Dry Farming Exposition to Highlight Billings Display
At Billings Montana October 25 to 29 the International Dry Farming Exposition will showcase practical farming results with Alberta Saskatchewan and foreign country displays. The Montana Board of Control remodels a wool warehouse into a 9000 square foot exhibition hall with arc lighting and national color decorations for a major dry farming demonstration attended by western states and Canada.
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Billings
Montana
Alberta
Saskatchewan
West
Montana Board of Control
Smoeller
Exposition Hall
Montana Avenue
Twenty- Sixth Street
Orpheum
Congress
Wyoming
Colorado
Texas
Utah
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Canadian Northwest
Billings Chamber of Commerce
W. B. George
Moontana
Unclear Note on Exposition Cups and Congress Opening
Fragmentary sentence mentions cups for an exposition and a stone set for opening to the Congress. No clear names, places, or dates are readable to establish a full item.
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Ngsp
Bieriet predicts easy sea travel by air across channel
Londom aviator Bieriet tells the Ae Club of London that sea travel will soon become an easy air route. He envisions travelers alighting on the sea like seagulls and resuming flight, a transformation he believes will become reality within months. Captain Cody, injured in Aldershot, attends a banquet and plans to regain his aircraft this week. He will abandon American citizenship and pursue naturalization in Britain.
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Londom
Cody
Aldershot
Indians in West Get Franchise Ottawa
A federal proclamation extends the Indian act to bands south of the north boundary of township 70 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Indians there may qualify to vote by cultivating and securing a deed to land, placing plains communities on the same basis as eastern provinces.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Canada
Plains
Dumot's Remarkable Machine in Paris Flight
Santos Dumont reappears in aviation with a compact aeroplane flying at about 55 miles per hour. The machine with pilot weighs 118 kilograms, has nine yards of wing surface, a two cylinder engine producing thirty horsepower, and a broad short wing tilted at a high angle resembling a quail.
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Dumot
Paris
Santos Dumont
Curtiss
Merger Formed Among Canadian Cast Iron Firms
In Montreal a merger of leading cast iron and porcelain enamel manufacturers consolidates por celain baths and sinks. The Standard Ideal Company of Port Hope and the Amherst Foundry Company of Amherst N S form the two dominant units, with capital of 2 million dollars. The new structure aims to specialize output and bolster Canadian firms against U S competition.
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Montreal
Canada
Standard Ideal Company
Port Hope
Amherst Foundry Company
Amherst
United States
Endorse World Fair Project Winnipeg 1912
T R Deacon president of the Manufacturers association reports Winnipeg delegates at the Canadian Manufacturers association meeting in Hamilton passed a resolution endorsing the International World's Fair project for 1912. The centennial exhibition executive were pleased the influential body representing nearly all Dominion manufacturers endorsed the scheme.
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Winnipeg
T. R. Deacon
Manufacturers’ Association
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Hamilton
Dominion
Wheat Arrival Swells as Elevators Run Overtime
Fort William reports wheat beginning to arrive in large quantities for the season with elevators working overtime. Shipping remains slow as the Wahcondah Fairmount and Barge Ungava wait in the river for orders. The Sullivan recently brought a cargo of soft coal.
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Fort William
Qnt
Wahcondah
Fairmount
Sullivan
Halley's Comet Reappears in Cambridge Dispatch
Cambridge reports Halley's Comet seen after seventy years, observed by Professor Wolff of Heidelberg. The sighting on September 11 used a large telescope with right ascension six hours eighteen minutes twelve seconds and declination 17 degrees eleven minutes north.
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Halley
Cambridge
Mass
Haller
Harvard Observatory
Wolff
Heidelberg
Kitchener Becomes Field Marshal of British Army
Lord Kitchener is named field marshal after succeeding the Duke of Connaught as inspector general of Mediterranean forces. This marks his rise to the highest rank in the British army.
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Kitchener
London
Lord Kitchener
Duke of Con
Remarkable Saskatchewan harvest exceeds two hundred million bushels
Saskatchewan farmers report an aggregate grain harvest near 200 million bushels led by wheat oats barley and flax. Acreage rose across wheat oats barley and flax with yields averaging 22 47 - 15 bushels per acre respectively and a total 1909 acreage of 6 588 963 acres.
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Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Bulletin
No Tips in This Hotel Opens in London
The Strand Palace hotel, newly opened on the site of Exeter Hall, will have 470 bedrooms with a uniform charge. Strikingly, it forbids staff tips as Strand Hotel Limited believes tipping is wrong in principle and that workers should receive fair wages. no tips are expected or needed from guests.
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London
Strand Palace
Axeter Hall
Young Men’s Christian Association
Strand Hotel, Limited
Strathcona Says He Will Not Retire
Montreal report on Lord Strathcona denying imminent retirement from the high commissionership. He states he does not discuss such matters and credits Sir Wilfrid Laurier for urging him to stay in London for the public interest.
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Montreal
Lord Strathcona
London
Wilfrid Laurier
Harriman Will Leaves All To Wife In Probate
The Harriman will filed for probate in Goshen New York transfers the entire fortune to Mary W Harriman in a three sentence document The late Edward H Harriman wealth estimates range from 100 million to 250 million making his wife the world s richest woman and highlighting the lack of precise attribution to his estate.
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Harriman
New York
Edward H. Harriman
Goshen
N.Y
Mary W. Harriman
Mr. Harriman
Teacher Kills Pupil After Fight at Bear Hollow School
Gravette Arkansas reports pupil John Butram killed by his teacher A T Kelly at the edge of McDonald County Missouri after Butram had troubled teachers and thrashed two. Butram allegedly refused school and Kelly insisted the session continue. Kelly surrendered after the incident.
Death of Edward Marijorbanks Second Baron Tweedmouth
London reports the death of Edward Marijorbanks, second Baron Tweedmouth, born 1849. He served as first lord of the admiralty following the Liberal 1905 victory and later as lord president of the council before resigning months later. A 1998 England sensation involved his alleged correspondence with the German emperor on Britain’s naval program.
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London
Edward Marijorbanks
Tweedmouth
Campbell-Bannerman
Council
Admiralty
England
House of Lords
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Must Protect Passengers Ottawa Railways Issue Order
The board of railway commissioners ordered railways with international traffic to ensure US immigration officers do not unduly interfere with passengers on trains to the United States. Chairman Mabee noted fifty complaints about American officials in Canada, and conductors must report all incidents of incivility. Railways cited reciprocal boundary protections for officers on trains.
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Hudson Bay Road
Hamilton
Ont
Manufacturers’ Association
Lord Strathcona
Geo. P. Graham
Canada
United States
Hudson Bay Railway
Graham
Welland
Erie
St. Lawrence
Erie Canal
Georgian Bay Canal
Ottawa
Board of Railway Commissioners
Mabee
Highland Regiment Plan in Winnipeg Delhi Ottawa Post
The militia department received from the district officer commanding at Winnipeg an application to form a Highland regiment there. The proposal awaits militia council action and will likely be held until Sir Frederick Borden returns from England. Funds approval rests with Parliament.
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Highland Regiment
Ottawa
Militia Department
Winnipeg
Highlanders
Militia Council
Sir Frederick Borden
England
War Office Profits on Canned Meats Exposed
Report alleges the British war office sold large stocks of canned meats to Chicago firms at high prices, then could buy back at old lower rates under prewar contracts. Officials would not confirm or deny the tale.
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London
British War Office
Chicago
War Office
Bruce reports Arctic expedition successes and potential coal mines
Explorer Bruce arrives in Edinburgh-William 8 and speaks of a fruitful Greenland run. The party nearly completes Prince Charles foreland survey and crosses from Ice Fiord to Star via Spitzbergen. Geological work supports coal mine potential with profitable outlook.
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Greenland
Edinburgh
William
Bruce
Prince Charles
Forty-Seven Pekin Students Chosen for U.S. Study
Pekin reports forty seven Chinese students accepted to study in the United States under the Boxer indemnity fund rebuilding program. They passed the American medical examination and will pursue education abroad under the plan.
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United States
China
America
Who Found the Pole Peary vs Cook Claims Stir Controversy
A New York Herald despatch reveals claims that Cook handed a gold brick proving pole reach to Whitney and that Peary was not at the pole on April 21 1908. Denmark backs Cook while many scientists urge an inquiry by a recognized body to settle the dispute. affidavits from Francke and White threaten new revelations about tampered Cook letters aboard the Roosevelt.
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Peary
Cook
Pole
Denmark
New York
North Pole
Robert E. Peary
New York Herald
Harry Whitney
New Haven
Roosevelt
Copenhagen
Whitney
Etel
the Herald
Dr. Cook
Utah
Herald
Battle Harbor
Cape Ray
Nild
Admiral de Richelieu
United States
Associated Press
Greenland
Anthony Fiala
Brooklyn
Joseph White
Rudolph Francke
Francke
Arctic
Pretender Proclaims Himself Shah in Teheran Area
A dispatch from Teheran reports Abdul Hussein, claimed Persian throne pretender, appearing at Luristan and proclaiming himself shah. He gains local support while government troops and artillery are dispatched to quell the uprising.
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St. Petersburg
Teheran
Persia
Abdul Hussein
Luristian
Shah
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Indians
Strathcona
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