Western Canada lands draw record demand in postwar era
The article notes a surge in Western Canada farm land purchases in early 1919 as high profits from crops lure farm seekers. It cites prices from 20 to 40 dollars per acre and strong returns for livestock and grains, with sales ranging 166 to 1200 acres and firms moving thousands of acres in weeks.
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Western
Canada
Western Canada
North Dakota
Italy
France
Belgium
Great Britain
United States
Wester Canada
Regina
Susk
Refue
Moosejaw
J. S. Cameron
Victoria
B. C
Garfield Tea Ad Promotes Nature’s Berb Cure
An advertisement fragment touts Garfield Tea as a natural cure and rebukes drug cathartics. It includes a line about a “Fortune View” and mentions France, with a brief, unclear dialogue and a rejected bulfor sticker reference.
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Bulfor da
Giel
France
Cuticurn Soothes Baby Rashes and Skin Soothing Remedies
An old style ad copy touts Cuticurn Soap and Cuticura Ointment for baby rash relief with suggested use of Cuticura Talcum Dust. The text hints at improved comfort when products are used together, though some garbled lines reference unrelated data.
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Cuticurn
aAdy
Yankees Build Great Military Port at Brest
Brest France is described as a future major military port for U S troops with over a million soldiers passing through in months ahead. The piece notes Brest’s mud drenched landscape, hardy American nurses, and dual aims of sheltering ships while detailing infrastructure challenges like water and sewer systems.
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Brest
Chaki
Finisterré Peninsula
New York
Gulf Stream
Navy
United States
Leviathan
Mount Washington
Grant
George Washington
Lincoln
la France
Paris
Lutetia
Embarkation Base at Brest Grows for War’s Return
The Prince Max harbor plan sets Pountanezen as a midline station 7–8 miles from town with 40 000 capacity, expanding to 120 000 in three months. Ker l ion's embarkation hospital will house 13 000 cases, up from six to seven thousand, as defense officials build a vast detour city for sick and well.
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Pountanezen
Battle Front
Kerlion
United States
Brest
Ufe
Few Americans in Paris Prisons
Paris report notes about 128 American soldiers jailed at Petit Roquette as one of many war warped cases among 2,000,000 fighters. Many inmates carry strong war records, with some wounded or in shock divisions, while a few overran leave or forged passes and faced varied charges from murder to forgery.
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Chicago Tribune
Paris
Petit Roquette
Rue Roquette
Anm
Jenye
Burts
Argonne
Indiana farm pages report wide agricultural activity
Indiana reports show high hog sales and large tobacco crops. corn judging winners from Ceria Creek HS, Duroc sales near Huntington, Poland China hogs auctioned in Evansville, and county farm organizations forming in Greenfield. Other items note sewer experiments in Terre Haute and religious missions funding in Lafayette with church cooperation. Local officials discuss jail records in Sullivan and political shifts in Warrick and Bartholomew counties.
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Huntington
Cieara Creek High School
Farmers’ Institute
South Side
Nashville
Charles W. Tipton
Here
Sullivan
Orville Hale
Tipton
Stewart & Sells
Durne
Anderson
Madison Motors and Tractor Corporation
Indianapolis
Madison Motors Company
Bull Tractor Company
Minnesota
Indianapolia
Marion County Federation of Farmers
Terre Haute
Hunter
Board of Works
Tell City
Warrick County
Spencer
Perry
Goodrich
Columbus
Samuel Oaks
Bartholomew County
Greenfield
Elwood Morris
Methodist Ministers’ Association
Roberts Park M. E. Church
Indiana
Cincinnati
Chicago
Lafayette
Baptist Church In the
United States
Frederick B. Palmer
Colorado
Evansville
Two Women Kiss Recalled Like Boxing Pugilists Embrace
A fragmentary note recalls two women kissing and likens the moment to a pair of boxers shaking hands in a show of sportsmanlike greeting.
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Atlantic Ocean
Germany
Louis Seibold
New York World
Caesar
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Golden Gate
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Atlantic
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Stransport
Burg
Americas
Prince Max
Argonne Forest
Frederick A. Smith
Ndiana
Eadress
Gray CO
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N.Y
Frey
E. & S. Frey
Baltimore, Md
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