31 Dec 1918
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1918
Page
1
The city announces that Medicine Hat will serve as a demobilization center. No. 1 Fire Hall will be occupied by military authorities within fourteen days. Soldiers will turn in equipment, receive pay, and be discharged, benefiting the city financially and socially.
Reports from Sir Thomas White and Adjutant Ashiton discuss complaints by soldiers returning from the island. The Navy notes weather hardships, asserts ship conditions were generally good, sanitation and ventilation need improvement, and food followed the revised imperial scale.Authorities cite no substantiated faults. master and purser deny complaints. crew praised service and feeding arrangements.
Fragmentary report notes a Strive in Medicine Hat event with unclear details about individuals and timing. The readable bits reference a person named B K Parnell and a regular schedule at 10 45 with a service noted, but the full context is missing.
Toronto December 31. T. Eaton Co announces all stores and mail order houses will close all day Saturdays during July and August and extend a half holiday to other months to mark the 10th anniversary of Timothy Eaton’s founding of the giant retail business.
A 1918-1919 New Year message lauds victory at the Marne Italy’s entry, Russia’s collapse, and America’s aid to the Allies. It urges rebuilding Europe, restoring trust in treaties, defending democracy through religion, unity, and humane deeds, and looks to Versailles for redrawn borders and lasting peace.
Montreal based entertainer Harry Lauder, booked for a show next week, anticipates a reception far different from his past engagements, according to a source quoted by The Star.
Rome reports the Italian military total losses for the war at 440,060 dead with 16,442 officers among them. Wounded reach 47,000 with 23,94 officers among the injured. The count of totally incapacitated by wounds and disease is estimated at 500,000.
Sparse readable text indicates a December report from Toskagen Alabama noting an increase in lynchings with sixty two incidents referenced amid unclear context and damaged details.
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson visited Carlisle to see his mother’s childhood home and attend a Lowther street Congregational Church service. He spoke briefly from the pulpit about duty, moral force, and returning to right paths, reflecting on his mother and grandfather.
At a recent meeting of the Great War Veterans the group urged action to obtain the machine gun captured by Private Robertson VC. The executive was directed to press the matter. A letter from the deputy minister and director of war trophies in Ottawa dated December 18, 1918, answers the request.
Petrograd desk reports December revolt by Mogow peasants alarming the Leningrad government. Red guards crushed the rebel action with severity. Many peasants surrendered as villages fell under arson and massacre alleged by the correspondent.
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