OUR NEW ALLY ROUMANIA ADDED TO ALLIES
A 1916 notice notes Romania joining the Allies alters Near East power balance. Romania spans 50,489 square miles with seven and a half million people and rich agriculture. It adds grain output and supplies of cattle forests coal and petroleum, boosting Allied prospects.
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Romania
Near East
Austria
Bulgaria
Roumania
Teutonic
Bosphorus
Maritime Provinces
Little Kingdom
Canada
Europe
Live Clean and Leave Well Born Lineage Lessons
A Calgary Herald column argues heredity and environment shape descendants. It contrasts Ada Take, born 1740, who produced 700 descendants including many societal ills, with a Queen Elizabeth era English clergyman whose 1900 descendants totaled 1304 with many prominent roles. The piece links moral living to future offspring success.
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Ada Take
Ladies’ Home Journal
Queen Elizabeth
United States
Calgary Herald
Wheat Grain Fallout From Roamanian War Drift
The piece discusses how Roamania’s war entry could shift global grain markets. It foresees rail corridors to Nish and Salonica changing via Balkan moves, possibly lowering Chicago prices to a dollar a bushel. It warns Canadian farmers to monitor the grain outlook closely as Entente successes may depress prices.
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Chicago
Roamania
Russia
Europe
United States
Canada
Orient
Nish
Kussian
Turkey
Dardenelles
Inesia
Salonica
Bulgaria
Liverpool
Sask. Grain Belief Points to Melfort Hub Status
The Swift Current Herald suggests northern Saskatchewan could yield the best grain crop, naming Melfort as the hub of the region. It advocates Phoenix and other papers boosting the Saskatoon Melfort The Pas link with the Hudson Bay Railway to potentially make Saskatoon the province's true hub.
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Saskatchewan
Melfort
Phoenix
Saskatoon
Bits of Green Cheese and a Morning After
A witty exchange unfolds as a husband tries to explain a car habit to his wife. She quips about his drunken return and drafts a practical dairy note while recalling a feared coffin joke from a recent visitor.
Rumor of War Timing Circulates in Liverpool Post
A rumor spreads via informal channels in Downing Street circles about a brother of a policeman with a friend who knows when the war will end, reported by the Liverpool Post. The piece notes there is no absolute evidence to confirm the claim.
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Downing Street
Liverpool
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A. R Babington
Moon
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Melport, Sask
J. G. Schwarts
Melfort Lodge
Thureday
True Blue Lee Deli
Pleasant Seba
Shee E Al'yg Wenn
Rec
T. C. Spence, M.D
C.M
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Dr. Mawke
Tae Moor
Broa Melfort
P.O
Roy Lobb
Beatty
Bine
W RR
Spentieen
W.L. B
Thoroughbred Duroc
de Bronles
Ee Outfit
H. P
G. B. Johnston, Op
Servare
G. B. Johnston
General Merchant
Hill & Cairns
D. Hill
Cairns
A. McN. Stewart
B.C.L
R. J. Reid
Lacroix
Tisdale
Bank of Ottawa
Star City
Sank
Peniay Tree
Abramsky
Purdy’s
Chiropractic
W. J. Harrison
D. C
Cornell & McSloy
Tment
Humphries Block
J. C. Whatley
Clift Bros
Thos. Robertson, D.D.S
L.D.S
Baltimore
Naylor
J. T. Elliot
Jameson's Blacksmith Shop
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Melfort, Sask
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