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Newspaper
Melfort Moon
Location
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jul 26, 1916
Page
4
The notice from Melfort Sask dated July 26 1916 outlines subscription pricing and advertising rates. It lists 10 cents per line for reading notices and 12 cents per line for government notices with higher charges for subsequent insertions. It invites mail orders and notes agents and correspondents are wanted.
Readers recall a July 15 excursion from the Pas to Melfort praising Pleasant Valley sights and local hospitality. Visitors rode in town cars, enjoyed good fare, and lauded Ontario rural life while noting Canada’s best farming in surrounding lands. The piece then shifts to rifle politics, blaming private interests for delays in updating Canadian service arms and urging government monopoly to keep equipment current.
The Globe notes the official shift from the Ross to the Lee Enfield will be applied at the front as Canadian troops receive the new arm. It recalls the Ross rifle’s early demand for a first order target arm and its praised performance in contests, contrasting with British volunteers’ complaints about Canadians using it in competition.
A collage of witty WWII era repartees and a German spy scene mixed with a misfit tale of a country inn customer and a barnyard manure metaphor. The text also includes an education certificate notice and a late 1910s school term application fragment.
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