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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
3
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a five minute relief for colds and catarrh, claiming it heals inflamed surfaces and prevents infection. It markets a $1 outfit lasting two months from Catarrhozone Co Kingston Ontario Canada.
The United States shows wholehearted readiness to place trained troops at allied command rather than keep them as a separate American army. It notes slower-than-expected war prep but vows maximum effort to defeat Germany and compares American sacrifice with historical wartime alignments.
German newspapers react with excitement to a purported discovery and the claim of English letters about seers. The Leipziger Volkszeitung reports on the sensational English items and the wider effect on public opinion and political intrigue.
Holland votes to advance clocks one hour in April and keep daylight saving through October 1. The practice, used in recent summers, shifts time across the summer months to extend evening daylight.
A portrait of Jim Riley as a boy who struggled in arithmetic and left school early, truanted along Brandywine, and read poetry by Longfellow and Trowbridge. He kept dreams alive through literature, guitar, and occasional town theatricals, shaping a character that hid behind mischievous blue eyes.
An Irish governess in Vienna describes food riots, high prices, and severe scarcity among the wealthy. She details daily meals of coffee from cider refuse, black bread, jam, preserved eggs, barley soup, and limited fats, with clothes and boots costly and stockings from nettle fibres. She notes working class misery despite high wages and a belief blamed on England.
A Chicago Herald warning urges not to waste the saved hour despite longer daylight, urging prudent use and avoiding careless behavior as springtime arrives.
A U S long range cannon under construction near Philadelphia is praised as more versatile than the German 75 mile gun that bombards Paris. The American design offers mobility to move and reposition, a larger shell caliber, and a carriage system, with a top priority on rapid relocation.
A girl places six cents on a counter for a loaf of bread and asks for one more cent, learning that bread has risen in price. The clerk confirms the rise and offers yesterday's loaf at the old price.
A clipped World War I exchange shows a British officer telling a Hun soldier to bow and surrender with terse, businesslike phrasing as the scene ends with a quick acquiescence.
A light domestic exchange centers on proper apostrophe use. John asks his wife whether to spell with one or two apostrophes, and she suggests using two if any are used. The quip plays on linguistic precision in a playful, everyday moment.
A Toronto Star correspondent argues daylight saving should be called daylight gaining since daylight is present but underused. The piece suggests trading one hour of darkness for an hour of daylight benefits both early risers and sleepers and cites a poet’s line about lengthening days.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a poet asking the editor his thoughts on a spring themed poem. The editor candidly replies that the work does not do spring justice.
The Springfield Republican argues Great Britain must draft men up to fifty and withdraw workers from industry, creating a heavy burden. It urges Americans to end squabbles and mobilize to win the war, noting Russia’s exit and America’s partial entry.
A testimonial-promoted advertisement extols Baby's Own Tablets as a mild laxative and effective remedy for constipation colic and fevers in infants. A mother from Quebec praises them, noting she always keeps a box at home. The tablets are sold by The Dr. Wil. Lam s Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario by dealers or mail.
Times correspondent reports a proposed Moorish uprising planned to provoke French revolution in Morocco. The scheme aimed at massacres against allied nationals, followed by Moroccan independence and a German-influenced sultan ruling the region.
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