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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1915
Page
3
Delight at hot water fades when plumbing fails. Have your system checked regularly. Remember our quality plumbing and fair charges at Abbotsford Tile in the Old Creamery Building.
A column urges women to maintain health before little ailments mount, noting many ignore early signs until breakdown or sudden strain. The Portland City motto is cited and a call for Mission City public spirit is made. Also reported is a Toronto magistrate fining a patent medicine firm $200 for fraudulent tuberculosis cure claims and a suspected worthless, dusty mixture sold for five dollars.
The text lists superstitions for brides including wearing the right shoe first and delaying trying on the ring, not peeking in a mirror before marriage, and warnings about seeing a coffin or a fallen ring. It notes happiness from a spider on the gown and dream omens of blessing, with cautions about on board ship marriage and receiving telegrams en route to church.
The poem lauds British resolve and calls all peoples from Australia New Zealand Africa and Canada to join in war against Germany. It vows that Britain will never yield from Agincourt to Waterloo and ends with a tribute to the late Harry Shaw who died at Stave Falls.
A Canadian province news item notes a boy woefully misinterpreted a February 1915 math problem about 30 hens laying 1380 eggs at 40 cents per dozen. The piece humorously endorses such prolific hens for the egg laying contest and asks readers to consider the curious calculation.
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