Local Briefs Highlight Oct Socials and Community Events
A. Champagne visits Winnipeg this week for whist drive and social at Protestant Public School on Oct 31 with admission 25e. Marriages noted: Richard P. Steele to Elsie Dye on Oct 18. a Dillabough daughter born Oct 17. Sidney Simpson heads to Edmonton for Bank of Commerce role. Red Cross and hospital fundraisers including a 30.25 sale, furniture sale at curling club, and a November 3 farm and live stock sale. New Red Cross branch forms at Provincial Hospital grounds with social plans and a Hallowe en dance at the Saskatchewan Provincial Hospital Shed Couss Society to aid Red Cross work.
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Saskatchewan Provincral Hospital
Couss Society
Red Cross
Prairie fire in district hits rail spark and farm losses
A week of prairie fire in the district began from a spark from the G.T.P. train Monday afternoon and burned into the bush despite four days of fighting by farmers and threshing crews. Losses included a small stack and some days lost to time, with calls for compensation from the railway company. A farm sale of A. W. Claxton’s stock and implements is set for the 24th, auctioned by Gowing Frost. Also noted is progress on a new grain growers elevator and a record wheat yield of 64 bushels in a field by H. L. Book. Health reports from local residents are positive and readers are urged to contribute to the Red Cross.
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G.T.P
Fie
Lom. Stewart
Satchell
A. W. Claxton
Gowing Frost
Claxton
H. ‘l. Book
Andy Anderson
Johbnnie Ellis
Harry Bock
Ed Cross
Five Russian Farmers Fined in North Battleford Area
Five Russian farmers about 25 miles north of North Battleford were fined $10 each for interfering with government survey mounds. They allegedly altered corner mounds to affect road allowances on neighbors property.
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North Battleford
N. S
Evening cattle and horse sale announced
Terms cash. Free lunch served at 12 noon. The cattle are well bred Shorthorns of the beef type in good condition. The horses are good on and new. It will pay you to attend this sale as everything will be sold.
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A. W. Claxton
Egg production claims for Barred Rocks and April hatchlings
A farmer reports April hatched pullets began laying before six months and birds averaging around 19 eggs per month in December with production near that level except February. He notes some hens lay about 70 eggs annually and several birds qualify as egg class.
Willing Workers Serve Tea at Red Cross Saturday
The Willing Workers will serve tea and supper in the Red Cross rooms on Saturday, Oct. 0th. Proceeds go to the soldiers' Christmas parcel fund.
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Red Cross
To Let Rooms in the Clink Block for Light Housekeeping
Rooms to let in the Clink Block for light housekeeping apply at the premises to A. W. Claxton.
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A. W. Claxton
Wanted Comfortable Shack for Moving Apply Gowing Frost
Advert reads a wanted notice for a comfortable shack about 19 by M4 feet suitable for moving. Applicants are told to apply to Gowing Frost at Auction beer.
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Shack
Notice to Creditors Seeks Settlement of Accounts
Unsettled accounts are requested to be placed for settlement by the specified date. The notice names W. J. S. Milird? as related party and indicates action to collect on the above date.
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Creditol
Fox
A. Ae
W. J. S. Milidr
Stp
Multiple Farm and Livestock Auctions Around Wilkie and Battleford
Local notices advertise farm stock cattle horses and farm machinery sales across several dates in October 1917. Auctions list cash terms with no reserve at various premises near Wilkie Battleford and surrounding towns, featuring livestock household goods and implements.
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Russell
Wilkie
Stalin
A Little Knowledge Exam Notes and Oddities
A compilation of humorous misstatements and wordplay on examinations about science and language. The text mocks errors in spelling grammar and fact with lines about geometry astronomy and social norms.
Typewriter pitch meets a hardened Chicago mogul
A young salesman visits a private office and asks the magnate about his typewriters. The mogul dismisses the product, claims no interest, and jokes about a “slim brunette” wife, highlighting business indifference and personal quips in a Chicago Record Herald clipping.
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Chicago Record Herald
Miracles of Surgery Saving Hearts and Brains
An English correspondent notes how modern surgeons use X rays and precision tools to revive soldiers shot through the heart or brain. Instances from South Africa and Morocco show bullets lodged near the heart left intact yet treated, allowing wounded men to recover and walk away.
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London
South Africa
Corp. Thomas
Worcester Mounted Infantry
Arundel
Waterloo
Thomas
Sir William MacCormac
Morocco
Mysterious Exchange in Bay State Letters Cited
A fragmentary dialogue hints at a tense moment involving Bay State figures and a question about a life’s longest day. The sparse lines imply an unresolved inquiry between two speakers, leaving broader context unclear.
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Bolan
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Beld
Cop Partizan
N. B
Fuente
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EK. M. Ecclestone
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Frank Hassell
Mr. Claxton
Florence
Steurview School
Wim. Wallace's
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Meades
Flying Corps
Ge Sure and Alley
Adolph Spay
Mnifes
Handel
C.plil
Kelfield
A.W. Claxton
W. G. Hillary
Prongua Cash Store
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J. K. Hammond
Galvin Lumber Vds. Ltd
H. S. Stewart
Bome
Raleigh
Shakespeare
Oliver Lavige
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Louis Niv
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