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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1918
Page
3
An advertisement notes Mr Maxwell suffered years with pimples and found healing with Cuticura. The blurb claims the product’s effectiveness against serious skin troubles and mentions Cuticura Dept Boston U S A. Sold everywhere.
The article extols the Czechs as an ancient industrious people of Bohemia dating to the fifth century before Christ and credits their liberalism, democracy, and economic role in the Hapsburg monarchy, noting Ferdinand I’s failed pledge to respect their rights. It abruptly shifts to a worm powder advertisement praising Miller's Worm Powders for treating intestinal parasites and restoring health.
Soldiers grow fatalistic about death as shells rain down. Men die by odds, escape by miracle, and cling to luck. Tommy P Y notes that a shell seems to carry a name, while soldiers keep calm and carry on.
A humorous exchange at Imog Island yards features Mr. Charles M. Schwab challenging Admiral Bowles about ship production. Bowles promises thirty-one ships but aims for forty-eight, while Schwab vows to secure the best Jersey cow in America and jokes about leading the herd for the boys.
There are over a thousand UK fungi varieties with about a hundred edible for food. The common field mushroom is the main fungus eaten but not highly nutritious. it provides about 3 percent protein and traces of other nutrients. Mushrooms flavor French cuisine and could be used more in England. They emerge in warm damp weather on moors hedgerows and lawns, with pastures being the likely hunting grounds this year as the crop is good and being gathered.
The article urges treating weak blood in youth with Dr Williams Pink Pills to prevent stunted growth and illness. It claims boys and girls will gain energy, appetite, and vigor, with visible improvement in health and development. Pills cost 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 from The Dr Esgem Medicine Co Brockville Ot.
The Plymouth Pilgrims carried European customs to New England including skating. Massachusetts and Connecticut children adopted skating much like Dutch children in New Netherland, linking colonial cultural practices across regions.
Advertises Putnam's Corn Extractor as a quick method to remove corns by shrinking the corn, separating roots, and lifting the corn in one to two days. Claims relief from pain and a cure for tough corns at a quarter in a drug store.
German sailors object to being listed among the crews of submarines lost at sea arguing the loss of a submarine cannot be hidden from the fleet rear. Reports indicate mutiny within the German fleet over the forced service on U boats and a published list of commanders is viewed as morale damaging.
An early 20th century ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the internal treatment for catarrh with claims of curing local mucous surface conditions. It touts a blend of tonics and promises nationwide reputation and mail order availability from Toledo Ohio. It also references constipation and urges sending for the company literature.
The Nation that can never die is seen as duties to build the Jugoslav confederation. The Jugoslavs resume the role Guardians of the Gate, guiding Europe and the East against domination while defending Christian realms against the crescent. Washington Post.
A Cincinnati authority claims corns of all types can be lifted out with the fingers after applying freezone. A small bottle purchased at a drug store will rid feet of corns or calluses with no pain, no infection risk, and quick drying. If the local druggist lacks Freezone they can source it from their wholesale house.
French officers view baseball as a weapon of training and quick reflexes. By minister of war order the game becomes part of soldier instruction. General Vidal has engaged American star John Evers from Chicago to teach the rules to French troops.
Advertising stitch reads that Minard's Liniment cured lumbago bad back ache and sensitive lungs. Testimonial by Mrs S Kaulback and Mrs S Masters claim relief from various pains using the product.
The Victoria British Columbia observatory mirror and its Newtonian secondary arrived from Belgium before the war. Grinding ran 1914 to 1915, figuring began autumn 1916, with final tests late last year. The six foot diameter mirror weighs 4340 pounds and its surface is optically exact to within 0.00014 inch. It is hailed as the most perfect of its size yet made and will focus starlight nearly perfectly.
The article notes widespread fear among Belgian civilians as German forces prepare to depart. Property destruction increases and residents anticipate punitive acts for those who resisted occupation.
J B Thorn a 50 year old janitor at a Lansing Michigan newspaper building was arrested after a 15 month investigation into an attempted blackmail scheme. Letters targeted Mrs Jane Nichols of Glencove Illinois threatening exposure and coercion in a plan demanding twenty thousand dollars. The messages claimed fictitious threats and hinted at pardons tied to mercy, all tied to a broader extortion effort.
The Official Gazette reports a marked decrease in Spain's imports and exports for the first seven months of the year compared with 1916. Imports of raw materials and foodstuffs fell from 328,000,000 to 328,000,000 pesetas while exports declined from 808,000,000 to 506,000,000 pesetas.
In Hickory North Carolina workers in the machine shop of the Carolina and Northwestern Railway converted an old locomotive cylinder into a canning plant. A steam boiler was installed to hold vegetables and canning operated after regular hours.
Corns are caused by tight boots but relief comes with Holloway's Corn Cure. The remedy offers a simple, rapid solution to foot discomfort.
A humorous dialogue shows Mrs Simson saying Willie had the item and the boy guessing its location. The exchange ends with the pantry as the suspected hiding place.
A fragment catalogues Minard's Liniment as a diphtheria cure and blames Germany. It denounces Russia's anarchists and Bolsheviks for weakening the country, urging reliance on strong government and condemning liberalism and revolution.
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