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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 21, 1918
Page
7
Fragmented OCR shows a dialogue scene with Featherstone, Foster, Alice, and Lawrence amid social tension. The excerpt hints at personal appearance concerns, scarce trust, and moral pressure as they discuss resignation and loyalty, set in a drawing room with implied tension and impending decisions.
Foster arrives at Featherstone’s residence seeking aid while wary of uneasy welcome. He hides his doubt and seeks to verify Lawrence and Daly as dinner unfolds. Alice Beathurst appears composed, offering quiet support, yet Mrs. Featherstone withholds questions, hinting at hidden skepticism.
Lloyd George argues victory is assured if Britain sustains effort and unity. He cites Britain’s global front from the Channel to Archangel and Persia, praising sailors, merchants, and allies while warning against German peace pressure. He emphasizes steadfast resolve and justice in the war.
A group of twenty German officers marched from ship to camp under escort as an American regiment passed by. The encounter drew taunts and quips from the troops about Paris and Berlin, while the German officers walked in silence with their eyes down.
The article urges sugar conservation and promotes brown sugar and glucose syrup as substitutes. It details a marmalade recipe from Central Technical School Toronto and outlines Food Board plans to widen winter fish distribution by mail order, to aid farmers and regions lacking retail fish. It also discusses candy sugar limits and calls Canadians to conserve sugar, wheat, meat, and fat.
The Museum of the Numismatic Society in New York displays a Confederate half dollar likely the era’s rarest coin. It features the United States Mint obverse with Liberty and 12 stars dated 1861, and a reverse with a shield design. Only four pieces were struck, intended for Richmond officials, but bullion shortages halted further production.
A classroom riddle has Harold insisting none would remain if six of eleven sheep jumped the fence, challenging the teacher on arithmetic versus common sense.
An article translated from Bas te Nachridgen recounts how Finland’s famed composer Jean Sibelius faced a Red Guard blacklist. Kajants (Kagan) bribed a prison war minister to issue a passport enabling Sibelius to flee from a country house near Helsinki, avoiding execution during the terror.
Miss Julia King reports bees aid the war by producing wax and honey to support food supply and the Red Cross lambrine program. Lambrine, from Dr Barthe de Sante, is used in military hospitals to treat severe burns with painless results and no scarring.
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