Canada As A Wheat Producer
Ottawa reports on the Royal Society of Canada opening with Dr. William Saunders delivering a presidential address on agricultural progress. He traces agriculture from ancient times to modern science, highlights nitrogen rich soil, nitrogen fertilizer concerns, and notes Canada leads in wheat demand as it expands experimental farms and aims to become a top food exporting nation.
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Ottawa
Royal Society of Canada
William Saunders
C.M
Saunders
Europe
England
America
Walter Raleigh
Henry VIII
Sosen
Catherine
Holland
Great Britain
Canadian
Nature
Norway
Canada
Tibet
Russia
Egypt
Japan
Mexico
Canadian Pavilion Opens at Dublin Exhibition
The Canadian pavilion at the Dublin Open displays a £1000 shield fund for Dominion school shields to aid the British and Foreign Sailors Society. Nelson’s Victory copper shields are cited. Whitelaw Reid hosted a dinner for colonials. Laurier Borden Brodeur attended. Premier Campbell-Bannerman said emigration percentages and home rule discussions won’t be revisited this session.
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Dublin
London
Lord Strathcona
Dominion
British and Foreign Sailors Society
Nelson
Victory
Whitelaw Reid
Messrs
Laurier
Borden
Brodeur
Ireland
Campbell-Bannerman
Council Rejects Drumhead Court Martial Abolition Bill
The empire's upper house rejected the lower chamber’s bill to abolish drumhead court martial, which the lower house had passed on April 30.
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St. Petersburg
Council of the Empire
Terrorists Plot to Kill the Czar in St Petersburg
A soldier from the Guard regiment was arrested at Tsarskoye Selo confessing to a bribery scheme to assassinate Emperor Nicholas. Authorities confirm a broad conspiracy with links to robberies and expropriations, noting other principals remain at large and that suspects may be outside St Petersburg.
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St. Petersburg
E Amperor Nicholas
Tsarskoye-Selo
Poison Plot Leaves Family of Ten Suffering in Selkirk
A Poplar Park farmer, 22, is jailed in Selkirk on murder charges after he allegedly poisoned his father in law’s family. One child died and nine others fell ill after consuming poisoned milk with sugar. a cat died after ingesting the same. Coroner Ross and Chief Baker plan to inspect the scene. The suspect fled with a gun and remains unnamed.
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Selkirk
Poplar Park
Murd
Ross
Baker
Demands of Grain Growers Circulate Ahead of Winnipeg Convention
The Manitoba Grain Growers association executive issues a circular for the June 5 and 6 Winnipeg convention to discuss the grain industry. It lists ten amendments to the Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange charter including abolishing exchange options and broadening membership. The circular ends with a call for reciprocal demurrage.
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Brandon
Manitoba Grain Growers Association
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange
Impudent fabrication claimed over colonial conference report
Winston Churchill denounced the Mail's claim that Premier Bond faced gross humiliation at the conference as baseless and impudent. He said the cable to the colonies showed the statement bore no resemblance to what occurred at the meeting.
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London
Bond
Winston Churchill
Milner to Visit Canada Banquet Accepted in Toronto
Cable dispatches report Lord Milner plans a Canadian autumn visit and the Toronto Canadian Club extended a banquet invitation. Milner replied with thanks and expressed delight at dining with the club when in Canada.
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Toronto
Lord Milner
Canada
Canadian Club
Toronto Canadian Club
The Lord Chooses His Man Before Birth
A devotional study on Amram and Jochebed of Levi as the parents of Moses, highlighting faith as trust in God, the hidden years, and preparation for deliverance. The piece links Moses’s early life with Elijah, Miriam, and Pharaoh’s daughter, noting God’s timing and the wages of faith.
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American Prem Association
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Cyrus
Amram
Jochebed
Levi
Aaron
Miriam
Moses
Israel
Abraham
Elijah
Ahab
Noah
Sochebed
John Iii
Hannah
Samuel
God
London Debates Congo Annexation Plan and Conference Prospects
Sir Edward Grey warns Britain will not fix satisfactory terms for the Congo annexation plan until details are known and Belgium may act without external pressure. He urges a conference of treaty powers, noting U S interest but saying two powers are insufficient, as Dilke pushes for broader talks with Germany and France to compel Belgium into action.
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London
House of Commons
Edward Grey
Foreignecretary
Belgium
Congo
Sir Edward
Tate
United States
Charles W. Dilke
Great Britain
Germany
France
Japanese General Kuroki Welcomed in New York for Expo Visit
General Baron Kuroki, hero of the Yalu, arrived with Vice-Admiral Ijuin to represent Japan at the Jamestown Exposition. A banquet at Sherry's hosted by 100 Japanese residents followed a large reception for Kuroki and staff in New York and Jersey City.
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Kuroki
New York
Baron Kuroki
Ijuin
Isukuba
Chitose
United Service
Sherry’s
Jersey City
Koike
Lindsay Russell
E. 8
A. Delimax
American Committee of Entertainment
O. F. Wood
Charles Lynch
U. S. Army
War Department
Texada Island Strike Tests Disputes Act in Canada
The Marble Bay mine on Texada Island, B C, faces enforcement under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act. Ned in Tacoma reports the managers will fine striking miners ten dollars per day, testing the act from the employers' perspective. McKenzie King, deputy labor minister, declined interference as fifty miners are summoned to court.
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Vancouver
B.C
Marble Bay
Texada
Ned
Tacoma
McKenzie King
Ottawa accident inspector named James Clarke to lead Winnipeg duties
James Clarke of Ottawa veteran railway conductor with the Canadian Atlantic and Grand Trunk has been appointed a printed assistant accident inspector to the Board of Railway Commissioners. His headquarters will be in Winnipeg and he departs Ottawa today for his first assignment to Fort Wil.
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Ottawa
Ont
James Clarke
Canadian Atlantic Railway
Grand Trunk
Board of Railway Commissioners
Winnipeg
Fort Wil
Wheat market roars with speculative frenzy and weather woes
The market report says speculative buying in wheat dwarfs supply demand in the past week driving prices up nine cents to five per bushel. Cold, dry weather and green bug damage threaten crops in Kansas Missouri and Western Canada while Europe and Russia suffer further losses. Argentina and Australia show good planting conditions boosting future prices. Winnipeg shares the uncertain outlook with Chicago and other markets as speculative trading dominates and cash demand remains soft.
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America
Europe
Kanissouri
Kansas
Manitoba
Canada
Russia
Argentine
Australia
Winnipeg
Chicago
United States
Uae
Ham
Fort W1
Port Arthur
All Red Route Favors Australia Link in Press Debate
London editors widely back the all red line to Australia with the Times siding with Laurier on high policy. The News stands nearly alone in arguing subsidies imply free trade.
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London
Australia
Times
Laurier
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