Belasco and British Stage Shade in Canadian Visit
The piece reviews David Belasco as the leading American playwright and his praise for Britain’s stage, contrasts with American sex drama, and notes Belasco’s Canadian upbringing. It then surveys Canada’s rising divorce rate postwar, blaming absent husbands and less patient wives, and ends with a rail journey along Lake Superior featuring Sir James Lougheed and Dr. Young among fellow passengers.
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Cavalry Sent to Westmeath Farms as Sinn Fein Action Feared
A flying column of cavalry is moved into Westmeath to guard farms amid raider activity. Sinn Feiners are expected to act after the military arrival. Raiders burned the Brandon coast guard station in West Kerry. six coast guards and families resisted but were overcome. Ballymonnell courthouse in County Kavan, rebuilt after a prior fire, was burned again.
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Sinn
Soldier Settlers Rush to Prince Albert Land Loans
Soldier settlers move into the Prince Albert district at about ten per day. Two hundred men were located last month with loans totaling three hundred thousand dollars to start new homes on the prairie. Another similar number await action as applications pile up, while some loans are refused for high land prices. Settlers flock to the Paddockwood area where land remains available. The board extended loan repayment from six to eight years with two years of free interest to encourage homesteading.
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Paddockwood
Made in Canada to Feature Ralph Connor Novels on Screen
Ernest Shipman, famed for Back to God’s Country, plans to film The foreigner Black Rock and The Man from Glengarry in Canada. The projects leverage life like Canadian woods and prairies, backed by Canadian capital and endorsed by Ottawa and Winnipeg boards of trade.
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A Brave Woman in German Assembly Denounces Occupying Troops
Frau Zeltz, an independent socialist, criticizes brutality by German soldiers in France and Belgium during a German assembly debate on a pious resolution. The protest erupts in shouts of shame, but she persists, with several members opposing her statements yet no one refutes them.
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France
Belgium
Blasting accident maims two miners in Cobalt incident
In Cobalt an 18 year old miner Vincent Arney and his friend Albert Desjardines were handling five dynamite caps when one exploded. Arney lost a hand and most fingers. Desjardines suffered severe facial injuries and possible loss of an eye. Both were taken to Mines Hospital in serious condition.
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Saskatoon Mayor Debates Regina Golf Fame
A Saskatchewan man recounts a trip to Ottawa with golf clubs and argues against H. S. Anderson of Regina as the West’s best golfer. He asserts Regina is unfairly underrated by Saskatoon’s officials.
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Regina
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President Deschanel Falls From Presidential Train
Paul Deschanel president of the French Republic fell from a moving train near Montargis. He walked a mile in darkness to a track worker, who assisted him to a signal station and arranged a mobile to Montargis for care. The president identified himself when found.
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Beatification ceremony honors Oliver Plunkett in Dublin
Traitor turned saint Oliver Plunkett, first Archbishop of Armagh in 1669, executed at Tyburn on July 1 1681, was beatified in a ceremony at Ba silica. The congregation included Count George Plunkett representing the archbishop family Sir T Grantam Emonde and family Sean O Cealligh an Irish Parliament member and Dublin city officials.
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Sean O'Cealligh
Dublin
Good Crop Outlook in Regina District Brightens Farmers
Farmers in the Regina district report a favorable crop outlook with wheat stands two to three inches high and good overall acreage similar to 1919, despite minor wind drift and recent wet cool weather. Some Condie and Estlin farmers are breaking new ground to seed oats and flax.
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Dairying Conditions Improve Across Saskatchewan
Dairy branch reports show a strong two week upturn in production across most Saskatchewan sections. Northeastern inspectors note cattle faring better than expected with pastures recovering and production rising quickly after a tough winter and prior feed shortages.
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Saskatchewan
West
Canada
Prelate Defends General Dyer Amid Punjab Riots
The prelate argues Dyer deserved thanks rather than reprimand for the Punjab shooting. He notes sympathy rising for the ex commander, referencing the Catholic Archbishop of Simla who warns soldiers may face a massacre if they hesitate before a large native crowd.
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Bank of Saskatchewan Petition for Incorporation
A petition was presented to the Senate in Ottawa for incorporating the Bank of Saskatchewan with head office at Regina. Senator Ross presented the petition.
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Bank of Saskatchewan
Regina
Ross
Canadian Reciter Wows London Critics at Sinai Hall
Mme. Murray impressed critics with Drummond's Habitant poems including Settle Batiste The Snow Bird The Red Canoe and The Nice Seetle Canadienne. Her best pieces were Kipling How the Rhino Got His Skin and J Whitcomb Riley Bear Story. Murray, Ottawa born, is wife of artist Webster Murray son of Dr Murray of Toronto.
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Python Crushes Trainer During Gazing Finale at Serbruck
A Hungarian trainer named Ciro was fatally attacked by a large python on stage in a Serbruck theater near Geneva. The audience cheered believing the cries were part of the act as the serpent coiled and killed her before Frau Lein Ciro’s manager shot the animal, ending a grim tragedy.
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Geneva
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Fraulein Ciro
Science Fighting Cancer Under Sir John Sutton
A new sustained scientific program directed by Sir John Sutton aims to uncover cancer origins. Sutton says cancer remains largely a mystery after 230 years of study, is not contagious or hereditary, and may originate from a mysterious parasite via uncooked food and water, with focus on a chemical trigger.
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Sir John Sutton
Sutton
First Lady City Clerk Named in Windsor Ontario
Miss Martha Dickinson, after 18 years in Windsor city clerk’s office, was nearly unanimously chosen to succeed the retiring City Clerk Lusted in July. The post carries a $2400 yearly salary and may mark Canada’s first woman in such a position.
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Canada
Race Against Time Reaches Melfort for Life Saving Operation
D. S. B. McMillan of Prince Albert Saskatchewan raced a CN special to Melfort sixty miles away in under two hours to save Mrs. Price wife of a local farmer. Doctors Kennedy of Tisdale and Eisel of Melfort assisted at the operation.
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Prince Albert, Sask
C.N.R
Melfort
Price
Drs. Kennedy
Tisdale
Eisel
Former Champion Boxer's Death in Toronto Hotel Room
Robert Day a once well known heavyweight boxing champion of Canada was found dead in a Broadview hotel room in Toronto beside an empty carbolic acid bottle. He was about 45 years old.
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Broadview
Toronto
Bob’ Day
Canada
Buried shell kills family near Lille
An entire family of five was killed near Lille when a pitchfork used by the father to dig in a garden struck a 90 millimeter shell from the Great War buried in the soil.
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