Wheat Market Faces Large Spring Movement Risk
The market shows a moderate weekly price rise amid strong demand and active trade. Canadian spring wheat movement, especially from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, looms large and could push supplies to elevators within months, restraining price gains. Manitoba prices for wheat futures and cash bids at Fort William and Port Arthur are listed as 80c, 77c, 74c for 1 2 3 Northern, with October at 77 and May at 80c.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Fort William
Port Arthur
Bradstreets
Winnipeg
Grain and feed markets ease on oats barley and spelt
From the Commercial Winnipeg report for the past week grain and feed business remained fair. Prices eased with oats and barley falling 1 2c and ground feed dropping 2 per ton. Speltz declined 3c while millfed held steady.
Prairie Market Prices Show Broad Range of Farm Goods
The Winnipeg market report lists bulk millfeed and ground feeds with per ton prices, plus oats and barley quotes by bushel. It covers carrots onions cabbage and other vegetables, dairy products from creamery butter to eggs, dressed meats and live stock, and notes generally steady to mixed demand as harvest continues.
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Shorts
Fort William Speltz
Ontario
Manitoba
Choice
Winnipeg
Drunken man steals locomotive engine at yard
A Peterborough dispatch reports Le zear Babcock of Lind say boarded a C P R yard engine and set it in motion before an open switch derailed it. He, said to be drunk, was charged with stealing an engine and committed for trial in October.
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Peterborough
Lezear Babcock
Lindsay
Babcock
Clergyman John Bell Rice Ends Life After Cancer Fight
The Rev. John Bell Rice, once a lawyer minister writer and army chaplain, killed himself with a pistol in Louisville Kentucky after a three year battle with cancer. He served two denominations and authored religious works before his death.
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Louisville
K. Y
John Bell Rice
Tommy Pop Hiccoughs as Messages From Spirits
In this curious line from a family conversation Tommy’s Pop asserts that hiccoughs from his son are messages from departed spirits. The claim frames hiccoughs as supernatural communication rather than a medical reflex.
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Tommy
Pop
Woman wage equality debate echoes in a friend’s claim
A man asserts women deserve the same pay as men and cites a married friend who agrees, reflecting a casual stance on wage parity within personal conversations.
Butler and Sir Discuss Motor Carriage Walls
Butler and Sir debate the carriage walls with out stating the issue. Mr Struckstrich challenges, Butler explains the problem is the motor carriage.
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Struckstrich
Canadian News Item Shows Bridge Heroic Rescue
Victoria British Columbia report describes a sailor named Dockings carrying a fellow comrade four miles on his back until a vehicle arrived to transport him to a hospital after an incident. The act highlights quick courage and endurance under danger in the harbor area.
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Victoria
B. C
Devilish Crime by Prominent Montrealer
A Montreal special reports J A Martin strangled his infant daughter while suffering from alleged insanity and financial losses. He is the son of a Laporte Martin & Co. member, a wholesale grocery and liquor firm, with Mayor Laporte as a partner. The act occurred in a smoking room where the child was strangled with a handkerchief.
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Montreal
J. A. Martin
Martin
Laporte, Martin
Riots Erupt in Seoul Over Riverbank Land Expropriation
Korean newspapers report a large protest in Seoul against the expropriation of fifty square miles of riverside land affecting ten villages and 15,000 houses by Japanese authorities for military necessity. Demonstrators clashed with gendarmes, one gendarme was killed, many Koreans wounded, and Japanese troops later drove out residents.
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Victoria
B. C
Seoul
Fatal drunken row ends in murder at Spence's Bridge
A man named Olsen shot and killed Hopcroft at Spence's Bridge British Columbia after a drunken quarrel. Olsen blocked Hopcroft, retreated to his tent, returned with a double barreled shotgun, and killed Hopcroft in the face. Olsen surrendered to storekeeper H. L. Roberts and was arrested by Constable Ego. Coroner Lawson and Constable Burr arrived from Ashcroft to arrange an inquest.
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Spence’s Bridge
B. C
Olsen
Hopcroft
H. L. Roberts
Ego
Lawson
Burr
Ashcroft
Petroleum Discovery Reported in Northern Quebec
Ottawa special notes survey parties in northern Quebec near Lake Abitibi have found promising indications of petroleum along with cobalt and copper. Oil bubbles from a sizeable lake and shores show petroleum presence, with potential for a sizable release if deep water pressure is removed. Further tests will assess quality and extent.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Lake Abitibi
Neptune Relocation Sparks Hudson Bay Relief Concerns
Dispatches from St Johns report urgent inquiries about the Neptune missing near Hudson Bay. The steamer has rested in harbor for a month while Ottawa police and marine authorities dispute control. If it cannot reach Hudson Bay before winter, posts there face starvation risk.
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Neptune
St. Johns
Mid
Hudson Bay Colony
Hudson’s Bay Company
Marine and Mounted Police
Ottawa
Hudson Bay
Labrador
Alberta Oil Fields in Lead
J. B. Ferguson of Vancouver, director of Western Oil and Coal, visited Winnipeg after touring Southern Alberta where two wells south of Pincher Creek are in operation and three more are to be sunk. Wells now producing yield twenty barrels per day or more and have never been torpedoed. He says the crude is higher grade than any previous Canadian oil, surpassed only by Baku fields.
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J. B. Ferguson
Vancouver
Western Oil and Coal Company
Winnipeg
Alberta
Pincher Creek
Ferguson
Canada
Baku
Alberta oil prospects and regional geology text
Ferguson notes Alberta oil equals the best U.S. production and can be refined at five cents per barrel. Ontario oil requires thirty five cents to remove sulphur. Daly of the Dominion geological department cites favorable geological conditions and potential wells from 8 600 to 16 000 barrels daily. Explorers and Hudson’s Bay officials, Dr. Dawson and Dr. Selwyn, visited the district.
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Caucasian
Russia
Alberta
Ferguson
United States
Ontario
Daly
Dominion Geological Department
Hudson's Bay Company
Dr. Dawson
Ottawa
Selwyn
Dawson
Dr. Selwyn
Canadians in Europe Must Stay There
A Toronto special reports 2,000 wealthy Canadians and Americans in Europe want to return home in September but no space remains on ships to New York Boston or Montreal. The rush prevents booking return passages as the month ends. G G 8 Lindsay of Crowsnest Pass Coal Co. stated after returning from Europe.
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Toronto
Europe
New York
Boston
Montreal
G. G
Lindsay
K. C
Crowsnest Pass Coal Company
Double Tracking Work Begins in Kenora
A Kenora Ontario dispatch reports CP Rail doubles tracking project underway with contractors Walsh and Amatea securing a two mile strip from Foley Bros. & Larson between Deception and Busteed. They are setting up a camp for about eighty workers as more contracts are let and outfits prepare to move in.
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Kenora, Ont
Walsh and
Amatea
Foley Bros. & Larson
Deception
Busteed
Desperate Man Captured at Port Arthur
Port Arthur dispatch reports Chief Conor arrested Finn Matt Pennanen at a disreputable house on a murder charge in the railway near the Sea Mich on August 12. The prisoner made a desperate resistance and was taken to the Seo by Sheriff Lipsett to stand trial.
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Port Arthur
Conor
Matt Pennanen
Thomas Wyld
Sea
Mich
Seo
Lipsett
Mother Accuses Son in Theft Case at NYC Home
Clara Ritcher, serving as caretaker at a wealthy New York man's residence, caused the arrest of her 19 year old son Edward for stealing valuables from the home. In court she embraced him and wept declaring she must be faithful to her trust despite his plight.
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New York
Clara Ritcher
Edward
Spring Lake
Elgin
Andrew
John Fohren
Burwash
Victoria’s University
Columbia College
New Westminster
B. C
Co. D
Crawford
Heine Lundeen
Hennepin County
Minneapolis
St. Cloud
Thomas G. Blackstock
Toronto
James Denny
United Free Church College Glasgow
Margareta Danielson
Minnesota
Sweden
Mayor Patrick A. Collins Dies in Virginia
The death of Boston mayor Patrick A. Collins at Hot Springs Virginia was announced here. He left Boston about a week earlier for rest in Hot Springs and appeared in good health when he traveled south. Collins was a prominent Democrat who served in Congress from 1883 to 1889 and as United States consul-general at London from 1893 to 1897.
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Boston
Mass
Patrick A. Collins
Hot Springs
Collins
Congress
United States
London
Roosevelt and Porte clash over Armenian case in Constantinople
The American minister Leishman lodged a protest with the Porte over procedures in the Ghirkis Vartanian trial. American consular officials were barred from meeting Vartanian to assess his American citizenship and protection claims, a principle the United States has long asserted against the Porte.
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Constantinople
Leishman
Porte
Ghirkis Vartanian
Pik Unjinian
Vartanian
United States
Confessed Plot Unfolds In California Senate Trial
In Judge Hart's courtroom Harry Bunkers, ex state senator from San Francisco, testified against E. J. Emmons and others in a doodling protection scheme. He described plans to shake down building and loan associations, receiving a $250 cash drop, and the fear after the senate exit and marked bill disposal.
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Sacramento
Cal
Harry Bunkers
San Francisco
Joseph Jordan
Emmons
Senate
Emmone
Minnesota fair surplus and varied regional items
Brief from a Minnesota paper notes a 60,000 dollar state fair surplus. Other items include Osceola Iowa deputy chief Whittemore dying in Boston, Chicago saloon closures planned, Kamloops fire loss of 3900, Hutchinson Minnesota fatal farm accident, and Soo Michigan arrests for Labor Day liquor violations. Also reports flour mills at full capacity in Minneapolis and bank clearings at 9.4 million daily.
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Minnesota
Whittemore
Osceola
Iowa
Boston
Healy
Chicago
Sun- 7
Standard Publishing Co
Kamloops
B. C
William Ostrum
Hutchison, Minn
Soo
Mich
Minneapolis
Montpelier
Vermont
Great Northern
Union Terminal
Sioux City
Zambest River
Victoria Falls
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Rick Collins
Virginia
Roosevelt and Porte
California
T. F. Transom
Stratford
Ont
28Th Battalion
Jingler
Wm. E. Stavert
Bank of New Brunswick
St. John
Des Moines
Dunn Ridgeway
Algoma Steel Company
Local Transportation Committee of Chicago Council
Dunne
Street Railway Company
T. H. Crowley
Sault Ste Marie
William Crough
Ennismore Township
Peterboro
Mr. Crough
Elliott Clark
Clinton
Fred Comstock
Posse
Comstock
Illinois
Mr. Slowe
Kaise Desprit
Biss
Miss Desprit
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