Posthumous Writings of a Western Lad in Saskatchewan
A Saskatchewan editor reviews Leaves and Letters by Baldur Jonsson and notes its posthumous essays on death, youth, and literature. The piece praises Jonsson’s lucid style and compares his spirit to Stevenson while detailing his Icelandic heritage and Manitoba University years. It also discusses Mrs. Humphrey Ward and her influential novels, including Robert Ellemere, and the Arnold family literary lineage shaping her work.
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Saskatchewan
Humphrey Ward
Bjarnason
Wynyard Advance
Western
Canada
Iceland
Baldur Jonsson
Stevenson
Jonsson
Manitoba University
George Eliot
Maggie Tulliver
Silas Marner
Adam Bede
Hetty
Tom
Maggie
Bogi Bjarnason
Mr. Bjarnason
Daily Press
Man
Doctor Arnold
Rugby
Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown
Dean Stanley
Hallam
Thomas Arnold
Tasmania
Matthew Arnold
Church of Rome
Dublin University
John Henry Newman
Rome
Gladstone
Exiled Kaiser Builds House at Doorn in Holland
The former Kaiser plans a residence at Doorn near Count Bentinck’s castle where he is interned. He recently visited the construction in a closed car with Dutch guards and gave workers some suggestions. He appears resigned to an exile lasting his lifetime.
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Kaiser
Doorn
Holland
Count Bentinck
Grasshoppers not as bad as reports claim
Ottawa reports from Dominion Agriculture Minister Tolmee say current grasshoppers are a colored wing fall hatch and not dangerous. Saskatchewan official Tullis notes reports from Carlyle exaggerate infestations and finds few insects along Redvers and Arcola paths. A SE province inspection is planned with officials leaving for Oxbow.
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Ottawa
Dominion Minister of Agriculture
W. O. Fraser
M.L.A
S. F. Tolmee
Carlyle
M. P. Tullis
Saskatchewan
Regina
Divorce Bill Advances in Lords with Radical Provisions
A divorce bill passed the House of Lords featuring many radical provisions. It allows habitual drunkenness, three years desertion, and cases where a death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment as sufficient grounds. Bishops and many Episcopalian peers opposed the measure.
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House of Lords
Sinn Feiners condemned seven executed leaders named Cordial mistreatment
Despatch from London’s Dail Mail reports seven Sinn Fein elites expelled as untrustworthy doomed to death. Lord Mayor Mac Curtain is the first killed. Professor Stockley was shot four times and survived. One man found blindfolded and shot in a Limerick field held a rosary. Four others reportedly alive.
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Dail Mail
London
Mac- Curtain
Sinn Fein
Mayor Mac Curtain
Professor Stockley
Limerick
Mrs Humphrey Ward and the Influence Behind Robert Elsmere
The fragment notes Mrs. Humphrey Ward shaped the life and heritage that fed her novel Rob ert Ellsmere, highlighting her intellectual strength and fluent pen.
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Humphrey Ward
Robert Ellsmere
Northern settlers arrive with farm holdings in Oxbow district
George M. and William Mc Cray reached Nortgate Sask with rearloads of settlers effects for farms bought last summer in the Ox bow district. Their Oxbow holdings, including brother in law David M. Fowler, total over 5 000 acres and include five tractors 36 horses a carload of registered Shorthorns and eight full outfits of machinery.
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George M
William McCray
Nortgate
Sask
Oxbow
David M. Fowler
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Earth
Tullis
Britain
The
Sinn Feiners
Tdail Insurance Agents
McCathium-Hill & Co
Regina, Sask
the Saskatchewan Mortgage and Trust Corporation Limited
National Trust Company Limited
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