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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 1918
Page
3
The article ponders why hen eggs are more consumed than duck eggs noting the hen’s audible cue upon laying versus the duck’s silence. It mentions electric cooking reducing fuel waste and implies benefits in efficiency and economy during a period stressing coal use for transport and industry.
Captain Frederick William Campbell of the First Canadian Battalion earned the Victoria Cross for two daring acts. He carried a machine gun like a human gun carriage under heavy fire at Langemarck and at Givenchy, saving a battalion before dying of wounds four days later.
In West Point tales Capt Richardson notes the tight control of property. A officer's wife called the hospital for a fire extinguisher but staff said no authority to release it. She was advised to contact the quartermaster who holds the item on memorandum receipt.
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