Canadian Engineers and Troops Forge Ahead on Belgian Front
Canadian units built light railways and performed engineering feats under fire at St Eloi and near Messines Wytschaete in the Ypres salient. They supplied feeding guns as casualties rose, with over 200 miles of track in the second army area and many wounded treated by Canadian surgeons.
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Canada
St. Eloi
Messines- Wytschade
Plain of Flanders
Somme
Arras
Ypres Sal
Ontario
Second Army
Messines
Proposals Board Dowry Plans In Darting Conversation
A dialogue reveals a matchmakers scheme involving a dowry and property transfers. The suitor suggests placing party fair assets in the Duke's name while considering title searches. The plan hinges on reciprocal arrangements between the couple and their families.
Forty Ton Tank Emerges As Key Offensive Factor
The article notes the forty ton mapster tank shaping WWI offensives. It describes its destructive power against trees walls and shelters and recounts an instance where invading Germans surrendered after a trench was blasted. It also discusses countermeasures including delayed fuses artillery fire underground digs grenades and the revival of wireless telegraphy for rapid observer communications.
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Alonig
Verdun
Sincere regret German veteran 1930 dialogue at Vimy Ridge
In a brief exchange a German veteran admits to being at Vimy Ridge in 1917 while a Canadian sharpshooter jokes about missing him. The scene shifts to domestic life as the speaker notes a marriage to the housekeeper and hiring a cook, underlining a light wartime nostalgia.
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Vimy Ridge
Oil boom grows as 200000 gallons shipped from Kotaks station
Calgary Herald reports from Canadian Pacific railway figures that 200000 gallons of oil have been shipped from Kotoks station since 1914, mostly high grade gasoline. Production is rising with new wells and machinery, signaling a developing field and probable output increase this year.
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Calgary Herald
Canadian Pacific Railway
Kotoks Station
War Levels All Classes in Student War Response
The writer notes college students respond quickly to war not by class but by individual courage, citing dancers, glee club members, and athletes marching early. Historic figures like Washington and Lafayette, Meade and Sheridan, and soldiers from varied origins are shown sharing equal battlefield valor across ranks and birth.
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George Washington
Marquis de Lafayette
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania
Meade
Sheridan
Marshal Murat
Marshal Ney
Girard
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Army Remounts in Canada for British Government
A conference between the British Remount Commission and Canadian horse breeders discussed British purchases of remounts. General Neill was named to assist assembling the horses. Central depots will inspect horses at major industry centers with country-point inspections as needed. Remounts will target artillery and transport horses aged six to nine, 15.2 to 16 hands, and 1200 to 1350 pounds.
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Canada
General Neill
Atorage
Windbreaks and flight corps surge in Canadian effort
Imperial officers led by Col Hoare arrive in Toronto as Canada mobilizes for aviation support. The plan allocates millions to train pilots and mechanics, with Camp Borden Long Branch and Deseronto (Camp Mohawk) serving as bases. The Canadian Aeroplanes Co. near Dufferin Street runs at high output, turning out nearly 100 machines monthly.
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G. Hoare
Toronto
England
Canada
N.c.o's
Exhibition Camp
Imperial Munitions Board
Imperial
2D. L. Allen
Royal Flying Corps
Daniel
Western Recruiting
Camp Borden
Long Branch
Deseronto
Camp Mohawk
Montreal
Routo
Major Allen
J. S. Scott
Imperial Oil
Church Street
Dominion Royal Flying Corps
Allen
Live and Learn in the Diner Soup Revelation
An old captain and his mate, hungry, enter a restaurant and receive soup. The captain asks what it is and the waiter calls it soup. The captain marvels that they have spent their lives at sea eating soup without realizing it.
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Teo
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Aete
K. W. Blackwell
Dominion
Provi
E. F. I Bbden
Merchants Bank of Canada
Renee
Amy
Sim Beg
Ba Plender, Griffithe & Co
Anite
Alberta
Winebreak
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Middle West
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