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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
2
A detailed wartime report defense argues Britain has shouldered its share. It highlights naval patrols in the North Sea, a vast buildup of tonnage and personnel, production surges in munitions, and growing air power, asserting Britain’s effort outpaces German claims of shirking.
An air crew member recalls a daring night raid dropping bombs on a German railhead. The mission targeted a long locomotive train feeding a key rail line. After firing from low altitude, the crew saw the train halt and enemy figures flee, while soldiers nearby countered with a machine gun.
The United States government seized the estate of Lily Busch widow of Adolphus Busch of St Louis. The confiscation involved her fortune now held by the state through alien property control. The sum is not stated but described as running into several millions of dollars. She and two daughters reside in Germany with marriages to a German officer and a German businessman.
The text presents a garbled medical or science remark about wool and a horse bite. It includes names such as Nansen and phrases about deeming wool too something and a claim about another issue. No coherent event or clear outcome is discernible.
In Vanity Fair a child named Edna asks her mother to pretend Papas is a gentleman for one evening. The scene centers on domestic flirtation with a playful request about dress and manners.
A Baltimore American quip notes the French franc now surpasses the German mark in value and asserts that money has no country as it travels beyond borders.
The illness sweeping German industrial districts is blamed on hunger and exhaustion not a new disease. Reports say daily deaths rise as hospitals fill while potato rations shrink to about 1.5 to 2 kilograms per person weekly and yield lags behind.
A private recollects dangerous trench listening duties near No Man’s Land. German patrols and shellfire created constant peril as a Briton and a fellow soldier waited in a shell hole beside the German wire. A close encounter ends with a fatal bayonet strike and removal of the German’s tunic as they retreat.
The Kreuz Zeitung argues Germany will reject paper peace with England and demand indemnities from England France Belgium and Portugal to build a Central African empire. It envisions a large German led army in Africa with white and colored troops to defend colonies and deter European forces.
A Manitoba department of agriculture unit sent reports from April and May detailing widespread pledges to increase cultivated land. The group reports many pledges were secured, with co operative farmers preparing to add acreage and ploughs to the fields as part of the campaign to boost food production.
A dialogue contrasts two waiters recalling a man once earning little and now much more through raises. The first notes a former one thousand dollar yearly income and pegs current at about ten thousand, based on tips. The second retorts about tipping changes. The Lamb line shifts to a blunt remark: war is our business, not a side line.
The article cites Admiral Benson on uncertain German naval strength and the fate of Russian ships in the Baltic and Black Seas. It discusses wartime losses and the potential German gains, along with a strong anti German sentiment and calls for retribution and lasting peace. The piece ends with a Toronto Globe note on memory and accountability.
A report discusses using alcohol as automobile fuel and the potential benefits for breweries and distilleries affected by dry laws. It notes Norway and Sweden already run cars on waste liquor alcohol and mentions blending alcohol with gasoline to ease cold starts without engine changes.
German authorities intensify expropriation of copper from public sites as part of munition materials drive. Branden burg gate Prince Albrecht's palace churches synagogues museums hotels restaurants department stores and mansions lose copper roofs and copper fittings during the campaign.
A fragment notes a father described as misunderstood in connection with the Louisville Courier Journal. The readable text provides no further details on dates people or outcomes.
Professor W. Clarke of the University critiques price fixing in a history department bulletin. He cites government price controls and widespread evasion in Germany as inflating scarcity fears and argues that such policies deter production, giving examples in dairy pricing and farm milk usage.
France faces beef scarcity with prices ranging from 43 to 60 cents per pound and three meatless days per week. Authorities limit dairy-animal slaughter to two thirds of March 1917 weekly average to conserve supply for the army.
Italy holds the top position as Europe’s leading motorcar exporter. In the first eight months of the year Italian exports rose sharply by 1134 percent versus the same period in 1916. Acetylene lamps show promise for rapid plant growth doubling size under gas exposure versus sun only. An experiment in a hot house spanned three months and involved Austria, noting its population size far smaller than London.
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