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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
2
A German officer’s cap study admits British and French mastery of the air and says German air power was blind to enemy lines. The Allies hovered over artillery positions and supply lines, while German forces were harried by planes, undermining ground defenses.
A short moral fragment advises using virtues over faults and seeking what is good in others. It encourages perseverance, walking steadily to progress, and imitating strength to let faults fall away with time.
An officer aboard a liner from Norway brought news of the arrest and imprisonment of two Norwegian skippers of passenger steamships sailing between Norway and Great Britain for supplying information to German submarine commanders about the sailings of British and neutral vessels from Norway.
A Guelph Mercury item notes the meanest person is the neighbor who borrows a lawn mower and complains its dullness. The quip reflects small town sentiment about rude behavior and petty grievances.
The article warns that summer brings dangers to children with illnesses like cholera infantum colic diarrhea and dysentery. It promotes Haley's Own Tablets as a safe remedy to regulate the stomach and bowels and urges mothers to protect and treat ailments promptly, available from The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 25 cents a box.
In a police court dispute eight days are at issue over a clock. The magistrate awards the clock to the plaintiff and humorously notes the defendant might claim eight days in return. Stray Stories shifts to Indigestion remedies praising Parmetees Vegetable Pills for stomach irregularities.
A special commission debates seizing Nicholas Romanoff property valued at about 48 million dollars and grand dukes estates totaling around 210 million. Total royal assets, including the former royal house of Russia, are estimated near 958 million, plus 35 million dollars tied in the Bank of England for a rainy day. Duke Alexis reportedly left 10 million dollars on deposit there.
The Gleichen sale in Southern Alberta drew nearly a thousand buyers as 324 parcels of land from the Blackfoot Reserve were auctioned. Local farmers dominated bidding with prices averaging about $30 an acre, peaking at $45, and authorities believe about 90 percent of land will be held by actual farmers.
At a Social Democratic Congress in Finland a resolution urged separation from Russia and the creation of an independent republic. It called for no Russian troops or fortifications in peacetime and proposed regulating Finland’s relations with Russia as with foreign nations. The Finnish Social Democrats asked global Social Democrats to back independence via an international accord, citing the bourgeois Russian government as incapable of guaranteed freedom. The rest of the text appears to advertise Dr Thomas Oil for athletes.
France studies an experimental hydroplane postal route linking Marseilles Toulon and Ajaccio with stations along the way. The plan aims to speed the delivery of mail between the mainland and Corsica under the commerce ministry.
Frank J. Cheney, partner in PF Cheney firm Toledo Ohio, swears that Hall's Catarrh Cure will pay one hundred dollars for any case cured. Notary William Gleason witnesses December. Cheney submits affidavit endorsing the remedy.
German authorities in Rowmienia mobilize the Romanian crop harvest with special detachments and labor parties from local population. Romanian prisoners of war are assigned to work and paid higher wartime wages to boost efficiency. Romanian landlords offered premiums for swift grain delivery.
Advice from FL Burns Co and Swine Breeders Association stresses gentle handling of hogs. Speaker RK B Hunter cautions against beating hogs, overloading wagons, overfeeding during shipping, and dangerous heating from bedding materials. Recommend partitioning weak animals and marketing pigs within 175 to 225 pounds for best returns.
Dr. TLR Adams of the Ottawa conservation commission warns at the Canadian Medical association session in Montreal that placing returned soldiers on the land would be fatal. He says farming under current conditions pays poorly and settlement lands are far from markets. He notes city slums and rural districts have similar conditions due to misallocation.
An Applefort Counter Check Book Company notice from Hamilton Canada urges merchants to order counter check and sales books, waxed papers, and parchment goods. It highlights higher paper costs, extensive Canadian paper supply, large and small orders welcome, and offices in Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver.
The report says the heaviest losses in the current war fall on the medical corps as doctors accompany regiments to the firing line. Three of four doctors are sent to aid wounded with no protection, and many are killed. In one engagement 257 died in an hour and 400 in another. An ambulance driver found 12 of 165 on duty remaining. The piece cites Wall Street Journal reporting.
Canada’s preliminary government-estimated mineral output for 1916 reached 177 million dollars, up nearly 30 percent from 1915 and surpassing all prior totals by over 32 million. Western provinces Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and British Columbia produced about 56 thousand dollars, with coal leading at nearly 29.4 million. Alberta ranked second in coal production behind British Columbia.
A young boy asks the family grocer for a quarter's worth of potatoes but the grocer declines and says the boy must return home to tell his mother they cannot cut them.
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