Britain Raises Army and Navy Pay and Proficiency
The British cabinet boosts army and navy pay with a three to six pence daily proficiency allowance after six months' service, replaces the two year rule. An extra penny per day per year of war service is added. The sixpence private and tenpence sergeant allotments are removed. Navy pay rises similarly. total allowances now about 225 million pounds yearly, with 50 million pounds for the first year.
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Army
Navy
Miller's Worm Powders Promote Quick Worm Expulsion
One dose of Miller's Worm Powders clears stomach and bowels of worms, ending their ravages. The powders are sweet to taste and tolerated by children. They are non injurious in composition, though vomiting may occur in some cases, signaling effective action.
Automobiles Quick Growth in Canada Tops Nations
The Toronto Star reports Canada reports $50,000,000 in cars manufactured this year and about 100,000 purchased, roughly 5 percent of the population. Canada ranks third globally in auto usage behind the United States and Britain, with many vehicles serving agriculture and industry.
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Canada
Toronto Star
United States
Britain
Hamilton Spectator
Military rank symbols differ from British practice
London Tit-Bits notes explain how U S Army insignia distinguish officers from enlisted men. An oak leaf marks a captain, a poplar a major, and the eagle over a colonel. Generals wear stars, while officers display two bone buttons on the back belt and a cuffless overcoat with braiding.
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Pershing
United States
London
Witness Dialog Reflects Hard Work Ethic
An eye witness dialogue shows a boss recalling hustling as hard work while Rastus responds with a quip about losing four wives. The exchange captures a dated, vernacular street scene and characterful banter.
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Rastus
Invalid Soldiers Form New League
The Invalid Soldiers Welfare League forms at Edmonton Convalescent Home to promote athletics social life and camaraderie for recovering servicemen. It operates three committees athletics social and canteen and has lent $400 to returning men with security. The group raised $2,000 at the Edmonton fair with workers paid $2 a day and ten percent of profits given to the widows and orphans fund.
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Invalid Soldiers’ Welfare Lea
Edmonton
Military Hospitals Commission
Atients
Worm Exterminator Promoted as Health Cure for Children
An advertisement touts Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as the best medicine to expel worms, claiming health benefits for children if worms are not expelled.
Irrigation Period Extended by Canadian Pacific Co operation
Lethbridge board of trade asks Canadian Pacific railway to keep irrigation water flowing in ditches after September 30 to allow fall irrigation for 1918 crops. Settlers in eastern irrigation block join in urging continued water supply, and the company agrees to cooperate in extending the season.
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Canada
Lethbridge Board of Trade
Canadian Pacific Railway
Fresh Supplies in Demand for Dr. Thomas Electric Oil
Demand for Dr. Thomas Electric Oil grows wherever it is introduced with buyers ordering more supplies. The oil is praised for its potency across latitudes and is sold in portable bottles that resist breaking.
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Thomas
Walks Between Buildings on the Farm
The article explains cement concrete walks as a durable, easier way to keep farm chores tidy. It describes excavation to eight to ten inches, a four to six inch base of tamped cinders, three and a half inches of concrete, and a half inch top coat of cement mortar. It notes proper grading and rough finishes for non slick surfaces.
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Ager
Agr College
Cynic as Man Who Must Be Lotta Call TX Ide
The fragment mentions a man nicknamed Cynic and a person named Lotta with a Texas reference. It reads like a terse note about identities or nicknames without a clear event or context.
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Cynic
Lotta
Call Tx
Accidents and Risks In Air Training Practices
The London Times argues airmen face unavoidable accidents but costly evolutions near the ground raise questions. It urges authorities to limit dangerous maneuvers unless needed for crucial pilot training and to ban them in early training stages.
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London Times
Future of Germany and the impact of postwar boycotts
The piece argues that Germany will face prolonged social and economic penalties even without government action. It warns of long lasting hostility, disrupted travel, and strained business ties with France and Britain. It suggests German reform toward a republic could ease tensions and aid recovery.
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Germany
France
Great Britain
Would Not Be Without Babys Own Tablets
Mrs A C Smith of Goodwood Ontario praises Baby’s Own Tablets as vital for her children over two years. The advertisement claims the tablets banish childhood ailments, regulate bowels, sweeten the stomach, and improve mood, sold by mail for 25 cents per box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Frockville Ontario.
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A. C. Smith
Goodwood, Ont
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Frockville
Ont
Onions Outshine Apples In Field Notes From Brest
Lady Shackleton recounts that expedition members thrived on raw onions like apples and notes onions are banned for a jab at the violet nickname. She praises onions for nutrition and tonicity in cold weather. In the Peninsula field laborers carry Spanish onions, preferred to cheese in the old country, while Breton fishermen once wore blue jackets with onions on strings.
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Shackleton
London Globe
Minard Liniment Cures Diphtheria and Women at Pennsy
The Pennsylvania railroad last spring opened many jobs to women and now employs over 2,000 more women in varied roles such as despatchers station cleaners car cleaners draughts women messengers ticket sellers station agents watchwomen draw bridge tenders and related posts. The rise follows solid service by women at the road street station in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Road Street
Philadelphia
Maude’s Victory Through Strategy and Resolve
The article exalts Maude as a victor defined by old fashioned fighting and relentless planning. It claims a flawless record of victories with precise execution and decisive strikes likened to a thunderbolt. It notes the unprecedented army capture as proof of his strategic prowess.
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Maude
Wolfe
New York Times
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills Ad
Catarrh cannot be cured with local applications. It is a constitutional disease needing internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. All Druggists sell Hall's.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
P Hall
Military hospitals commission to build six hundred bed convalescent hospital
The Military Hospitals Commission announces a large convalescent hospital to be built beside the MacDonald College site at Ste. Anne de Bellevue Montreal in association with McGill University. An order in council ratifies the project with ready occupation planned for the new year.
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Military Hospitals Commission
MacDonald College
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
Montreal
McGill University
Drummond Street
Ste. Anne
Salmon outlook casts doubt on B C canning profits
The Montreal Weekly Witness reports that salmon canners warn of a serious outlook in British Columbia. They argue suspending Sound fishing for at least four years is needed to allow sockeye stocks to recover, with current catches dropping from over 100000 humpbacks or pinks to about 20000.
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B.C
Montreal
Saskatchewan Sees Potatoes Surpass Five Million Bushels
Saskatchewan farmers expect more than 5,000,000 bushels of potatoes this year with 49,244 acres under crop and an average yield of 102.4 bushels per acre according to the Department of Agriculture estimate.
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Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Oldest written word linked to ice and talc origin tale
A philologist links a long held word used in ads and toilet articles to the ancient term for ice or snow found in Egyptian Aqhenaton era letters. The piece traces how winter travel and Semitic language shifts explain the naming of talc, magnesium silicate, by Arabs seeking a likeness to ice.
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Egypt
Akhenaton
Amenaphis IV
B.C
Tel-el- Amarana
Syria
Osman
Arabia
Othman
Ottoman Empire
Minard's Liniment Praised by Sea Captain and Captain
A letter from Capt. FF. Destardin of St Andre, Katmouraska, testifies that Minard's Liniment has served his vessel and family for years and remains indispensable for everyday ills and accidents, even if priced higher.
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Minard’s Liniment Co.) Limited
Gentilemen
Minard
FF. &. Destardin
Storke
St Andre
Katmouraska
No Compromise on Germany War ultimatum
Editorial from the Washington Post argues there is no compromise with Germany and that victory or total defeat must be achieved now. It states civilization cannot be half shackled and calls for immediate action to settle accounts with Germany for all time.
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Germany
Washington Post
The Kaiser's Hopeless Task and Peace Hunger
The Glasgow Herald notes growing peace hunger in Berlin as people question the Kaiser’s long war and fear the burdens of postwar reckoning. It suggests many would cede Belgium Alsace Lorraine and even the Kaiser and Crown Prince to achieve peace.
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Germany
Berlin
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
Kaiser
Glasgow Herald
Revolting Picture Of German War Caste In Toronto Globe Quotation
The Toronto Globe reports that United States officials and American correspondents in Germany during war time are free to speak their minds. They condemn the German official and military classes as blood-crazed rulers and a blind people, viewing Germany as a horrible disease to be cured by war surgery.
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United States
Germany
Toronto Globe
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted for women
An advertisement claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieves more women's suffering than any other medicine. It appeals to readers to try the product after reviewing published evidence supporting its effectiveness.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Bea
Ohio
Lydia F. Pinkham
Lydia E
Josh Corner
Harrison Ave
Airmount
Lydia FE. Pinkham Medie
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