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As the ownership of the company was undergoing many changes, so was the company name. In 1917 with increasing anti-German sentiment in the region, the paper ceased its German language printing and became the English Berlin News Record, and in 1918 the Kitchener Daily Record.
"M.P., Half Dazed from Blows, Carried Over Back Fences"
W.D. Euler Refused to Be Forced to Kiss the Flag-Ald. Asmussen, M.P.P., Signed Apology-Another Alderman Could Not Be Found.
"Alderman Made to Kiss Flag. Another is Ducked in Lake."
N. Asmussen, Dewart M.P.P. for North Waterloo, and W.D. Euler, Laurier M.P., and Others Receive Attention at Hands of Crown Incensed to Have the City's Name Changed.
W.D. Euler photo caption reads: Editor of the Kitchener News-Record, who was dragged from his club last night and knocked down three times for refusing to sing the National Anthem and kiss the flag.
Alderman N. Asmussen, M.P.P. photo caption reads:
After holding the crowd in Kitchener at bay last night at the point of a revolver, the newly elected Independent Liberal candidate was taken to G.W.V.A. headquarters, where he was made to sing the National Anthem, kiss the flag and sign an apology for past actions. Just last week Ald. Asmussen attended the Liberal conference called in Toronto by H. H. Dewart, K.C., M.P.P.
"The Name Question"
Will not be reopened by the City Council who last evening by an unanimous vote struck out clause 6 of the Minance Committee report which was to the effect that the petition by about 700 ratepayers to have another plebiscite on the present name and "Berlin", be granted.
All the Aldermen who were present voted in favour of not taking action on this petition. They were Aldermen Schreiter, Iler, Reid, Ratz, Lippert, Uttley, Baetz, Goiton, Sass, Greb, Zettel and Asmussen. Ald. L.O. Breifhaupt, who is on his honeymoon trip, and Aldermen Bitzer andf Bowmen, who however, figured at the meeting later were not present.
The meeting of the Council a new minutes after the name question had been disposed of ended in an uproar which was not limited to the Council Chamber but extended to other parts of the city at the expense of several prominent citizens.
"The Old Order Changeth Yielding Place To New." Tennyson, "Morte d'Arthur."
Article about the demolition of the former Motz residence.
