British Fleets to Meet Off Portuguese Spanish Coasts
London reports a record gathering of British ships for naval manoeuvres near Portugal and Spain with sixty ships including thirty battleships and fourteen cruisers. The event follows Lord Tweedmouths redistribution creating special reserve crews and will outmatch Germany and France in total displacement.
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London
Lagos
Portugal
Spain
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Lord Tweedmowth
Lord Shelborne
Admiralty
Great Britain
Germany
France
Lagoe
Hamburg Women Form Anti Caste Club Aimed at Social Barriers
More than 500 Hamburg women join the Anti Caste club to abolish social barriers and encourage free intercourse across classes. Leaders are prominent families. Members vow to invite and accept all acquaintances regardless of status and not oppose marriages to lower degrees. The caste spirit in Germany is seen as extreme and ridiculed.
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Hamburg
Germany
Canada Fascinates Crooks, London
Paris magistrate refuses release for Hebert charged with complicit swindle of M. M. Sudre. Offenders seek to dodge conviction by emigrating to Canada. Two Irish Guards corporals who stole regimental funds had Canada tickets when arrested. A burglar said he acted with best intentions to fund a new start in Canada.
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Canada
London
Paris
Hebert
M. M. Sudre
Dominion of Canada
Questions Between U S and Canada Advance in Ottawa Talks
The Associated Press learns that definite proposals between the United States and Great Britain aim to clear outstanding differences with Canada. Circles expect Secretary Root and Earl Grey to meet in Ottawa and arrange some or all long pending controversies.
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London
Associated Press
United Stats
Great Britain
United States
Canada
Root
Earl Grey
Ottawa
Treasure Search Halted Over Sinking Treasure
A Guadalajara dispatch reports the attempt to recover $1,500,000 in gold from the hulk of the steamer Golden Gate near the Coli man coast is paused for at least a year. The 260 foot pier and recovery gear were swept away by last week’s storm, ending the bid by those aiming to reclaim the treasure.
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Mexico City
Guadalajara
Golden Gate
Coliman
King Victor Emmanks Peace Outlook
King Victor Emmanuel received W. T. Stead in a private audience and expressed himself as partially in accord with Stead's pacific mission in Rome.
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Rome
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
W. T. Stead
Pacific
Gompers Proposes Global Arbitration and Sea Immunity
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, urged a general arbitration treaty and a world assembly to settle disputes before wars. He called for impartial investigations and immunity of private property at sea during war, urging local congressmen to express sympathy with the movement. He linked war to working people and urged limiting naval and military build ups.
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Logansport
Ind
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Trades Union Movement
Gompers
Prof Jordan on Japanese Question Speech in San Francisco
Dr David Starr Jordan president of Stanford University told a San Francisco audience that Congress cannot pass nor the President sign a Japanese exclusion act and that such a move would be a hoodlum act. He cited Roosevelt on being a gentleman and argued immigration troubles need lawful restraint not mass denouncements of Japan. He dismissed the idea of conflict with Japan and said Japan seeks to curb unskilled immigration to the United States.
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Jordan
San Francisco
Congress
David Starr Jordan
Stanford University
Roosevelt
Japan
Pacific
Gold Discovery Sparks Cape Breton Gold Rush
In Baddock Cape Breton word spreads of a new gold district likened to the Klondike. Over 1 000 claims have been filed in the Wagamatcock region where occasional ore runs into thousands of dollars per ton though overall grades are low. Excitement grows as several large expeditions plan to begin within a week or two.
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Coleseit
Ottawa
Low
Geological Survey
Cobalt
Bonanza
Cape Breton
Baddock
Klondike
Wagamatcock
McGill Endowment Drive Aims to Raise Million
The governor general presided over a Montreal board of trade meeting to devise ways to create a $1,000,000 endowment for McGill University. Lord Strathcona and Sir William McDonald attended as resolutions were passed urging Montreal citizens to contribute, with Robert Reford already pledging $50,000 contingent on full subscription.
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Montreal
Board of Trade
Lord Strathcona
William McDonald
McGill University
Robert Reford
Pacific Steamship signs Vancouver to Mexico route deal
Pacific Steamship Service of Ottawa signs a contract representing an English syndicate to run two vessels on the Vancouver to Mexican ports route. The Georgia, one ship, sails from Liverpool shortly and will commence its first Vancouver voyage at the end of March.
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Ottawa
Cain and Abel Represent Worshipers in Genesis Lesson
The article interprets Genesis through Cain and Abel as two worship paths. Abel’s faith pleases God while Cain’s rebellion leads to murder, illustrating the only true access to God through sacrifice and obedience.
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American Press Association
Cain and Abel
Cain
Abel
Eve
Adam
God
Devil
Christ
Lord
Jude
Jehouah
Jamaica Catastrophe Deepens in Kingston Afterquake and Fire
The Kingston disaster devastates the city with 500 to 1,290 dead and thousands injured. Ten thousand homeless amid famine danger and pestilence threats. American battleships Missouri and Indiana aid survivors as the harbor town slowly sinks and debris fills streets.
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London
Kingston
Alexander Swettenham
America
Missouri
Indiana
Jamaica
Extreme cold grips Dusbec Quebec leaving city paralyzed
The 1857 record cold snap causes business to halt and outdoor work to stop. Trains run late due to steam issues. Exposed thermometers show 41 in the city, Lake Edward hits 64, twelve degrees below previous records. No fatalities reported yet.
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Quebec
Lake St. John
Lake Edward
Railway unions reach rest after duty agreement
Toronto reports that brothers of several railway employee branches and Canadian railways agreed on enforcement of rest after duty. Trainmen on duty sixteen hours must take ten hours rest and those out twelve to fifteen hours must book eight hours rest. Enforcement to begin immediately, likely increasing crews.
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Toronto
Ont
Canadian Railways
New Atlantic Mei Line Openness to New Canadian Mail Service
London journals discuss a proposed fast Canadian mail service with a western port at Black Sod Bay. They warn that absence of coal nearby and limited cargo, along with the memory of a prior Galway mail venture, would deter capitalists unless assured of success amid strong opposition from existing lines.
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London
Atlantic
Black Sod Bay
Galway
Spence Resigns Alliance Secretary Post in Toronto
F. B. Spence resigned the secretaryship of the Dominion Alliance at a meeting of the alliance executive. Ren. H. Spence was appointed to fill the office until the alliance meets. Spence cites poor health and hints he may enter another business.
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Spence
Toronto
Dominion Alliance
Alliance
Ren. H. Spence
Market Report Highlights Wheat Demand and Rail Blockade
The market report notes improved domestic demand for flour in Minneapolis and rising cash bids for 1 Northern wheat amid railway blockades. It cites severe cold and heavy snow delaying shipments, subdued European trade, and potential price gains if Argentina and Russia exportations falter. Manitoba cash wheat stalls, futures active, with closing prices for 1 Nor 72c and May 76c, in Fort William and Fort Arthur markets.
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NASA
Minneapolis
Western Canada
Dakota
Winnipeg
Argentina
Australia
Russia
America
Manitoba
Fort William
Seaboard
Fort Arthur
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