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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
5
A vintage advertisement touts Zam-Bak as the most widely used Canadian balm. It claims Zam-Bak heals sores, cures diseases, and acts as an antiseptic without animal fats or mineral matter. It promotes Zam-Bak Soap for baths and Baby use with a 26¢ price.
A Windsor reader recounts a delayed recovery from stomach and kidney trouble after improper feeding during illness. After starting Grape-Nuts on doctor’s advice, she regained health, gained weight, and returned to daily activities. She praises the cereal as a proven aid and notes friends with similar issues benefited.
J H L Grisdale Ottawa Agricultural Director urges new settlers to break land before May 25 or 26 and sow flax by June. Deep breaking fills space between furrows to conserve moisture and form a solid seed bed. Seed at 0 to 40 per acre. flax cash returns expected near equality with wheat. flaxseed averages around $2 per bushel.
An old ad claims Dr Hamilton's Pills cure women by restoring pure blood and boosting vigor. It promises faster recovery, better color, appetite, and digestion, calling the pills the safest rebuilding tonic. Sold for 25c a box with forty years of usage as America's valued family medicine. A brief joke about a train of thought follows.
A letter from Chas. Whooten of Port Mulgrave praises Minard's Liniment Co. remedy for sore throat colds and common ailments claiming it relieves quickly and reliably.
A collage of Victorian ad copy and dialog snippets includes Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil praised as worldwide, Miller’s Worm Powder claimed to expel worms, a space-saving clothing rack design, Kellogg’s Remedy advertised as magical yet natural, and humorous exchanges about worms, asthma relief, and a child swallowing a cat.
A man pasted three peculiar recruitment posters. One at a young ladies college door offered men with lines about “S,0005 000 more men wanted.” Another over an undertaker’s window urged “Fall in and do your bit.” A cemetery care poster proclaimed “Arise, ye Britons. Your King and Country need you.” Minard’s Liniment Lumberman’s Friend referenced in the scene.
An ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh and asserts blood based action. It touts 35 years of use, testimonials, and nationwide availability through F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Also notes 75 cent price and druggists selling it.
More than 1000 rats are used in the University of Wisconsin agricultural chemistry department under Professor E. V. McCollum to identify the ideal food that would maximize human efficiency and growth. The experiments mirror human physiology and have been ongoing for seven years, with the professor having identified a perfect food concept but still seeking the two unknown compounds that compose it.
An advert promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a spring tonic to renew blood and vitality. It claims the medicine creates new red blood, fights tiredness, and helps conditions like dizziness and backache, with a testimonial from Mrs Eugene Cidarette of Amherstburg Ontario. Pills cost 50 cents a box or 2.50 for six, available from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
The tender hearted cook speaks with optimism about wounded master being patched up. The mistress remains calm while the cook hushes fears and claims care will restore him better than before. The dialogue emphasizes reassurance over distress in a domestic scene.
A short Tit Bits line features Jones reacting with disbelief as a speaker says the Lord has smiled on him. Jones responds with a loud laugh and curiosity about the remark.
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