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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 20, 1914
Page
4
Classified brief lists a rent ad for a cottage near the station on Nor avenue. Apply to Geo McLelland at Fischer avenue for details and viewing times.
A fragmentary verse reflects Britain's vow to defend a scrap of paper as sacred duty and love. The piece links the 1914 question to steadfast motives, honoring treaties, marriage vows, and faith as motives to defend a neutral neighbor land.
News notes report a successful Lyric theatre concert, a French dance at Dreamland, and honors for Mrs. Garland and Mrs. Meighen. Rev J J Comrie leaves Oak Lake to serve The Pas, with Sunday services in Slaney's Hall. A public reception at Mayor Finger's home celebrated provincial D of the Empire leaders.
In a fairy tale by Julius Sturm a grandfather curses his grandchild’s constant questions and wishes the child’s tongue out of joint. When the wish backfires and the child is dumb he gladly trades two years of life for the chance to hear the youngster’s chatter again.
British commissioner at Weihaiwei notes Chinese age counting differs from European practice. A newborn may be counted as one year old, and age advances differently within the year. He cites large families, including a clan of sixty six and a servant, making sixty seven in one household.
On a Washington to Maryland ride a drunken man sat beside Sydney Mudd. He slurred a joke asking the passenger to wash his name and claimed to know his own, then misattributed a different name to Mudd in a humorous exchange.
The council met in the evening with Mayor and six councillors present. Father Fafard urged support for St Anthony's Hospital and cesspool cleanup while the body debated funding and policy on fire and light, licenses, street openings, and polling arrangements for the next municipal elections.
Severe winter weather grips England with heavy snow and flooding. Bakewell reports foot-deep snow blocking highways. North Wales mountain roads impassable. Dee Severn and Dovey rivers overflow causing property damage as temperatures fall to 25 degrees. Scotland sees six inches of snow and Aberdeens streetcars struggle amid drift and rain.
Reports indicate the bark Invernie ran aground at Ballyferns point and two pilot boats were wrecked at Deal. The steamer Kenilworth struck rocks at the Tyne entrance. All crews were saved.
Claude Dyer, Canadian trade commissioner at Leeds, reports 200 to 300 Canadian horses arrived yesterday for army use. The horses, described as magnificent and of fine stock, were restive after the voyage and train ride from the coast, causing exciting scenes in Leeds before being stabled at the barracks.
Murdoch McRae, a prominent old timer of the Flett Springs district, Sask, died at his home on November 15. Born in 1845 at Stornoway Scotland he came to Canada in 1860 to work for the Hudson's Bay Company and first settled near Nelson River after arriving by sailing vessel via Hudson Bay.
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