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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
4
A wartime poem describes gray knitting spreading across fields as women patiently weave, and imagines soldiers dying under alien skies hearing the delicate sound of wooden needles in a comforting hush. The speaker hopes the soldiers may hear a fairy click as they sleep, tied to a white Christ on scarred battlefields.
A Winnipeg tale from a Western Manitoba infantry regiment shows Capt. A. G. arriving with his orderly Jones who follows strict instructions and refuses drinks or tobacco. The exchange reveals the orderly's disciplined background and unfamiliarity with the captain's social demands.
Charles C Farr founder of Haileybury Ontario died of cancer in Haileybury at an advanced age. A Haileybury College England graduate he came to Canada in 1871 and worked for Hudson Bay Company at Kippewa Post then Lake Timiskaming Fort before striking out as an independent trader in 1889. He edited the Halleyburian and contributed to English magazines, earning a reputation as an intrepid bushman.
The Ontario Education Department will include the present European war in the history course for the current school year. British diplomatic dispatches issued at Ottawa will be sent to each school. Citizens and school boards may offer prizes for essays on aspects of the war under suitable conditions.
Canadian Trade Commissioner report from Australia warns of next year’s impact on Canada as agricultural implement imports falter. Half of Australia’s imported farming tools come from Toronto, and 1914 business plans assumed normal conditions, now unsettled by crop failure and declining agricultural equipment demand.
A long portrait of Montreal suburbs contrasts Montreאל West's graceful homes with Bluebonnets slum housing crowded with foreigners. It notes poor schooling, language barriers, illiteracy, and limited church aid as YMCAs and missions struggle to reach 65 percent unaware of the European war.
A government buoy lost near Levis Quebec in 1911 drifted for years across the Pacific. It was found off New South Wales after a 10 000 mile voyage, never sighted en route while afloat in northern Atlantic currents, then carried to the southern continent and ashore.
The Mines Department in Ottawa reports many inquiries about Canada supplying minerals once from Germany and Austria Hungary. Demand includes magnetite molybdenum tungsten potash salts and salts of strontium barium and antimony. A magnetite shortage could spur a new local industry with transport access. Potash from felspar could be cost viable given ample felspar in Ontario and Quebec. Strontium sources noted in Renfrew County with more spring investigations planned.
The Mines Department in Ottawa reports three samples of rum bearing ore from British Columbia, with radium quantity lower than last year due to slow development and depressed silver and other mineral prices.
A repartee unfolds about who rules the home as Mr Youngwed boasts of affording a cook. The dialogue hints at domestic power dynamics and class humor in a social setting.
The Cincinnati Enquirer quotes Mrs Gabb denying that a man is forgotten after death and retorts by Mr Gabb that life continues through marriage to his widow.
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