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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
6
A first person reflection contrasts Queen Elena of Italy’s refusal to wear an expensive hat with Montenegro’s poverty. The narrator recalls Monte Negro huts and frontier graves, arguing that true understanding comes from lived hardship rather than royal status. Minard's Liniment is advertised everywhere.
Port Arthur Moose Jaw Saskatoon and Calgary plants use modern cleaning gear and grinding facilities to process grain by products. Recleaned grain deckage removes weed seeds dust and chaff before grinding to destroy seed vitality. Ottawa experiments show the mixed grain meat is a cheap valuable feed. Available to Canadian feeders at moderate prices direct from the general manager Government Elevators Form Willam Ont.
Washington botanists at the state college and state university can declare weeds noxious when they seriously impede agriculture. County auditors publish notices for four weeks, road supervisors enforce destruction within ten days, and if unpaid the bill is added to the current year's taxes with penalties. The law aims to curb weed spread along highways and railroads and is deemed effective and fair.
An advertisement urges that mothers bearing heavy care gain health from Dr Williams Pink Pills for their blood. It shares Mrs G Strasser of Acton West Ontario praising renewed strength after multiple births and notes availability via medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A Walt Mason style verse promotes civilian support for the Patriotic Fund during wartime. It argues all able men must contribute financially or join the fight, praising sacrifice at home and abroad and invoking British military figures to urge collective resolve.
Hon. James Duff minister of agriculture writes to the militia department that Ontario will send 1000 or more boxes of apples to Canadians in hospitals in England and France, with 400 boxes already forwarded. Twenty thousand gallons of preserved peaches prepared for shipment at Vineland. A drill system for first year men and an officers training corps for higher grades established at Ontario Agricultural College.
The London New York Sun correspondent notes large numbers of Americans in British and Canadian forces. He cites embassy efforts to discharge underage Americans and thousands of American applicants to Canadian service. An American officer in the British army jokes about promotions, while others avoid admitting their nationality.
The London Telegraph notes a thirteen month surge in British resolve to pursue victory. It states the decision, its justification, and the peril faced have become embedded in national life, uniting every person in a hardened commitment to prevailing.
A conference at militia headquarters endorsed a plan to recruit train and billet locally in Canada for winter. Local centers recruiting twenty five men or more will billet and train under local officers. Canada now trains about fifty thousand men with up to seventy thousand expected by winter end for next year camps or front despatch.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes the war may spur closer imperial organization. India seeks representation in the next imperial council with Canada and Australia, signaling a push toward self government while Britain’s governance of an alien people progresses.
In Portland Oregon P. H. O'Brien of Nitro Club shells broke 240 targets straight without a miss to win the main event. The feat establishes a new coast record and underscores his brilliant trapshooting performance.
Dr H Barrington Cox introduced a pocket wireless telegrah outfit in New York demonstrations claiming it could revolutionize teleg raphy in war. The device uses a leg worn wire, belt carried sending and receiving gear, and a hidden transformer to emit Morse code messages without visible aerials.
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