Government job joy at Wasagaming Golf Club assignment
A narrator recalls securing a summer government post as Assistant Greenkeeper at Wasagaming Golf Club after a friend’s help. He recounts the journey, meeting supervisors, the golf tourney, missing clubs, and starting with evening shifts, setting up a continuation of this tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clear Lake
Wasagaming Golf
Cotters
Rab Burns
Michael
Norgate
Joseph
Grimm
Greenkeener
Thad
Gems of Thought and Moral Aphorisms Collection
A compilation of quoted maxims from Arthur Brisbane Shakespeare Mary Baker Eddy and others on self restraint forgiveness and virtue. It presents concise reflections advocating solitude self study and disciplined character aligned with faith and moral conduct.
Printing firms complain of unfair competition in Yorkton
The Yorkton Enterprise quotes local business people denouncing mail order houses while insisting a printing plant and newspaper are essential to community enterprise. The piece mocks advertisers who benefit from the local paper yet resist supporting it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkton Enterprise
Roblin
Yorkton
Canada’s War Effort War time rationing limits alcohol and sugar use
The War time Prices and Trade Board announces revised sugar rationing and limited alcohol for vehicles this winter. The Wartime Foods Corporation becomes sole exporter of Canadian cattle to the United States. Howe announces an eight point program to address a timber shortage. Canada plans a bomber group of 10 to 20 squadrons in the United Kingdom by year end. Churchill calls Dieppe storming a key preliminary for larger operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wartime Prices and Trade Board
Department of Munitions and Supply
Wartime Foods Corporation
United States
Howe
Canada
United Kingdom
Power
Parsonage Reflections and Quotations on Wealth and Labor
An assemblage of aphorisms and quotes on wisdom, wealth, and labor. Notable lines compare vanity in study to fortune, while emphasizing true riches found through work. Attributed voices include Epictetus, George Berkeley, and Mary Baker Eddy.
Put Up Or Shut Up Says War Warnings Miss Real Costs
Frank H. Williams argues in the Winnipeg Free Press that war warnings about hardship have not halted daily life. He urges the government to “put up or shut up” by aligning propaganda with real wartime policy and enacting tougher restrictions on private vehicles and scrap metal to boost munitions.
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Red Cross
Arthur Brisbane
Mary Baker Fiddy
God
M. Bh. Babcock
Dieppe
Churchill
House of Commons
George Berkeley
Epictetus
Mary Baker Eddy
Ottawa
Frank H. Williams
The
Winnipeg Free Press
Che
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