11 Oct 1922
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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1922
Page
1
A contemplative poem laments misreading and cold judgments. It stresses how trifles alter lives, friendships falter, and lonely hearts ache without sympathy. The speaker prays for clearer sight and gentler judgment to bring people closer to one another and to the divine.
The notice lists individuals including Dr T N Marcellus, Dr O F W Ross, and other physicians and dentists with addresses on Main Street South, Mill Street, and Factory Street Georgetown. It also mentions township clerk Tracy Esqueaing, the marriage licenses clerk, and a leading fire and life insurance company representative.
The Ontario Forestry Branch under A H Richardson fights the Sand Banks at Prince Edward County. Willows and poplars planted in trenches slow earth slide as 100 acres are forested and a nursery station established to protect belts and hollows. Similar dunes menace fields along Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
Instructions describe building a compost heap from garden waste and stable manure. Start with a manure base, add a two foot layer of refuse, cover with manure, repeat until full, then top with soil. Mix in spring, heat destroys weeds, compost feeds hot beds and cold frames.
A fragment warns that scabby sheep disease spreads along roads, trails, sheds, yards, and pastures and must be treated promptly when infection appears to prevent further spread to water sources and ranges.
Agricultural notes describe using Bacillus lacticus cultures to improve silage. Lactic acid bacteria added to chopped fodder in silos stabilizes fermentation, with lactic acid culture sourced from a creamery and prepared in skim milk. If forage is stressed by weather, culture aids uniform silage. otherwise culture may be unnecessary.
A new English aircraft carries its own scout plane on a wing tip. Tests reportedly successful. The parent bomber keeps its engine running ready to dive the moment needed. An expert pilot sits in the bombardier plane and launches the scout by a trigger.
A tattered British flag last borne at the head of the Sandwich Company of Volunteers during a parade of Canadian soldiers in 1866 is noted. The flag was presented to Sandwich volunteers with Captain C. E. Casgrain and later carried by Enaten George Gray during tensions with Fen fang across the Detroit river.
A garbled OCR passage describes an evening event with a nervous speaker and a proposed marriage line. Names and details are unreadable, leaving a fragmented glimpse of social awkwardness and disrupted proceedings.
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