Western Canada farm lands surge in demand for crops
A 1919 survey notes record demand for Western Canada farm lands as prices rise yet land yields attractive crops. Buyers seek productive open prairie, with sales of 160 to 1,200 acres and prices from 35 to 50 dollars per acre reported. The boom mirrors wartime food needs and future corn prospects.
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Canada
Western Canada
North Dakota
Italy
France
Belgium
Great Britain
United States
Negiin
Regina
Regua
Moosejaw
J. 8. Ameron
Victoria
B. C
John Logan
Treh
Garfield Tea Adv Seeks Cure Amid Rejected Butler
Fragmentary ad style text mentions avoiding drug cathartics and preferring Nature's herb Garfield Tea. It includes phrases about a weak threat and a rejected butler, with a stray line about two men in Minnesota.
Cuticura Ads Promote Soothing Baby Rashes
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for soothing baby rashes with Cauticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and mentions Cuticura Talcum. The ad claims the products are purer and sweeter and notes the price as 25e each. A second line adds an odd speed fact about a snail moving one mile in 14 days.
Yankees Build Great Military Port at Brest
Brest France becomes a vast American military port with Pountanezen and Kerhuon camps housing tens of thousands of troops. The port handles 4 000 to 8 000 debarkations daily, with 40 000 men in residence and plans to expand to 120 000, while sanitary and medical safeguards ensure 100 percent physical fitness for ship deployment.
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Brest
Pountanezen
Kerhuon
United States
Few Americans in Paris Prisons
Paris reports 128 U S soldiers in Petit Roquette among about 2,000,000 fighting men. Most prisoners are away without leave, many with good war records or wound stripes. Some enlisted young, sought a holiday in Paris, then forged passes and faced charges from forgery to murder.
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Brest
France
Finisterre
Atlantic Ocean
Germany
Louis Seibold
New York World
United States
Caesar
Golden Gate
Army
Navy
Atlantic
San Francisco
Burg
Mavann
Manila
Chicago Tribune
Paris
Petit Roquette
Rue Roquette
Anm
Ilibs Nedremy
Arsenne
Indiana farmer drives big tobacco crop in Brown county
Brown county farmer Charles W Tipton ships 5000 pounds of tobacco from seven acres and expects about 2500 dollars for the crop, marking the largest brown county tobacco harvest on record.
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Clear Creek
Farmers’ Institute
South Side
Nashville
Charles W. Tipton
Here
Madison
Brown County
Evansville
Louis F. Weiss
Spencer County
Sullivan
Orville Hale
Tipton
Stewart & Seiss
Anderson
Madison Motors and Tractor Corporation
Indianapolis
Madison Motors Company
Bull Tractor Company
Minnesota
Marion Coounty Federation of Farmers
Terre Haute
Hunter
Elvie
Board of Works
Warrick County
Spencer
Perry
Racdrich
Columbus
Samuel Oaks
Bartholomew
Minaad Morris
Indianepoliaa
Methodist Ministers’ Association
Roberts Park M. BR
Tidiana
Cincinnati
Chicago
Indiana
Lafayette
Baptist Church
United States
Home and Foreign Missions
Frederick B. Palmer
Colorado
Methodist Churches of
Two Women Shake Hands Like Boxers in Lol Moment
Two women greet with a firm handshake that echoes a pugilists’ sign of respect. The moment captures athletic poise and competitive spirit in a lighthearted scene.
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