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Local magistrates at Winnipeg recently warned weapon-toters to expect stiffer sentences. Last week one Herbert Weston and one Andrew Wood, both convicted of "toting," were sentenced to "two years imprisonment and to receive six lashes from a heavy whip...
...Winnipeg Grain...
...SEEMED probable for a moment last night that Sergeant Willard Mack, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, would be out-diced in his conflict with Joseph Sweeney, the slickest dope-vender between Winnipeg and Vancouver. The sergeant, all ablaze in his scarlet tunic, had ventured into Hip Lung's basement laundry in search of murderers; and he was caught there like a brilliant parrot in a cage. Sweeney, a mean devil, had handcuffed the gorgeous fellow and was bossing him around at the point of a gun. Just as we were prepared to go home with the Sergeant's death...
Sliding oval objects which looked like big stone bowls with the bowl part filled in and with a little handle poking up on top, sliding these objects down an alley marked on the ice of a rink in Winnipeg, Ker Dunlop and S. Mair of St. Paul, curlers, won the Black & Armstrong Cup, famed international curling trophy...
...Thomas then related several amusing incidents from his tour. "In Illinois I was introduced as one of the two greatest authors in America, Zane Grey being the other. In Winnipeg my book was called the greatest volume ever written, the speaker quite forgetting the Bible and Shakespeare...