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...thousand people of Duluth stood in drizzling rain for hours waiting the arrival of the young Baron, en route from Winnipeg to Chicago. As the trained steamed in, pipers played in his honor, many youngsters waved the Union Jack. Renfrew told Mayor Snively: "I am delighted with the reception I am receiving everywhere in the United States, and especially with this tremendous crowd that waited out in the rain...
General Booth proceeded to Canada to conduct conferences at Toronto and Winnipeg. There he was congratulated on the completion of 50 years service, the marks of which he bears with dignity-snow-white hair and snow-white sideburns. He reported new advances of his Army into Brazil, Czcho-Slovakia, Hungary, East Africa, and expressed himself eminently pleased with Commander Evangeline's conduct of the campaign...
...Winnipeg. Mayor Farmer, surrounded by a host of officials, met the Baron. He hurried to a squash racquets club, enjoyed a game with Colonel Arthur Sullivan, lunched at the Fort Garry Hotel and three hours after his arrival was speeding toward Calgary...
...Winnipeg, one Stanley Carlson equipped himself with a cowhide suit covered with spikes an inch long, announced his intention of departing soon for Port Arthur to slay wolves by clouting them on the head with an axe while they nibble at his armor...
...movement of wheat to the East began a little later this year than usual. At Winnipeg an average of 2,000 carloads of wheat were inspected every day. A record was made when a train, over a mile in length, groaned under the burden of 185,000 bushels. Some 8,000,000 bushels were shipped from Port Arthur and Fort William in four days. Most of the wheat is sent to Britain...