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Newspaper
Dauphin Herald And Press
Location
Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
2
In the old cottage night, the Squire finds Mary Champneys torn between fear and a hidden yearning. He pleads to rescue her from a controlling figure by offering safety and a future, while she reveals a past linked to a rough suitor and a choice of love or duty. The scene ends with the Squire proposing a future marriage as the night deepens.
Quietly she slips away with him across fields while the Squire’s grip tightens. They hurry back to the cottage as Dolly fears Leo and Louise will condemn her. Meyrick vows protection, considers entering the cottage, and consoles the terrified girl amid shutters and darkness.
The land at the Experimental Station near Morden Manitoba, purchased in 1915, suffered couch grass infestation. A multi stage method ploughing harrowing cultiving rolling and burning reduced the weed. by spring 1916 barley was sown and yielded a strong crop with few couch grass blades remaining.
The piece envisions global upheaval if Germany gains the British fleet, risking disintegration of the British Empire and drawing the United States into a struggle over the Monroe Doctrine and trade terms. It cites Norway as a leading seafaring nation with a large mercantile fleet owned largely by citizens.
A brief exchange notes a dog keen on photo taking and a witty response decrying the question. The text then cites a political maxim urging delegation of tasks to others, illustrating concise public discourse.
Mrs. McBeath of Hreadingly discusses farm marketing challenges in western Canada. She argues cooperation among women farmers, creameries, and country stores improves butter and egg quality, stabilizes prices, and eases selling. She cites fruit growers in the Glanagan Valley adopting standard varieties for better market access, urging collective action to secure reliable markets.
Buyers tell each other, and so business gets established. If creameries, egg circles, and poultry fattening fish generally organized, a standard market and standard prices would emerge, replacing uncertain prices and haphazard selling that today distresses most country women.
A Vancouver native, killed by a sniper in France, writes of returning to the Peace River country. The piece relays letters from Malcolm J. Campbell of Grande Prairie and Laurie, praising Peace River as fertile wheat land with rich timber, minerals, and future railway expansion.
The Labor Gazette reports 933000 women have directly replaced men in trades professions agriculture and manual labor in Britain since war began. Figures are as of October 31 with indications of further growth since. From July 1914 to July 1916, 35000 more women joined agricultural replacement, totaling 115000 in that sector.
Winnipeg dairy plants reported butter output in 1916 with Crescent Creamery at 900,000 pounds Eaton and Company at 700,000 pounds City Creamery 10,000 pounds Holland Company 260,000 pounds Manitoba Creamery 200,000 pounds and Deminsion Creamery 200,000 pounds.
Saskatchewan boasts unusual pest immunity with only a half dozen insect varieties ever causing serious crop damage. Locust plagues in 1886 devastated wheat, then grass fed grazing. other threats include wire worms, flax sowing after breaking, wheat saw fly, Hessian fly, green aphids, and garden cutworms.
Torpedoed ship survivors signalled rescuers with lamps in the dark. The latest life buoy includes an attached electric flash lamp that lights as soon as it hits the water, marking the position of the person afloat for boats and rescue crews searching for survivors.
Quote from a dialogue contrasts disturbance and suburb living as a matter of residence for the master. The exchange hints at a debate over location rather than state of mind.
Regina becomes a model for vacant lot gardening with wide publicity from Mr. Miller’s prize winning potatoes. The movement draws inquiries from Canadian cities and several American towns seeking to replicate Regina’s success.
Geo W Batho of Manitoba Agriculture notes a banner year for the province with 81 carloads of butter exported in the past year totaling nearly 2 million pounds. Creameries operated through winter, dairy production rose from 400 000 pounds in 1913 to 900 000 in 1916, and cheese output rebounded toward 900 000 pounds.
Secretary Lane urged women to raise vegetables and fruit, conserve home supplies, and inspire men for the war effort. The Washington Post notes that weekly food waste could feed Belgians for a year, highlighting national wartime food goals.
A Los Angeles Times writer explains partnerships where plants and animals aid each other. Examples include myrmecophilous plants hosting ants for protection, freshwater polyp algae providing sugar, tree roots with fungi aiding nourishment, and carnivorous aquatic plants feeding on young fish.
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