Night Desk Plot at the Advance Office
In the Advance building a tense setup unfolds as Wheeler Brand and three reporters arrange a hidden camera aimed at Brand’s desk through a morgue partition. Joe Dillon and Dupuy the lawyer visit as Brand handles threats and a Bartelmy linked deal while weighing a looming scoop.
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Wheeler Brand
Howard Hartley
Jeff Thorne
Bill
Brand
Hartley
Jeff
Howard
Durkin
Joe Dillon
Dillon
Patriot
Mr. Brand
Joe
Brend
Bey
Dupuy
Dopuy
Mr. Dupuy
Bartelmy
Lansing
Judge Bartelmy
Michal
Mab
Calgary Street Railway Shows Profit for Year
Calgary street railway reports net receipts of 29 335 53 for the year ending June 30 after interest sinking fund and stock payments. The system ends with 31 639 93 to its credit and a six month profit of 21 338 56, higher than the prior six months. A portion of profits to the city implies a reduction in city mill rate.
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Western City
Calgary
Alta
Calgary Street Railway
Gunfight at Great Northern Office Ends in Killing
Alfred G. Ray chief special agent for the Great Northern railway shot and killed Charles P. Welch a former subordinate in St Paul. Welch had fired four shots at Ray and hurled a nitro glycerine bottle that failed to explode. Welch had been discharged July 1 and had threatened Ray repeatedly.
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Great Northern Railway
St. Paul
Minn
Alfred G. Ray
Charles P. Welch
Great Northern
Chance
Ray
Welch
Great Northern Service
Moulton and Chap man Wed at Elmwood Avenue Home
Miss Mabel Cornelia Moulton of Providence Rhode Island married Rev. Dr J Wilbur Chapman noted evangelist of New York in a ceremony at the bride’s Elmwood avenue home. Rev Elijah Hanley officiated with only close relatives and friends present.
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Providence
R.I
Mabel Cornelia Moulton
J. Wilbur Chapman
New York
Elmwood Avenue
Elijah Hanley
First Baptist Church
Faily
Railways and Government Plan Aggressive Exodus Countercampaign
Montreal reports in railway circles that the CPR GT P and CNR will unite with the Dominion government in an aggressive advertising drive to offset United States exodus yarns. They will promote settlement and open lands and push a campaign that could be seen as carrying the war into Africa.
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U. S
Montreal
C.P.R
G.T P
C.N.R
Dominion
United States
Africa
Canadian Boys Train quickly, Baden-Powell notes
General Baden-Powell, arriving in Ottawa, said Canadian boys learn the rudiments of mystery training faster than boys in Britain. He was met at the station by Lord Lanesborough, representing Earl Grey, during a brief interview.
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Ottawa
Baden-Powell
Lord Lanesboro
Earl Grey
Gas strike near Port Burwell by Dorminion Gas Co
A large gas well was struck near Port Burwell by the Dorminion Gas company of Hamilton. The 1300 foot well is expected to produce about three million cubic feet of gas per hour from a six inch hole.
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Toronto
Port Burwell
Dorminion Gas Company
Hamilton
Morane Breaks World Record in Havre Aviation Meet
In Havre France Leon Morane set a new world record during the aviation meet his monoplane climbed to a height of six thousand eight hundred eighty nine feet the achievement marks a landmark in early flight history.
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Havre
France
Leon Morane
Quips and Quibbles from Victorian Collected Wit
A collage of one liners and wry exchanges from newspapers including Manchester Guardian and Detroit Free Press. Jokes cover marriage, reform, church, gambling and social manners in brisk, period voice. Notable snippets feature sharp digs at wives husbands and public life.
Parable of the marriage feast in Matthew shown
A sermon notes that the parable of the great supper in Matthew 22 echoes Luke's wedding feast tale. It stresses human indifference to God, church as union with Christ, and the need to accept the king's invitation, wear the wedding garment, and seek righteousness through Christ or face judgment.
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D. M. Stearns
Adam
God
Eve
Christ
Xix
Rebecca
Asenath
Zipporah
Ruth
Abraham
Isaac
Naomi
David
Lord Jesus Christ
Noeh
Cain
Baden-Powell Opens Toronto Scout Exhibition
General Sir Robert Baden-Powell opened the Toronto exhibition and reviewed about a thousand scouts including fifteen English visitors. The scouts assembled at several points and then marched to the grounds.
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Toronto
Robert P Baden- Powel
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Frederick R. Toombs
Joseph Medill Patterson
Harriet Ford
Dillion
Downs
Bobbie Doolittle
St. Honore Hotel
Leu
Old Gay
Jersey
Nolan
Triple 3 Plaza
Miss Stowe
Dr. Chapman
Manchester
Ernest
New York Weekly
Detroit Free Press
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