Hog Raising Profitable in Alberta Hog Province
A Dominion Experimental Farm report from Lacombe Alberta covers a year ending April 3 noting eight hundred hogs sold. Superintendent Matton says pork cost 350 per hundred pounds on alfalfa with self feeder gravity and 4304 per hundred pounds on rape pasture with self feeder. The Alberta cost comparison with selling prices and land costs explains why hog raising pays.
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Dominion
Lacombe
Alberta
Matton
War effort slogans echo in Chicago Tribune excerpt
A fragmented clipping quotes T. McCutcheon in the Chicago Tribune with repeated lines stating wealth and wishes won’t win the war, but wallops will, reflecting wartime morale and exhortations.
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Wallops
T. McCutcheon
Chicago
Trie
Britain’s Economic Strength Across War Strain
Britain shows strong financial endurance after nearly four years of war. Bonar Law notes self-sustaining capacity as allies rely on the United States. Britain plans to cover half its debt from own resources, while Allied debts total over five trillion dollars.
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Britain
United States
von Bethman-Hollweg
Aly
Ger- Tate
Etaws Foursal Press
America's Female Foes Die? Not Applicable
Opinion argues against gender immunity for enemy spies and propagandists. It supports applying wartime laws to women as to men, asserting treason lacks sex bias and American resolve will crush Prussianism. The piece cites Cleveland Plain Dealer praise.
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America
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Putnam's Extractor Promised Quick Corn Relief
An advertisement touts Putnam's Extractor as a painless corn remedy that instantly relieves pain and dissolves the corn by the root. It claims the product shrivels and drops out and notes a price of a quarter in any drug store.
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Putnam's Extractor
Putnam’s
Milk in the Hog Ration for Canadian Pigs
A 1920s agricultural note explains using dairy by products to boost pig growth amid a campaign for higher production in Canada. It cites experiments from Dominion stations and colleges showing skim milk, whey, and butter milk can replace portions of meal, with optimal ratios around 2.5 to 1 milk to meal and age-based milk allowances.
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Canada
Dominion
Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Ontario Agricultural College
Ottawa
Agricultural Gazette
Guelph
Box Party Dream at Theatre Cited in Transcript
A dream report describes attending a box party at a theatre, noting details from a Bosien Transcript. The fragment preserves a sense of stage life and social gathering in a theatrical setting.
The Right Spirit in wartime duty and defiance
The message urges young men to depart and obey the law as England and France fight in Flanders for liberty. It expresses strong confidence that compatriots will do their duty and prove there are no cowards in the province.
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England
France
Flanders
Creber
A Grand Medicine for Little Ones Baby's Own Tablets
Mrs Francois Fournier of Tourville writes she has used Baby's Own Tablets for her baby and recommends them as they never fail to benefit infants. The tablets are sold by special dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
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Francois Fournier
Tourville. Ite
Speciacite
Dr. Wiliams
Medcine
Brockville
Ost
Potatoes and Vegetables Piled Up in Canada Says Food Board
A garbled clipping notes plenty of potatoes car rots turnips and onions in Canada from last year. A food board quote urges farmers to vegetable planting and states Miller's Worm Powders attack worms and boost children digestion and growth.
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Canada
Canada Food Beard
Wadic Odecok
Miller
British Dogs To Be Used For Food And Wool
Lord Claude Hamilton proposed killing and eating highly valued dogs to ease food shortages. He described a public scene outside a butcher's with a woman holding colored ribbons to select dogs for slaughter. Protests arose, but he argued dog meat would supply edible food and reduce animal consumption. Meanwhile dog defenders tout a wool industry from long haired breeds and urge public discussion.
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Claude Hamilton
England
Bit
Britain
Algernon Gordon-Iennex
Dogs Wool Association
Belgians to receive grain aid amid suspension of relief shipments
Belgan relief food shipments to allied populations will pause for ten days to move three million bushels of grain to Belgium and Northern France where bread supplies are critically low. Urgent cables from the Belgian relief commission urged redistribution to avoid bread shortages in occupied areas.
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France
Belgian Relief Commission
Brussels
Belgium
Fragmentary quotation on happiness and digestion
A Washington Star item quotes Miss Cayenne on gendered happiness, noting a man desires a wonderful digestion while a woman seeks a beautiful figure. The brief remark contrasts bodily aims with a wry tone in a newspapers snippet.
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Miss. Cayenne
Washington
Star
Living Western Romance and Ranch Empire of Geu Lane
Geu Lane since the 1860s built a ranch empire spanning Pekisko Bar 38000 acres, Willow Creek Back 20000 acres, and Namako 14000 acres with 353 Percherons, an elevator, and extensive grain, hay, hog and cattle markets. The article highlights his Rocky Mountain setting, rich water supply, and storied cattle operations contrasted with a health ad for Parmalee's Vegetable Pills noted as a remedy for bilious liver issues.
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Geu
Sonal Land
Willow Creek
Namako
Lane
Chicago
Canadian West
Pektsko Bar
Rockies
Ovelley
Trellini
Crowded Tram Passengers Ignore Rules
A provincial English paper reports a crowded tramcar where passengers break rules by standing atop. The conductor insists, a literalist smiles and an intelligent girl presses a button as a cat leaps forward. The scene ends with the literalist sitting on the floor as the girl quotes a barrister.
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England
Christian Science Monitor
Complete in Itself Mother Graves Worm Exterminator
Excerpt states the product does not require assistance of any other medicine to be effective and does not fail to do its work. It presents a standalone claim about the worm exterminator’s efficacy without external support.
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Graves
Canadian Captain Fights Off U-boat Scuttled Schooner
Captain J. McDonald of the three masted schooner recounted an Atlantic encounter with a German U-boat. The underwater craft fired a torpedo and tried to seize him as a prisoner and take the ship. McDonald fought the German commander, escaped by diving, and a destroyer appeared allowing the crew to abandon the schooner safely.
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Dr J. McDonald
John G. Walter
Atlantic
Germany
Captain McDonald
Europe
McDonald
Prince Edward Island
American flyer warns British officer after crash on grass
An American Lafay ette squadron member made a perilous descent and crash landed behind a British aerodrome. He, after freeing himself from tangled wires, limped to a brass hat officer and joked about spreading the petrol tank on the grass plot, signaling a tense wartime moment.
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Lafayette
F. Guy
Rules On Dining Hours Amid Committee Vacancies
Fragmentary notes show rules about dining hours from five to eight for all except committees. The text includes garbled phrases and possible racial slur remnants, with unclear context regarding vacancies or governance.
Doukhobors Acquire Prairie Land Near Kilmore Sask
Peter Veregin head of Doukhobor colonies in western Canada has bought 10 000 acres of prairie land near Kilmore Sask with payments over ten years. He pledges the group will not return to Russia during that period and says they aid the war through production while rejecting fealty to any king except Jesus Christ.
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Peter Veregin
Canada
Kilmore
Sask
Veregin
Russia
Jesus Christ
Why the shortage of tonnage threes
The article explains that moving food to Europe from North America requires more shipping than supplying from Argentina or Australia. It notes that longer hauls need 10 000 to 15 000 more tons of shipping, and that self denying exports help counter the submarine menace.
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Europe
Argentina
Apsteada
Toronto
Minard's Liniment Co. Told to Help Severe Chest Injury
A Nova Scotia resident writes that after a fall left her chest badly hurt she could not work. She says many liniments failed until one bottle of Minard's Liniment, warmed and applied to the chest, entirely cured her.
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Minard's Liniment Co. Limited
Minard
How to Make Potato Butter in England
The British ministry of food promotes potato butter as a cheap substitute for butter. Boil floury potatoes, mash and rub through a sieve, mix with melted butter and salt, then mold into rolls. Color for appearance and use butter preservative if keeping beyond a few days.
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Ministry of Food
England
Winter Eggs Preservation Instructions From An Old Guide
Practical guide on storing eggs through winter by preserving in water glass or lime solution. Details include shell cleanliness, boiling prep, quantities for 15 dozen eggs, crock preparation, layering, evaporation protection, and substitutions with lime if water glass is unavailable.
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Jane
Higher Heights to Climb
The Montreal Gazette warns that the danger faced by the people requires all efforts and resources to be united for a common purpose. It notes Canada has contributed nobly over four years but urges reaching even higher heights in the nation's task.
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Canada
Montreal Gazette
An Impossible Amount of Watermelon Death Joke
A Life magazine quip portrays a group discussing the death of a child from drinking water. One man jokes that the child died from agua water consumption while another dismisses the idea, suggesting Jar wasn’t enough. The piece uses racially charged language and caricature.
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper Incident
A dialog describes a boy and his mother about a playmate labeled bad. The mother warns against bad influence while the boy asserts the friend is well behaved after reform school releases. The excerpt juxtaposes a medical claim with a social judgment about youth.
War prolongs as unpreparedness hampers early victory
General Sir William R. Robertson warned at a London meeting that the war will last longer because Britain was unprepared when it began. He contrasted enemy prep with Allied lack of readiness, saying the cost could be bankruptcy, but affirmed the empire will persevere.
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William R. Robertson
London
Sir William
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