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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR style prose mentions cigarettes and cigarettes again, with scattered phrases about weather, people, and places. The readable content is highly garbled and lacks coherent events or a clear narrative to summarize into a focused news item.
The notice outlines heavy penalties for wasting food by proprietors of restaurants, hotels, steamships, and households. It targets anyone who allows spoilage, careless storage, or disposal of usable food. Penalties include fines from $900 to $1067, imprisonment, or both, and possible revocation of a Canada Food Board license.
An old advertisement touts a lemon juice based skin whitening lotion for face neck arms and hands. It claims squeezing two lemons yields a quarter pint mixture with orchard white to create a gentle complexion enhancer that promises to vanish freckles tan sallowness redness and roughness with daily massage.
Partial OCR text describes a provincial or municipal transit regulation and the need for individuals to understand enforcement. It mentions an officer and the push to ensure regulations are applied. The readable content is limited and unclear.
A sixth grade class in a fairminded district arranged at a local school to pay a 10 cent fine for cutting out a page in a geography book. They severed head and eyes from a figure, citing the page as propaganda. The school announced removal of the contested pages and related actions. Twenty returned soldiers are aiding Nicomen island dykes work.
The British Medical Journal links World War I turmoil to a drop in personal crisis reports per population. Rates declined across male ages from 297 per million to 105 in later years, while women's crisis reports fell from 47 to 38 during 1910s 1916, linking stress shifts to wartime employment and social changes.
Mothers can rest easy as California Syrup of Figs is pitched to relieve a cross feverish constipated child. The ad touts its gentle laxative action on the bowels and promises a prompt, safe effect for babies, children, and adults with directions for use.
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