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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
9
A captured German officer report admits British and French air mastery. It states German planes cannot fly over enemy lines, leaving artillery blinded and infantry harassed as Allied aircraft hover, range, and strike targets from above. The document calls air power essential to battlefield success.
Minard's Liniment cures distemper and urges focusing on good virtues. Do not dwell on faults, honor strength in others, imitate it, and faults fade with time. Embrace steady effort over bursts of action and a long calm walk covers more ground than a sprint.
An officer on a liner from Norway reported the arrest and imprisonment of two Norwegian skippers of passenger ships operating between Norwegian and British ports for passing information to German submarine commanders about the sailings of British and neutral vessels from Norway.
A Guelph Mercury note laments a neighbor who borrows a mower then grumbles it is dull. It reflects on petty theft and the sting of ungracious behavior in a small community.
The summer months bring quick illnesses such as cholera infantum colic diarrhea and dysentery in children. Mothers are urged to prevent and treat these with Haley's Own Tablets praised as stomach and bowel regulators sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
In a police court dispute over an eight day clock the magistrate awards the timepiece to the plaintiff while the defendant protests asking what else he gains. The magistrate replies he would grant eight days to the defendant. The text also mentions Indigestion and Parmetee's Vegetable Pills as a remedy for stomach issues.
A government commission debates taking from Nicholas Romanoff land palaces and other property valued at about 48.0 million dollars and the grand dukes holdings totaling around 210.0 million for public use. Total royal assets are placed near 958.0 million with 35.0 million in Bank of England deposits.
Large land auction at Gleichen Alberta sold 322 parcels from the Blackfoot Reserve to about a thousand buyers, mainly local farmers. Average price around 30 per acre, with a high of 45 paid by a Gleichen resident. Many buyers intend to farm, including some American entrants.
At a Finland Social Democratic Congress, resolutions were adopted to separate Finland from Russia and form an independent republic. It calls for no Russian troops or fortifications in peacetime and sets trade rules with Russia as with foreign nations. It urges international support for independence due to distrust of the Russian bourgeois government. The text also promotes Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil as a muscle lubricant for athletes.
An experimental hydroplane postal route linking France to Corsica is being studied by the French Ministry of Commerce with stations planned at Marseilles Toulon and Ajaccio.
Frank J. Cheney of Toledo sworn as partner of PF Cheney in business in Toledo County and State that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public W. Gleason verifies December day. The advertisement promotes blood purification and mentions Cheney's medical claim and mailing address.
German authorities in Rowmienia mobilize rapid cran harvest with special detachments and labor parties from locals. Romanian prisoners of war are assigned to work and paid higher wages than in peacetime with premiums offered to landlords for quick grain delivery.
At a Swine Breeders Association meeting RK B Hunter of Swift Canada Co. warned against beating hogs and overloading wagons. He urged proper bedding to avoid heat and suffocation, separation of weak animals, and not marketing thin hogs. He noted desirable weights 175 to 225 pounds for market.
Dr TLR Adams of the Ottawa conservation commission told a Montreal Canadian Medical association session that placing returned soldiers on the land under current conditions would be fatal. He argued farming does not pay and settlement areas are far from markets. He noted city slums are no worse than many rural districts due to poor sanitation and resources.
The notice promotes counter checks and sales books from Applefort Counter Check Book Company in Hamilton and Canadian offices. It highlights high paper costs, offers samples and prices, and touts large and small orders, waxed papers, specialty triplicate books, and parchment for butter wrappers with prompt service and extensive supplier contacts across Canada.
The report notes heavy losses for medical corps in modern warfare with doctors marching to firing lines to aid wounded. It claims 60,000 killed and cites engagements where 257 and 400 were killed. It mentions ambulance drivers briefly and contrasts past rear positions.
Canada’s 1916 mineral production reached 177 357 000 dollars, up nearly 30 percent from 1915 and over 32 million above prior records. Western provinces Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and British Columbia produced 56 000 000, coal led with about 29 400 000, Alberta ranked second in coal output with British Columbia tied.
A small boy asks the family grocer for a quarter’s worth of potatoes. The grocer, speaking kindly, explains that he cannot cut them and asks the boy to return home to tell his mother.
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