Canadian Egg Trade Shifts Amid War Time Market Pressures
The article analyzes how war disrupted imports and boosted Canadian egg exports. It notes prewar reliance on Russian, Danish, and Irish eggs, the collapse of continental supplies, and Canada’s rise as a preferred supplier with better packing and pricing. It cites figures from 1913 to 1916 and highlights price premiums for Canadian eggs.
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Tineke
Im Liypoet
Anada Tan
United King
Rct of Trade
Policewoman Handles Drunken Encounter in Westminster
A London observer notes a policewoman maintains diplomacy with male officers. In Westminster a sturdy constable struggled with a drunken woman who refused to move. She intervened, using argument to calm and escort the woman home.
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London
Westminster
Kate Hes Versus Light Fire With Bar We Out Of
The fragmentary text references Kate and a confrontation with light and fire and a bar setting. Specific names, places, dates, or outcomes are not legible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate
Hes
Demurrage Rates Raised in Canada Rail Proposal
Sir Henry Drayton, chairman of the Canadian railway board, urges speedier traffic and proposes new demurrage charges. Free first two days, then $1, $2, $3, $4, and $5 per day from the seventh day onward. The plan aims to release cars quickly, moving beyond the current fixed $1 daily after free time.
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Sir Henry Drayton
Board of Railway Commissioners For Canada
Transportation Bureau
Board of Trade
Montreal
Cholera Infantum Remedy Promoted by Testimonial
Cholera Infantum is a sudden childhood illness common in summer. Baby's Own Tablets are claimed to ward off the trouble by regulating bowels and soothing the stomach. A Ontario mother testifies they saved her baby's life. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Crt.
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Fred Rose
South Bay
Ont
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Crt
Peace River Country Growing Fast
Ralph Harris reports rapid settlement in Peace River country with 3500 settlers this year. He notes mixed farming, a northward creamery operation, thriving livestock, and an estimated 150000 acres of top wheat. Sheridan Lawrence yielded 10000 bushels last year and projects a larger crop this year. There are 750 school districts as explorers promote emigration.
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Peace River
Ralph Harris
Calgary
Pesre River
Harris
Northland
Canada
Sheridan Lawrence
Winnipeg
Peace River Country
Helping Disabled Heroes and Their Return to Duty
A detailed outline of services for disabled veterans including medical care, training, pensions, and employment support in Canada. It explains treatment aims, free prosthetics, pensions, continuous pay until cured or pension starts, field pay for those with dependents, and the role of the military hospitals commission in restoration and retraining. It notes free training, provincial support, and preferential hiring by governments.
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Canada
Military Hospitals Commission
Forte
Issi Pension Commissioners
Ion of Trustees
Hteeeeee
Commission
Moral victory and memory in a world war context
The article argues that Germany aims to secure peace by eroding enemy memory of the war’s causes. It asserts Allies and the United States must maintain unwavering detestation of deliberate villainy that started the war and ensure its end prevents repetition, framing moral victory as essential to victory itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Russia
United States
Blue York World
Fragmentary Registrar Dialogue From Virginia District
A damaged account describes a registrar questioning a young man in Virginia about military service. The fragment shows questions about eligibility and understood responses, reflecting a tense scene in a local precinct.
German Arrest of Pilsudski Shakes Polish Legion
The German press shifts from boasting of reform to alarm as Gen. Pilsudski is arrested. Polish legion officers resign and are imprisoned, with doubts raised about German civilizing claims and Polish plans.
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Peon Se
Germany
Poland
Pilsudski
Poli
Legion
Dr. Kelloge's Asthma Remedy Bannered as National Cure
Advertisement touts Dr J D Kelloges Asthma Remedy as an inexpensive universal cure. It claims wide recognition, says relief is available to all, and urges readers to obtain it from their local dealer.
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J. D. Kelloge
Bankers Prizes to Promote Canadian Livestock Industry
The Dominion minister of agriculture seeks help from the Canadian Bankers' Association to promote livestock at fall fairs with "The Canadian Bankers' Prizes." The association supports the plan, with government cost sharing, aiming to boost youth and family interest in livestock through calf and pig contests. Calves and pigs must be born on or after March 19, 1917, and be owned by the exhibitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion
Canada
Minard’s Liniment Cures Long Standing Facial Tumor
David Henderson of Belleisle Station Kings County New Brunswick reports a long lasting facial tumor was cured after using Minard’s Liniment. He states several bottles were needed but the tumor disappeared entirely by September 17 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited
Minard
David Henderson
Belleisle Station
Kings Co
N. B
Countess Panin Named Minister of Social Welfare in Russia
The youngest Russian democracy appoints Countess Sophie Panin minister of social welfare. At forty five she hails from a wealthy aristocratic family and has long been active in social betterment. She funded Petrograd’s people’s house with library theatre and laboratories, offering evening and Sunday classes for adult education and recreation.
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Russia
Sophie Panin
Countess Panin
Petrograd
West visitor mugged in New York demand for money
A Western man visiting New York was confronted by a street thief who demanded money or threatened to shoot. The assailant warned the victim to comply, stating you can live in New York without it but not money. The incident underscores dangers faced by travelers in the city.
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New York
A Union of Minds and Nations in Wartime Europe
The London Times lauds the Allied alliance of England France and the United States as more than military strength. It sees shared democratic traditions crossing oceans as a force shaping future ideals and destinies, standing against Prusso German Kultur and militarism.
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Europe
England
France
United States
The
London Times
A Necessary Reprisal in War Oil Shells Unearthed
An Evening Standard ordnance expert calls oil shells the latest weapon used as a necessary reprisal against German weapons. He describes shells with thin casings sent from trench mortars, designed to burst and scatter contents, as a reply to the German Jammenwerfer. He notes newer tanks with heavier guns cause more recoil and crews practice to avoid sickness, seeking “tank legs.”
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Evening Standard
Corns Relief Promised by Holloway's Cure
Corns cripple the feet and make walking a torture yet relief is within reach with Holloway's Corn Cure. The advertisement promises quick easing of painful corns for sufferers seeking foot comfort.
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Holloway
Canadians with the Flying Corps Commissions and Naval Service figures
Officers of Canadian birth in the corps total 299 with 93 serving in Naval Air Service from Canada. Under Admiral Kingsmill arrangement 346 officers joined the naval service in Canada and later transferred to Flying. Eighty officers were granted commissions from the Canadian forces to Naval Air.
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Flying Corps
Naval Air Service
Canada
Admiral Kingsmill
Naval Service
Flying
Naval Air
Aerial Mail Dreams and Kipling’s 2000 A.D Vision
In 1917 the idea of air carried mail advances beyond poetry as Kipling once imagined a future aerial control board and the Night Mail. The piece notes Italian efforts and the growing fascination with flying at immense speed to move mail and goods globally.
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Kipling
London Daily Graph
Nets Guard English Fleet with Moveable Barriers
The English fleet off Orkney is protected by movable steel nets anchored by chains forming rings and barriers. Submarines and enemy vessels approach underwater, but the net traps are sprung when a sub surfaces. The article notes British tactics and the vast Allied armies, about twenty four million men, in the ongoing war.
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Orkney Islands
Six Hour Day Proposed to Boost Output and Morale
The text argues for a six hour working day for industrial labor, asserting humans could match eight hour output with two six hour shifts. It suggests machines would run longer to maintain wages, claiming broader efficiency and unchanged pay for workers under a shorter day.
Roumanian Harvest May Save Germany
The Vienna Neue Freie Presse estimates Roumania can supply Germany after meeting domestic and Austrian and German army needs. It says Roumania could send about 100000 carloads of cereals this year, except barley which is poor. The notice notes four years of coet or new four cut on the sant.
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Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Roumania
Germany
Worm Powders Restore Health in Children
Health cannot be looked for in the child that is subject to worms because worms destroy health by creating internal disturbances that retard development and cause serious weakness. Miller's Worm Powders expel worms and are so beneficial that the little sufferer’s system is restored to health and growth is assured.
Heroic Artillery Officer Clears German Wire Under Fire
A war correspondent recalls an artillery officer who crawled into a shell hole to observe the wire and used a telephone amid bursting shells. His coolness directed fire that cleared entanglements, aiding the attacking party in a striking, typical act of valor.
Dentist versus oculist judgment in dental health
A humorous maxim states it is better to be a dentist than an oculist. It notes a man has thirty two teeth and only two eyes, contrasting dental work with eye care in a wry observation.
Operation Averted in Philadelphia Woman’s Health Tale
A Philadelphia woman recounts severe illness and misdiagnoses from multiple doctors. She describes persistent side and back pains, irregular cramps, and a history of ineffective treatments before seeking alternative remedies that reportedly prevented major surgery.
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Philadelphia
Chance
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