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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1917
Page
5
A patriotic address extols Britain's civilizational inheritance and the duty of every citizen to defend it. The speaker links national liberty, history, and future riches to personal resolve, urging individuals to protect the nation rather than defer defense to others.
A More Brutal Atrocities 4 Times correspondent documents widespread abuses by military authorities in Northern France. Refugees face famine prices, strict forced labor, and confiscation of meat and fuel. Families endure coerced work, with youths as young as 13 pressured into factories and fields. Some punishments include prison terms for church attendance and missing a full day of work.
A Victorian bemused couple shares morning routines with a cheerful husband whistling to the station and a servant asking about breakfast. The scene shifts to a clerk seeking an eye examination and a note about work after Saturday hints at ordinary domestic life.
The alfalfa tale spans five millennia from Persia to North America. It travels with empires and traders, reaching Greece, Africa, Spain, Mexico, and Canada. German seed brought it to Minnesota and Ontario, shaping today’s western and northern crops.
A sensational feature by Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford claims head shape and facial measurements predict a man's character and future, advising women to judge suitors by chin and nose while noting hands and temperament. The piece cites Bradstreet data and prison stats to back quirky claims.
The article reports that Russian women celebrate the czar’s vodka prohibition with public thanksgiving on July 29. It cites reduced drinkers, redirected spending to clothing and schooling, and improvements in crime, children’s welfare, reading, and family life, while noting some male opposition in villages.
The British statesman denounces a German peace proposal as the most impudent document from a mortal pen. He likens Germany to Napoleon, argues Austria balked at war, and condemns the German imperial system and military caste’s role in driving conflict.
Editorial notes the value of everyday politeness within households to prevent discord. It argues modest, sincere courtesies improve comfort and happiness, contrasts humble homes with stylish manners, and urges expressing goodwill toward family members even amid broader social strain.
The late Count Zeppelin is praised as a pioneering inventor who spent his fortune on costly experiments. His dirigible balloon, likened to the modern machine gun by contemporaries, promises peaceful use beyond war, with future air travel and cross Channel ferrying as likely outcomes.
The German language press in the United States is blamed for inflaming German American readers to support German aims. It leveraged commercial desperation to revive itself, aided by official German propaganda, while denouncing Allied and American voices as British or Allied paymasters. The campaign aligned with Germany and attacked U S neutrality, shaping opinion through a unified editorial stance.
A Boston Globe excerpt describes a visitor telling a police sergeant that his neighbor’s chickens were stolen last night. The exchange reveals the visitor’s reluctance to estimate how many birds were taken, and ends with the visitor expressing thanks.
The women police service rooted in wartime aims to act as substitute police with preventive and protective duties. Training includes court procedures first aid and on street patrols in London factories where policewomen patrol gates escort visitors and guard young workers. Sworn in at most factories they hold full constable powers.
Amid a leather shortage England turns to wooden shoes known as clogs. The Textile Mercury notes hundreds of London schoolchildren wear clogs costing about three shillings a pair and teachers supply clogs to ill pupils paid in small weekly installments.
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