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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
6
A garbled exchange recounts a tense discussion about a daughter’s marriage and a suspect note exchange. Voices clash over trust and privacy as one speaker denies wrongdoing while another asserts innocence amid confusion.
Dolly Egerton travels to London for her wedding breakfast in Sloane Street with Mrs. Bartlett as chaperone. The Squire entrusts Mrs. Bartlett to guard Dolly and settle their future in a home filled with quiet happiness. Dolly gains purpose and calm, while Mrs. Bartlett proves a resourceful cook and loyal companion in the couple’s new life.
September brings romance as Dolly prepares for marriage while Lady Leyes funds her trousseau. Lionel Egerton notes Dolly needs wedding attire and a twenty pound note enables a modest, pretty outfit. The Squire pays bills as Dolly dreams, aided by Larges who gifts a plain white silk gown.
The Westminster Gazette notes Hindenburg scorned talk of shortening the western front in October calling it nonsense. By March the plan appeared to be a manifesto, and what was deemed putty in December seemed altered again by April.
In a terse exchange, a man explains to Mary Jane that calories are not tracked in his shop where he keeps details in storage. The dialogue hints at a control over information and a refusal to discuss nutritional counts.
G R Marnoch president of the Lethbridge Board of Trade argues that vast western lands should be opened to soldier settlement. He compares the country to a large factory with empty rooms and calls for railways equipment and government loans to develop vacant lands near existing lines. He cites 350 000 acres near Lethbridge and urges using school lands trustees and Blood Indian reserve areas to house soldier farmers.
The well known Dr Cassell s Co Ltd Manchester offers free samples of Dr Cassell s Tablets by mail to cover packing costs. Send five cents for postage and packing to Harold F Ritchie & Co 10 McCaul Street Toronto. The tablets advertise for dyspepsia kidney trouble sleeplessness anaemia nervous ailments nerve paralysis palpitation and weakness in children.
The Rod in Pickle Nine Americans out of ten will be glad if American seamen and American steel are going to have the opportunity to inflict the punishment which has long been due. Most Americans are bold enough to believe it will be administered in God's good time. A housewife's idea of a brave woman is one who isn't afraid to talk back to the cook.
A narrator describes scenes in Saloniki with Blue and white Greek uniforms on battlements, officers in theatrical dress, and a busy tram. He notes the varied nationalities present, the oddities of the city, and casual observations of people, travel, and street life.
The Outlook argues the world faces a severe food crisis and urges nations, including the United States, to raise wheat and flour production. It suggests increasing the use of the wheat kernel in milling from 72 to 81 percent to gain about 20 million barrels more flour annually, producing grayer but more nourishing white flour and advising mixtures with rice, corn, or barley.
In France at the Canadian Corps Headquarters many souvenirs of the Vimy Ridge fighting are gathered. At a future date the cities Montreal Toronto Fort William Winnipeg and Vancouver will see German trophies bearing labels from the units coming from those cities.
A playful exchange about romance and consent as one person asks if stealing a kiss would please the partner or their family, and the other replies that it would only work if the entire family consented.
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