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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
4
A 1918 page features humor and social commentary with quotes about farming family life and wartime figures. It includes a dialogue with General Haig praising two saddlers who turn out to be lawyers, plus quips about education vanity and civic life. An advertisement touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a healing remedy.
A fragmented newspaper fragment blends remarks on Russian peace and divine history with a Missouri court of appeals decision about telegram errors. It includes moralizing ads for Holloway's Corn Cure and exhortations on discipline and willpower.
The article discusses exercise for breeding stock including bulls boars stallions and rams. It advises regular ample exercise indoors and outdoors with proper space and a moderate ration. It warns against dangerous handling and notes the need for records and proper housing by Harry M. King from Ontario Agricultural College.
The article discusses how wheat roots absorb nutrients after germination and the need for abundant plant food, especially after a hard winter. It advises selecting fertilizer with specific ranges of nitrogen phosphorus and potash, adjusted for soil type, and notes variations when soil is gritty. Compiled by B A A.
In a wartime sketch the speaker notes Paddy guarding a communication trench in flooded France. A Cockney asks for the East Lancashires and Paddy snaps that he is not the harbormaster, adding a weary curse and a quick retort.
A novel telescope technique uses a photographic negative and a green light filter to reveal unseen asteroids. The observer compares two images through a telescope, spotting new objects as color changes indicate a body not present on the old negative.
The article discusses heirs reaching majority and gaining control of a fortune. It urges youths under twenty one to plan thoughtfully, avoid squanderers, and recognize time and opportunity as theirs to use wisely.
A Nebraskan mother advocates Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female health issues arguing it helped her through pregnancy and delivery. The ad highlights the remedy's forty year history and invites readers to write for special solutions.
A diary letter habit is praised as a way to share vacation experiences at home. Girls vary methods from hand sketches and postcard views to train jotters told as stories, with some letters kept for future use in language study. A Victorian remedy, Purmatoo's Vegetable Pills, is advertised as mild and safe for delicate women with digestive issues.
A British newspaper reports a chemist advising housewives in Belgium to soak peeled potatoes in hot water and use the soaking liquid as a soap substitute. It warns against worms harming children and promotes Millers Worm Powder as a quick expelling remedy.
The article laments the debt to Indigenous peoples for crops origin, noting tobacco and especially corn as foundational gifts. It argues corn surpassed tobacco in value, calling for recognition of Native contributions and highlighting corn's global spread and economic impact from early America.
In a Bolantinc Amer ican note on patents, a Brooklyn inventor unveils a tornado-proof house built on a pivot that turns to face the wind. Other ideas include a pedal calorificator to warm the feet, a tube under clothing with branch vents, a false-teeth polisher from a corn cob, a pocket for gum, a ring-guard device, a noiseless alarm that jerks a sleeper awake, and a machine for counting eyes.
A Hamilton Herald item notes a wife registered for war work and volunteering for a purchasing department role. The piece reflects home front labor ideas and the idea of women filling service positions during wartime.
Bilious attacks and digestive woes are blamed on digestive trouble. Nature's Remedy tablets claim to harmonize stomach bowels and kidneys, improve nourishment and blood quality, and strengthen the whole system. One box is guaranteed and recommended by Dr. E J Hassard.
A fragmented piece urges that everything worth having requires work and mocks laziness. It touts Dr J D Kelless’s Asthma Remedy as a long standing cure and advises sufferers to obtain it from their druggist. A stray aside notes a woman's magazine listing many onion eating ideas.
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