Canadians Organize Classes for Four Thousand Troops
Four thousand Canadian soldiers volunteer for education at English camps run by Canadian military authorities under Sir Richard Turner. Courses cover business agriculture English modern languages and classics. Active-service officers with educational credentials staff the instruction as Canadian universities plan vocational training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Turner
Canada
Tory
Alberta University
Parmelee's Vegetable Pills touted as liver remedy
An advertisement claims Parmelee's Vegetable Pills restore liver action and relieve torpor, low mood, and lassitude. It asserts the pills are purely vegetable, carefully selected, gentle on the stomach, and free of side effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parmelee
Rose From the Ranks General Verkhovsky’s Rise in War
General Verkhovsky rose from the ranks to minister of war in Russia and remained popular with the army due to his early service as a private and later captain. He left military college after a clash with authority and fought in Manchuria before becoming a colonel at the outbreak of the current war.
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Verkhovsky
Inussia
Military College
Romania
Falkenhayn
World’s largest island before Australia’s discovery
A playful exchange locates the world’s biggest island as Australia, with a bright pupil asserting it existed long before Europeans reached the continent. The question hinges on geographic naming and historical discovery.
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Australia
Bacon Hog Value in British Market Drives Ontario Farmers
Mr. Duncan Anderson notes Ontario farmers shifted from thick fat to bacon type hogs about twenty years ago. Over the following eight years this change spurred a bacon and ham export trade to England reaching fifteen million dollars annually. He urges clear knowledge of the situation among farmers to produce and preserve bacon as Britain prefers.
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Duncan Anderson
Ontario
Lugland
Vocational Training For Maimed Soldiers Expanded
The military hospital commission aims to educate convalescent soldiers in new trades to ensure independence. Courses must relate to past skills and abilities and offer a range of options beyond machinist work, including clay modeling, to fit individual and labor market needs.
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Military Hospital Commission Command
Warned By John Galworthy on preserving rural virtue
Excerpt from John Galworthy quoted in the October Atlantic urges Britain to guard peasant life and rural values against industrial wealth and big town temptations. It warns that drink and urban glamour erode health, dignity, and national fiber, urging care of peasants to save the country.
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France
John Galworthy
Atlantic
A Grand Medicine for Little Ones
A testimonial style notice promoting Baby's Own Tablets as a gentle thorough laxative for children. Mrs. Jas S Hastey of Gleason Road N B endorses the product after use. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Devonshire Hero Ella Trout Saved Sinking Sailors
In Hall Sands near Dartmouth a nineteen year old Devonshire fisher girl Ella Trout rowed through rough seas to rescue crewmen from a sunken English trawler attacked by a submarine. Parliament learned of her brave act and she was invited to Exeter.
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Ella Trout
Hall Sands
Dartmouth
South
Devon
Trout
Ella
Devonshire
England
Alfred Noyes
Exeter
Queen Mary Leads Chestnut Drive for Munitions
During a Sandringham stay Queen Mary organized and supervised a collection of over a ton of horse chestnuts. The nuts were sent to munitions factories to substitute grain in production, helping conserve the country’s food supply and set an example to remaining slackers in England.
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Qucen Mary
England
Sandringham
Stitch in Time Saves Five Million for War Office
British war office reports five million dollars saved in ten months by salvaging soldiers clothing and equipment. Clothing collected in depots is sorted and sent to a central depot where it is cleaned patched and rewoven into khaki. About 300 to 400 women sort items and 45 million articles have passed through their hands.
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British War Office
Well Known Ground British Advance Reaches Hebron
A Harper-like war column notes the British march along the route of Joshua isles and spies and ends among familiar names. The writer says after years of distant place names a Gaza feel and Jerusalem sight bring a sense of home and reassurance amid the war.
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Hebron
Joshua
Przemysls
Prasnysts
Dureks
Gabrieles
Sanniyats
Usambaras Strumas
Buczaczs
Gaza
Pozzacchio
Beersheba
Jerusalem
Statue of Liberty
New York
Holloway's Corn Cure Promises Relief From Corns and Warts
If one be troubled with corns and warts, he will find in Holloway's Corn Cure an application that will entirely relieve suffering.
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Holloway
Teutonic Scheme Aims to Colonize Alsace and Lorraine
A New Teutonic plan seeks to settle German families in Alsace and Lorraine to tilt any future plebiscite toward German control. The tactic intends to make the provinces favor Germany if a vote is held on their allegiance.
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Alsace
Lorraine
Germany
New Arrival And Where Do I Go When Shelling Starts
A playful note questions where to seek refuge as shelling begins, referencing Sandy from the Wee Kirk and Laddie’s reply about religious views guiding his actions. The dialogue hints at wartime anxieties and civilian coping.
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Sandy
Wee Kirk
Laddie
United States Over a Million Troops En Route to France
Reports from Berlin summaries state the war department has more than a million U S troops already in France or on the way. The figures include those in France and those crossing the Atlantic in a steady stream heading to the front. The material reflects Lloyd George’s inquiry on timing.
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Lloyd George
United States
France
War Department
Atlantic
Berlin
Boston Globe
Stop the Cough with Dr Thomas Electric Oil Claim
The text states coughing results from irritation and mucus membrane inflammation. It claims Dr Thomas Electric Oil reduces inflammation and stops the cough, urging readers to use it for colds and to abandon other preparations.
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Thomas
The British Soldier The World Has Ever Seen
A London Daily Telegraph tribute lauds the British soldier for cheerful endurance of dirty work and suffering. He seeks victory and lasting peace, not glory, showing patriotism in deeds and a readiness to give all for duty. The empire’s fighting men are described as indomitable and chivalrous.
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London Daily Telegraph
Missed Chances Haunt a Waiting Man in Opportunity Note
A reflective piece warns that chances once missed rarely return to the patient man who waits, urging timely action and decisiveness amid shifting fortunes and deadlines.
Chief engineer in ship engine rooms a Scot say
A New York Sun anecdote recalls a wager between an American and an Englishman in Shanghai. They bet every sailing ship carried a Scot as chief engineer. Travelers recount the familiar refrain "the chief engineer, a Scot" as the engine rooms answer doors.
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Suez
Shanghai
Sandy
Mac
New York Sun
Caproni Forecasts Atlantic Air Voyages Before War End
Italian inventor Caproni in Paris predicted American aeroplanes would deliver aircraft to the European front by flying in flocks across the Atlantic. He said one of his machines would cross soon and that squadron flights across the ocean would become common later.
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America
Europe
Atlantic
Caproni
Paris
Obscure Proverb About Effort and Inefficacy
A terse adage compares convincing a stubborn man to feeding corn to a wind mill in vain, conveying skepticism about effort versus result.
Rebuilding Strength with Dr. Chase's Nerve Food
A Ontario woman recounts years of anaemia and illness ending after using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. She describes improved sleep, appetite, color, and energy, noting return to work and strong endorsement of the remedy for worn nerves and blood-related weakness.
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Alice Howes
Haddington Street
Galt
Ont
Toronto
Chase
Dr. Chase
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