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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
2
Sir Penrywern searches the estate for Daphne after her sudden disappearance. A stable boy reports seeing her enter the wood and torn lace from Daphne's scarf confirms a disturbance along the forest path as Penrywern returns to investigate.
Durand Wisconsin and Blackstone Massachusetts letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from Change of Life symptoms. Women describe hot flashes headaches suffocation anxiety and dizziness improving after using the remedy and recommending it to others.
Estates Gazette reports the Home-grown Timber Committee rapidly organizing Canadian timber workers as a military unit to work in England. Large supplies are secured and felling proceeds, aimed at easing crisis pressure on tonnage and boosting market availability. A light interlude suggests a daughter asks a worried father about retirement and shortages.
Dr Bryce advocates farm colonies for returning soldiers as a practical post war solution. He argues many will be casual laborers needing new work, and agriculture offers reliable potential. He envisions land purchase and subdivision for small fruit and vegetable farming with government financing and training in scientific methods.
A German pastor cites a Chronik der Christlichen Welt piece arguing the 1914 Russian invasion of Prussia caused limited economic and ecclesiastical damage. He claims Russians sought humane, orderly warfare with minimal desolation and lootings, noting only isolated exceptions exaggerated as universal.
Indian factories work for the war, boosting troops and gifts for Red Cross and patriotic funds. Manufacturing of military equipment and aircraft is in full swing, with the press criticizing the Mesopotamia Expedition yet urging resolve to see the effort through.
A 250 page volume issued under Dominion Minister of Agriculture Martin Birrell direction offers wide farm production guidance with extensive statistical data on world food production and consumption supplied by Dominion reputations.
In New South Wales a six mile radius bars ban near military camps is enforced. Bars close at six p.m. The Stipendiary magistrate in Sydney did not handle a single drunkenness case in a crowded district over one week.
The Montreal Star argues that the launch of the 6 6 willwo-dellag ice breaker by Montres yard marks a turning point for Canada. It urges government policy to embrace a national shipbuilding program, citing coastlines harbors power and materials and predicting rising ocean tonnage demand.
F C Nunnick of the Commission of Conservation warns that weeds such as wild oats, ball mustard and Canada thistle are rapidly spreading across the Prairie Provinces and Eastern Canada. He cites high infestation rates from 1910 to 1913 and urges government action plus farmer cooperation to wage ceaseless war against the weed pest.
A juror asks to be excused claiming he owes five dollars to a man leaving town for years and wishes to repay before the train. The judge rejects the excuse saying he does not want anyone who can lie in court.
A commission to inquire into the railway situation in Canada will be appointed shortly. Names mentioned include President Underwood of the Erie System in the United States, Sir Thomas Tait formerly manager of Australian state railways, and Sir George Paish the eminent London statistician.
An article extols the Moose Jaw Stampede July 11–14 1916 as a living page from frontier history inviting oldtimers and settlers to witness cowboys horsemen and gear. It contrasts vanishing prairie life with a public display of ranching culture and includes quotes from Hugh McKellar.
A friend describes a Paris early war demonstration of a thin chain armor shirt claimed to resist bullets and bayonets. He wears the shirt as an inventor fires an automatic pistol at his chest, then a War Office official praises his bravery and congratulates him.
The Westminster Gazette urges two postwar conferences a belligerents talks to settle territorial questions and a broader meeting of all powers including neutrals to reestablish the law of nations. It calls leaders to unite to save the world from renewed savagery after the war.
A soldier facing a charge asks what matters as England lives. He falls to a sniper in five minutes yet has time to tell a comrade it is all right, he meant it, before he is posted away.
New Zealand authorities advance construction on a five mile railroad tunnel linking the east and west coasts of the South Island at a cost near five million dollars. The project aims to shorten travel and shipping routes and improve regional connectivity.
A man explains to an acquaintance that he is two hours late for a planned meeting with his wife. The exchange suggests uncertainty about her arrival and hints at a prior arrangement. No further details are provided.
A few weeks after being tolled in the Reichstag for organizing Germanys food supplies, Herr Clemens Delbrueck is invited to resign. Officially health is given as the reason, but he is widely seen as a scapegoat to calm public anger over scarcity and high prices.
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