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Newspaper
Canora Advertiser
Location
Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
3
Fragmentary excerpt discusses fat in military rations and its roles in energy and warmth. It notes fat as energy storage and hints at morale impact, mentioning butter and diet as factors in fighting efficiency. The text is incomplete and probes how diet affects soldier performance.
A column promotes a familiar remedy noting its well known ingredients and wide manufacturer use. It claims about 80 percent success in one week and offers a money back guarantee. The piece also urges buying from reputable druggists and mentions Wales Drug as a supplier.
Last year Canada produced a historic crop with 343 million bushels from the three western provinces. This year yields drop due to labor shortages, lighter acreage, and unfavorable conditions, but unofficial counts suggest higher returns than official estimates. Despite lower per acre yields, high grain prices boost farmers' incomes, with many earning substantial amounts per acre.
An unclear. The text describes a dreary Glasgow Sunday with a fat jovial man leaving a hotel and wandering, but the passage is garbled and contains nonsensical phrases. No coherent events or names are definitively identifiable.
A 100 page volume summarizes reports from the Spanish Embassy in Berlin and Red Cross delegates on German prison camps. It accuses theft, killings, executions, inhumane transport, abuse by guards, forced labor, and severe overcrowding. Photographs and testimonies from crippled soldiers and nurses are included.
A writer pleads to reject long term punishment of the German people and to avoid hate after victory. They argue nations cannot hate forever and call for defense against future threats while pursuing a peace that prevents renewed war.
Samuel McRoberts describes a shift in global outlook with a League of Peace argument and observations on Russia. He notes Russia’s modern cities, railways, agriculture, and vast resource base while contrasting its development with U.S. practices and wartime ambitions. The piece quotes Viscount Bryce on pacific negotiation and world entanglements.
A correspondent visiting Essex fields after the Zeppelins fall describes the airship L33 as a massive, lightly built craft with a 680 foot length and two million feet of gas. He notes four gondolas with Mercedes engines, a cat walk, bomb dropping gear, and a crew of twenty two. warns of new regulations to curb wreckage removal.
A clergyman keeps a custom of kissing the bride after the ceremony. A yon woman faced a diminished fee for a service, though she expected the full charge.
A fragment notes avoiding fingerprints at police headquarters and mentions time suited to being alive.
Canada faces costly forest losses from settlers clearing fires. Provinces including British Columbia Quebec New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have adopted permits signed by forest officers to curb fires. Ontario may follow this winter with similar measures while prairie provinces Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba may also consider action to protect vast forest reserves and local timber needs.
Jones the Welshman reportedly eloped with his wife, details unclear in the Tan Tah Chronicle.
Mrs Owens ponders whether the doctors Wile meant anything personal in their note. The fragment suggests a possible personal tone but offers limited context or confirmed details.
Allied forces push on the Somme widening a German line hole. If the line collapses Zeppelins will lose bases in Belgium and Germany, reducing raid reach. Expert opinion says hangars and their contents would be vulnerable and moves into safer interior would shrink Zeppelin strafe capabilities.
A farm youth should pursue business ventures with parental support rather than interference. Parents often stifle budding enterprise. cooperative work with children can be educational and productive, fostering initiative and pride. Such home industry, with parental guidance, offers almost unlimited opportunities for farm boys and girls to develop small money making specialties.
A Pioneer report denounces liquor as crippling war efforts in Ontario and urges immediate total prohibition. It condemns both licensed saloons and hostesses serving alcohol to officers, calling for patriotic action to protect soldiers and national resolve.
The Canadian Bank of Commerce estimates in its September commercial letter that the chief cereal products of Canada wheat oats and barley will this year be 38 percent above the average of 1910 to 1915 inclusive.
Dr. J A Macdonald of Toronto spoke in Chicago at an Inois Society banquet marking Yorktown's 135th anniversary. He linked Anglo-Saxon liberty to North American ideas, recalling Highlander families from Nova Scotia and the Cornwallis Apple Tree while tracing a shared heritage of self-government.
A waggish debtor avoids payment by asking if the tailor owes anyone else. The tailor insists on payment, and the exchange spirals into a playful tangle about debt and waiting. An audience member jokes about Henford being a pacifist, while a script fragment hints at plans for the evening.
The Dutch government pledges readiness to defend neutrality against any belligerent act while avoiding siding with Britain or Germany. Queen Wilhelmina leads daily councils and contributes to protest notes, as the nation expands its army and builds submarines. The king consort, Prince Henry, serves under General Schneider in Red Cross duties to stay detached from state secrets.
The Official Press Bureau in London reports Britain will extend the state unemployment insurance act to all workers in trades linked to munitions and related materials as a five year plan. It covers ammunition, chemicals, metals, rubber, leather, wood products, and soldiers equipment, with rates identical to the 1931 act and penalties for nonpayment.
An official Trade and Commerce notice cites high prices for Canadian butter and cheese. It provides statistics from 1915 and 1916 showing monthly import increases and a jump in cheese imports from 188,928 to 210,? hundreds, highlighting supply and demand factors.
A partial, garbled passage references a landlady and cook named Katara with uncertain dialogue about soup. The fragment shows confusion over what was said and who made the comment, with no clear event or outcome.
Partial OCR shows a quoted exchange where She claims their father would object to Thad kissing She, while He doubts any reaction. The text is incomplete and lacks context or dates.
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