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An amusing letter to Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia

Huntingdon Gleaner


The following is likely reprinted from some other mainstream newspaper of the time.


Dated:

Ottawa, Dec. 1 - Sir Sam Hughes today received a letter from a woman who makes a rather unusual proposition to the Militia department. She asks that her husband and her husband's lawyer be placed in the front trenches, and if possible, shot.



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