Wheat Harvest Seen Soaring Across Western Canada
Western Canada farmers report optimistic yields with wheat reaching 125 million bushels in Saskatchewan and total prairie production near 250 million. Alberta may exceed 70 million with averages above recent years, Manitoba also showing large outputs as oats barley and rye rise.
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Western Canada
Saskatchewan
Praire
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Battleford
Lloydminster
Durbin County Tradition of Fruit Cake and Cheese Greeting
An old English custom in Durbin County requires a Christen party to offer fruit cake and cheese to the first person met on the way to church. The practice reflects historic parish customs and community hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
Durbin
England
Diamond Dyes Promise Simple Easy Fabric Dyeing
Diamond Dyes offer rich fade resistant color with simple directions for dyeing wool silk linen cotton or blends. Buy Diamond Dyes only and consult the Color Card for 16 colors. Also a note on personal care and marriage superstition.
The Ape Repay of Con and Helen in the Palace Mines
Con Levington battles a Nubian in a tense palace drama beneath a city of dwarfs and koresh dreams. He rescues Helen, faces a deadly escape, and joins March and Andrew Marek as workers plan an uprising while Chee Ming’s influence spreads.
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Helen
Con
Koresh
Levington
Andrew Marek
March
Cincinnati
Andrew March
Chee Ming
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Harrington Woman
Mrs. Mitchell of Harrington Maine reports relief from backache bearing down pain and irregularities after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she is regular can work and recommends the medicine to others. The ad notes the product contains herb extracts and no narcotics and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Steady Decline and Nostalgia in a Birmingham Note
A Birmingham Age-Herald quotation reflects on early peak power with Trenry Butterbean as a wife-run boarding house example. It recalls Henry as a boy captain of the baseball team with a large dime novel library but notes his recent low prominence. The piece ends with an ad urging Wright's section Vegetable Pills to tone the liver gently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenry Butterbean
Henry
Birmingham Age-Herald
Safe at Least. A Boy’s Life Quip on Water Safety
A humorous exchange suggests drowning risk but reassures safety if someone falls overboard. The line plays on absurd confidence and nautical bravado as printed in Boys' Life.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad and Shakespeare Quotation
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy for frequent colds and chronic catarrh by building up the system and cleansing the blood. It claims internal action through the blood to reduce inflammation. Ends with a Shakespeare quote about a fish in a net and poor man's rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Canada
Winnipeg Free Press
Inveto
Sone Jwonle
En Atward
America
Fu Ah
Besur
Gon
Prince
Holland
Wright
A, D, Hoon
W. Clark St
East Palestine
Doan
Foster
Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Ws
J.D. Kellogs
Morthrop & Lyman Go
N.Y
Kellogs
Ginginnati, NO
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