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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
2
Officials say a board plan could save about 100 000 tons and roughly 25 percent of national consumption by conserving sugar for essential needs due to shipping and rail transport limits. Cuba has sugar but access is blocked. available supplies must be reserved for preservation.
A contrivance weighing twelve pounds and measuring a long tea foot by a foot wide was found in a doorway of a four story building partly owned by Life Pub-3, publisher of Life, in New York City. It was wrapped in a Philadelphia newspaper.
The Red Cross launches a Manitoba campaign featuring a moving picture show to raise funds. An automobile projector will light rural schoolhouses as teams tour 30 districts aided by Winnipeg leaders. Local canvasses aim to enlist women and district leaders to boost support for wounded soldiers.
Fragmentary note mentions a band name and a date or event. No clear location or full names. Reads like a local music listing with uncertain details.
A letter from Hon. W. Motherwell, Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture, opposes turning game into a commercial commodity during wartime. He argues for preserving wildlife and restricting fall hunts to safeguard meat supplies and criticizes commercializing game. He cites migratory bird treaty alignment and calls for prohibiting slaughter of young lambs and calves as a practical meat-supply measure.
H. P. Davidson, chairman, returning from inspection tour in allied Europe, says the Brest Litovsk and Roumania treaties shift focus from territorial aims to crushing Germany. He notes Swiss Dutch and other nations share the belief that a German victory threatens safety and property, and that no security exists while Germany keeps military power.
The article recounts lifting the Frederick the Great statue from its pedestal at Washington and moving it by truck to a cellar in a new college building. It notes the statue, a symbol of German militarism, placed there during German-American tensions and urges the government to melt and return it home.
The London Daily eh writes that Germany's actions in war reveal innate brutality and fiendish cruelty. It condemns Teutonic militarism, credentialed by philosophers and historians who taught superiority and power as success. The piece urges wartime force to eradicate a deadly poison and safeguard civilized ends.
The piece lists numerous areas where Germany has fallen behind due to the war. Trade and colonial reach are gone, foreign trust and leadership erode, dye and patent rights vanish, raw materials vanish, and millions of lives lost, signaling a total societal and economic collapse.
The article argues Russia is a doubtful asset to Germany as an occupied land requires vast troops to govern while US democracy rises in influence on the western front. It predicts rapid air mastery by the Allies will end German resistance and declares democracy as being tested against might.
A discussion debunks the claim that iron objects float at extreme depths. It explains that sinking depends on weight relative to displaced fluid, and notes that water becomes ice under high pressure, not supporting cast iron floating.
An impressionist artist attempted to place a fellow's work in the autumn show. The picture was hung but displayed upside down. On varnishing day the master protested, and Whistler replied the committee refused the proper orientation.
London Times reports the United States agrees to brigading American battalions with French and British units. It calls the move a bond of brotherhood among European allies and a practical step toward coordinated military effort. The decision aids field operations and accelerates American unit training amid urgent allied needs in France.
U S suspended nine million food shipments to Belgian and Northern Prince populations for ten days to transfer three million bushels of grain for relief. The disruption leaves about nine million people reportedly without bread in Belgium and nearby areas.
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