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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
9
The passage describes Rome’s vast public road system. Milestones marked routes from Forum Rome to provinces. Roads crossed terrains with arches and tunnels, with relay stations and horse depots enabling rapid travel across Italy and empire.
A vintage advertisement promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a remedy for children’s health by preventing worms. It emphasizes a mother’s care and practical steps to keep kids sound and healthy.
The British navy blocks Chilean nitrates and fertilizers, cutting Germany’s home potato and field crop output by about 35 percent. Without fertilizer Germany’s cultivated lands will yield below average, risking famine as foodstuffs shrink beyond normal wartime shortages.
The text describes nervous disorders marked by tremors weakness and insomnia and claims Dr Williams Pink Pills restore blood supply and strengthen nerves. A Beaver resident testimonial credits the pills with reversing illness and improving sleep and color.
The Scotsman examines antipathy tools as diet and cites Mr. Houston a Liverpool shipowner listing prejudices by region. The piece notes snails frogs rabbits and other foods face varying approval in Scotland and disapproval elsewhere.
There is a dialogue about theatre safety with reference to panics in crowds. The front row seats are populated by men to reduce risk. The exchange highlights crowd control measures and observed behavior in a theater setting.
The Conservator edited by Horace Traubel cites Emerson on pacifist doctrine and Belgium’s devastation, arguing verbal assertions fail against fact. It notes Belgium’s resilience despite violent history and criticizes misquotations from Riverson and the Globe and Commercial Advertiser.
A conversation reveals Edith stating her father objects to a union not for fault in Jack, but because he sees nothing in him. Jack questions what the father sees, or rather does not. Edith explains the lack of perceived merit, clarifying the source of parental concern.
A humorous anecdote features a mistress questioning a cook about a mysterious man seen at the kitchen door. The maid replies she cannot tell and suggests she may have looked through the keyhole, turning the moment into a lighthearted domestic misdirection.
The piece contrasts geological estimates of Earth’s age at 200 million years with chemistry-based 1 billion years via uranium's retroactive effects. It argues uranium and radium reveal Earth’s true age, noting radium’s discovery in 1888 and urging further study at Columbia, Ohio.
Women inventors patent a glove mitten hybrid for soldiers allowing glove to pull back into a mitten, a collapsible bedstead carried in knapsacks, and adjustable crutches fitting any height.
A Scottish court examined a document claimed to be 200 years old noting a steel pen edge. A copperplate engraver showed steel pens existed after 1810, marking dates and handwriting as modern. The oddly mixed clipping also extols medicines and old advertisements.
In the mid 16th century a meatless day law enforced abstinence from flesh for political and economic reasons beyond Lent and Fridays, extending to Saturdays and Wednesdays to bolster fisheries. Four women who ate meat in a London tavern during Lent 1563 were punished in stocks overnight, and the tavern keeper was pilloried.
Girls and women are invited to do plain and light sewing at home either full or spare time. Work can be sent from any distance, charges paid. Send a stamp for particulars to National Manufacturing Company, Montreal.
Kipling warned McGill University students that hollowness attends a life devoted solely to money making. He argued that democracy thrives only when the value of other pursuits is understood. The Ottawa Journal notes the theme highlighted by the author during his campus visit.
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