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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
2
King reasons through clues from a morning bath house hours seven to ten and three to six to link the Amaranth Club, Parthelemy’s private house, and a medicated bath. He vows to pursue a fit that could bring “fun” and perhaps serious outcomes as he contemplates the connections.
Hilda Tressingham handles family matters with focus on self and present needs. She negotiates the Curzon Street house let to Mr. and Mrs. Ellington, supervises repairs, and ensures the Ashminster era move of George Nington into the town house. She tells her brother Hart sdal she has finished her task and praises her own efforts.
Hilda Tressingham plans to move George Ellington toward deeper confidence as she manipulates dinners and decor at Down Street. Ellington, heir to a Puritan and Radical-leaning family, senses danger in her world and resists fully entering her influence. The tension hints at broader intrigue in a continuing melodrama.
An official explanation outlines wartime grain conservation by rationing horses. Feeding grain to private horses is banned. grain may be used only for trade and business horses. No person should keep horses beyond usable age, and penalties for violations are severe.
An Italian naval engineer designs an unsinkable cargo vessel approved by the ministry of marine. The ship displaces 10,300 tons and carries 50 hundred tons of cargo. It features a double hull with a space between skins, intended to protect against mines or torpedoes.
Alberta reports 101000 automobile licenses issued in the first half of the year double the total for 1916 and reflecting farming prosperity across the West. Saskatchewan records about 21000 licenses by May and a projected 30000 by summer’s end, up from 15000 in 1916 and 9000 in 1915 as urban centers see growth and rents normalize, signaling broad rural strength and shifting real estate demand.
The number of promising immigrants on the lookout for homesteads has increased. Railways and land companies report more sales in the last two months than in the same period for several years. The outlook remains promising and high farm product prices are likely to continue after the war.
Sir J Crichton Browne argued at the Hospital Saturday Fund meeting that employment of women away from home harms infant mortality and offspring. He urged most marriages revert to prewar norms focusing on suckling babies and home life, noting the immense value of human milk and estimating wartime infant production and economic worth.
The British Board of Agriculture advisory committee urges immediate killing of all old stock cocks and cullings of hens hatched in 1915 or earlier that brood and moult unprofitably. 1914 hens likely unprofitable should also be culled. Additionally, all 1917 hatched cockerels not needed for 1918 stock should be killed at earliest opportunity.
The Saskatchewan department of agriculture plans a small booklet of five by four inches to promote farming in the province. Prepared with care by Deputy Minister FH Auld, the pamphlet will be included in railway ticket envelopes to reach farmers nationwide.
Berlin bank clerks ignore footwear to protest the economy move. Clerks march barefoot through main streets as shoe stores pivot to wooden sandals with leather only in toe guards.
About 700 British subjects will be exchanged for more than 6,000 Germans under Pieta s agreement. Civilians interned at Ruhleben Knockaloe Alexandra Palace and other camps will be repatriated in batches, with transport and costs arranged by both governments. The plan aims to ease German civilian burden while reducing German numbers in Allied hands.
A Life magazine quotation portrays LT admitting he cannot support his daughter’s marriage and fears delivering the bad news, while the elder urges him to do his best despite the hardship. The exchange highlights parental pressure and personal responsibility in a domestic dilemma.
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