Sugar Beet Prospects in Alberta Western Canada
Alberta shows strong potential for beet sugar with irrigation trials yielding up to 171 tons per acre and sugars near 20 percent. Eastern and western irrigation blocks report high yields and plans for seed production, while market demand across the Western Provinces remains large.
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United States
Dominion Government
Lethbridge
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calgary
Dominion
Raymond Sugar Company
Raymond
Utah
Idaho
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
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Distrites
Paris to wear gasparine fur made from battlefield rats
A Paris dispatch reports furriers and soldiers advocate gasparine as a fashionable fur from rat skins captured at the trenches. Patriotic cooperation may boost demand and raise bounties for rats killed in spare time. An Ohio woman seeks divorce over her husband’s 17 year bath abstinence.
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Paris
Venus
Gaspardine
Ohio
Detroi Free Press
War Aims and Tempered Retaliation in Britain
The Christian Guardian argues Britains public mood rejects reprisal air attacks on German towns despite German raids. It urges maintaining civilization and not weakening Allied air power. Also notes improved Alberta wool quality after Dormin don government guidance, with Calgary Exhibition gains and rising demand for Western Canadian wool.
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Christian Guardian
England
House of Lords
Ea of Derby
Britain
Germany
Great Britain
Dor ‘Mindon
Calgary
Edmonton
Magrath
Alberta
Boston
Burbank Potatoes Show Seed Potential and Superior Slips
A Massachusetts lad named Burbank selects and propagates potatoes by cut pieces with eyes, yielding true-to-kind tubers without hybridization. Two hills produced exceptional size and quality, improving in whiteness and uniformity over years. Potatoes average 75 percent water, with turns and beets varying in moisture and sugar content.
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Burbank
Massachusetts
Chester
Haig's Charger in Hampshire amid war maps and councils
A Daily Express report describes a bay charger in Hampshire as a symbol of wartime planning. The piece depicts maps spread on its back and war councils convened around it while papers crackle, illustrating how preparation and symbolism blend in the home front.
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Haig
Hampshire
The
Daily Express
Brus
India Too Loyal To Rebel
Rev Oswald Younghusband of Lahore believes India is loyal with no uprising danger. He sees signs of self government but says Indians are not ready, education should focus on character and local environment, and aims to gain recognition for English and mixed Indian people including Rhodes scholarships.
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India
Oswald Younghusband
Lahore
Toronto
England
Younghusband
Red Cross funds compared to monuments urged as life insurance
A public appeal argues that Red Cross donations save lives over costly memorials. It claims direct relief to wounded soldiers and hospital support reduces death rates, calling Red Cross money a practical investment for the public good.
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Red Cross
Gettysburg
Valley Forge
Philadelphia
Public Ledger
U S Mobilizes Vast War Effort in Three Months
In three months the United States authorized 7 billion dollars in expenditures, subscribed 3 billion to a bond issue, and lent 1.3 billion to allies. It registered nearly 10 million men for service, recruited volunteers for army and navy, trained 30,000 officers, moved an army across 20,000 miles to France, deployed a great fleet, and established food and fuel controls.
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United States
France
The Guards and the New Soldier A Dialogue
A series of letters contrasts the old soldier who views combat as mischance with the new soldier who calls death the supreme sacrifice. Grenadiers Guards drill sergeants scorn heroics while praising discipline and skill, and a Guardsman asserts I’m a soldier not a ero.
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Grenadiers Guards
Mons
Ero
England's Awakening in Wartime Labor Reforms and Sacrifice
Arthur Gleason argues in Century that World War I awakens England by expanding work for the working class through higher wages and necessity. The war reshapes domestic life, boosts female and lower‑tier employment, frees the unemployed, and gives upper‑class men a purposeful, noble role.
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England
Arthur Gleason
French drillmaster warns against brave tactics in modern warfare
The Springfield Gazette cites a French drillmaster’s view that German and Allied methods favor stealth and heavy fire power over direct bravery. He notes American recruits must learn to hide and endure machine gun and barrage fire to avoid needless casualties as war advances.
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Charles H. Grasty
New York
Springfield Gazette
An Irishman and the Gates of Heaven Tale
A parish priest asks an Irishman how to reach Heaven. The man jokes that he will simply open the gates himself when he arrives, implying a humorous misunderstanding of entry.
Saskatchewan Eyes Binder Twine From Flax Fiber
The provincial and federal governments explore using Saskatchewan flax to manufacture binder twine. Research works on making flax fiber resistant to mice while promising samples rival sisal and hemp in price, with potential for local mills and growing factories if tests prove satisfactory.
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Saskatchewan
Pe Vcen Ral
Belgium
Trench Tales of Courage and Odd Encounters on the Front
Private accounts from Argyll and Sutherland on the Western Front describe a visit to a Gordon battalion in shell holes. A calm sergeant major shaved amid shells, and a Roche prominently joined the crater lip before a German foe. The sergeant major subdued the Boche with a bayonet move and the trench tale ends with a clipped danger note.
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Argyll and Sutherlands
Gordons
Elgin
Roche
Tired Queen Christina of Sweden Resigns and Travels
Christina of Sweden, daughter and successor of Gustavus Adolphus, tired of royal residence duties at 28, abdicated in favor of her cousin and went to Rome in Amazonian dress. She later settled in Paris and for a time sought to regain power by pursuing the throne of Poland.
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Sweden
Ostavus Adolphus
Rome
Paris
Poland
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