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Newspaper
Canora Advertiser
Location
Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1914
Page
6
Toronto based Fetheratonhaugl and Co located on King Street East leads a patent filing effort. The firm operates from a canal area office and is noted for legal notices concerning intellectual property.
Observers describe a copper smelter's fallout with no vegetation and sulphur laden air. Trees lose leaves while the area gains a curious benefit as saplings bear sulfur crusted twigs usable as natural matches, highlighting environmental impact and unintended utility.
A diary excerpt recalls a Dutch widow with twenty five marriages in the seventeenth century. The note hints at her successive spouses and a lingering suspicion of foul play, though no proof of murder is shown. The piece contrasts modern delays with efforts to improve on-time performance.
A brief quip recalls a husband who took an engineering correspondence course. The punchline centers on misheard terms stationary engineer and a traveler’s remark about an auto trip described as mostly fine.
Edmonton reader recounts severe female troubles and organ inflammation leading to bed confinement. After medical advice, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is credited with helping her avoid surgery following three bottles. The letter highlights relief and gratitude to the product.
Beatrice Nebraska resident Mrs R B Camp says after three doctors and a refused operation she used several bottles of Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and her left side pain stopped. She reports good health and two young daughters.
Instructions describe heating knife blades in boiling water, removing handles, and treating with resins and porous materials. It covers cleaning surplus metal, applying olive oil, storing dry, and inspecting for rust every three months.
The French president’s wife, Mme Poincare, has quietly attained a role akin to a reigning consort in official life. She has been officially received by the German ambassador and treated as first lady, winning Parisian admiration for grace and tact.
The head of the house storms downstairs in anger seeking his tennis shirt as his wife calmly recounts a mistaken search. Dorothy borrowed the shirt for a garden party, finding it suitable for a blouse while the family considers Margaret's wardrobe needs.
A Fam and Fireside contributor outlines a seven day incubation method. After cooling for ten minutes, hold each egg to the cheek to sense warmth. Warm eggs indicate fertility. cold or slightly warm eggs suggest weak or absent germ, with longer incubation aiding distinction.
A teacher criticizes rote math drills and tests a riddle about an umbrella. He assigns 100 puzzles to spark thinking, causing mixed results as the brain fever hospitals fill with worried children before he is dismissed without a character.
The dialogue debates how U S senators should be chosen with one advocating progressivism. The other remains unsure about endorsing popular elections while recalling the historical method of legislative selection.
Public education in New York began with the Free School Society founded in 1805. It relied on public subscriptions before the legislature of 1842 created the Board of Education. The society’s schools operated until 1853 when they were transferred to the board.
A senator and a major walk along an avenue. The senator is described as middle aged and heavier, while the major shows affection for him despite a sharp outward remark about noticing him.
A student answered the exam question Who was Cyclops by claiming Cyclops was the man who wrote the encyclopedia. The misfit response reflects a class prank amid a mythology course and final exam.
An unsettled summer heiress meets a newcomer at a resort and questions a prior romantic link as he handles payments related to the heiress. The dialogue suggests tension over past involvement and financial ties in a coastal setting.
Unable to determine meaning from the readable fragment. No clear event person or organization to summarize.
The Coorg people hold a ceremonial hunting ritual. After resting, they pursue game with dogs, noting omens if the jungle is about to beat. After a successful day, animals are cut and shared, with a ritual payback to shooters and touchers, then the crowd praises winners. Those who fired and missed are flogged in a thorn circle as punishment for missing.
Government officials periodically compare the standard pound and yard to the old measures sealed behind a wall in the House of Commons. The platinum pound weighs about a cubic inch and the bronze yard spans thirty eight inches with thirty six divisions. The two standards are carefully packed and sealed in silver gilt and oak boxes before being embedded in the wall to form a small tomb that must be dismantled to access them.
A royal doorkeeper kept two parrots during a royal visit. One, taught to shout Good save the King, spoke relentlessly, while the other remained silent. King George roared with laughter at the parrots' antics.
London Standard reports rose colored snow in the Alps mainly over the Todi group of mountains. The snow contained fine sand particles, believed to be Sahara sand blown across the sea to the Italian Alps. The rose snow lingered in the upper air for weeks before descent.
Mrs Binks speaks to an assistant about buying for her ill husband while a doctor advised against starch. The scene mixes domestic concerns with a medical note on starch avoidance and hints at a distant topic of a large dairy farm.
Fragmentary text hints at declarations by Jebasing-Say and Mr. Dorman regarding a ticket. No clear actions or outcomes are stated in the readable lines.
An article notes French and North African practices to maximize yields by intensive soil contact, slipping and pruning. An Algerian colonist reports planting wheat and oats in alternating furrows twenty inches apart, harrowing regularly, yielding about 180 pounds of oats and 1,600 of wheat per acre over five years versus neighbors’ 80 and 500.
Take one cupful of fine salt and heat. Mix one half cup of corn starch and one half cup of water add color and perfume if desired. Stir into hot salt and heat until like putty. Cool, knead, cut out with a thimble, roll into smooth beads, and let set on pins to harden. Beads can be molded immediately if rolled long enough. Any juice can color. Minard's Liniment cures diphtheria.
A boy stands on a burning deck while seamen react with surprise. The text shifts to odd lines about asbestos slippers and a confused old man asking what is being fished for.
An advice notice promotes Parmelees Vegetable Pils as a remedy for flatulence and stomach pains caused by undigested food. It claims belching ceases once digestion is restored and provides simple directions with each packet for a systematic course to effect a cure.
In a lighthearted exchange cited by the Boston Transcript a farmer boasts a homemade scarecrow dressed in women's fashion to frighten crows. He claims the ploy worked, saying it frightened the birds away from his corn this year.
A clergyman notes a parishioner has little to be thankful for while mentioning neighbor Hayes who has just lost his wife to influenza. The remark reveals insensitive comparisons in a parish setting.
A fragment invokes Lincoln’s idea that action should decrease when it causes hurt. The brief line hints at moral restraint and personal judgment guiding conduct and effort. The source text remains incomplete but centers on ethical restraint.
A shopper recalls a salesman’s evasive reply as the color drained from his face under sharp questioning. The scene reflects a tense exchange during a routine sales visit.
A garbled antiquated text fragment describes rain imagery and a whimsical sausage machine idea. The passages mention Patber-Well and Americana in a stream of jumbled phrases. No clear narrative or event emerges from the readable lines.
A tall lanky traveler and a fussy companion quarrel during a long ride from New York to Philadelphia. The tall man stretches at Trenon, prompting a and a warning about double fare and a private compartment. The record reflects a humorous clash on the journey.
A historic windmill named Radet is moved from Montmartre to the Place Jean Clement for a public spectacle. First located on Butte Saint Roche in 1268, it was relocated in 1834 from Saint-Joche to its current position. The Benedictine abbey archives note the mill’s rental history dating to the fourteenth century.
The piece argues that human promises fail over time while money remains constant. It contrasts liberal impulses with self interest, urging reliance on cash as a reliable bet. The message reflects skepticism about idealism and endorses practical financial caution.
The text contemplates a violet blue high sky as a constant, unaffected by winds or weather. It describes a serene, jewel bright firmament above the restless earth and ocean, symbolizing limitless space and the vast calm beyond weathered landscapes.
A New Yorker staying in a Southern town asks a colored porter to wake him. The porter explains that to be called in the morning, the guest should press the headboard button and they will respond.
Prof Henry Crookes in London described radium decay as atom breakdown with electrons flying off at about two thirds light speed. He likened the unseen electrons to tiny particles and compared magnified drops of water to giant atoms the size of walnuts or cricket balls.
A dialogue from Hickvilly P2 features a judge arguing that illiterates should be banished from the country while a prominent figure endorses removal for those unable to read or write. The mounted discussion reflects attitudes toward literacy in a contested era.
Dialogue excerpt shows Pat apologizing for breaking the Sabbath to take a scarce job last Sunday, earning four dollars, with Mr. Goodman reacting in disbelief. The exchange reflects themes of work, morality, and constraints in a historical setting.
Suburban residents note morning sounds outside their windows with mixed feelings. A city resident recalls preferring quiet mornings over the unsettling groan of wind or shifting grass.
The item notes canvas work gloves available for twenty five cents in common borefitting styles across department stores.
A-Siow asks for guidance to prevent torn items from entering the adcept process at Purple Cow. B-Ton expresses concern about ters in the same setting.
Sailors trading with natives in the Solomon Islands are attacked after a cordial exchange. Most sailors die. two survivors are bound ashore and later escape. The cannibals prepare a feast as alcohol renders the group drunk, allowing the pair to flee in a small boat and reach Australia via subsequent vessels.
A small crowd gathered outside a store window where an automatic typewriter was on exhibition. Two women stopped to watch the keys bob up and down, one quipping that it would be the kind of typewriter her husband should have in his office.
A Glasgow constable recounts Skye medicines as a contrast to city drugstores. He notes two: tar for sheep and whisky for people, highlighting rural simplicity versus urban abundance.
Dr J D Kellogg's asthma remedy is presented as distinctly different from other cures. It claims to have continued its great relief work from ocean to ocean, earning a lasting reputation among thousands who have benefited from its value.
Senator Martine recalls a farm hand who muses on the usefulness of chickens. The man ponders while feeding the flock and declares that chickens are useful only for food while alive and after death, in a humorous regional recount of a farm scene.
A家庭 member is described as obsessed with germs and keeping a sterile home. The narrator notes she does not get along with relatives or even her own kin due to this extreme preoccupation.
Britain uses about 285 million tons of coal yearly. Factories raise steam with over 60 million, households need 34 million, iron and steel about the same. Mines consume 20 million, gas works 15 million, and railways 12 million annually.
Bartram compares budget dressing to an upper berth saying it fits within the income limit as Normandie questions affordability in the Panch Bowl.
A Nova Scotia reader from Inverness writes that Dr Chase's Ointment is the best treatment for protruding piles after three years of suffering. The advert promises prompt relief and cure for all forms of piles and notes the ointment is sold by all dealers.
A contributor recommends a simple window cleaning method using a bag of emery floor. Rub the bag over the glass to polish and remove streaks, claiming it cleans more easily than other methods.
A pasted recipe lists a sachet powder mix of starch orria powder essence of ambergris bergamot oil with a fine sieve step. Additional notes describe using cornmeal as body powder. The passage shifts to a humorous dialogue featuring a husband and wife about marriage, a Sunday school teacher and a girl, a mistress and a maid in clipped fashion.
Linguistic fragments show two speakers bantering about noise and progress in an improvised, compressed exchange. The dialogue hints at aspiration toward rising social class through a playful line about the anvil chorus.
A grandmother praises a girl noting her father's eyes as the girl and young woman discuss hair. The exchange, captured in the Louisville Courier-Journal, ends with the girl claiming the hair belongs to her sister and a question about borrowing.
An exchange quotes Miss Car enne from the Waslington Star saying truth may be stranger than fiction or merely scarcer, reflecting a witty contrast between reality and imagination. The remark highlights literary humor in a newspaper tone.
New York Edison company has perfected a system at Waterside station to remove soot and cinders from boiler emissions. Smoke is driven through a water sleet into a large tank, catching nearly all nuisance material. Test shows an average 95 percent extraction.
London Opinion notes a recruit named Dean discusses the criteria for burial with military honors. The piece reflects on service, sacrifice, and public recognition in a concise opinion column.
A fragmented report discusses the whaling industry across the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico. It notes shifting catches, local conditions, and potential restrictions impacting harpoon stations and profits amid rising expenses and regulatory limits.
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