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Newspaper
Tisdale Recorder
Location
Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1915
Page
8
A pupil writes a rough reminiscence of wartime letters describing enlistment, trenches, and an English comrade’s dying moment. The note recounts marching to Pontoon, storming trenches, shell fire, torn clothing, and a transfer to a hospital where a beloved son bids farewell.
Fragmentary obit notice mentions a servic e on Sunday September 26 and a farewell for Mr. Smith. Scattered lines reference F Hodge, Crooked River, and a Wednesday death, with cryptic notes about debt, crop credit, and an ocean burial motif.
Britain's officials seek Canada’s fall exportable wheat quantity and start date. Grain exchanges estimate export value around 170 million dollars. Short wartime ocean tonnage prompts talk of a fleet helping movement. exchange rates complicate payments. Ottawa denies any fixed-price purchase proposal. Also notes on washing soda uses and obituary brief for John W. Harper, last surviving Harper Brothers publisher.
The article argues that a German march to Calais could open an invasion route to England. It details a fortified 19 mile front from Dunkerque to Calais, with guns able to reach Dover, and surveys the minefields, buoyed ranges, and naval challenges blocking a Channel crossing. It notes the need to clear minefields and the risks of counterattack, concluding Germany has roughly the same chance of landing in England as winning the war.
The Red Cross operates beyond battlefield aid to nurse the wounded in hospitals and care prisoners of war. It now faces total incapacity care, funded by public endowment, as a sign of national greatness and universal humanitarianism. The Canadian towns push for annual income to sustain the society.
The Westminster Gazette remarks that Germany rejects the soul in private relations and in public life. It cites a philosophy denying any law binding the state in war or peace, contrasting it with hope faith and love guiding other nations.
In a London letter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle echoes Sherlock Holmes arguing for wheel mounted armor for soldiers to shield the vital forehead and heart. He cites Ned Kelly as a precedent and outlines curved steel plates and mobile shields to enable troops to break machine gun zones and reduce casualties.
The Toronto News argues 1914 15 crop values boost Western Canada and ease debt while credits tighten. It notes higher farm income in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, reduced mortgages, and renewed rail and domestic trade potential despite war era conditions. It cautions against a boom but expects buoyancy in Canadian trade during the war.
The Chicago Tribune notes Canada has not faced billions in wealth or men yet has shown immense war sacrifice in money and blood. It praises the home front bravery amid rising debt, arguing Canada’s sacrifice matches larger powers in principle though not in scale.
The Gaspe town market supports general stores with strong fishing and lumbering ties. Robin Jones & Whitman invest in hardware and offer modern fixtures, fishing tackle, nets, and cordage. Tourism and visiting anglers boost sales of cameras, gramophones, batteries, and photographic supplies.
A Canadian invention combines an entrenching spade and rifle rest in one detachable tool. The specially hardened blade acts as a shield with an opening for sighting a rifle, allowing a crouching soldier to fire while protected. It is already in extensive use on firing lines.
Several Berlin Socialists including a former editor of a socialist newspaper are arrested on suspicion of high treason for publishing a pamphlet that contains an article from the Berne Tagwacht severely criticizing the leading Socialists for backing the government.
The fiscal year ended June shows exports of 40 horses valued at 7 046 554 and mules valued at 12 725 143 shipped mainly to Great Britain France Belgium and Italy. Allies’ purchases plus overall export gains offset large drops in trade with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
A dialogue notes a plain man who lent much for Woks yet travels to find a drink in a dry town, remarking on his remarkable, incongruous behavior in a terse, wry tone.
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