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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1923
Page
2
The letter argues that government finances differ from private balance sheets, since debt and taxes rise year after year. It warns Canadians to demand reduced expenditures, citing high prices for coal and other essentials, burdensome taxes, and broken election promises eroding trust in party government.
The article notes July 2 as Dominion Day and July 4 as United States Day with large crowds from Canada and the U S. It reports the Fixhibition Management has completed arrangements for a six day Exhibition from July 2 to 7 and promises a banner year with enthusiastic organization and cross border attendance.
A new transatlantic cable will connect New York and London within months at an estimated cost of 11,000,000. The project is undertaken by the postal telegraph commercial system and will mark the first Atlantic cable laid down.
A proposed route in 1910 would stretch 1.759 miles through the Scotia chotk Ghats to join an existing cable to Ireland. A new 350 mile cable would link the Irish terminal with London, with cost per mile noted as a factor in the project.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa announces next month’s nationwide collection of 1923 farm statistics. Cards record areas sown and cattle on June 15, with separate prairie cereal estimates to be published early. Direct mailing begins across provinces. responses are confidential and used only for aggregated totals.
Local ad promotes printing services from the Banner Office for check books, letter heads, statements, envelopes, and business forms. Phone number 42 listed for orders.
A sweeping anti-combines bill passes Commons by 138 to 21 as Canadians push back against price gouging by trusts. Sugar refiners Arcadia Atlantic Canada St Lawrence Montreal Dominion Refinery Wallaceburg are summoned for investigation into sugar costs and profits. The move ties tariffs to protecting native industries and calls for penalties on conspiracies to fix prices. Approximately three hundred silos were sold in Western Canada last year, per Nor-West Farmer figures.
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