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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
4
The Banner prints weekly notices from the Manitoban office dated Thursday edition. The fragment provides a postal and publication heading with location cues and printer details.
Letter exchange from Russell Banner urging formation of a Home Guard to defend laws and homes. Mentions Sergeant and two men in a guard, Lt Wilson returning from Winnipeg officers' school, and call to drill willing able-bodied locals. Emphasizes duty to support troops at front and counter alien threats in era of war.
The German reply to the American note on the Lusitania preserves the prior position. Britain is accused of starving Germany by blocking trade through neutral routes. Germany cites German retaliation by submarine warfare to blockade Britain. The claim is made that warning ships before attack is impractical and that the Lusitania sank swiftly due to ammunition aboard. A concession proposes marking American vessels clearly and limiting their war supplies, allowing safe American travel and reducing U.S. passenger reliance on Allied flags.
Prof F W Brodrick outlines pests including Currant Worm of Saw Fly and Cabbage Butterfly. Larvae damage leaves of currants and cabbages. adults lay eggs for new broods. Prevention includes keeping gardens free of refuse and spraying with White Hellebore solution or dusting with hellebore flour. For more details contact the Horticultural Department of Manitoba Agricultural College.
Eadcliffe school report shows grade VI top marks Ruby Stevenson 255 and Herbert Lorimer 249, grade V Weir Grace 200 Lorimer Alex 180 Pagan Marjory 172, grade IV Schwalm John 190 Carr Freda Pagan Lily 164, grade I Willie Stevenson 150 Kemp Sarah 123. Arranged by merit for Grade I- Jessie Kemp Alex Mansell Charlie Pagan Teddy Clegg Phylis Burley. Teacher Annie A MacDourgall. The Kaiser says the war will end in October. Germany has lost 450000 square miles of colonial possessions since the war began.
Strathclair residents share news of visits including Mrs Leeson and Dr Kippan traveling to Silverton to see James Kippan. Clock repair work by A Fraser of Brandon. July brings strong harvest prospects after rains improve hay. Alex Sutherland visits en route west with Mrs Kippan. M Chapman moves to upper storey of his north town residence after selling. Richie of Portage-la-Prairie wins school contract with progress underway. Alex McGregor prepares new house near Baptist church and Mrs Sarah Morrison adds to her home.
A wartime appeal urged 25 cents to supply tobacco and comforts to soldiers in trenches. Premier Norris testified before the Purdue commission last Monday, denying knowledge of money for election protests and for influencing the Mathers commission. Howden attended and heard Norris, while Lawyer Fullerton did not recall Howden.
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