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Newspaper
Grand Forks Sun
Location
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
3
A.A. Frechetts of the city has secured a U S patent for a simple inexpensive railway cattle guard designed to prevent animals from crossing and to operate with few parts. The guard rises a section of bar to block and drive livestock back, aiming for easy maintenance and broad railway use. Frechetts is seeking manufacturers and hopes for market adoption.
Warted at once potatoes and oubs ranchers had quantities for sale this fit, kindly send list of items and prices to G. V. Mezuitt. Secondhand goods highest cash prices paid for old stores and ranges. C. Peckham notes secondhand store.
An old advertising blurb touts California Syrup of Figs as a safe fruit laxative for children and adults. It assures that a teaspoonful will cleanse the stomach, liver, and bowels within hours without griping, and instructs asking a druggist for a 50 cent bottle with full directions.
An Ottawa dispatch reports Canada will sharply cut its officers in England. Senior officers not sent to the front must revert to subaltern ranks to go to the front or return home and retire the uniform. No distinction will be made between MPs and others as Turner seeks to weed out over 200 lieutenant colonels on full pay.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a remedy for heavy glossy hair and dandruff. It claims one application softens hair, dissolves dandruff, and prevents itching and scalp feverishness, urging readers to buy a 26 cent bottle from local druggists.
A Grand Forks women reports severe stomach trouble and poor appetite. She tried buckthorn bark glycerine and Adlerika with instant relief claiming it empties both intestines and relieves constipation sour stomach and gas. Woodland and Quinn druggists promote the product as quickly effective.
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