This is not a pulp magazine issue; it is a local newspaper, the Bow Island newspaper (Bow Island, Alberta), dated September 28, 1917. The issue contains municipal notices and local advertisements (shoes, tractors, hardware supplies), brief local news items (a Medicine Hat gas rate increase, an assault case heard before the police magistrate, a teacher's farewell presentation, and a marriage announcement), notices from local churches and schools, and recruitment-related articles addressing misconceptions about the Military Service Act. Additionally, the publication includes several serious feature articles: "Moral Attrition of Germany" discussing German war dissensions, and what appear to be longer dramatic pieces titled "Some Dugouts Three Years Ago," "Too Late," and accounts concerning a British aviator's experience in the East African jungle following engine trouble, alongside reportage on German requisitioning of Belgian industrial resources. The content throughout reflects wartime concerns of 1917.
About this artifact
- Date
- September 28, 1917
- Rights
- Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
- Restoration
- Digitally restored and hosted by comicbooks.com.
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