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Newspaper
Canora Advertiser
Location
Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
2
A London Daily Telegraph report extols a united imperial surge behind Britain. Dominions, colonies, and India rally to the Motherland with ships troops food and money offered in a shared life and death struggle for imperial liberty and survival.
Advert claims Holloway's Corn Cure yields relief from corns for users. Says informed apply remedy to ease discomfort.
The piece explains that while the eye can often protect itself, embedded debris requires quick attention. It discusses amateur use of an eyestone, warns against it, and oddly suggests a friend applying their tongue to the eyeball for relief and relief of redness, noting warmth and secretions aid healing.
A literary club quarrel cites a candidate who boasted speaking several dead languages. An opponent retorts that the man spoke only one language and murdered it as he went along, a jibe attributed to the San Antonio Express.
Fragmentary dialogue references a money's worth remark and a complimentary ticket. Mentions taking in boarders this summer and a question about whether something has been found out. No clear event or person identified.
The Washington Star quotes Dr. Lyman Abbott at an antisuffrage tea in New York calling women the weaker sex and claiming some women can bend a man’s will during life and break it after death. Also cited is a Kansas City Journal fragment about a girl sharing chocolate with another man.
Mrs Ham of Shamrock Missouri reports severe health decline with inflammation congestion sleeplessness and weakness. She describes fear hot spells and a sore right side nearly leading to grave illness or asylum before trying a medicine at home. The note expresses duty to inform the public about her condition and experience.
A bridal party motorist to church in Dargoed Glamorganshire swerved when rice blinded the chauffeur. The ten mile per hour crash toppled the car, pinning the groom and best man while the bride and bridesmaid fled. Juries and others unhurt, party resumed by horse coach after dress repairs.
The article estimates per soldier death costs across wars, noting about 25 000 dollars in present conflicts and 21 000 in 1870 Franco Prussian War. It cites France spending 460 million in war expenses and 200 million on related costs, with German deaths at 28 000 and Japanese casualties 58 600 costing 20 400 per death. It discusses disease and hygiene affecting death tolls.
The article recalls buttermilk from boyhood porches and notes its healthful bacteria aided digestion. It cites Metchnikov and Bulgarian longevity linked to sour milk, mentions artificially made buttermilk and its growing daily consumption in cities, and describes clabbered milk served cool with cream and light seasonings.
A teacher argues that constant speech disrupts student concentration and written work. The piece compares classroom noise to battle, suggesting quieter instruction aids retention and focus, citing Napoleon as a historical reference to discipline and leadership.
Lord Minto, then vice royalty in India, once relays a tale from Simla when a sentry barred him at the commander-in-chief’s residence. The viceroy explains his rank but the guard refuses entry, prompting a wry exchange about recognition.
A fragmented Detroit Free Press line notes a science themed salesman entering a shop to purchase a celluloid collar, reflecting a quirky ad or feature item in early 20th century retail.
A fragment touts a crowd drawn by a declaration of the strongest athlete in the region. No further event details are readable to specify name, place, or date.
Fragmentary text from a newspaper page presents unreadable names and details, offering no coherent event or clearly identifiable entities to summarize or date.
The article notes rising use of creosote and zinc chloride preservatives in wood treatment, with over 152 million cubic feet treated and about 23 percent more than 1912. It cites Canada, Britain, and the United States, highlighting low treated shares in US cross ties and the recent growth of treated timber usage.
The American Society of Civil Engineers formed a special committee of eminent engineers to assess the need for a national water law in the United States. The committee lists potential interstate difficulties including cross border water transfers, upper state impacts, border-stream issues, storage for transit, cross drainage prohibitions, unsafe works, swamp drainage effects, pollution, and international treaty ambiguities.
The article explains the thoroughbred as a racing horse tracing pure Arab and Libyan lineage. It covers English noblemen seeking faster mounts, importing sires from Flanders Normandy and Spain, and notes that between 1686 and 1712 three Arabian horses boosted speed and refinement of offspring.
A Maxton Saskatchewan reader testifies after using Dr Chase s Nerve Food claiming improved sleep and regained energy. The letter also touches amortization in finance and mentions Parmerece s Vegetable Pills as a safe stomach remedy.
A terse exchange hints at a friend whose ego shapes actions. One speaker notes the friend’s possible expectations if not torn, suggesting a dramatic moment of doubt and future inquiry.
A light anecdote from Ladies' Home Journal portrays Mrs Newbride hurrying into her husband Herbert with a recipe that instructs to sit on a hot stove and stir constantly. He replies dryly that if done on a hot stove, she would stir constantly, prompting a gentle chuckle about kitchen antics.
A Baltimore American quip notes a bride’s perpetual misfortune in choosing a best man, delivering a wry, local voice about wedding mishaps. The line evokes a light, period tone reflecting social banter in communities.
A Buffalo Express item recalls Columbus returning to Spain after meeting Indigenous people. He traded trinkets and beads for gifts including cotton balls parrots and cassava bread. The strangest present was a native bed called hamoc a coarse net hammock hung between posts. It questions if hammocks belong to old history while noting a modern line about Jiggs losing money in a vacuum process venture.
A wartime verse by Harold Begbie urges loyalty to industry and thrift. It praises the man who keeps his head and his business steady as ships return from war, promising aid to heroes and orphans and condemnation of traitors who hoard wealth.
A Breeders' Gazette report details a government inquiry into twenty eight farms near Conway Arkansas. It finds horses idle more than two thirds of good weather days and calls for planned, steady work to cut feed costs and avoid idle land.
A brief note extols Dr J D Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy for removing the cause of asthma. The ad claims the treatment dispels the cloud of attacks and restores normal bodily vigor and mental happiness.
The government maintains a constant watch on Canadian food prices and receives regular fluctuation reports. While many commodities show price advances, some increases are not profitably driven, and authorities with broad powers to curb price extortion have shown declines in such abuses.
A fragment shows Mrs Goodside speaking to a child named Higginas about appetite and having little else to call her own. The exchange hints at hardship and family bonds in a terse dialogue snippet.
A Washington jockey recalls an over anxious owner and a conscientious rider during a meet. The discussion covers provisions for old time emergencies and reflects the jockey’s bemusement at the scene. Star Boarder and Landlady are referenced in a humorous exchange about race costs and watering.
The 1661 rising led by Thomas Venner of the fifth monarchy sect sparked a military response in London. The skirmish from Coleman Street to Highgate prompted strong measures that disbanded irregular troops and reorganized the army around the Life Guards Blues Grenadier and Coldstream Guards as the core forces.
An advertisement extols Putnam's Corn and Wart Extractor as a painless one day cure for warts and hand imperfections claiming many women feel unattractive without it. The copy urges readers to try this corn and wart remedy.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes claims of the greatest armies while recalling Xerxes invasion of Greece. Herodotus lists 2,641,610 fighters, with some modern estimates including camp followers pushing totals past five million.
A Washington Post excerpt notes that conductor punch marks are uniquely registered on major railroads and traced by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Conductor punches require seven signed papers before issue, ensuring each ticket can be linked to the specific conductor, train, and road. The piece also references old sayings about punches and a brief literary aside from the Boston Transcript dialogue.
Sleep begins with distraction causing absentmindedness and axis movement in the eyes. It notes a third phase follows, concluding the sequence.
A brief item from the Louisville Courier-Journal advises marriage to a bright, successful woman as a path to happiness, noting social norms and legal limits.
The piece urges immediate government and business action to seize German and Austrian trade previously handled abroad and in colonies. It calls for rapid information collection, samples, and a move away from passive free trade to a proactive postwar recovery, balancing unemployment without delaying efforts. The text includes a humor strip about military misdirection.
In a quoted anecdote from London and Wall Street, a renowned engineer boasts on the stand that he is the greatest in his field, provoking a payroll dispute with a large corporation. He then admits the remark under oath, acknowledging the risk of public acclaim.
A terse notice outlines adoption of a doctrinal policy amid ambiguous text. Readable fragments mention the governing body and a vote, with limited context on scope or dates. Further details are not provided in the surviving fragment.
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