Prairie Provinces Timber Reserve Supports Farm Communities
The Prairie Provinces have parkland timber from windbreaks and streams, not dense forests. Government forest reserves offer mature timber for farmers fuel fencing and building materials with 32,500 square miles of reserves and small private mills serving local needs in North Battleford Saskatchewan.
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Canada
Dominion
Prairie Provinces
North Battleford
Saskatchewan
Battleford
Saskatchewan Woman Recovers with Lydia E Pinkham Product
Melaval Saskatchewan resident Mrs. Ws J Tuomas reports improved health after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she is a different woman in two years and recommends the remedy for female troubles and general weakness. The advertisement touts a long service record and restorative benefits for women.
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Melaval
Saskatchewan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mes. Ws
J. Tuomas
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mrs. Thomas
Blood Money and the Medieval Wergild Concept
Blood money was the payment for bloodshed in the Middle Ages and later. Wergild, used by Scandinavian and Teutonic peoples, varied by crime and victim rank. some crimes, like killing a sleeping person, could not be compensated and the offender faced outlaw status. The term now also refers to rewards or bribes for delivering criminals.
Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills Promised for Weak Hearts
A Halifax era advertisement urges women with weak hearts and nervous systems to try Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills. Mrs. Daniel Bezanson of Loganville Nova Scotia reports two years of weakness, sleepless nights, and relief after six boxes. Price 50 cents a box, available through dealers or by mail from The T. Milburn Co. Toronto Ontario.
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Daniel Bezanson
Loganville
N.S
Milburn
T. Milburn Co., Limited
Toronto
Feeding Chicks on Vancouver Island Experiments
Experimental Farms Circular No. 20 reports on feeding housing hatching and brooding of White Wyandotte chicks at a Vancouver Island station from 1916. Recommendations include avoiding chilling or overheating, avoiding overfeeding in the first week, preventing crowding, placing chicks on range after eight weeks, keeping cockerels and pullets separate, daily clean water, ample green feed, sour milk when possible, charcoal grit and shell, gradual diet changes, and regular brooder cleaning and dry feed.
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Vancouver Island
B.C
Mackenzie King proposes returning natural resources to prairie provinces
In a letter to Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta premiers Prime Minister Mackenzie King outlines a plan to return natural resources to the prairie provinces. He suggests they give up subsidies in exchange for resources and stresses quick settlement with a fresh start subject to parliamentary approval.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
W. L. Mackenzie King
Prairie Provinces
King
Universal Truths Australia Warns of War Debt Burden
Universal Truths Australia argues Australia’s war debt and loans are not paid in sovereigns but in goods. It calls for heightened production to supply the means to repay, noting that increased output is essential to discharge outstanding liabilities and that production must rise through greater effort.
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Australia
Letter Writing as a Vanishing Art in Modern Life
The Indianapolis News laments the decline of letter writing once prized by fathers and grandfathers. It argues pressures of modern life erode a gracious craft, and urges action to preserve a valued, refined practice.
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Horace Walpole
Indianapolis News
Anuric Tablets Take On Rheumatism in Crofton Ad
A Crofton British Columbia reader testifies that after years of inflammatory rheumatism and rheumatic fever, six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets ended his rheumatism. The notice promotes kidney flushing and urges trial by sending 10 cents to Dr. Pierce's Laboratory in Bridgeburg Ontario for a trial package and free medical advice.
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Crofton
B. C
Dr. Pierce
Bridgeburg
Ont
Italians Prosper in the Argentine Clubhouse Funded by Immigrants
A Buenos Aires Italian colony listing 111 descendants reports combined fortunes over 1.0 billion pesos and underscores a 5.9 million peso clubhouse inauguration. Italians in Argentina are prominent across industries, with many key enterprises controlled by them.
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Italy
Argentina
Buenos Aires
When Does Bronchial Trouble Begin To Get Serious
A brief ad notes early bronchial trouble starts as throat tickle and cough that worsens and moves to the lungs. It promotes Catarrhozone as a remedy to heal throat irritation, ease coughing, clear phlegm, and aid breathing. The ad claims prevention of colds and catarrh with regular use and lists prices for two months, medium, and small sizes.
Death of Sir German Sims Woodhead Probe in Pathology Pioneer
Sir German Sims Woodhead, Cambridge University pathologist since 1899, died at 66 at Aisthorpe Hall Lincolnshire after a year of declining health. Inventor of the chlorination process to kill germs in water for British troops, he shaped war and public health efforts. He served on tuberculosis and cancer research commissions, inspected military hospital labs, advised War Office, and was knighted in 1919. He supported totalism cause.
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Sir German Sims Woodhead
Cambridge University
Aisthorpe Hall
Lincoln
Eng
German
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
United Kingdom
War Office
Milngavie walk quip sparks a Scots roadside exchange
On a Scotland walking tour a First Gentleman asks a boy how long to Milngavie. The boy replies he cannot say until he sees him walk, prompting the gentleman to joke about ignorance as the lad finally estimates a three hour trek.
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Scotland
Milngavie
Milnegavie
Saskatchewan Wheat Shipments Direct to Asia
One hundred fifty thousand bushels of wheat grown in the Saskatoon district were shipped to Shanghai and Yokohama during January directly from Saskatoon elevators. This marks the first wheat consignment for Asiatic points shipped direct from Saskatoon.
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Saskatchewan
Shanghai
Saskatoon
Yokohama
Colonization Plans Draw Federal Attention Amid Shipping Subsidy Debate
President Harding backs a ship subsidy of about 32 million dollars annually funded by 10 percent of customs receipts and endorses the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence waterway project as vital to a broader merchant marine. Officials note several colonization schemes, including Col. Dennis plan to settle Irish constabulary families on Western Canadian lands, with emphasis on agricultural immigration from the British Isles.
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United States
U.S. Congress
Harding
St. Lawrence
Great Middle West
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
Department of Immigration
Col
J. S. Dennis
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canada
Western
Col. Dennis
English Coat of Arms Tied to Israel Claim in London
In a London lecture, the Rev. Pascoe Goard argued the British coat of arms mirrors the ancient Israel standard. He linked the shield, lion, unicorn, and “young lion” to Israel and claimed the English and American races descend from Israel’s last tribes. He noted Japan’s similar symbols and secret rites.
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London
Eng
Westminster
Pascoe Goard
Vancouver
Israel
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Castoria
Premier King
H. G. Franklin
the News
Roland
Professor Woodhead
U.S
National Council of Women
Charles Stewart
Interior
British Isles
Sloan
Sioaz
Wang
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