England's war food drive reshapes farming after war
A special report details England's shift from urban life to farming under wartime pressure. New food production department aims to guarantee prices, expand tractor use, and convert park lands to productive fields while plans for cottages, minimum wages, and government management of idle estates face debate.
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Lloyd Allen
Union
Ondon
England
British Isles
France
Charles Melding
Department of Food Production
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Sir Charles
America
Germany
Lord Lee
Food Production Department
Russia
Earl of Selbourne
Inngland
Rogland
Board of Agriculture
St Jacobs Liniment Promised Neuralgia Relief
Advertisement touts St Jacobs Liniment as a harmless neuralgia relief that cures pain without burning skin. It claims instant relief for aching nerves in any body part and urges readers to obtain a trial bottle from a drug store.
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St. Jacobs
Absorbine, JR
W.F. Young
Templa St
Springfield
Mase
Bell Rung for Peace Inspires Boy and Beadle Near Turriff
In Aberdeenshire Scotland a five year old boy shouted joyfully that he rang the bell for peace after the parish church bells rang. The elderly beadle then entrusted the rope to the lad saying it was something to mind for all his days, linking two centuries of history.
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Turriff
Aberdeenshire
Scotland
Beadle
Laddie
Ely's Cream Balm Relief for Cold Nasal Congestion
Advertisement asserts Ely's Cream Balm opens blocked nostrils and relieves head colds or catarrh. It promises instant relief by applying a small amount in the nostrils, soothing inflamed mucous membranes to ease breathing and stop snuffling and headaches.
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County Fifty
Ely
Turning the Tables in a Moral Dialectic
The passage contrasts assertive and submissive tones with slogans valuing pure blood and health. It references Garfield Tea as a remedy against impurities and disease, and remarks that horror as a deed may be necessary but rarely glorious. The lines imply a critique of monopoly and purity obsessions.
Digestive ills eased by Golden Medical Discovery claim
An early health column touts indigestion as the root of many ailments and promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery from Buffalo as a temperance remedy. It emphasizes a stomach-first cure with no alcohol or opiates, containing standard roots and herbs.
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Pierce
Buffalo
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