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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
7
Foster and John race a train toward a station while a pursuing car gains on them through a damp misty night. Anxious for timing, Foster tries to reach the station before pursuit overheats the plan, amid hazards on a peat moss and a tense bridge approach.
England's Rothamsted Experiment Station preserves a meadow unplowed and unfertilized for 150 years. Top-dressing with commercial fertilizer or manure reshaped returns, boosting grasses or clover while reducing weeds. One untreated field yielded slightly over 10 acres per acre with 9 percent clover and 26 percent weeds.
Ames Holden McCready operates large Canadian factories split into three units for women and children, men’s professional footwear, and heavy wear boots. The firm maintains extensive distribution with traveling sales force and warehouses in St John, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver to ensure immediate delivery nationwide.
Washington reports millions of bushels of Australian wheat will soon move to Pacific ports to increase grain for Europe. Negotiations with Japan and Scandinavian countries target shipping to Europe and California coast landings. Hoover aims to move 493 million bushels to Belgium and relieve famine, with Pacific ports receiving 1.66 million bushels monthly.
A garbled OCR fragment hints at a garden scene with leaves and vines. It mentions a person named Peet and a pace, but essential details are unreadable. The readable items suggest a casual agricultural note or small feature about backyard crops.
A London Daily Mail quote on courage and endurance, urging fortitude in facing death and loss for a great cause, with reflections on Robert Louis Stevenson and a French seaman proverb about perseverance until the end.
British troops in Italy earned the nickname The Baby Army though they were worn veterans from the Ypres salient. Italians mistook their smart appearance for fresh troops from England, amazed by the contrast with home troops.
An agreement among the federal government Manitoba and Saskatchewan funds a 400000 plant to manufacture anthracite briquettes from Prairie lignite coal in Estevan district Saskatchewan. The federal government contributes 200600 and provinces 100000 each. Plant ownership transfers to the two provinces at completion and operation is expected by next winter. The Australian government pursues rabbit ranching as a future asset, with fencing and breeding grounds expanding. Canadian youth are urged to help by raising rabbits.
A Jerusalem correspondent reports four months of occupation bring calmer life and revived industry. Bedouins and farmers gain security to graze and till, roads and a Cairo railway promise easy trade, and prosperity spreads as fear declines. The piece cites praise from the Buffalo Express and Kit kn?er Telegraph noting British arms’ benefits and a Denver mint abundance of gold.
German authorities seized control of the Daimler works amid a dispute over price hikes and profits. Reichstag debates revealed claims of 1500 percent profits, with the firm arguing profits were only about 11 percent.
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