Made $6,000 Out of Hogs in Western Canada
A. E. Merriam of Dalrey Alberta describes his successful move from Devil’s Lake North Dakota in 1909. He built a thriving farm with hogs, horses, cattle and modern equipment, logging a $5,000 gross from hog feeding last year and noting land values rising to 25 to 35 dollars per acre. He credits Alberta’s climate and livestock focus for his gains and reports strong farm labor demand with government non conscription guarantees.
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A. E. Merriam
Devil's Lake
N. D
Western Canada
Devil’s Lake
North Dakota
Dalroy
Dakota
Alberta
Dalrey
Canada
Government aid to Australian settlements for farming land
The government will provide suitable farming land to groups of men and their families forming village settlements. Each settler acts independently. Overseers guide for two years. Homes double as public halls or schools. Rations, implements, cattle, poultry, roofing, water tanks supplied for the first year as a repayable loan to the state.
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Australia
Cascarets Remedy Ad Claims Quick Relief
Bright advertisement promises a 10 cent Cascarets box for liver and bowel relief. It touts cures for constipation indigestion biliousness and headaches with immediate results, urging readers not to neglect stomach liver or bowels.
Prudent Decision in Wartime Question
A terse exchange asks if one would answer the call to war and replies yes, acknowledging readiness to serve. The brief dialogue reflects civic duty rhetoric from a historical period.
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Acs
Sidney Page amid hospital life and a tangled romance
A dramatic segment follows Sidney Page as Dr. Max Wilson attracts her, K. LeMoyne shelters a secret identity, and Joe Drummond reappears with tensions rising. Carlotta Harrison’s jealousy and Christine Lorenz’s schemes complicate hospital drama, love, and class on the Street.
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K. LeMoyne
Page
Sidney
Anna
Harriet
Max Wilson
Joe Drummond
Carlotta Harrison
Christine Lorenz
Palmer Howe
Howe
Johnny Rosenfeld
Doctor Wilson
LeMoyne
Edwardes
Winter to Spring Shifts at the Hospital Courtyard
In a cold March the hospital courtyard shows small signs of spring as convalescents sit on benches and a fountain is repaired. Harriet returns from a trip with new ideas and gowns while Grace Irving advances in spring cottons. Christine grows graver while Sidney gains a gentler radiance and faces distant memories.
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Sidney
Joe
Harriet
Grace Irving
Christine
Johnny Rosenfeld
Woman Credits Pinkham Compound For Relief In Change Of Life
Mrs. Margaret Quinn of 259 Worthen Street Lowell Massachusetts reports lasting nervousness headaches and backaches during the Change Of Life. She says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved headaches and pain and urges other sick women to try it. She notes symptoms such as suffocation hot flashes dizziness and irregularities and invites confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lowell
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margaret Quinn
Worthen St
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Eskimo Mene Peary Wallace Receives First Papers in New York
Mene Peary Wallace, once known as Eskimo boy of north Greenland and linked to Rear Admiral Peary, swore allegiance to Denmark’s king and received New York’s first ever naturalization papers for an Eskimo. He muses on American citizenship and recalls Etah with 400 residents, snow huts, no mayor, police, or schools, and compares life there to New York.
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Méne Peary Wallace
North
Greenland
Peary
Denmark
C. W. Schuster
Naturalization Bureau
New York
Mene
Etah
Pole
Cap Siddon
New Master Explosive Reported by Notre Dame Scientist
Rev. Dr. Julius A. Nieuwland of Notre Dame University Indiana announces a new explosive named Silver Picric acetylide. Early experiments in the local laboratory show its power is greater than any known agent, with a particle reportedly wrecking test apparatus two months ago.
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Julius A. Nieuwland
Notre Dame University
Indiana
Doctor Nieuwland
Our mistakes of yesterday shape today’s worries
A brief reflection notes that past errors influence present concerns and anxieties. It emphasizes looking back to understand current mindsets and to avoid repeating missteps. The tone is cautionary and reflective.
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BY Mary Roberts
Rinehart
Jade Drummond
Mimi
Sidney Page
Palmer
Doctor Ed
Harriet Kennedy
Mrs. Rosenfeld
Stearns
U. 8
Mene Peary Wallace
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