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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 15, 1916
Page
2
The advertisement touts Bovril as a must for cooking, noting a whole bullock yields a dozen bottles and urging use in soups and stews. It warns against substitutes and claims Bovril’s strength and nourishment cannot be matched by cheap cubes.
A Kaiser who pulls his ear when vexed visits England and provokes a reply that when very annoyed he pulls someone else’s ear. A prince asks why and the Kaiser answers with a sharp line, ending the exchange.
Speaker Maitland says the empire faces a long war not a short spurt. The Canada Division’s record is woven into British history, with Penney presiding as acting high commissioner and Carleton Jones praising the association’s hospital.
An advertisement extols Nerviline as a rapid cure for rheumatic backache lumbago and neuralgia. It claims instant warmth quick relief through nerve and muscle penetration and promotes a 50 cent family bottle with a five bottle pack at 50 cents each and a trial 25 cent size from Catarrhozone Co Kingston Canada.
The Nottingham couple Jaminach and Mrs Newport Wrogahi and their baby boy Geoffrey Stanton Wright are among the first English children born in Cameroon under wartime. They endured confinement from August 1914 to January, with husband separated for twelve months and denied food or medical relief by German authorities. The Wrights were held in a pigsty conversion camp near Ayes Hohe, with primitive provisions and confiscated funds, until Allied forces released them.
Cure described as miraculous follows ten years of illness for Mr. A Sawyer and his wife in Caperal Junction Ontario. After five doctors failed they used Dodd's Kidney Pills. Six boxes revived him. a dozen boxes helped her. Both praise the remedy and note a long Canada-wide record. Soft corns mentioned with Holloway's Corn Cure.
In the prairie provinces flax yields average above 12 bushels per acre with prices around two dollars a bushel. War conditions may lift 1916 prices. late sowing as late as early June suits wet or newly broken land, turning poor plots into 20 to 39 dollars per acre. J H Dinsdale of Dominion Experimental Farm notes that settlers or those with new breaking before May 25 26 can seize money making flax this year.
A short promotional notice touts Baby's Own Tablets as the safest cure all for infants. It claims the remedy regulates the stomach and bowels, eases teething, relieves constipation, and expels worms, guaranteeing no injurious drugs. Sold by druggists or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Brockville Ontario.
Twenty two kinds of alfalfa from Europe Asia and the Americas were tested on North Dakota's western high plains. Despite a severe winter drought and cold, some varieties survived including Grimm alfalfa and two Turkestan strains, due to snow cover and dormancy. Grimm and Ontario variegated likely share origin near Germany and Russia.
A gibe on wasteful thrift frames a man who hoards funds for a future drought while praying for rain, illustrating the tension between frugality and fortune. The quip underscores how prudence without action yields little.
The article reports widespread dry votes among foreigners in western districts including Manitoba. In seven districts of the region, all abstained and in three areas government liquor stores were wiped out by about two to one, while four districts voting to open stores failed similarly.
Recognition of Canadian gallantry is recorded in a letter to Archdeacon Cody from Lieut Colonel Charles H. Mitchell of Toronto. General d'Oissee praises Canadian actions at Calais and presents the Legion of Honor to 28 officers of the First Canadian division.
The London Chronicle notes Lord Fisher advised in his daughter's birthday book that Germany would clash with England. He foresaw a strengthened fleet, a widened Kiel Canal, and heavy German financial burdens by 1914 indicating war or reduced armaments.
The Montreal Star notes a paradox of 1915 as a savage regime chief inside the Arctic subscribes two dollars to feed the wretched populace starving under a cultured German conqueror. The item reflects wartime propaganda and critique of leadership and famine.
An advertisement touts Usit skin food as a boon for men with heavy beards. It claims easy application with a few drops before lathering, softening the beard and preventing skin dryness from wind exposure. A tester calls shaving a pleasure and the product promises a close shave without smarting.
Russia gains rail access in northern Manchuria through a new 600 mile line from Harbin to Aizun with a branch to Tsitsikhar. The project financed by a £5 million loan, aims to balance prior Japanese railway rights in Southern Manchuria and involves Japan's concurrence. A Mer gen branch will connect to the trans Siberian road near the Mongolian border.
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