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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
6
Charles Jackson, on a ranch southwest of Calgary, was badly burned when his gasoline soaked clothing caught fire during engine repairs. The ranch owner Norman Harris was lightly burned. Jackson’s relatives live in Ontario.
One Big Union delegates at the Calgary convention received a cable from Robert Smillie of the British Federation of Miners urging a simultaneous strike on September 28. In reply the Alberta Miners Federation sent a cable to the British Government.
In Steelton New Jersey ex soldier Mike Mazurich nicknamed Crazy Mike shot and killed two sisters Sadie and Susie Felter school teachers during a roadside intrusion He demanded a car item and fired a shot after a brief exchange An ensuing posse pursued Mazurich a known eccentric after the tragedy
Charles Duran a Mexican is held without bail on a murder charge after shooting Antonio Barron a fellow countryman in what is described as a quarrel over a girl. The article warns of rising bootlegging and lawlessness in Crow's Nest Pass with armed bootleggers and open disregard for the law.
Five planes launched a daily air mail service linking major cities. A NY to San Francisco flight departs each morning, SF to NY departs daily, Cheyenne to SF operates, Chicago to SF runs daily except Sunday, and Chicago to NY runs daily except Monday.
R. E. Carver of Lawrenceburg Indiana wears a homespun suit made for his father by his grandmother in 1870. The garment remains in good condition though dated and slightly out of fashion. Meanwhile a 14 year old, Basil Joynte, fell from a rocky riverbank near the Karabasua River in Quebec and drowned on Sunday.
The season's first wheat car from Coaldale to Western Canada Flour Mills via Willard Gemming & Co. Calgary netted $4,429.96. The shipment weighed 1,702.10 bushels at a price of $2,7734, reportedly a record carload.
Lord Burnham of the Imperial Press delegation spoke at Montreal about Canada travel. The delegates then continued to Quebec where they will remain until boarding the Empress of Britain on September 15.
Mrs. Pearl H. O'Dell, convicted of murder of Edward Kneipp and imprisoned in Auburn for women, was brought to a local hospital to bear her baby girl under a new state law. The father, James O'Dell, is on death row in Sing Sing and not notified.
Russian émigrés adapt to work in exile with nobles farming near Tours, a prince as bank clerk and princesses in interior decorating. Elsewhere the Matane Timber and Development railway assets, worth millions, were sold to Hammermill Paper Company of Erie, Pennsylvania, with 133000 acres of timber lands along the Matane and Capchat rivers.
The Hon C M Hamilton minister of agriculture and Hedley Auld deputy minister begin a fort night tour of experimental farms in Northwestern States. Manitoba College of Agriculture Principal John Bracken joins to study American experimental farm methods firsthand.
A gale and brief hail storm in Rhode Island caused hundreds of thousands in damage. Thousands of glass panes shattered, interiors flooded, and fruit trees stripped. Utilities were interrupted and hail measured up to one and a half inches. A Cranston market gardener estimated losses at 200000 dollars and a nearby factory reported 2000 broken panes.
A telegram to Winnipeg labor men states Premier Meighen will attend the Dominion Trades Congress opening September 13. He will deliver the opening address as the feature of the ceremony.
The Montreal police force pays too little to attract recruits and since 1914 about 275 officers have resigned without replacement. The city now faces serious difficulty in policing its streets as a crime wave grips the area.
Eva Beattie, a Scotch immigrant girl, drowned after attempting to save her younger sister who ventured beyond her depth. Guards at Hoffman Island detention quarters rescued the younger sister, while Eva’s body, carrying a bag of funds, remains unrecovered.
Persistent rainfall rots root crops in Fredericton area while oats cut a week ago lie in fields and risk spoilage. Fears mount over potential potato crop losses as rivers rise rapidly.
Five year old Regina Bolan daughter of John Bolan was hit by a J J Case Threshing Machine Company truck near the Allen theatre. She sustained slight injuries and was taken to the general hospital for examination after the incident reported to involve a slow moving auto truck that could not be stopped in time.
Driscoll of Gooch''s Limited, a major London retailer, forecasts price declines ahead as some items already hit unwilling prices. He warns factory closures may follow if labor demands stay high, then wages drop and buying resumes. Also, Hon. F. B. Carvell notes coal freight increases are capped at five cents per ton, pledging action against profiteering beyond actual freight rises.
Profits of illicit liquor trade between Canada and the Detroit district are estimated in the millions for 1920. Revenue officers from both countries base figures on tax data with some quarters showing profits as high as 100 million dollars for the year.
The International Council of Women holds its first post 1914 Quinquen nial meeting in Christiania Norway with about 400 delegates. Discussions cover education public health housing social diseases and League of Nations links while Queen Maud hosts a royal reception and a luncheon follows in the city.
Nine men are reported dead and four ill at Edgewood Arsenal Boston from a liquid whose main ingredient is wood alcohol. Three died the same night and six more died the following evening. The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the fatalities.
John Headstone of the Trochu district near Calgary attempted suicide three weeks ago and was released on a suspended sentence today by Judge Winter. Authorities are contacting his family amid reports they cash him adrift, allegedly contributing to his despondency. His sons own 960 acres of land north of Calgary.
Provincial police arrest Mrs Agnes Ryan widow in connection with the infant found near Inga Ontario. She reportedly worked at a restaurant in Redditt station and traveled to Winnipeg the day the body was found before returning for questioning.
An eleven year old Montreal boy endured four weeks living on leftovers from picnickers and fruit from local orchards. He was found on Mount Royal and returned to his worried parents.
Mrs Gretchen Menken, an American, was fined 50 pounds after pleading guilty to importing nine pistols by air without declaring them. She claimed the weapons were for her fourteen year old son, a pistol marksman, and admitted inducing a porter at the aerodrome to move six pistols to a taxi. The pistols were found in her room and confiscated.
Australia’s wheat crop is estimated at 167000000 bushels with farmers hoping for a record price of ten shillings per bushel.
The Himalaya Company's sugar plantation at Napoleonville Louisiana sold for 350000 dollars. It had been purchased eleven years earlier for 20000 dollars, illustrating the effect of rising sugar prices on land value.
A retrospective on Frank Norris’s early novels including The Octopus and McTeague, noting promise, genius in parts, and a premature death in 1903. It compares Norris to Booth Tarkington and Winston Churchill, highlighting their early works and differing stylistic strengths.
Otto L. Fisher a carpenter of Bladworth Saskatchewan seeks a Saskatchewan divorce from his wife who already secured a divorce from him in North Dakota.
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