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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
9
Canadian War Records describe a dawn raid across 600 yards of front including The Pimple and Triangle. Forces penetrated 700 yards, bombed dugouts, destroyed three large mine shafts, and held the trenches for about an hour taking 47 prisoners from the 11th Bavarian Regiment.
The text explains best methods to apply stable manure in dry prairie conditions. It recommends applying manure to land slated for summer fallow or before ploughing seven to eight inches deep, allowing time to rot and incorporate. It cautions against surface ploughing into crops the same season and notes benefits for soil moisture retention and humus.
A mailed feature recounts former United States Senator Burnell leaving politics after a nervous breakdown and starting a new life on a Saskatchewan farm. It details his migration to Western Canada in 1914, investments in land and equipment, crops earning about ten thousand dollars, and a stable post-retirement livelihood showing age is not a limit to reinvention.
The Russian provisional government after a council demand plans to confiscate lands and monasteries of the late imperial family and publishes a list of the imperial expenses including sums for the estate at Tsarskoe Selo and court ceremonies.
A clipped exchange hints at scandal over evolving fashion. A confidant assures the other that trouble will come only after opposition to the new styles is faced.
Improbable fragmentary note describes a personal reflection on charity work and business ties with unclear references. No clear events or named entities emerge to identify people organizations or places.
A Canadian notice urges poultry associations to organize fall pullet purchases for winter egg production with support from the Dominion Live Stock Branch. It also tells of Capt. Welsbarth, once a sailor and alleged black-birder, becoming King Teoti in Tabiteuea and a monument erected after his death.
General Haig ordered a meals inquiry with War Office experts last September. The commission favorably assessed bread meat butter tea coffee and cocoa and found inspection methods solid though standards and freshness were revised. Officers and doctors credit ration handling for troops health while water provision improved with widespread praise of the water-wagon.
The judge remarks to a long-time resident that he has not seen a full month, noting illness kept him bedridden and away from the court or community gathering.
Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly reports women in Europe rising to duties during World War I. She notes three million English women in overalls, forty million homes lacking, and calls for a new noble woman arising from war's chaos, strengthening society.
In two Peruvian coast departments 60 000 acres are under rice, with favorable climate and abundant water. Production is about 40 000 metric tons for 1915 16. The grain is praised as unexcelled and markets extend abroad and domestically.
An obituary fragment recalls a stark funeral moment as an older Mississippi man delivers a spare line for a fellow Black man. The phrasing captures a somber, blunt tone in a cemetery scene.
More than thirty thousand English women have volunteered for an auxiliary army corps. They will be sent in groups to France after three weeks of training in England. Pay starts at five dollars weekly with overtime, plus a thirty dollar grant for uniforms. Many express pride to help soldiers near the front, though most will stay within forty miles of the line.
Dr. F F Wesbrook of the University of British Columbia warned at a Western Canada Irrigation Association convention that pioneer days are ending. He urged definite land use planning for perpetuity, local specialization in crops and livestock, and training of future generations to carry forward agricultural development.
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