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Newspaper
Wilkie Press
Location
Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
4
An early 20th century patent medicine ad touts Dr Hamiltons Pills promising renewed strength and energy. It urges immediate use, claims quick results, and sells for 25 cents per box at general stores.
Prof Masaryk notes rise of new small nations in Europe as suppressed peoples seek federal or independent states. He cites 70 nationalities, mixed borders, and the push for self governance from Austria and Hungary toward unified Czecho Slovakia and other autonomy movements.
Belgian youths swam to the derelict Vindictive at low tide and climbed aboard to cheer Admiral Ostend as he arrived, joining in a salute to the commander while Dover welcomed Keyes London.
The tale links a White Lady ancestress to the Kaiser and Countess Agnes. Ancestral murders, palace crimes, and a 475 year old building with 1000 windows are cited as evidence. Carlyle notes the spectre visited Frederick the Great on the night before his death, with doctors unable to avert demise.
A Finnish painter Hugo Blackmanson recounts details from Petrograd about former Russian court members now reduced to poverty in Helsingfors and New York. He notes Prince Putyatin and Maria Pavlovna enduring hunger lines while Grand Duke Sergius’s immense wealth vanishes.
A century ago Napoleon placed his fate in Britain’s hands choosing England to guard his person after defeat. He appealed to the Prince Regent saying he sought protection under British laws, contrasting with plans by his enemies to execute him and praising Britain as powerful, constant, and generous.
In a Reuters interview, the former Austrian emperor Charles warned that Vienna and Austria face chaos unless the country is reinterated quickly. He said Bolshevism would threaten the region if immediate action is not taken though he downplayed the danger of Bolshevism.
A 1915 message from King George V urges Manitoba Boy Scouts to embody good citizenship and Scout values. Commissioner C W Rowley asks leaders to guide boys toward honesty, loyalty, self restraint, and service, stressing duty to the British Empire and Canada.
Premier Clemenceau asked University of Paris law dean Charles Lyon-Caen to opine on extradition of William Hohenzollern. Lyon-Caen, needing time for study, requested delay per La Liberte. Also reads a Sunday School dialogue about gambling in the Bible.
The article argues against restoring ruined Gothic churches and destroyed cathedrals. It urges preservation of ruins as moral testimony, discusses German destruction of seventy three cathedrals, and contemplates reprisal and the fate of damaged monuments from Verdun to Louvain over many years.
An official report to Hon. Arthur Meighen by W. M. Graham shows a western Indian production drive expanding for 1919. Some 21,200 acres on reserves are cultivated for wheat with 16 gas tractors, bank houses, granaries, and feed for land ready for seeding. Beef production rose after 384 stockers were bought and later sold, netting a $10,000 profit. Indians cultivated 14,000 acres this season while reserves absorbed over 10,000 more. Over 20,000 head of cattle exist, and 12,000 acres were leased to white settlers.
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth visit Ghent after four years of war, reviewing the first Belgian division in Place d Armes. A ten year old girl presents the queen with a bouquet, and the royal party honors veterans as citizens praise their resilience and cite van Artevelde.
The military police will no longer be used to round up defaulters under the military service act, though defaulters are still to be punished. Militia HQ says past aim was to secure men for overseas service, using police to compel duty. Now arrests are removed from military police as overseas demand has ceased.
A wartime message lauds Canada for paying a costly price in blood and tears. It honors the dead and promises enduring remembrance by future generations, stressing righteousness liberty and aid to the weak against barbarism.
Ocean Greyhound Campania, once Cunard queen and later mother ship for seaplanes, sank off Scotland after breaking from moorings in a gale. Built 1892 in Glasgow, 12,950 tons, she served in Jutland and Dardanelles before being dismantled and then acquired by the British Admiralty.
An editorial from Sleepy Eye Progressive notes men scold wives for leaving sewing machines out but often neglect farm tools. It urges farmers to shelter costly equipment through winter, suggesting practical steps to save money and extend tool life.
London reports that any Canadian officer in England may sail home to Canada regardless of rank. By month’s end an estimated ten to twelve thousand other ranks will have departed, and by Christmas the number of troops returning is expected to reach twenty thousand.
The public accounts of Saskatchewan for the year ending April 30 1918 show total liabilities of 29 645 836 dollars and assets of 53 444 165 dollars. The surplus of assets over liabilities amounts to 23 798 329 dollars.
Nazareth fell to British air raids on September 18 as Zeppelins bombed the Jenin airdrome. Aircraft kept watch over the field all day dropping twenty pound bombs in pairs while British cavalry executed a critical turning movement unseen by the Turks. By dawn Nazareth entered at 3 oclock the Pearl morris.
Western Germany dispatch reports strong anti Kaiser Wilhelm II and his eldest son. German soldiers sought to pursue and kill Wilhelm II after entering Holland but were stopped by Dutch guards. The former crown prince is equally despised and guarded in Holland. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm attract royalist sympathy as dynastic hope.
Household tips emphasize using fresh sweet cream for butter and washing out buttermilk. Salt lightly for even color and better keeping quality, suggesting 1.5 percent salt. Store in the coldest place possible, preferably outside the house in winter, or in a crevice covered by strong brine to exclude air.
British papers note German capitalist classes seek to dodge war charges by moving large sums to neutral countries. The strategy shifts burdens onto poorer classes and heightens anxiety among the German elite about wartime costs.
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