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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
2
Dolly laments her lover Meyrick’s torture while Mrs Bartlett shields her from scandal. Cooper’s temper flares as Margot hides in fear. Dolly and Kate navigate a perilous French estate as the truth tightens its grip.
A historical recipe explains washing four blankets using a soap solution, borax, and cold water. Soak overnight in two quarts water with soap, then wash in the mixture, rinse twice in cold water, wring, and hang. Glycerine added to the final rinse improves softness.
The war moves toward its inevitable end and German airmen abroad will be pariahs in the world in the long days of peace. The Kaiser’s subjects cannot imagine such cowardly acts will deter the allies or alter their resolve.
An American article notes 500000 un naturalized Lithuanians in the United States are ready to fight for Allied freedom, pledging loyalty to President Wilson to restore Lithuania’s liberty once lost to European diplomacy. The piece reflects wartime sentiment and includes student humor quips.
Working for dad I guess. The phrase suggests performing tasks for a parent or family business, implying a junior role or learning duties under a father figure.
In Chicago the Parker School educates about a hundred deaf children among twelve hundred pupils. Though born deaf, they read lips and speak well, using sight as their main sense. Visitors notice only normal play. the students focus on teachers' lips to learn.
In a discussion of French colonial troops many Mohammedans are noted with substantial harems. The French law awards widows of soldiers pensions, and the war office seeks a basis to divide pensions among multiple claimants.
Dr. R L Wilbur of Stanford calls Food Pledge Week a test of American unity against German propaganda. He cites rumors that pledges invade homes and seize canned goods, and notes anti Negro fears spread by propagandists. He urges a united front as a great national effort.
An order in council allows American ships to coast on Canadian inland waters from Lake Superior to Montreal. A penalty applies for the rest of 1917. Regulation remains in force while Canada grants similar privileges to U S vessels under the Commerce Department.
A provincial dairy inquiry asks dairymen to calculate actual profit per cow by comparing income from milk with feed costs, excluding fixed expenses. It notes some cows show thirty to sixty dollars profit above feed costs, and suggests using milk records to determine true profitability.
A Buffalo Express excerpt notes that the Czar of Russia is married to a German woman who allegedly wept at German defeats and that Greece’s king, Constantine, and Sweden’s king are linked by German spouses. The piece implies German influence affected politics and loyalties among European monarchs during the war.
A reader writes a frightened letter claiming she saw Lloyd George in Cockspur Street with a crack across his left boot. The paper notes he is quick on his feet and that leather is treacherous, while denying any dandyism.
A longtime city hall figure Lieutenant William Kennel administers access and guards the building, screening visitors and handling threats with calm efficiency. The piece recalls Kennel over twenty years across seven administrations and notes various visitors tested by his steady gaze.
Press reports state a test shipment of 100 000 bushels of Western Canada wheat is sent to the United Kingdom from Vancouver on the War Viceroy. The consignment equals about eighty carloads or over 3 000 tons. A successful test could open the Prairie grain to naval exports via the Pacific route.
The Imperial Bank of Germany increased note production by 38¢ 600,000 marks, lifting total paper money in circulation to over 2,200,000,000 above the level at the same date last year.
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