Ample Food Stocks In Canada Report To Aid Allies
The May report from Canada’s labor department notes that food stocks exist and move, with butter and cheese down, eggs rising as new supplies arrive, beef strong, pork up from last month, and mutton and lamb lower. The Allied provision export commission coordinates shipments to Europe, aiming to stabilize prices and meet wartime demand. May 1 storage totals include butter 1,182,211 lb, cheese 3,141,771 lb, eggs 3,766,997 dozen, beef 21,592,408 groups, pork 27,? serves, bacon and hams, mutton and lamb 449,655 lb, fish 15,534 lb, fowl 1,640,150 lb.
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Labor Department
Canada
Europe
Canada Food Board
Allied Provision Export Commission
Allies
The Forces That Fight For the United States Speech Excerpt
An edited excerpt cites a wartime speech attributed to General Smuts urging unity and courage to defend liberty. It emphasizes enduring sacrifice and resisting any government power attempting to repeat past aggressions.
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Smuts
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Fragmentary OCR text yields no clear event, person, or organization to summarize into a factual card.
An Appeal to Pacifists by Charles Wi
A wartime appeal condemns pacifist peacemakers aligning with aggressors. It accuses those offering peace of tyranny, betrayal, and theft, praising brave, just war and urging action against a supposed conspiracy to enslave mankind under divine power. The message frames peace advocates as aiding oppression and calls for a sacred duty to resist.
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Pas Charles
America Plain
One Man Flour Mill Signals A Return To Individual Business
Norman Hapgood in Leslie's argues the one man flour mill, producing 25 to 50 barrels daily, embodies a revival of small scale enterprise. He contrasts steam era gains with broader social benefits and notes regulation and economic concentration as risks while praising small units as a test of civilization.
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Norman Hapgood
Leslie's
Hoover Urges Food Drive to Save Ships for Allied Needs
Herbert Hoover United States food administrator told the Pittsburgh Press Club that North America could supply all allied food needs next year if ships are saved. He emphasized efficiency and increased production to curb shortages and support wartime logistics.
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Herbert Hoover
United States Food Adminstrator
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Pittsburgh Press Club
North ‘America
America
Horse and Tractor Power Estimate for Kansas Plowing
An old Kansas agricultural note compares equine and mechanized plowing. It states that if all tractors in Kansas worked ten hours daily, it would take sixteen months to till the entire cultivated area, while work animals would finish in the same hours. The passage hints at forecasting crops and advises attention to farm labor efficiency.
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Kansas
Western Canada sees surge in sheep farming as farms expand
H. A. Fisher of Czar Alberta exemplifies a regional trend with a flock started in 1915 that grew fourfold. He reports rapid lamb gains, strong wool and mutton markets, and profitable returns from careful feeding and water access. Optimistic about the industry’s future, he expects more farmers to adopt sheep husbandry as Western Canada’s fledgling industry expands.
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Prairie
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Eh H. A Fisher
Czar
Alberta
Western Canada
R. Fisher
Fisher
Caribou Vast Herds Considered to Ease Meat Shortage
An advisory board on wild life protection weighs using Canada’s barren ground caribou herds to relieve a meat shortage. Estimates of 10 to 30 million animals exist, but transport and storage during winter pose major obstacles. Government oversight would guard against private exploitation.
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Advisory Board On Wild Life Protection
Canada
Churchill
Hudson Bay
Lake Athabasca
Alaska
Arctic
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Fragmentary Texas reminiscence prompts odd prose
A garbled, incomplete quotation references Texas and a German sabotage plot. The speaker recalls a tall factory chimney in an arid waste and a cryptic exchange about a chimney, producing a disjointed, fragmentary narrative without clear context or resolution.
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Texas
Gardoed
Heroic British Commander Dies Saving Submariners
Commander Francis Herbert Goodhart Goodhart of the Royal Navy awarded the Albert Medal in gold posthumously for sacrificing his life during a submarine rescue. An accident left the U-Boat submerged in 38 feet of water. he volunteered to aid rescuers, escaped the submerged conning tower, and was killed by air pressure as he urged others to surface. His last remark was, If I don't get up the tin cylinder will.
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Francis Herbert Heaveningham Goodhart
D.S.O
London Gazette
H.M
Goodhart
End of Rheims Front Brings Reviving Hope and Destruction
The report notes renewed French gains and stronger British resistance, while German bombardment of Rheims escalates. The cathedral city burns, described as a ruin, with shells aimed at revenge for setbacks. The Kaiser’s alleged pledge to protect monuments is branded a grotesque joke.
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Rheims
Asea
Destro
New York Times
Fragmentary wartime note on U S defense depth
The text reflects a wartime mood stressing that deeper U S involvement reveals the menace faced and that half measures in defense are futile. A garbled line suggests an era when the notion of restraint or limited action is questioned.
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Uncle Sam
United States
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Fragmented agricultural note on crops and soil
A garbled OCR fragment discusses money crops and soil changes. It mentions crops and tea like items but the exact meaning and entities are unclear, leaving an incomplete agricultural note with no identifiable people or organizations.
Dairying in Saskatchewan Faces By Law and Creamery Plans
The Saskatchewan dairy branch reviews proposed municipal by laws regulating milk production and creamery creation. Officials aim to avoid unprofitable creameries and promote best practices, with plans for prizes, tree planting, and inspections to boost quality and industry growth across towns and the province.
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Dairy
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Narrow escape as torpedo hits and deflects off ship
Captain John Trewin of Newport recounts a near disaster when a torpedo fired at the hull steamer Flixten broke surface within fifty feet and flipped, veering toward a nearby vessel before exploding and sending a plume of debris across the water.
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John Trewin
Newport
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German Food Supply Decreases From Year Ago Ad Notes
Fragmentary ad text notes reductions in German food supply versus last year. The clipped item hints at steps to remedy shortages and upcoming tasks but lacks full details or clear entities.
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