelina Dubois and had worn men's clothing since age 28. She was moved to the women's jail after verification.
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Montreal
Wm. Dubois
Adelina Dubois
A Poor Defence in a Frick Remark on Trust Excuses
H. C. Frick cites a Pittsburg tobacconist anecdote to illustrate evasive defenses. He recalls a divine objecting to Sabbath commerce while the shopkeeper defends selling cigars as charity for five cents apiece.
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H. C. Frick
Pittsburg
Oil Fields of Alberta Organization Promises Big Oil Push
Winnipeg residents prominent in a new company Boundless Resources to rival Standard Oil capitalized at five million dollars aims to exploit Northern Alberta oil and asphalt from Fort McMurray to Edmonton. Officers and directors include F. Hutchings W. Licetikow G. Ruth Alfred Von Hammerstein and several bankers and politicians.
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Standard Oil
Winnipeg
We Canada
Athabasca Oil and Asphalt Company
Alberta
Edmonton
Great Waterways
Fort McMurray
1 and Asphalt Company
Standard Oil Company
Royal Alexandra Re
Emily
EF. F. Hutchings
Fist
W. C. Licetikow
Sscomd
G. H. Ruth
Marshall Oil Company
Marshalltown
Lown
Alfred von Hammerstein
John Galt
Thomas Kelly
John McCrea
Arthur Stewart
von Hammerstein
Athapasca
Dominion
Ottawa
Frank Smith
British Adviser Pins Garden of Eden Site in Hairlah
Sir William Wilcox, adviser to Britain's public works minister, locates the Garden of Eden at Hairlah northwest of Baghdad. He argues the Euphrates splits into four arms here, reflecting the four rivers of Eden, and suggests the deluge was the flooding of the Mesopotamian plain as irrigation dikes failed.
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Constantinople
Journal de Stampoul
William Wilcox
Public Works
Hairlah
Bagdad
Sir William
Euphrates
Tigris
Two New Senators for Nova Scotia Appointed
Ottawa reports the appointment of Edward M. Farrell of Nova Scotia and William Roche former Halifax MP to fill two Senate vacancies. The seats had been vacant for over 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
Western Associated Press
C. P. R. May Abannon
Western News Service
Bureau of Information and Statistics
Department of Agriculture
Laurier
Daredevil Flight
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