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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
2
A wool shortage and military demand will force radical menswear changes next year. Cuffs on trousers, plaited goats with belts, and fancy waistcoat lapels are banned. Coat lapels and pocket flaps will be narrowed significantly.
The Windsor reader from M. Smithson describes dramatic relief from nervous breakdown after using Dr Chase's Nerve Food. She recalls sleepless nights, twitching limbs, cold sweats, and irritability, but notes she now moves freely, crosses the river, and feels steadier.
A fragmented racial speech piece depicts a colored recruit arguing over military service amid safety warnings. The dialogue contrasts a confident recruit claiming health and readiness with another who rejects cavalry in favor of family, as a trumpet signals deployment.
The fifty third annual statement shows assets rising to 143,411,927, up more than 31 percent for 1917 with deposits at 132,162,444 and note circulation of 12,779,662. The report notes wartime growth, New York agency operations, and substantial liquid assets comprising 57 percent of public liabilities.
An advertisement promotes Dr J D Retoexs asthma remedy as a life giving aid. The copy claims quick relief and a cure to asthma and urges readers to obtain the treatment for help.
A report notes that in many towns and cities a portion of kitchen refuse is being used to feed swine. The piece discusses method, scale, and potential implications for waste management and farming practices.
An exchange from a Manchester Guardian piece quotes a noble lord asking a woman driver to return at a wee hour and being answered with a quip about titles. The anecdote highlights social formality and class humor in a brief exchange.
A Toronto area reader reports dramatic recovery after taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. He suffered a severe Bright's disease and convulsions before relief, crediting the medicine for renewed ability to work and improved health. The letter frames kidney pills as a standard remedy amid other medical opinions.
A dubious health notice urges readers to heed warnings about dissy spells backache and urinary trouble. It touts Dr Pierce’s Asuric as a cure and promises rapid improvement for kidney ailments, urging open air exercise and diet changes as part of the regimen.
Reports from Berlin and Hamburg show restiveness among Germans under wartime rule. Princely and political voices signal shift toward peace while women bear winter privations and censorship notes a mood for open peace. Charlton Bates Strayer in Leslie's.
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets for ill health in infants, claiming they aid digestion and teething, with testimonials from Mrs. Alphonse Pelletier of St. Damase Quebec. The product costs 25 cents per box and is sold by medicine dealers or by mail from Cr ee Medicine Co Brockville.
The fragment hints Har’s gesture with flowers. The retort suggests a tease about a dead one, reflecting playful mailroom banter in the periodical. The brief exchange signals social cues and humor typical of the era’s columnar humor.
A letter from Mansonville dated June 27 praises Minard’s Liniment Co Limited of Yarmouth Nova Scotia. George H Holmes writes that after using 36 bottles on his father’s paralysis, the remedy restored him to normal condition and expresses sincere thanks.
The piece notes Europe's soap scarcity and traces soap history from ancient times to Pliny's era. It claims biblical soap used vegetable ashes and that Greece and early Rome knew little of soap, with olive oil used in a soapless world. It ends by advertising Holloway's Corn Cure.
The fruit and vegetables committee of the food controller's office discusses rations and next year will remove undersized scabby damaged and defective potatoes from the market. There is nothing repulsive in Miller's Worm Powders and they are pleasant to take, with some cases causing vomiting as a cleansing action, not a harm indication.
The readable excerpt shows a garbled quote from Everybody's magazine discussing difficulty in speech and genealogy. It appears as a partial, misread line mentioning a person named Sandy and a home, with unclear context and garbled wording.
A fragmented wartime item argues that Minard's Liniment cures distemper while United action by Great Britain remains firm against militarist tyranny. The text asserts Germany’s desire for peace as proof the end approaches and liberation of the world could follow a decisive victory.
Dr. Koo, head of the Chinese commission in the United States, told the New York Chamber of Commerce that many Chinese already support the war and that the commission is impressed by American citizens’ earnestness in wartime preparations.
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