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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
2
In a desolate New England city a scandal explodes as Mrs. Butler schemed to ruin Schwartz and Fleming after her husband Butler's disgrace. Wardrop and Fleming confront danger as the suspect hides in a club and a hidden staircase leads to a deadly confrontation.
An ad warns parents against impure ointments and mineral coloring that enter a child’s system with skin applications and promotes Zam Buk as a purely herbal remedy without poisonous coloring. The notice directs readers to doctors and druggists for the product.
The writer describes years of salt rheum cracking hands with severe pain and ulcers. After using Cuticura Soap and a provided free sample offer, symptoms improved, with a note about obtaining a free sample by sending a post card.
The plan seeks to raise funds to build an un denominational American church in London for over 40,000 Americans resident there. A site is not yet selected with Kingway among the possible locations.
A fragment from a paper discusses the education of women, noting that eighty percent of college graduates get married. The readable portion hints at gender roles in higher education and marriage trends.
Fragmentary note reports a theft claim and an instruction to take a stove after a fault incident. Names, places, and precise details are unreadable. The readable text hints at a confession or instruction but lacks verifiable facts for full context.
An aviator frees a workman stranded at sea then chides the stowaway remark made by the jam factory worker. The exchange shows a tense moment between rescuer and laborer aboard.
Quoted exchange questions why Rhodes was expelled from the Order of the Sons of Hest. The phrase cites a trivial charge: having water on the brass. The remark hints at internal tensions and possibly mock severity within the organization.
A historical piece surveys beetles and insects with extreme body features from around the world. It notes the South American beetle with a longer head, European lifer insects with spreading hindwings, a Central American alder fly, and the blood-sucking sprout fly in Nubia. It suggests scientists view long antennae as possible communication devices.
A Boston navy yard worker Pat Flannigan kept smoking his pipe after lunch despite rules. He faced dismissal if caught, but his defiant reply when challenged by the commandant amused the officer and preserved his job. A Kentucky mountaineer mistakes a car for restless horses in a humorous aside from a Philadelphia Ledger item.
A youngster confides to her mother about a grievance in a game. She questions the duty of Indians and soldiers and fears punishment for not letting someone “ick” her every time they play. The exchange highlights pressures of patriotism in childhood play.
A genial host jokes about serving fish twice more that week and unveils a quirky device his wife claims can remove a fishbone stuck in the palate. The diners prepare to test the odd contraption at table.
The bride’s steady progress in cooking earns her husband’s patient, encouraging support. A light moment arises when she sings, prompting Harry to fearfully ask what she has made, amid guests and dinner. The exchange reflects domestic warmth and humor in a social setting.
Governor Cox of Ohio granted a one year respite for Leslie Humphries from March 25 to March 27 and pledged to urge successors to extend the respite if Humphries maintains a good record as a prisoner. During the respite his wages will be turned over to his family.
A damaged OCR fragment notes an unpleasant printer's odor affecting months and describes an ordinary trunk filled with clean newspapers beneath which a number of unspecified items lie hidden.
A narrator contemplates Marcella's mood and a kiss that leaves a mark of embarrassment. The exchange hints at tension, affection, and concealed longing amid a charged, intimate scene.
An unreadable fragment shows garbled words and names cut off. The readable bits point to a disrupted sentence about someone claiming ownership or intent, but no clear events, dates, or identities emerge from the damaged text.
British manufacturers supply a large share of escMia imported into Japan, accounting for a substantial percentage of the total. This reflects strong UK output in the Japanese market and signals ongoing trade ties between Britain and Japan.
The Dominion government through the department of mines conducts extensive inquiry into peat as fuel and its commercial feasibility in Canada. It warns of speculative ventures exploiting investors while promising to back legitimate peat enterprises to prevent future fuel famine.
A statue of Lord Kitchener was unveiled in Calcutta with a large gathering of Bengal notables, European and Indian attendees, and troops from garrisons along with Boy Scouts. Governor Lord Carmichael praised Kitchener as a capable soldier and administrator.
A New Mexico senator recalls a conversation between Smith and Jones about a christening. They discuss naming a boy Reginald Claude and wonder about the implications, with speculation that the name could provoke reactions or a fight. The exchange reveals confusion over the event and its potential significance.
The Vancouver Province notes that Japanese women are cheerful, even tempered, and good-natured due to consistent island life. The piece suggests fashion influences men’s moods and the family budget as providers, calling the people wonderful.
Vague lines reference past actions and repeated outcomes with unclear names and events. The passage hints at prior deeds being repeated but provides no concrete participants dates or places.
A father questions his son about growing seriousness while the mother notes he has stopped sharing cigars and uses the father's tobacco. The scene captures tension as household routines shift.
The last of four huge funnels for the Cunard liner Aauitania is set in position on the Clyde. The funnel is 24 feet wide and stands 160 feet above the keel, 20 feet higher than Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. Each funnel weighs 1500 tons.
A student calls the professor’s statistics stupid while the professor claims there are four hundred billion people in the world and calls the student the petty one in the group. The dialogue highlights miscommunication and perceived insults between them.
An eastern lady and her young child suffered sour stomach for fifteen months until a stomach specialist advised Grape-Nuts. They improved quickly after starting the cereal, realizing they ate too much hearty food. Within weeks they regained energy to do housework.
The passage argues that ordinary people reveal courage in disaster and asks what society becomes when people live up to the best within. It compares dull everyday folk to a rising chorus of resolve as crisis tests character and calls for a habit of higher living.
In Eberswalde near Berlin the local newspaper is printed on one side so it can be used to wrap provisions without ink. The paper is issued twice weekly, and on those days it doubles in size, ensuring readers do not lose any reading matter.
The Duchy of Cornwall owns London properties and provided 824000 dollars to the Prince last year as Duke of Cornwall. Substantial investments were made in real estate improvements and 425000 dollars were paid into the prince's purse.
The exchange contrasts an orator’s demand to work from morning to evening with an auditor’s claim that rest comes only from night to morning. The dialogue frames labor and sleep as competing norms in a political setting.
A dandy enters a village shop and asks rudely if puppy biscuits are sold. The shopkeeper flatly confirms and asks whether to bag the purchase or have the biscuits eaten in the shop.
A Jacksonville era ad claims a universal cure for catarrh marketed by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It promises internal doses from 16 drops to a spoonful and urges readers to send for circulars and testimonials while offering one hundred dollars for any failure. Also promotes Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
The Rokeby Venus, slashed by a militant suffragist, has been so expertly repaired that the damage is invisible to the casual observer. The British National Gallery, shuttered after the outrage, has reopened to properly accredited art students awaiting a final assessment.
Advertisement notes warts on hands disfiguring many ladies and claims Holloway's Corn Cure will remove blemishes without pain. generalized sales claim with product name and benefit.
A fragment shows a pledge to transmit affection with a demand that the moment not be published. The line hints at a private exchange and a condition about publishing the kiss. The source presents a cryptic dialogue rather than a full event.
A classroom dialogue shows a student Willie facing a failed report card. The teacher quips about parental reaction as Willie anticipates his father’s disappointment and a playful “warmia” from the child.
A playful exchange at Club Jinks features a bidder proposing ten dollars for a lobster and a single store item while another speaker responds with a single offer of ten. The dialog captures a satire of bargaining and social humor.
A Gedichte style anecdote recalls a self-made German in Wilkes-Barre who lectures others on his past, joking that his nephew asked what they taught him at school. The boy replies Greek and Latin, but the elder notes algebra for potatoes now in a humorous exchange from Youth's Companion.
The United Kingdom Alliance notes a sharp rise in drinking during the year with 1912 spending near £167,000. The press cites heavy drinking as good trade and argues temperance concerns as working-class families waste a large share of income on alcohol, despite prosperity.
A reader testimonial from Mrs. Dominique Fericd of St Miche Gee praises Baby's Own Tablets as a miraculous remedy for a baby's constipation. The ad notes the tablets sell for 25 cents a box and are available from The Mr. William Medicine Co in Brockville Ontario.
In a light exchange from St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Chicago physician congratulates Orville Wright on a new aeroplane stabilizer. Wright jokes about taking work from doctors and ribbing a Dayton medical student. Two students debate medical specialization, one aiming for airplane accident medicine.
An old advertisement touts Mote and Graves Worm Exterminator as a safe medicine for children troubled with worms. It markets a long walk referenced as a benefit and claims the product is a reliable remedy.
A fragment notes a woman allowing children to do things their father forbids Sinan to permit. The readable text hints at family control and permission dynamics without clear events or names.
The wife of a bibulous citizen waited one payday night for her husband who was late. She sat at the police station hoping he would be found. the sergeant told her he was not there but expected any minute.
The article notes the River Tinto in Spain contains extraordinary qualities as a mineral: it petrifies, hardens, and over months two entities join to form a single stone. It also mentions environmental effects on aquatic life, noting fish cannot live in the altered water.
A fragment notes a scene where the thunder of the waters is heard clearly and distinctly, emphasizing the sensory impact. The brief text centers on sound and perception without additional context or names.
A New York World cartoon quotes a barber shop exchange where a patron requests multiple haircuts amid a joke about partiality. The brief item notes humor in a busy street scene and reflects press style of the era.
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