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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
5
A Manitoba farmer F H Weincke champions hog raising as highly profitable amid a global meat shortage. He cites low land costs, abundant feed crops, and mild disease risk, noting hogs reach market quickly and yield substantial dressed meat.
A patient tells how a doctor advised more exercise while asserting daily morning runs to reach town. The exchange suggests practical activity goals amid urban travel.
Discussion notes the potential of using Canadian flax straw for paper and related products. It outlines flax tow and waste as valuable by products for twine and medical dressings, cites Ontario mills in Waterloo and Wellington, and suggests government leadership to pioneer flax pulp before private firms follow. It mentions a Scottish firm developing new machinery and a 1915 output estimate of 1.9 million tons.
A reflective travel view of Somme battlefields describing miles of white thistles and red poppies, ruined transports, black blasted poplars, and wooden crosses along a road. The writer recalls unknown heroes on aluminum nameplates, the calm postwar landscape, and the orderly town washed of battle’s traces.
A fragmentary wartime propaganda guide condemns treaties and calls for deception in pursuit of German aims. It defines fronts, victories, and defeats in self serving terms and labels enemies and allies with harsh caricatures while praising the supposed ruthlessness of German policy.
French scientist M Dusolier notes fox terriers show endurance when dogs ride bicycles, and wild canids like wolves and arces rival dogs in speed. Eskimo and Siberian dogs reportedly cover 45 miles on ice in five hours. Shepherd dogs excel on batting ranges with speeds up to 10 oats a second, while English set pointers reportedly reach 99 miles per hour for brief periods.
At the Calgary winter livestock fair the greatest interest centered on sheep with high prices recorded. A pure-bred Oxford ram sold for a top price and a Delacour Alberta farmer sold Suffolk rams.
A wartime speech discusses acute food shortages in France and Italy due to poor harvests and labor gaps. It calls for Canada and the United States to boost wheat beef bacon and other supplies, and notes shifts in plans and embargo measures to push increased production and shipping to Europe.
Lord Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, tells Norwich that German spirit remains hostile and that no safety for Britain is possible until Germany is defeated. He cites no reply from Berlin on peace, asserts British gains in France and Mesopotamia prove the foe’s will, and emphasizes victory as the first war aim.
An order issued extends naval service authority to retain all members of the Fa ong aoe nan volunteer months after the Shamdnation. The decree directs continued service within the See to the issue 7 in 3 cver times.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a quirky line about hiding pride and worms, unclear full context, no identifiable persons or events.
The Ottawa conference appeals for a rapid rise in pork output through 1918, arguing meat shortages threaten Allied forces and civilians alike. Canada could boost hog production by about 680,000 head if U S and Canadian targets align, with incentives to use kitchen waste for feeding hogs and broader farm adjustments.
D F Douty, a New York business man back from China, argues China has the resources and vast arable lands to boost world food supplies. He cites the Yangtze and Yellow River basins and calls for a China commission to organize agricultural and mineral production for Allied needs before the next harvest.
The article recalls how people in England faced severe shortages of sugar and coal, outlining the privations endured by both men and women as staple prices rose and luxuries became unaffordable.
Fragmentary text indicates a government session agenda involving a commission or committee. The readable portion mentions a 21 2 piece and a bill rening re ett going to abtadinn a com. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
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