Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1906 — Industrial Invasion of Canada. [ARTICLE]

Industrial Invasion of Canada.

, At Winnipeg, Manitoba, It is reported that land agents within two months have sold 20,000 acres of land in the Canadian Northwest to prospective New England settlers, and that 15J)00 settlers are expected from New York and Ohio this spring. This movement probably accounts for the large number of farms for sale in (be Eastern States. Dr. William F- Brooks, director of Smith observatory, Geneva, N. Y\. say* that his new comet was now moving toward the southwest-