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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
2
A University of Illinois circular outlines labor saving on farms through year round repairs, crop rotation, larger machinery, livestock harvesting, and planned work. It urges legume crops, careful follow up, using retired farmers for supervision, and employing town and city youth to bolster wartime labor.
A wartime promotion extols a patriotic unit and urges mothers and wives to take a temperance tonic for nervousness headaches and backaches. The ad claims the tonic to be available in tablets and liquid and directs readers to Dr. Pierce's Branch for a 10 sample.
A concise reflection on music describing it as the speech of angels, attributed to philosopher Thomas Carlyle, expressing the elevated view of music's expressive power.
An inspection of German posters in Belgium shows commanders avoided personal accountability for civilian death penalties, with Bruges as a focal point. Alderman M Kenevin recalls Captain Fryatt’s execution and a late order to spare him, while daily life endured fines, requisitioned goods, curfews, and restricted press.
Ottawa reports that wartime shipbuilding plans, led by Hon. C. C. Ballantyne, face major delays as Canadian yards lack steel plates. Despite agreed 80 000 tons and early steps, deliveries from the United States remain well short, delaying keels and progress across several yards.
Sir E Ruggles Brise, head of the English prison commissioners, cites a prisoner with three sentences who enlisted in 1916. He was invalided from combat, donated blood to save a life, returned to the front, and earned the M M and the D C M. His commanding officer praises him as one of the best N C O s and notes his outstanding service after three months in the hottest sector.
The saving farmer is a national asset and Canadian progress shows thrift in all provinces. Total returns from field crops and animal produce reflect a disposition to conserve the gifts of Providence.
A British aviator Capt Paul Bow sher describes a moonlit raid where a two seat aircraft drew guard fire while a loaded train stopped to view the action. The observer pried a brick from the river bridge and planted an explosive charge, causing a red flash and the bridge centre to vanish, blocking the damaged train.
Dialogue notes a parent defending an automobile gift to his daughter as economical, arguing the car will keep her away from bridge parties, framed as a light social aside in the Boston Transcript.
A captioned quip extols a machine that can replace a dozen workers while a visitor jokes that his wife should have chosen it over a spouse, reflecting comic commentary on labor and technology.
An opinion piece argues that Germany should repair damage to France and Belgium through reparations funded by confiscations from war lords and munition factories, with an army of occupation to enforce justice. It supports restitution of Alsace Lorraine to France and rejects colonies without consent, citing Hague and a broad notion of justice.
In 1914 during German occupation Brussels formed a committee to present King Albert with a sword of honor on his return. The gold and platinum hilted blade, depicting a Belgian lion conquering the Teuton eagle, was crafted in Paris and will arrive in time for the king’s entry. Committee members remain unnamed until German withdrawal.
Twelve stones were laid in Jerusalem for the Hebrew University foundation in the presence of General Allenby and French and Italian detachments. The stones symbolize the twelve tribes of Israel and the site lies on Mount of Olives with views toward Jerusalem and Moab.
A farmer questions a boy in an orchard about his stomach ache as they gather apples. The exchange fits a rural life vignette from a farm column in the paper.
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