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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
2
University of Illinois circular urges even year round labor efficiency on farms. It stresses crop rotation, larger machinery, planned work periods, and livestock harvesting to cut peak labor demands. Emphasizes legume cultivation, early planning, and using retired farmers and town youths to fill shortages during wartime.
Testimony by M. Kénevin describes German administration in Bruges during occupation. Reports Death penalties for civilians and orders restricting movement, with executions including Captain Fryatt. Citizens faced fines, requisitioned goods, and mandatory Germanized street names amid scarce newspapers and German permission only.
Ottawa reports that planned wartime shipbuilding to boost tonnage and sustain a merchant marine faces delays as several yards run short of steel plates. Despite steady progress in standardizing nets, yards and contracts, American steel demand swamps supply, slowing keel laying and deliveries across multiple yards.
Sir E Ruggles Brise cites ex convicts thriving in war. A man with three penal sentences, after serving and being invalided, volunteered blood transfusion to save a life. He later returned to the front and became a valued member of the unit.
Captain Bow and observer undertook a daring daylight raid behind enemy lines. They used a two seater aircraft to approach a river bridge, the observer planted a charge under an arch, and the pair launched bombs that caused a red flash and a missing central bridge section forcing a damaged train to halt.
A father claims purchasing a daughter's automobile is economical to spare her from costly bridge parties, framing the expense as a prudent household choice. The exchange, quoted from the Boston Transcript, highlights social expectations and financial priorities in domestic life.
Readable lines suggest a whimsical conversation about a machine worker named Foreman and a visitor named My wife, with phrases about doing the work of many and an odd marriage remark. The fragment offers no clear event or full context.
The New York Outlook argues that after the war Germany should make full reparations to France and Belgium and be subject to occupation. It advocates confiscation of war assets, redistribution of land to peasants, dismantling of military power, trials for war crimes, and restoration of Alsace Lorraine to France. It urges a guardian and receiver to enforce justice and prevent future militarism.
A Belgian gift in 1914 aims to honor King Albert on his Brussels entry. A gold and platinum sword with the Belgian lion defeating the Teuton eagle was crafted secretly by a Brussels committee and carried via Holland and Paris to be ready for the king's arrival.
Twelve foundation stones laid at the Hebrew University site on Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. General Al Senby and representatives from French and Italian detachments attended. Each stone represents one of the twelve tribes of Israel, with the campus facing Jerusalem and the Dead Sea region.
A brief farming dialogue shows a boy asking about an apple tree and a farmer joking about a stomach ache as life on the farm unfolds.
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