Girl Guides Pledge War Work and Conservation Drive
The Girl Guides vow to support national service during the war. They abandon other plans to focus fully on conservation and increased production as food shortages intensify.
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Newspaper
Lawson Post
Location
Lawson, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
3
Girl Guides Lead War Food Service Effort In Canada
Lady Pel latt, leader of the Canadian Girl Guide movement, says Guides will aid national food production and conservation. Toronto interviews stress practical service, fruit picking, canning, and dairying as provinces plan voluntary rations amid wartime shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Lady Perlleit
Pellatt
Jesn
Tom Grylles
Ier
Teflate
Artificial incubation and chick rearing in poultry housing
The article explains how to manage broody hens and large chick production. It describes placing four hens with 100 chicks in a laying colony house, then returning hens after chick access and using slope houses for smaller groups. It notes safety and space considerations to prevent fighting and ensure growth.
Proper Brooding and Incubation for Healthy Chicks
The incubator and brooder conditions determine chick survival. Keep brooder temperatures at 95 100 degrees, clean and disinfected, with good ventilation. Avoid overfeeding in the first two weeks and provide dry feed. many issues stem from breeding stock quality and historical health of parents.
Peace Offensive Urges German Peace Plan Publicly
A Pan German paper urges a public peace offensive as urgent, argues for a government peace program and a commission to craft concrete aims. Kreuz Zeitung says lack of unity weakens Germany, while Vorwaerts pushes for clear war aims and immediate government action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pan-Geran Krenz Zeitung
Germany
Revereitune
Kreuz Zeitung
Altered church collection causes mixed gifts
In a colored church the pastor addresses the collection and warns against tainted money. Members respond with whispered pleas and coins mysteriously appear in the box, prompting the Rev to note the parishioners’ vivid but disorderly generosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paseed
Breddren
Dracon
Tim
Pigeon VC Earned Honor Delivering 1917 WWI Message
A pigeon labeled VC, shot in the leg but delivering a frontline message on Oct 3 1917 near Menin, crawled back carrying the dispatch despite wounds and rain. It died after delivering the message, nine hours for the journey. The bird's brave deed is preserved as a war relic for a future museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menin
Coal Output Soars in Alberta January to March 1918
Alberta coal production and exports rose in the first quarter of 1918 from the same period last year. Domestic coal mined totaled 810,972 tons versus 744,700. bituminous 712,313 versus 650,319. anthracite 39,409 versus 37,817 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Market Record For Farm Steers At Strathmore Alberta
The best finished steers in Canada, thirty head from the Demonstration Farm of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Strathmore, Alberta, were sold for 1680 dollars at 400 pounds each averaging 860 pounds. The average price per steer was about 20 dollars, showing Alberta beef finishing potential. The calves were purchased nearly two years ago and, with others, were among the finest lot offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caite
Canada
Strathmore
Alberta
Owl Forcher
Determined Boy Passes Marine Corps Enlistment Test
Walter Sheppard a 15 year old, after overcoming weight and parental consent hurdles, secures entry into the marine corps. He ate bananas to gain weight, drinking water to reach the proper weight, and after passing the physical exam, heads to the recruiting station vowing to stop bananas afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Walter Sheppard
Marine Corps
Walter
Banateas
Ifor
Wright
Benanas
War Garden Bulletin on Potatoes and Crop Care
The bulletin outlines trenching and irrigation steps for potato and celery beds with lines for digging, spacing, and mulching. It urges continuous soil stirring, shallow hoeing, and early morning pest control using bran mixtures to combat topsoil pests.
Fortified feed mixture recipe for community use
The text describes a paste made from fixed material poured over dry bran with constant stirring to conceal the bran. It lists a second mixture of two parts sawdust and one half pound each of Paris green and soil with water to yield gallons, claiming sufficiency for a fab led community when properly handled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Atrocities Report From Antwerp Siege by Royal Navy Survivor
A Royal Navy survivor captured at Antwerp arrives in England after escaping to a neutral country. He recounts brutal punishments of British prisoners on the Higa front with four dozen forced deaths, camera-like executions, and a march of prisoners 22 miles without food or rest. He alleges German guards executed a grievous murder of prisoners and describes savage lashings and fatal cold. The account echoes the era’s condemnation of German war crimes as printed in the New York World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Navy
Darm
Antwerp
England
Bendish
Mueder
Tibatt
Keleen
Levine
Loyalists in the Eastern Townships and the birth of townships
Loyalists in the Eastern Townships faced turmoil as the American Revolution closed. Many moved from New England to British Canada after 1773 and settled in new townships. A 1791 Constitutional Act structured district settlement, with agents negotiating with government and long travels for necessities. By 1967 French Canadian settlers had faded from the scene as Western Canada offered new opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teepole
Driaic
Wil Te Ee
Henry Lawrence
Staveller
Prench
Canada
Baste
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Girl Guide Army
Lady Pellatt
Girl Guides of Canada
Food Board
Gome
Bird
United States
War Garden Bulletin
Ducovecy
Man
America
New World
George Washington
Vermont
New Hamopshire
Waterfall
Knowlton's Landing
Magog River
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