Feathers tone of danger grows as Daly threat looms
Foster and Featherstone confront a letter from Daly summoning Featherstone to Hexham, hinting Lawrence's advantage if seen. They discuss Lawrence's troubled past, the risks of arrest, and the need to bluff off the threat to protect the family and partner. Foster vows to face the crisis.
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Lawrence
Featherstone
Foster
Daly
Hexham
the Garth
England
Wrence
Canada
Lance
Son
City Boys on the Farm
The article argues that teenage boys volunteering for farm work during vacations could help alleviate labor shortages in Canada. It calls for better organization, registration, inspection, housing, meals, and clear pay, with an emphasis on safe hours and educational value to encourage future farming careers.
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Canada
War of Corruption and Russia’s Subjugation
In late 1917, after three and a half years of war, Germany’s key conquest is Russia, achieved not by battlefield victory but by corruption. German bribes allegedly caused paralysis in the Russian army, enabling German generals to press their advantage as treachery spread.
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Germany
Russia
Ces
William Roscie Trayer
Saturday Evening Post
Eastern Canada to Plant Millions of Acres This Spring
Great Production Plans aim to plant 1,000,000 acres of cereals and crops in Ontario with Quebec at 600,000 and the Maritime Provinces at 400,000 acres. Eastern farmers are urged to plant five acres of farm extra, totaling 400,000 farmers helping to save the situation.
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Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Canada
Purse Found In Paper Advertisement Seeks Return
An advertisement notes a gentleman found a purse with money asks the loser to forward it. A later notice identifies the finder and asks the rightful owner to call at his house.
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Tis House
France Advances in Battle by Quiet Resolve
A portrait of France as calm and radiant amid conflict, praised for intellect and steadfast truth. The description casts France as stepping into battle with quiet strength, presenting beauty and resolve to observers.
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France
New York Tribune
Catarrhozone Inhaler Promises Fast Relief for Colds
An old folks remedy touts Catarrhozone inhaler as superior to syrups for coughs catarrh and bronchitis. It claims breathing the balsamic vapor soothes throat lungs and bronchial tubes with quick relief and no stomach involvement. Available in large and small sizes with nationwide store availability.
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Kingston
Canada
Milk Is Cheapest Food Available for Canadians
A digest arguing milk provides the best value among foods with price comparisons to meat eggs oysters and fruits. It notes maple sugar syrup and potatoes as plentiful and highlights Canadian farming efficiency and nutrition, urging widespread milk consumption to lower living costs.
Egg Trade Advice for Canadian Farmers and Poultry Keepers
War and food notes discuss how 95 percent of Canadian eggs come from farms and how eggs move from country stores to wholesalers and retailers. It lists farmer steps to reduce losses, including clean poultry houses, separating roosters, drying nests, gathering twice daily, cooling storage, and candling out poor or small eggs.
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Newcastle
Canada
British Metals Bill Sparks Berlin Paper Clash
The British Metals Bill from the Colonial Institute of Hamburg targetting future German metal control is criticized by the Berlin Daily Paper. It argues such discriminatory laws would provoke endless reprisals and poison the postwar economic atmosphere unless abolished by the peace treaty.
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Economic Service
Colonial Institute of Hamburg
Berlin
Germany
Swiddled Writes New Three Act Comedy
London Opinion quotes a joke where Swiddled’s three act comedy is read to a trio of old friends. Each critic declares a different act superfluous, revealing a quirky consensus about the work.
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Swiddled
London
Ajax image drawn by the Kaiser sparks global scorn
The New York Evening Post describes the Kaiser as a fading hero casting himself as a glittering Ajax, yet such self view risks making him an out law and pariah untouched by any nation.
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Ajax
Kaiser
New York Evening Post
March to Victory and Spring Blood Tonic Advertising
An old advertisement extols courage and health through blood. promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and a spring tonic made from Blood root and other herbs. Claims alcohol free and safe, available in Buffalo New York and branches in Bridgeburg Ontario and Saskatoon. Includes testimonial about the tonic aiding a boy’s health.
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Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Invalids
German Prisoners Try Escape From Camps Scarce Punishments
The Prussian Way reports prisoners of war and officers including Captain von Mueller of the Emden attempted escapes from English camps and received mild punishment. Holmberg a Swedish allied prisoner in Germany is jailed three years for seeking liberty. Germans lament Garros the famed French airman escape. The Lekal Anzeiger calls it a mystery with tighter watch after Holmberg’s failed breakout.
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von Mueller
Emden
Holmberg
Germany
Garros
Lekal-Anzeiger
Juvenile Agriculturists Win Prizes in Saskatchewan
The Sas katchewan director of agricultural extension reports youth farming efforts by Craik agricultural society leader F N Spencer. Over four years he has given a half bushel of registered seed wheat to teen age boys and offered cash prizes for top experiment results. Three boys won at the Farm Boys Camp in Regina. One attends the college of agriculture and two attended short courses there.
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Saskatchewan
F. N. Spencer
Craik Agricultural Society
Farm Boys
Regina
The
College of Agriculture
If the Kaiser Would Only Lead One He Exclaims
A fragmented quote references the Kaiser and leadership in Philadelphia as a speech fragment appears in the OCR. The readable portion hints at a public comment or reaction but lacks full context or attribution.
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Philadelphia
Heartfelt letter from a 13 year old French girl to a war worker
A Brownsville Herald excerpt presents a 13 year old French girl writing to a U.S. war worker. She imagines a narrow river between France and the United States where enemies stand apart yet hearts touch across the water. She envisions a vast ocean separating nations, with distant hearts still linked by hope.
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Washington
France
The
Brownsville Herald
Prince Edward Island Sees Large Potato Output Expected
The provincial department of agriculture reports 75 000 bushels of potatoes among PEI vegetables grown in backward and vacant lot farming. Prospects this year suggest a material increase over last year as special garden lots are being laid out.
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Dominion
Germany
Canada
Enquirer
Canada Food Board
T. A. Crerar
House of Commons
Miss Roberta
Food Board
B. E
Boys of
S.O.S
Ontario
Jean
Charles Dunning
Prince Edward Island
Department of Agriculture
Department of Special
How to Grow Potatoes in Canada Bulletin
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the potato to Ireland three centuries ago and its rise to global food importance is traced. W S Macoun explains cultivation practices in a hundred page Ottawa bulletin from the Department of Agriculture, with soil prep, seedlings, planting, pests, timing, districts, and storage.
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Walter Raleigh
Ireland
Royal Society of England
Scotland
France
W. ST. Macoun
Domunion Horticulturist
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Mr. Macoun
Dominion
Oldest joke unearthed in Egypt a mummy pun
A Canadian Sapper piece notes an ancient joke from Egypt where a prince overhears during his mother’s funeral procession and a friend quips about “there goes your mummy.” The line plays on the word mummy as both mother and wrapped corpse.
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Egypt
Caesar
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