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Newspaper
Canora Advertiser
Location
Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
5
Sunday edition noting Che Canova proprietor and advertiser status with historical date. The item confirms ownership and business branding in a local paper fragment dated Thursday December 13 917.
A garbled OCR style list enumerates small electrical tasks and household chores claimed to be done for two cents. Items include heating water daily, powering an electrical clock for ten years, lighting cigars and hats, and various domestic duties like warming meals, pumping water, and ironing. The fragment presents an absurd catalog of cheap electricity powered services.
The author notes the Russian Duma as splendid to watch with attentive galleries. Peasants appear proud and content during sessions and women attend, removing hats and listening intently as the body conducts its business for the people.
Tom Bryant recalls a misaddressed move and a vanished honeymoon mystery as he reveals how a decoy of paint and wrong door led to a wild chase, a missing wife, and a hoax involving storage men and a Bronx apartment. The tale spans friendship, past romance, and urban panic, ending with a humorous street-number mix up on Fifty-eighth Street.
A sketch shows an Ate type couch spring made ineffective by sag. Mechanic bends wire sections with a monkey wrench to stiffen the spring, aiming for near original performance. Uniform bending ensures even strain distribution and lasting repair.
In this vignette from old London life writer Geo. KR Sime recalls a back lodging where a neighbor overheard a murder cry. A woman explains she and others would not intervene or leave bed each time the word murder was heard, deeming it a nightly nuisance.
The harbor lies well inside the Arctic on the shores of the Polar Sea and remains accessible during winter months, offering refuge and transit capabilities despite extreme cold conditions.
Fragmentary OCR item notes an article on printer's ink and labor tasks. The wording is unclear and names or dates are not readable. The readable fragment references printing work and the general theme of jobs but lacks concrete events or entities.
A folklore note claims an Idaho acacia known as the angry tree grows about eight feet tall and nightly curls its leaves and twigs. If disturbed it shakes violently and may emit a nauseating odor, a tale linked to campers and a dug up specimen.
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