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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
4
The Hamilton Spectator notes rising leather prices drive fashion toward knee length shoes and longer dresses as a form of conserving modesty and patriotism, linking economy with style in a light editorial tone.
Sir Penywern pores over four aged letters dated decades earlier, all written with the same intimate tone to a missing wife. The missives reveal a fugitive writer in fear of justice, urging caution and secrecy while hinting at a perilous underlying work.
Sir Penywern uncovers a sequence of letters from Captain Silcott to Daphne and her mother. The notes reveal a alive father involved in a past crime, with threats, blackmail, and a plan to vanish. Daphne’s loyalty and fear surface as Penywern weighs his own failings and the girl’s burdened trust.
A Poultry journal headline quotes a pessimist on poultry who says it pays to keep poultry. A neighbor quips that his pen yields only the rooster’s look and his need to spend more on feed at the mill.
The article notes wood’s expanding role beyond traditional uses, highlighting varnish making and charcoal for black powder, acetone from hardwood distillation, and European needs for willow. It mentions black walnut for gunstocks, substitutes like birch, viscose from cellulose, and wood-based artificial silk products, plus most paper origin from wood.
Land under summerfallow in 1916 totaled 104 Manitoba 103 Saskatchewan and 90 Alberta, up from 77 71 and 74 in 1915. Expect more land under cultivation in 1917. The note adds a poem joke about time and revenge.
A dialogue reveals the daughter’s belief that her father wants to distance her, while she worries the suitor cannot persuade him due to the father's anxious stance on sending her off.
A fragmentary read mentions Dr. Pierce’s medicines including Favorite Prescription. The letter cites personal relief and a sister’s use, with garbled notes about a family member and a son involved in football, referencing Chatham Old Gent.
A43 years of medical ads claim Dr Cassell's Tablets sustain thousands of service members through strenuous duty. The note asserts peeing power and reliability in harsh conditions, urging trust in the product during wartime weariness.
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