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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
2
A jealous captain’s confidant, the gardener’s boy, recounts a shipboard romance gone wrong aboard the Rose of Devon. Locking him below decks, the crew and lovers face peril as treasure seeks and love tests loyalties in the Pacific.
An editorial argues for reduced per capita wood use, forest fire protection, and higher growth per acre through forestry to meet future needs. It notes current waste and cites a British officer recalling wartime scenes with birds and distant artillery amid a war-torn landscape.
The text outlines forest fire prevention rules including never leaving a camp fire, avoiding fires in leaves or dry brush, and properly disposing of burning materials. It also includes quoted lines about callous men and a note about a husband taking knitted socks meant for soldiers, reflecting personal anecdotes amid the safety guidance.
The account praises the Canadian Division in heavy fighting near St Julien Passchendaele, detailing heroism of the 3rd and 2nd Brigades, officers like Major McCuaig and Lieut Colonel Lipsett, and British reinforcements. It honors signalers, despatch carriers, artillery, engineers, and medical corps while urging imperial mobilization and support.
Surgeon-Major Leig hintseff describes the Galicia fighting where seven eighths of wounds come from shells and half from big calibre guns. Skoda shells 18 inches wide and 2800 pounds unleash devastation, with 150 yard lethal radius and shells melting rifle barrels, while bullets fade from importance.
The Seed Branch Ottawa bulletin notes many city men with moderate sized families, experienced in truck farming, pay up to 200 dollars yearly for city rentals while country plots of twenty acres offer lower rents and potentially higher net yields for the family.
A tattered supplicant asks a benevolent lady for old clothes for a war victim. She learns the clothes are for Belgium as his wife sent their garments to Belgians, highlighting wartime aid and sympathy.
A Los Angeles Herald column extols Canada's exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. It praises the Canada building for its dignified design, intelligent staff, and striking displays showing Canada's strength, prosperity, and government. It urges both Canadians and Americans to visit and study the mutual friendship and rivalry between nations.
John Aitken explains in Nature that dust deposits from hot air onto cold surfaces. Lath and plaster protect plaster from cold, reducing dust. Hot pipes create vertical dust streaks above them. Open grate heating minimizes dust vs radiators and electric lighting stays cleaner than gas heated rooms. Any surface hotter than the air stays dust free.
A teacher asks a mother to ensure Rosie studies. The girl recalls family responses: her mother lacks geography knowledge yet has a husband, her aunt also lacks geography yet has a husband, and the teacher herself is told geography and no husband are mutually exclusive.
A Hebrew peddler timidly taps at the kitchen door interrupting Mrs. Carter who, furious at the disruption during her washing, challenges him. He retreats, then apologetically explains he came to sell his wares with a wary smile.
A young lady at Palm Beach spots Ursa Major as a southern gentleman turns polite and formal, calling the colonel by rank while the scene wryly observes a celestial moment in a social setting.
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