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Newspaper
Watrous Signal
Location
Watrous, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
7
Middle aged man and country girl clash over city life
In a fragment from a serialized tale, a middle aged man Sir Penywern counsels a young country girl about marriage and civilization. Jealousy flickers as mention of an unknown suitor and Aunt Valerie hints at a London art world intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bennett
Sir Penywern
Valerie
London
Sach
Sahneuaien
Gueaton
Man
Love and Choice in the Vicarage Summer
Daphne faces pressure from Sir Penywern and aging guardians the Gellibrands as a summer romance unfolds. Sir Penywern, a scholar and former soldier, seeks marriage despite Daphne’s reluctance while memories of Captain Slicott and social expectations shape the drama at the vicarage. The narrative traces Daphne’s uneasy consent and family dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir
Emil
Chinese Labor Arrives for Cameroon Cargo in Colonial Era
Report notes 6 000 Chinese laborers enlisted to support a 400 ton coconut cargo from the former German colony of Cameroon. The text reflects labor deployment details amid imperial trade networks and transcontinental labor mobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franze
Garman
Cameroon
What the Canadian Navy Has Accomplished
Wartime summary notes rapid Canadian mobilization for Britain. Ice breaker Earl Grey sold to Russia and sent to Archangel. Naval volunteers on Pacific coast organized Rainbow patrols. Imperial Aerial Service recruiting air pilots in Canada with 180 in service. Mine floating patrols maintained. 87 patrol boats on coast active. Supplies and transports sent to Great Britain. sixty ships in use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
British Columbia
Earl Grey
Archangel
Pacifc
Imperial Aerial Service
Naval Department
Canada
Sev An Imperial
Mr. Hazen
Atlantic
Pacific
Great Britain
Admiralty
Naval Service
Women's Occupations and Harmony of Change
The piece argues that women entering roles once reserved for men provokes protests and alarm, but notes history shows women have always been workers. It warns industrial modernization strains female labor and calls for regulated hours for women and children. The text also includes stray notes on wire worms harming garden crops and an unrelated legal fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
France
Great West
Canada
Menacing War Efforts Stir Community Resolve
A Canadian War Order leader warns labor must boost wartime tonnage and full-time work. The piece weaves frontline siege scenes at Loos and Hell Ditch with a parasitic figure debating pool and a sergeant recruiting, ending with Pte. W. L. Chinneck sharing a letter from the front urging all to help stop the enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur MenSeseen
Se Board of Education
Whele
National Advisory Committee On
Clyde
The
of Trade
Henderson
Admiralty
Clyde Arca
W. L. Chinneck
fragmentary prose scene of a man escaping work and war
A narrator leaves a warehouse for Main Street and a crowded bar, seeks respite in khaki tinted comfort while restless with war’s distant thunder. Across the world in Flanders, night falls amid gunpowder smoke and a half moon over Hell Ditch, describing a stark contrast between leisure and battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Planet Mars
Tom
Flanders
Hell Ditch
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Florence Warden
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Captain Slicott
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J. L. Hazen
Soares
Tahiti
Hell Siteh
Hell
Bim
Hell Ditech
Hasard Avenue
No Man's Land
No Man’s Land
God
Eddy’s
Eddy
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