Dr Hamilton's Pills Promising Health Boost for Women
An advertisement extols Dr Hamilton's Pills to improve complexion blood tone and vitality for girls and women. It claims to cleanse bodily buildup invigorate stomach appetite and renew energy with visible improvements in health and appearance and warns against substitutes.
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Dr. Hamilton
Filling His Own Shoes Continued
Ruggles studies Lorenz a Viennese clerk turned chiropodist with a free foot-care venture inside a shoe store. Lorenz's reticence, dubious residence, and odd experiments in vivisection reveal a brittle, ambitious mind and a turbulent past in Vienna.
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Lorenz
Vienna
Ruggles and Lorenz in Paris Openings and Delayed Promises
In Paris, Ruggles and Lorenz clash over German lessons and business plans. Ruggles boasts shoe trade expertise while Lorenz reveals a past love and Vienna ambitions, warning against counting on anything. The pair drift apart yet each senses a potential future aid or conflict amid a Balkan war news backdrop.
Ancient Sword Presented To King At Buckingham Palace
At Buckingham Palace a Bahrein prince and his son presented ancient swords to the King, conveying tokens of esteem and congratulations on his recent victory. Bahrein, under British protection, lies mid Persian Gulf. the visiting Sheikh is noted as enlightened and businesslike, through whom most British dealings with his father are conducted.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Bahrein
Persian Gulf
Increase in Opiates Triggers Import Licensing in Canada
The government imposes licensing on opiate imports after a sharp rise in Canada last year. Crude opium imports grew from 12 471 pounds in 1918 to 34 263 pounds in the year ended March 31. Values rose from 148 346 dollars to 534 555 dollars. Cocaine and morphine show similar trends.
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Canada
Lenine Leaves Russia Amid Strikes and Talks
Copenhagen reports Lenine has left Russia. Premier Lenin directed Kerr Krassin to seek a pact with the Mensheviks as strikes grow more violent and spread despite government intervention.
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Copenhagen
Lenine
Russia
Kerr Krassin
Menshivsks
If You Don’t Expect To Win Youll Be An Easy Loser
A compact maxim argues that not anticipating victory makes defeat likely. It frames mindset as a decisive factor in outcomes and success. The statement emphasizes attitude over circumstance.
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Reggles
Lorenz
Bois
British Merchants Urged To Lead Postwar Trade Push
The Board of Trade appeals to British merchants to seize Central European markets as the blockade ends. Officials warn Germany will pay with gold securities or manufactured goods, prompting questions about import policy and balancing ally needs with Britain’s export drive.
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Board of Trade Appeal
Europe
Germany
National Union of Manufacturers
Britain
England
Canada to be an important factor in feeding nations
The Providence Journal notes Canada holds a large war debt but will pay interest and principal. It highlights Canada's vast natural resources forest fisheries minerals and productive land. With a small population growth through immigration, Canada is seen as destined to contribute to global food supplies amid postwar demand.
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Canada
Dominion
United States
Providence Journal
To Him Who Waits
A brief exchange set in a Western town where a stranger asks for a drink and the native answers with a joke about waiting for Congress to change the Constitution.
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Congress
British plans for repatriation of German POWs
A London despatch reports British repatriation schemes for German prisoners of war are complete and to be discussed by the joint prisoners commission in Paris. By July 23, about 84,604 POWs were in Britain including 170 army airmen and 4,206 civilian aliens. Prisoners work for two pence per hour and many engage in agriculture while others serve in military camps.
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London
Joint
Karl von Mueller
Emden
Admiral von Reuter
Scapa Flow
Admiral von Tirpitz
Ireland
Zeppelin
France Reports Progress in Rebuilding Railways Roads and Canals
The public works minister submitted a report to the president detailing postwar reconstruction. Of 1,500 kilometres of rail, only 22 more must be finished. eastern lines show about 10 percent still needing work. Highway repair uses 500,000 tons of material. 7,000 kilometres restored, 33,000 more to repair. Inland waterways employ 20,000 workers with 350 kilometres of canals restored. Water transport links Lille to Paris and to Belgium are reopening. barges may run Paris to Belgium by September.
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Lille
Bethune
Calais
Dunkirk
Canal of Sambre and Meuse
St. Quentin
Reims
Belgium
Bremen Submarine Bremen Crew Reported Safe Return
The Vossische Zeitung says the entire crew of the German submarine Bremen, missing for three years, has arrived in Bremen. Britain kept the men prisoners and cut them off from the world to hide the vessel’s location.
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Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
Bremen
Great Britain
Currie Seeks Closer Ties With Britain During Voyage
General Currie commander of the Canadian corps in France tells Reuters aboard the Carenia that Canadians respect Britons more but do not yet feel close, aims for greater intimacy between motherland and colonies. He notes Canadian soldiers bringing home wives from Britain and says there are too many people in English cities.
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Liverpool
Reuter
Carenia
Canada
Currie
France
Lemon Juice Skin Whitener Recipe Ad
The ad promotes making a lemon juice skin whitener by mixing juice from two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint lotion. It claims to fade freckles sallowness and tan, soften and beautify skin, and advises straining to exclude pulp with daily facial massage.
Conspiracy Alleged Overpaid Labour in Air Ministry Works
Sir John Hunter testified before a national expenditures committee that 700000 workers on air ministry projects were overpaid or fictitious. He claimed a conspiracy between government officials and contractors and said some were arrested, though the crown did not prosecute.
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London
Ministry of Munitions
Air Ministry
John
Sir John
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