Branford Wills Seeks Work as Mill Alters Course
In the sick room Branford Wills softens as Marian Morgan’s temper flares and Virgie Morgan weighs a new future. Virgie ponders hiring Wills after Ada’s nurse duties and Tom’s stubborn pace, while Bill Gallup flags a timber lien across Little Fork and a possible pivot for the mill’s fortunes.
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Branford Wills
Marian Morgan
Wills
Marian
Virgie
Virgie Morgan
Tom
Tom Praitt
Pratt
Bill Gallup
Power-House
Bill
David
Ada
Zodiac
Washington
Pulp People
Lassie
Mr. Wills
Branford
Lucy
Little Fork
Pruitt
Timberland Dispute Sours As Claims Clash On Tennessee Boundary
Virgie recounts a raid by unknown claimants who moved into timber in a nearby area, removed resources quickly to thwart court action, and settled for about a tenth of the timber value, leaving the land worthless. The dispute hints at broader eastern grabber activity and legal maneuvering.
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Cragg
Tennessee
Virgie
Hope for a Million Victory Loan Drive Aims Big Subscriptions
Canada targets a house to house Victory Loan canvass to recruit over a million subscribers. A prospectus and ministerial letter go to every home along with an illustrated bookset on war activities. Banks urge depositors to buy bonds, aiming to surpass the first Great War record of 1,140,057 subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minister of Finance
Canada
Canad
First Wife and Second Wife Punchline Exchange
A humorous exchange features two wives joking that their husbands never walk in while they undress. The first wife says her husband is a gentleman, never entering the room. The second adds that her husband waits until she is finished.
Education and trade paths amid changing times
The column argues education remains essential yet challenging to instill in youth. It notes taxes support schools, compares private versus public education, and recalls Henry Ford on the University of Experience. It highlights trades as viable routes, wage gains, and wartime salvage gains, citing local examples of salvage earnings funding the Telegram War Victims' Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ford
the Herald
Toronto
Telegram
War Victims’ Fund
Winnipeg students navigate Avro Anson by wind and drift
No. 5 Air Observers school trainees LAC Jim Evans of Georgetown and LAC Jim Garland of Portage la Prairie guided an Avro Anson with a Tribune reporter aboard from Winnipeg southeast to Whitemouth Lake north to Eagle Lake and west to Gimli without maps. Don Marshall piloted the mission.
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No. 5
Air Observers School
Stevensons Field
Columibus
Indies
No. 5 Air Observers
Point
England
Germany
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
No. 5 Aur
Tribune
Lac Jim Evans
Georgetown
Ont
Lac Jim Garland
Portage la Prairie
Don Marshall
Manitoba
William Straith
No. 5 Air Observers School
Winnipeg
Whitemouth Lake
Eagle Lake
Gimli
Don Marshal
Evans
Liac Jim Garland
Marshall
Jim Evans
Garland
Tme
Eye Ans
Tehis
Emdj Garland
Lake
Morden
May Health Report Signals Mumps Decline in Georgetown
The Georgetown mumps epidemic shows signs of slackening with April reporting 45 cases, now reduced by more than half in June per Dr. C. V. Williams M.O.H. The June list also notes one German Measles case among a few other diseases listed, including Scarlet Fever Chickenpox and others.
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Georgetown
C. V. Williams
M.O.H
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WNU
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Ada Clark
Young Wills
Virgo
Finis
T Walker
Ker
T. Walker
R.O. Byesight
Huttonville Park
Gibson—Boyd
Winnipeg Tribune
Jim EY
MAY
Tae
F. L.N
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