North Dakota Field Agent System Praised by Canadian Delegation
A Canadian committee visiting North Dakota reports that the state s field agent program greatly boosts farming efficiency and prosperity. They urge成立 an Association of Farming and Business to organize field staff, work with farmers, bankers, and farms, and cooperate with the Department of Agriculture to spread improved methods.
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North Dakota
U.S
Geo. A. Merrick
Winnipeg
Mmittee
North Kota
Thomas Cooper
North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
F. R. Crane
Great Northern Railway
Valley City
Minot
North Central
Williston
Grand Forks
Rts
North America
Canada
Prairie
Farmers’ Association
Department of Agriculture
Association of Farming and Business
Faane
Minister of Agriculture
General Council
Board of Directors
Agricultural College
Penny and Dollar Clash in Pocket Lesson
A girl read a fable where a Penny and a Dollar argue about value. The Dollar sneers it is worth a hundred pennies, while the Penny points out its weekly church and Sunday school attendance, suggesting moral virtue surpasses mere money.
Amusing Exchange Aboard New Zealand Expeditionary Ship
A humorous incident aboard a troopship leaving the Dominion involved a visitor who received a biscuit marked On active service. He exclaimed that if anyone could pass it through he believed he could, noting it was the New Zealand post.
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New Zealand
Dominion
Galy
Besnes
Petates
New Zealand Post
Britain Not War Mad Excerpt From English View On WWI
A letter from Professor L H Hirsch in Kings College London relays a Cambridge England view of six months of war. It stresses English restraint toward Germany, calls war a religious duty for Germans, urges not to crush Germany to avoid costly ruin, and notes England’s resolve to stand with allies while rejecting unconditional punitive action.
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Benjamin Harris
New York
L H. Hirech
Kings College
London
Germany
Hillel House
Cambridge
England
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Mars
Scarborough
Hirsch
Making Over Belgium After the War Promises Modern Cities
After war destruction in Belgium, rebuilding offers a chance to design efficient towns. English planners propose gathering 200 architects from the 200,000 refugees in Britain to shape Belgian towns with modern layouts. The project could replace quaint villages with streamlined hamlets and push Belgium toward rapid material modernization.
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Belgium
England
Russia's Caucasian Army Compared To Foreign Legion
The Caucasian army shares traits with the French Foreign Legion, recruiting from diverse nationalities and drawing men who seek to forget their past lives. They are regarded as among the smartest units in the czarist forces, with stories their exploits might offer if told.
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Russia
Foreign Legion of
France
The
Legion
Suit Worn To Church As Two-Week Outfit Martyr
Dialogue shows a character noting another's suit appears worn from church attendance. The speaker admits to sleeping in the suit and states they wore it at church last Sunday.
Two Aviators Reported German Flank Movement Over Paris
An aeroplane scouting flight in August, not following orders, observed troop movements near Paris and North of von Kluck. The pilots reported a hostile army marching on the flank, prompting a new German disposition and earning the Iron Cross. Both lieutenants had recently flown over Warsaw.
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von Kluck
Paris
Warsaw
Boy Scouts in England at War Serve Nation
The Boy Scouts proved their value after war began with thousands ready within hours. A British commissioner answered a telegram for a thousand Scouts. by evening four thousand stood by for orders. Coastguards, recalled to the Navy, were replaced by Scouts keeping watch from cliffs and sleeping out all night.
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Anl
British Isles
Seed grain loan amendment to Bank Act proposed
Hon. W. T. White announces a temporary amendment to the Bank Act permitting chartered banks to loan seed grain purchases to Western Canadian farmers until August 1 1915. Loans would be secured by the grain purchased and the crop grown with it, rather than by warehouse receipts.
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W. T. White
Canada
Bank
Recruits in Wales Learn War Banter and Wires
A Welsh recruitment tale shows a tall recruit shouts against the Germans then receives celebratory telegrams from London and the king. The next day a royal message praises the empire. On the third day a Kaiser wire urges neutrality, revealing the jokey nature of wartime correspondence.
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Wales
London
Kitchener
Empire
George
Wilhelm
Tea time dialogue hints at worn brew and fatigue
In a scene of domestic exchange, the tea is described as exhausted and weak by the mistress, prompting a brief acknowledgment from a servant as they discuss the beverage’s state.
How Suez Canal Is Kept Open Since 1896
A historical note describes ongoing widening and deepening of the Suez Canal. It cites a prior £2.9 million expenditure, depth of 108 feet, width of 420 feet at water level, and continuous dredging output of over 2 million cubic yards annually. It notes financial success and British-French control since 1875.
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Suez Canal
Fiees
London Magazine
France
Krupp Works Face Strain as German War Material Demands Rise
Germany’s Krupp empire, centered in Essen, supplies vast war materials and employs 70,000, with major units including Mannesmann, Friedrich Alfred Hutte, Ann an steel works, Crusonwerke, and Kiel shipyard. Reports of shortages and scandals threaten the firm amid Britain's armament lead and rising wartime pressure.
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Germany
Krupp
Essen
Britain
Krupp’s
Mannesmann Iron and Steel Works
Dusseldorf
Friedrich- Alfred Hutte
Annan Steel Works
Crusonwerke
Maedgburg
Mania
Kiel
Essener Hof
Krupp's
Reichstag
Liebnecht
Rupp
Economical Machines in Cow Production Urges Dairy Firms
The Dominion dairy division Ottawa urges farmers to test cows for feed cost and butter-fat yield. Weighing and testing each cow reveals inefficiencies in the milk factory, identifying units costing more than they should. Such cow testing can yield $20 to $30 or more profit above feed costs.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture, Dairy Division
Ottawa
Manitoba Farmers Vote On Field Instruction Plan
A Winnipeg business group reports on North Dakota agricultural education, stating talks with Manitoba’s Minister of Agriculture led to a plan for field instruction. The province will deploy six field agents in spring, reducing the need for a formal joint farmer business association.
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Winnipeg
North Dakota
Manitoba
Montreal
Canada Must Fully Be the Granary of the Empire
The article urges Canada to fulfill its role as the imperial granary by boosting food production beyond cereals to include beef mutton pork bacon vegetables. It notes wartime trade gains, calls for using waste land, and directs readers to Ottawa's Publications Branch for free farming bulletins and livestock dairy guidance.
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Empire
Lord Kitchener
Canada
Britain
Department of Air Ottawa
Most of a College Man's Education Acquired After Graduation
The article argues that a significant portion of a man’s education occurs after leaving college, with practical experience and continuous study shaping his abilities. It profiles how post graduate life provides real world learning beyond formal classrooms.
Secret Naval Signal Code Protects War-Time Advantage
The navy uses a distinct wartime signal code kept in tight security. Books issued to executive officers are heavily protected and can be thrown overboard in danger so they sink to prevent capture.
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United States Navy
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