Local Visitors and Growth Spur Landis Cando Area
Cando visitor Mrs F C Marshall spent Tuesday in Landis while local farmers David Balfour and J Robertson purchased Ford cars signaling area growth. North American Lumber Supply Co manager Mr Marshall moved his house onto company property for enclosure and yard expansion. Rev T J Williams and Rev R Holloway emerged as budding musicians with ukulele and banjo efforts foreshadowing future Hawaiian and Ethiopian acts in the region.
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F. C. Marshall
Landis
David Balfour
J. Robertson
Ford
Cando
Marshall
North American Lumber & Supply Co
T. J. Williams
R. Holloway
Williams
Holloway
Food Board Notes Starvation Deaths in Europe Soar
The United States Food Administration estimates 4 750 000 deaths from starvation in Europe since war began, vs 4 250 000 killed in fighting. H B Thomson of Canada Food Board announced voluntary rationing in Canada with provincial committees setting scales. European armies will grow their own vegetables as shortages bite across France Palestine Cyprus Egypt Salonica and England. Aldershot camps expand cultivation from 28 to 1200 acres.
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Europe
United States Food Administration
H. B. Thomson
Canada Food Board
Toronto
Canada
France
Palestine
Cyprus
Egypt
Salonica
England
Aldershot
Interest on Victory Joan bonds paid at bank
Miss Hyslop leaves telephone work to join Union Bank as clerk. Several notices note important information this week. A small human-interest item recalls a long marriage kiss count before ending the tally. A Baptist minister riffs on biblical naming in a light sermon anecdote.
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Miss Hyslop of
Traynor
Union Bank
Magazines on Sale at Record Office
Record office offers magazines as published including Red Book Blue Book Everybody's Cosmopolitan Popular Mechanics Top Notch Popular Argosy and more with monthly and weekly issues available.
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Red Book
Blue Book
Everybody's
Cosmopolitan
Popular Mechanics
Top Notch
Notice on Military Service Act Class One requirements
The document outlines that from June 1 1918 any male not in active service who may fall under Military Service Act Class One must carry proper evidence proving age nationality exemption or clerical religious or other exemptions. Failure to possess required certificates may lead to desertion charges fines up to 50 or imprisonment up to one month and possible custody for duty in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. It also warns misuse of certificates with penalties up to five hundred holes and six months imprisonment.
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Food Board Notes
Atle
Mr. F. Bingham
Zealandia
Mrs. Jansen
Calvin McAfee
Alsank
Winnipeg
Air Force
The
Baptist Church
John the Baptist
Judea
John the Presbyterian
John the Methodist
Jobin
Jolyn the Baptist
GALT
A. D. Fowler
Fet
A. D. Fowler General Merchant
Eastern
Great Lakes
Travel
Grand Trunk Pacific and Northern Navigation
S. S
Ontario
Quebec
W. E. Duperow
Maritime Provinces
Mger
Landis Record Office
Great Britain
Ottawa
Military Service Branch
Department OF Justice
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