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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
3
The number 14 Canadian National Railway Express, connecting at St John with the CPR from Montre ss, was wrecked eight miles west of Moncton a few evenings ago. Several passengers were slightly injured as five cars left the rails. The wreck was caused by a broken rail.
About two thousand striking plumbers have resumed work under a temporary agreement setting wages at $9.00 per day for journeymen and $5 to $6 per day for helpers. The agreement also preserves a closed shop provision.
The Fort William Paper Company Limited, building a three million dollar mill on the Mission site, ran half page ads in local papers seeking laborers. They promise the highest wages, transportation to and from work, and hot meals. The firm fears delays in erecting the pulp mill before next January if they cannot hire more men.
The singer John McCormack has cancelled all Australian engagements and leaves immediately for London to escape the hostile reception he sparked on his Australian tour due to his views on the Irish question.
The Newfoundland Railway Commission orders conductors to refuse passes henceforth. Members of parliament council magistrates merchants ex MPs and clergymen without transport must pay standard railroad fares. The rule targets public officials and officials with no travel allowances.
Rev Dr 5 D Chown general superintendent of the Canadian Methodist church is traveling to Japan to attend the World Sunday School Association convention in Tokyo.
Official report lists 174 dead from the recent quake. Mountainous zones hit are sparsely populated and normal life is gradually returning as relief work continues.
The Canadian branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club announces a 32 man team that will depart Canada on December 30 to compete in a series of matches with Scottish teamen in England.
Officials from the Inland Revenue department in Calgary announce several alleged luxury tax fraud cases in Alberta are under investigation with prosecutions against certain merchants to follow. An Ottawa accountant is to be sent within a few days.
A plan for a state loan of 2.5 million dollars for Palestine seeks to raise funds via Jewish bankers in New York who will absorb the initial amount and offer it for public subscription. The loan may be raised through the British government or directly by the Palestine administration.
The annual report of the superintendent of insurance shows 239 fire deaths in 1919, with 139 in burning buildings, 35 from coal oil or gasoline fires, 24 from clothing ignition, 23 from matches, 14 in bush fires, and 12 by explosions.
Premier Meighen has been named a King's Privy Councillor a well regarded honor. The appointment carries the title Right Honourable and places him among a select Canadian group without conflicting with the Commons resolution on titles.
A baby boy was born on a CPR train heading to Regina. The mother and infant were aided by passengers and a nurse met them at Dilke. The engineer sped the train to the hospital after efforts to summon a doctor failed. The mother and baby are reported to be doing well.
General Bramwell Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, will spend a week in Winnipeg from November 6 to 11 addressing public meetings. Local officers are arranging for him to visit Regina immediately after his Winnipeg lecture.
A contract has been entered between Imperial Oil Co. Ltd and Great West Natural Gas Corp Ltd for developing Saskatchewan and Alberta as natural gas and oil fields. Both companies will carry on operations under the agreement.
Daisy Brown keeper of a licensed Winnipeg home for children was arrested on a charge of abandoning an infant belonging to Mrs. Mabel Read. Police say Read had not paid maintenance for three months and Brown allegedly left the child at a Simcoe Street house despite rain and cold.
Havelock Winott fatally shot three men including his father and a woman amid a long running feud over a mill dam on his father’s property and then killed himself completing a fatal act.
A resident of Shepperton, England, Alex Monkland, stopped a railway train recently by pulling a cord saying he had insufficient light to read. He was fined 25 dollars for stopping the train and 10 dollars for insulting the guard.
Snow fell in Temagate, Ontario on September 16 as reported by Dr. T. B. Davies who travelled through the south country en route to Hull. The early fall is viewed as a sign of a very harsh winter to come.
Medical health officials in New York City report profit margins on restaurant meals range from two hundred to five hundred percent exclusive of overhead. The findings emphasize concerns over pricing practices and consumer impact.
Government says Toronto merchants defrauded the state by diverting luxury tax funds into private pockets. Inland Revenue investigates with a team of accountants to pursue prosecutions soon.
The price of sugar quotes at 21 dollars per hundred pounds as Atlantic Sugar Refining Company foresees the decline spreading widely, suggesting the current drop may be only the start of a broader deflation in sugar costs.
Sugar declined during the week at St. John New Brunswick with standard and yellow varieties easing by 1.00 per hundredweight. Current figures show standard at 21.10 and 21.15 while yellow ranges from 12.60 to 20.65.
The Rev Canon Scott will tour the western provinces in October lecturing on Canada's New Outlook. He will address Canadian Clubs Great War Veterans and Imperial Orders of the Daughters of the Empire. His first talk is Sept 28 for the Canadian Club of Toronto before visiting British Columbia.
An unidentified man dies when a threshing engine falls from a truck during unloading near Buchanan Saskatchewan. He was one of several workers. two men pried on one side, a third on the other. The engine toppled, the victim slipped and was crushed. Police have no clue to his identity.
Twelve year old newsboy Joseph Mack was instantly killed on Scarth Street when a long angle iron from a fourth story section of the Regina Trading Company’s building fell through a doorway into a alley near Twelfth Avenue. No witnesses. The iron measured twelve feet by seven feet.
The milk producers request a winter price of 3.25 per eight gallon can, following a Board of Commerce hearing. Canadian milk condensing factories will close at month end due to overstock and lack of demand, raising fears of heavy losses and musk entering the market this winter.
Olive Thomas, a movie actress, lies alone in Paris as her body awaits shipment to America. The Rev. Dr. Beekman condemned the resort she visited before death. Jack Pickford, her husband, is expected to arrive in Paris from London soon.
An installment toward France's half share of the 500 million dollar Anglo French loan arrived in the United States aboard the French liner Havre. The shipment supports the loan agreement and strengthens transatlantic financial ties between the two nations.
Italy's Premier Giolitti launches crackdown on profiteers in fine clothing called sharks. Those detected face heavy fines or prison as extortioners are exposed for secretly selling foodstuffs at exorbitant prices, piling up large fortunes.
Explorer F. H. Kitto of the Department of the Interior reports a roaming herd of more than 1,000 wild bison in the Mackenzie River basin country. He says another herd of similar size was observed further north.
The labor department notes global living costs are easing after a crest in inflation. In Canada retail prices show a weekly family budget of staple foods at 16.42 dollars mid August, down from July and well below last year. Potatoes led declines with meats easing and eggs butter and sugar rising. wood and coal oil up.
Jessie Vaughan aged thirteen ingests bichloride of mercury tablets at 115 Burley Street in Toronto after a whipping by her mother. She is rushed by ambulance to the Hospital for Sick Children in critical condition with no improvement reported late in the evening.
Two wheat fields on farm of R M Johnson about 30 miles west of Regina on the CPR main line produced 27 and over 30 bushels per acre last week. The crop appears to grade No 1 and was not harmed by early month wet weather.
A mass meeting in Melville Saskatchewan passed a resolution denouncing the requirement that voters reside in a constituency for two months before the prohibiting referendum proclamation. A wire was sent to Ottawa conveying the resolution.
The former German emperor has ordered high fences around several spots on his grounds to block visibility from the road. Construction is underway as neighbors notice the secrecy.
A spark from Thomas Dunbar's threshing engine at North Portal ignited straw and the cattle barn, which were destroyed. Burning debris lit the Britannia S. D. school barn a quarter mile away, destroying it and four driving horses. Dunbar's large barn suffered a new escape.
Indications show many returned veterans in Alberta’s large centers will face unemployment this winter. Year old vocational training openings are no longer available and government aid is not expected. The local G W V A branch plans to meet the situation.
A 50 year old Doukhobour laborer Nick Pezenecoff from Crescent Valley was instantly killed at Nelson British Columbia when he stepped in front of a car spotted for ice loading in the freight yards by a Canadian Pacific railway yard engine.
Mr and Mrs G C Heathcote of Waltham Cross England have a family of forty five members. The clan includes five sons four daughters thirty three grandchildren and five great grandchildren. They play forty five instruments between them with seven granddaughters on organ piano and violin and two great grandchildren on the organ.
Calder deems 500 stranded ex soldiers optimistic as crowds fill London. He notes many more in the capital, with hundreds temporarily employed. Captain Picketts of the repatriation department reports destitute men at his office, some seeking shoes or meals.
Reported strong demand for Alberta coal in Winnipeg with large shipments in recent months. Estimates suggest up to 80 percent of Winnipeg’s coal consumption this winter may come from Alberta, with additional shipments to Saskatchewan.
Phillippe Roy in Montreal says a permanent provincial committee will raise 500000 dollars to fund a home for Canadian students in Paris. Quebec and Ontario each arrange five scholarships, with funds to build the home. Veterans issues note 1000 insane and 1500 tuberculosis cases among Canadians who fought. 103 with incurable diseases. The S C R is closing training centers and concentrating patients in larger hospitals. The department may shut down this fall as returns soldiers move to civilian work, with preference to those recovering from disability.
Jack Pickford, husband of Olive Thomas, releases a statement recounting their Paris night. He describes dining with friends at the Ritz at 3 a.m. and planning to depart for London, noting they were tired and had been drinking. He mentions Olive writing a note to her mother about leaving Paris on September 11.
A white man was killed by Black assailants who fled to St. Gabriel's church. A mob of about a thousand besieged the church for over an hour until police led by Chief Garrett intervened with rifles. Three Negroes were dragged from a street car and beaten. the attackers reportedly fled before order was restored.
Wa kaw Saskatchewan farmer Burchailu was killed last week when horses spooked by a binder pulled it onto him while he was removing halters. He talked with his father moments before and leaves a wife and six children. A brother died in a separate accident last May.
Police found Marie Koluszki a crippled nineteen year old kept in a dark cellar for seventeen years. She was placed there at age two and resembled a child of six with twisted limbs and a gaunt discolored face.
Winnipeg tenants file complaints against rent profiteering with eighteen signatories in a single apartment house. The notices allege increases of 35 to 50 percent and say investigations into each complaint will start soon.
The Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen prime minister of Canada has been elected president of Club Canadien an exclusive French Canadian social club of Montreal.
Harry Knoomer an Indian in the Tsarlip reserve near Victoria British Columbia died recently at age one hundred ten.
After a three week suspension the Liverpool and Manchester papers resume printing as the printers' dispute is settled. The settlement ends the stoppage and allows newspapers to return to normal production.
A boastful man debates his future crafts with a girl who rebukes him. He muses between painting and poetry, asking if she has seen his work. She answers, cruelly, that she has not viewed his paintings but has heard his poetry.
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