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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
5
A garbled fragmented text discusses the earth as a sphere and various misread facts from history and literature. It parodies errors about Lord Raleigh Shakespeare Tennyson and other figures while touching on gender grammar geometry and morality in a disjointed manner.
A suave sales clerk presses a magnate to discuss typewriters. The magnate dismisses with time constraints and a jaded remark about never being interested in any typewriter, noting a preference for a slim brunette model.
An English correspondent praises modern surgery using X rays and lancets to revive gunshot victims. Case notes include Corp. Thomas of Worcester Mounted Infantry, hit near the heart and upper abdomen, who recovered with no internal injury evident. Another Moroccan campaign soldier had a bullet lodged near the heart’s left atrium, later detected by X ray and managed without fatal outcome.
A garbled dialogue fragment shows a child asking a minister father about the longest day of Adam’s life. The minister pauses, then hints the answer lies in a wordplay about the absence of Ere. The odd exchange suggests a puzzle or humorous aside in a domestic scene.
The report cites moldy forage as the cause of horse illness in states including Louisiana, West Virginia, Kansas, and Nebraska after wet and hot periods. It details severe symptoms from rapid decline to paralysis, and prescribes feed and water changes as the primary preventive treatment.
A fragment discusses increasing water pressure with depth in the Atlantic Ocean and mentions a meg or megó unit and a reference to Geng and Roe in a cryptic line about ocean science.
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