Migration Revival Pushes Land Settlements in Peace River District
The article notes a surge of migration from the United States to Peace River District, estimating 35,000 people securing land this year, about double last year’s figure, as quoted by L. Pease of the Royal Bank. It mentions discrete plans around a despatch box and a Bayswater lodging project amid a wider plot.
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Peace River District
United States
Says & L. Pease
Royal Bank
Plotters plan a covert entry to steal from a house
Hilda and Parminter discuss a night break in with the side door left unlocked until 2 30 am The plan involves access to a study and avoiding light and attention They arrange money payments to the maid and anticipate bailing Jarvis from the scheme with a final payoff
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Hilda
Jarvis
Parminter
Easia
Under Suspicious Circumstances at Hartedale House
George Ellington returns to Curzon Street after a day of observation by unseen watchers. His despatch box and state papers are tracked from the admiralty to Hartedale House, but he believes he can leave business worries at the door. He takes a quiet midnight meal and retires, unaware of the plots closing in.
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Letty
Ashrminister
George
Marcia
Hartsdale House
George Ellington
Curzon Street
Admiralty
House of Commons
Hartedale House
Old Ellington
Mr. Gladstone
Cuticura Healed Itchy Scalp Says Woman in Letter
Mrs Alfred Berthelonte of Ediver Crossing New Brunswick reports severe itching and burning scalp relieved by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She says after a week she was completely healed and recommends Cuticura for skin troubles and everyday toilet use. Free sample offer via mail provides Cuticura Department Seco. S.A.
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Alfred Berthelonte
Ediver Crossing
N. B
Caticura
Dept. Seco . S.A
U S Plans Mirror To Blind Foe With Numerous War Inventions
Daily proposals to the U S war department enumerate nearly ten thousand inventions. Many are impractical, yet all are welcomed for the war emergency. The board reviews devices such as sunlit blinding reflectors air torpedoes without pilots and trench catapults.
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U.S. War Department
War Department
Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
No Man's Land
The Lauder Lesson in War Time Public Appeal
The piece reflects on Harry Lauder’s transformation from famed stage funnyman to wartime ballad singer. It notes his son’s death in battle and his return to old audiences to urge support for the war effort, illustrating a nation united in sacrifice.
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Lauder
Harry Lauder
New York
Manitoba Farmers Face Higher Cash Returns This Year
A Winnipeg newspaper estimates Manitoba farm cash returns for the year will range from sixty-five to seventy-five million dollars, with wheat yielding about 3467 bushels per year and total value rising to around 199 million. Oat yields fall from 1916 but higher prices lift oat value, dairy products expected to rise by over five million, and Manitoba butter exports grow with strong demand in Montreal. Bank clearing figures show Winnipeg rising to near the top among Canadian cities, signaling prosperity for the West.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Montreal
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion
Toronto
Ontreal
S. Colsery
Cucumber yield nets profits for Kill Kare Farm
The British Columbia Kill Kare Farm reports cucumber harvest from one and four ninths acres filling 5 445 boxes and weighing about fifty four tons. Net proceeds total 4256 dollars at eighty cents per box as notified to the department of agriculture of British Columbia.
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Department of Agriculture of
British Columbia
Kill Kare
Summerland
Extravagant Russian Noblewoman Sentenced in Treason Case
Madame Sukhomlinoff, wife of a Russian general, faced a bastille sentence for treason. Reports say her annual dress bill reached 150,000 roubles and a single year of perfumery cost 15,000 roubles. When asked to trim expenses she ordered the messenger whipped and expelled from her mansion grounds.
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Madame Sukhomlinoff
Russia
Co Operation in Live Stock Shipping Forms Issued
Saskatchewan province co operative organizations branch of the department of agriculture issues receipt and penne forms to simplify livestock marketing. Based on years of experience these forms accompany a bulletin and are supplied free to every livestock marketing association for a year. Afterward sets cost about five dollars.
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Department of Agriculture
Saskatchewan
A Friend Refuses Surgery After Pinkham Compound Aid
In Louisville Kentucky a woman suffering four years from female troubles headaches and nervousness credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health avoiding surgery She reports now strong enough to care for her eight month old child and urges others to seek advice from the E Pinkham Medicine Co for free guidance
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Louisville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Giifeun
Christy Averty Ave
E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Germans Display Captured British Plane To Public
Germans toured the country with a captured British aeroplane to showcase military progress. In the first town shown, residents were terrified rather than impressed and feared imminent raids on German towns, describing the weapon as dreadful and alarming.
Absurd plan for airship raid on Great Britain
A New York World line calls it absurd that a gallant crew would launch a million-dollar airship 600 feet long to conquer Great Britain, only to be brought down in France by minor troubles and captured by a farmer with a shotgun while rabbits are hunted.
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Great Britain
France
New York World
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Pide
Waters
Bayswater
von Roon
Down Street
von Reen
J. & Fletcher
Rini
Field Cashiers
Dominion Express
U.S
Canada
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