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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
2
An analysis notes how applied science refines waste reuse in wartime. It highlights paper, wood, cans, fats, bones, ash, and other refuse being converted into usable materials, reducing need for incineration and saving shipping tonnage as processes improve.
The Canadian Pacific Railway announces a $500 silver cup for the best bushel of hard spring wheat at the International Soil Products Exposition in Kansas City October 16 to 26, 1918. Western Canadian farmers are urged to enter, with boards of trade and agricultural groups supporting the effort to showcase Canada’s food potential. Letters for exhibit details go to Robert J. C. Stead, Calgary.
The Hartford Times notes Lord Roberts praised Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim for the gun’s lethality while a Maine farmer boy grew to invent it. The tale recalls Maxim loving a pea shooter as a child and a Brooklyn home with a physician, a maid, and a tin shooter seen by neighbors and a beat policeman.
New London Connecticut forms a citizen board of lawyers real estate men and manufacturers to hear tenant rent complaints. Sub committees summon landlords and publish findings if they refuse or are found guilty proving public opinion can curb rent hikes.
Lance-Corporal Thomas Moir of the 24th Victorian Rifles writes from the First General Hospital in Stourbridge praising the hospital staff and the Y M C A. He hopes the war ends this year and predicts the Peace Bell will ring before year’s end.
Dr Barnardo recalls a rough youth transformed by music in Barnardo Homes. A once-troubled boy found discipline as a drummer then cornetist, learned shoe-making, became a skilled guitarist and bandleader, and later served as church precentor and organist with a family of his own.
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