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Newspaper
Canora Advertiser
Location
Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
2
A 1920s style plea promotes Bon-Opto tablets promising dramatic eye relief. It urges readers to get the prescription filled by mail from a Toronto firm, claiming cures for eye strain cataracts conjunctivitis and other conditions while warning against neglect and dependency on glasses.
Recent notes describe Doctor Pierce, head of the Invalides' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, claiming Anuric removes uric acid more effectively than lithia. Benefits cited include relief from backache, scalding urine, frequent urination, and rheumatic joint pain, with rapid improvement in acute rheumatism, gravel, and gout.
An analysis describes early war use of wheeled and fixed steel shields. It notes large shields failed under shell fire and infantry assaults, with only smaller shields offering partial protection. The piece argues concealment and individual initiative remain key, tracing shields back to ancient siege tactics.
Dr. Thomas Eclectric Ol was launched over thirty years ago for a small market but quickly gained universal appeal. It soon found demand across a continent and is now valued throughout the hemisphere with no equal.
The Winnipeg telegraph reports progress toward a planned army of half a million. Alberta exceeds its proportional target while Quebec lags, needing about 136,000 additional recruits for its share. Enlistments total roughly 315,000 nationwide.
The article notes the affordable cost of Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator, claiming it is within reach of all and available at any druggist's.
Manitoba farmers eye Mexico tied supply as a trust raises binder twine prices. United States capitalists and Mexican planters form a network to boost costs, with 1916 projections of a half million dollars more. Yucatan’s Sisal hemp estates feed the market amid potential wartime disruption.
The increasing effectiveness of anti aircraft batteries and improved projectiles and firing methods have given the gun a 60 percent edge over eighteen months ago. Guns are arranged on a mathematical system with rapid fire and extended belts of fire forcing pilots to fly higher, with some planes brought down from 8 000 feet and even 10 000 feet not deemed safe.
Louis Champagne of Millerand Ontario reports renewed health after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He describes kidney disease backache and fatigue before two boxes restored strength and urges others with similar symptoms to try the remedy. A Scotsman jokes with aHQ officer about persistence. A novel electric washing machine advertises hands free operation.
An article recounts a voyage aboard the steamship Tabanar through the Suez Canal with sandbag protection on deck and turkish forces reported on the east side. The traveler notes a French aeroplane station, wrecked hydroplane, Indian and Austrian troops, mine sweeps, and French warships meeting the ship near the Red Sea as British forces maintain canal defenses.
An officer attached to the British Salonika Expedition details discoveries from trenches diggings. A grave yields bones beads and iron spearheads dated around 1200 BC, with artifacts sent to Athens. The note links archaeology to Macedonian history amid wartime life and odd local anecdotes.
A distressed young man presses a coquette for a verdict on love and death. He threatens self harm at her gate if she does not answer yes or no, while she pleads that his father should not permit such showing.
The piece argues Alberta can meet local demand for cheese as prices stay high this season. It highlights the province's natural resources, cool nights, and feed availability as keys to a future with a premier cheese industry rivaling Denmark, especially in the lower foothills and long slopes from the Rockies.
A mother from Blissfield Ontario extols Baby's Own Tablets as the best medicine for babies. The Dr Williams Medicine Co offers them at 25 cents a box by dealers or mail. A Sunday School anecdote about Noah’s ark ends with a joke about two worms on the ark.
The ad claims Nerviline penetrates deeper than past liniments to relieve back and side pain. It guarantees relief or money back and notes pricing of 25 or 50 cents, sold by druggists or direct from The Catarrhone Co in Kingston, Canada.
An officer recalls a year ago in Flanders when Canadian troops halted the German drive toward Calais amid heavy casualties. The 85 percent casualty rate among the Princess Pats highlights the sacrifice made by Canadians who left October 1914 to defend Britain and France.
The readable fragments describe a wartime scene with machines, space and supplies, hinting at German conflict and Allied disruption. The prose mixes imagery of engines, petrol, and urgency, mentioning Us and Meur taser in a tense, collapsing wartime atmosphere.
A fragment notes a brisk US passage via ocean route amid rumors of naval movement. Names and places are obscured, leaving unclear who authored the report or exact theater of operations.
Fragmentary OCR text from a legal or court page shows jumbled names and terms with unclear dates or places. The readable bits hint at a judicial proceeding or verdict but lack coherent details to identify parties, action, or outcome. The item lacks verifiable entities to anchor a precise summary.
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