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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
2
Reports from Kelowna about British Columbia fruit show higher prices this year with buyers purchasing spot boxes of apples at up to 2 25 per crate. Tomatoes gain support from a newly refurbished Kelowna cannery boasting a 60 can per minute capacity.
Advertises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a temperance tonic for women with backache headaches and hot flashes. Claims widespread cures from roots and herbs with no alcohol or narcotics, available in liquid and tablet form. letters praise relief during pregnancy and nervous symptoms.
Berlin papers report Germany and its vassals hold 3 575 000 prisoners whose work is valued as vital for industry and agriculture. The communique claims the labor army exceeds many nations’ male work forces and grows more useful as the war continues.
A German non-commissioned officer and his wife escaped from Germany in a small transport and reached Moon in the Baltic. They have been interned along with other deserters while an investigation proceeds.
An advertisement extols Dr Hamilton's Pills as a mild, reliable family remedy for indigestion headache and biliousness. It claims the pills suit all ages including children and the elderly and promotes a 25 cent box as quick and effective.
An Echo de Paris report cited by Berlin's Arbeiter Zeitung details six children who died in a Zenefort Thuringia orphanage. The abandoned site showed starved inmates and several skeletal children observed by visitors. Prof Franz E Hein warns Berlin of harsher weeks ahead with wheat shortages expected.
The excerpt contemplates postwar economic shifts with inflation and wage rises, noting industry disparity and rising prices while urging a return to farming as a natural stability. It questions whether industry will suffer and if the farm will endure after wartime waste.
High prices for school lands in Western Canada were reported with parcels sold in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In De Lisle Saskatchewan one parcel brought 77.50 per acre and 44 of 93 sold above 30 per acre. Strassburg Saskatchewan disposed of 122 parcels with 85 selling 1 to 64 per acre. Lumsden Saskatchewan and Foremost Alberta also reported sales up to 50 per acre. most buyers were local residents aiming to cultivate uncultivated land next year.
An official French despatch reports that German officers promised loot from Paris and the countryside to front line troops before June ninth. A deserter recalls officers glorifying rapid gains in rich territory and adduction of plunder while warning guards not to repeat Villers-Bretonneux drunken excesses. He notes reserve regiments were sent to the front reducing the guards’ control of loot.
The article estimates up to 4,790,000 Europeans have starved since the war began. It warns that unless the 1918 harvest is saved, famine could spread across Europe, bringing unprecedented civilian suffering among allied populations.
A satirical editorial quotes Senator Overman criticizing impatience with wartime pace. It likens panic to a boy who dislikes school after a day, arguing the Allies face a lengthy, difficult task and must endure the slow grind before victory.
A Cincinnati inventor promotes a cheap ether compound named Freezone to instantly relieve a tender corn or callus. The ad urges readers to clip and have a druggist order a smaller bottle if local stock is unavailable.
A reader from Knox Bridge Quebec states Baby's Own Tablets eased his constipated and feverish child. The product is described as a mild thorough laxative that regulates the bowels and sweetens the stomach. Sold by medicine dealers and by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Laman Medicine Co IIlle.
Report notes Miss A attracts more attention for her singing than Miss B though both are featured. The piece highlights Miss A as having the richer bioscates transcript.
A WWI airman describes dropping a parcel to German pilots who refused to engage. They open it to find boots with a note challenging ground work. The piece shifts to a medical pitch praising Dr J D Jones asthma remedy, claiming quick relief and broad sales.
An elderly man awakens in a Chicago setting asking where he is and if he is in heaven. His wife comforts him as gentle hands tend to him, revealing a domestic scene of care amid illness. A Vancouver Province fragment notes this interaction.
Fragmentary lines show Mary handling month end tasks and various voices in a muddled discussion. Names and places are unclear, with scattered phrases about soil and speed tests. The readable content hints at coordination challenges during month closing.
Fragmented advert claims the Kaiser shows gratitude amid army retreat. Also promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio with sworn affidavit and notary seal. Product claims list internal use and blood mucous system testimonials.
The item recalls Padre William Ewing telling of a burly Irishman wounded in Gallipoli and Bagdad. A doctor asks what he is and the reply is half an Irishman with holes and bandages. Also notes early knitting needles in England in 1551.
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