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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
13
News notes 16 cent eggs in Berlin and a US contract with a British firm for piercing shells for the war. It reports Canada soldiers' families in England, church union questions, settlement rules for ministers, crime declines in Manitoba, and British war outlook with grim forecasts for 1917.
The British mail system ships about 10 million letters and 5 million letters home weekly to soldiers abroad. Letters are sorted in London into unit specific bags then dispatched to fronts in France Egypt Salonica and elsewhere with three daily army-mail trains operating from London.
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