Tea and charity stir drama at Girls Friendly Home
Miss de Forrest disrupts the charity tea at the Girls Friendly Home with blunt talk about Helmi the Finnish girl. Mrs St John supports reform while Rose worries over social slights as Helmi faces scrutiny and hope for reintegration.
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Rose Lamb
Rose
Mrs. Wymuth
Miss de Forrest
Helmi
Abbie
Eva St. John
Valentine
Edgar
Mrs. St. John
Miss Abbie
Heims
Woman describes recovery after using Vegetable Compound
Hamilton Ontario woman praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after severe female trouble left her unable to walk. She states two bottles helped her regain strength and ten bottles completed her recovery, also endorsing Lydia Pinkham's Sanative Wash.
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Mrs. Horn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Hamilton
Lydia Pinkham
Minrd's Limmert for Asthma
Minrd presents Limmert as a remedy for asthma with a cryptic motto about shipping and cone. The fragmentary note blends health advice with a strange metaphor, leaving the exact efficacy and context unclear.
Red Rose Tea Offers Risk Free Try Guarantee
Ad touts Red Rose Tea in a bright aluminum package with a complete guarantee. Customers may try a package from their grocer and return any unused portion for a full refund if not completely pleased.
Ice-Cooled Air Extends Depth of Mine Work at Village Deep
Ice cooling enables miners to operate at 7650 feet in Turf shaft Johannesburg's Village Deep gold mine, the deepest underground point reached. Ice is placed in 15-inch ventilation pipes so air cools before reaching the work site, lowering temperatures by up to 16 degrees with more ice.
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Village Deep
Johannesburg
Poultryhen Sunstroke Method Boosts Egg Laying
A farmer Parker of Marken Rasen Eng reports a hen afflicted with sunstroke as a chick now lays two eggs at a time and about four days weekly, with two occasions of three. After isolation the hen increased to eleven to twelve full size eggs per week as others attacked her.
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Parker
Marken Rasen
Eng
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Glorified as Universal Remedy
Ready made medicine claims Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil cures ordinary ills without a physician. Advert says it relieves coughs colds sore throat bronchial troubles and is unsurpassed for scalds burns bruises sprains and a healer for cuts and sores. No testimonial needed beyond user experience.
Edmonton Canning Plant Planned by Border Canning Co
The Border Canning Co of New Westminster B C has secured six lots at Edmonton to build a new canning plant ready for the 1928 fruit and vegetable crop.
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Edmonton
Border Canning Co
New Westminster
B.C
Nottingham Bakery Installs Electric Dough Mixer
A large electric dough mixer was installed in a Nottingham bakery. The interior uses ultraviolet illumination and the leaves produced by this method are claimed to be unusually good for sale.
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Nottingham
England
Canada Sends Chair To Australian House
The Canadian Senate donated a chair for the Australian Parliament, built of Canadian timber and upholstered in red leather, used by President Sir John Newlands. A Senate motion expressed appreciation, noting the gift symbolizes fraternal ties and loyalty within the empire and common parliamentary heritage.
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Senate
Commonwealth
Dominion of Canada
John Newlands
Dominion
Dr Williams Pink Pills Promised Relief For Anemia
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a reliable home treatment for anemia rheumatism and nervous weakness. It cites Mrs John Armour of South Monaghan Ontario praising improved health better sleep appetite and weight gain after using the remedy and urges readers to obtain boxes from drug stores or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Williams
John Armour
South Monaghan
Ont
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Different Ideas Of Spending Money Among Canadian Youth
The Edmonton Journal notes a change in spending habits among Canadian youth comparing modern tilting spending to earlier times. It recalls Mr Robb saying he and a brother received one cent from a mother and two from a grandmother to spend at a fair, suggesting today’s youngsters spend more for comparable fun.
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Robb
Edmonton Journal
Mineral Discovery in Northern Manitoba Reported
An important discovery of antimony is reported in Northern Manitoba. A health ad promotes Holloway's Corn Remover to remove corns painlessly and without suffering. An estimate cites rusting of iron and steel worldwide in the past year causing a loss of 2.5 billion dollars.
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Manitoba
Holloway
Secret engagement revealed in Stockholm dialogue
In a brief quoted exchange from Kasper, Stockholm, a man asks who besides him knows of their secret engagement. She confirms with a single emphatic answer: You.
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Kasper
Stockholm
Ocean seadrome plan to study Atlantic seas
E R Armstrong of Dupont proposes a large floating seadrome model to be placed about 500 miles east of New York to test wave and storm effects. The design features a platform atop submerged pontoons and aims to deploy about five seadromes at 400 mile intervals with ship and bridge builders bidding on the project.
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Atlantic
E. R. Armstrong
Dupont Company
Armstrong
New York
Little Helps For This Week O Lord I am Oppressed
A devotional meditation contrasts prayerful appeal to Jesus with seeking comfort from friends. It asserts leaning on Christ brings the peace that passes understanding. The piece ends with a brief anecdote of a man habitually talking in a police court until a magistrate interrupts.
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Jesus
Lord
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