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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Nov 28, 1918
Page
5
Advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as a universal cure for constipation with quick relief from headaches and fevers. The copy urges 25¢ boxes as safe for children and emphasizes lasting health benefits.
Mavis seeks solitude along the sea and moorland near Merlin Farm but finds intrusion on a ruined mining site. She encounters Tom Barbury among railway scraps and a distant memory of Jasper Morgan and a professor. Tom asks for help while Mavis questions his intentions and her own freedom.
An officer reports four men were charged exorbitant prices in a small French town grocer shop. They complained to the mayor who warned them to bow to the seller next time or face a heavy pull. The next day the grocer charged 2s for a tin of tea.
The allies eye the American continent for 17,550,000 tons of meat fats oils seeds and seed products by July 1 1919. Output aims to match or exceed totals of 1918 and the prior three year average. Conservation and production are deemed essential in Canada.
A Canada food board statement warns of heavy losses last winter in apples potatoes and vegetables from poor storage. It urges farmers dealers and households to ensure frostproof celling ventilation and dry disease free produce to preserve keeping qualities this coming winter.
Bystander notes a washed soda cleaning method for paint on glass. The quoted applicant says she would suit the role though she is not married, describing a meek submissive disposition.
A Hoboken plant keeps 200 workers, spiders, contentedly spinning tiny crosshair threads for surveying instruments. The spiders work August and September, aided by four trained girls coaxing them to work, producing yards of elastic thread. The process uses spider silk as the only suitable material, with spider cages and seasonal recruitment each spring as the old colony dies.
Canada is a great fish producer yet Canadians eat only a fraction of the catch. In 1917 the catch totaled 856000000 pounds or about 94 pounds per person, while consumption has hovered near 29 pounds per head in recent years. The Canada food board funds expanded marketing of Atlantic and Pacific fish in interior Canada as consumption rises.
A woman recalls that the happiest days of her life were spent during the three years when she was eighteen, as recorded in a Boston Transcript script note.
Miss Kate Young of Mélrose Manitoba writes that after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for itching and shoulder sores she was completely healed in six weeks. She notes the ointment provided relief at night and that Boston products sold everywhere.
Lens deputy and mayor Lens, M Basly, tells Le Petit Parisien the first task is restoring mined works flooded by Germans. He notes years needed for district four reestablishment as government funds 2,000,000 francs to aid three coal firms begin operations amid labor and material shortages. He warns housing needs after German destruction and trench construction, and thanks the British army for relief.
A fragment shows someone admitting a wish to marry and asking why no suitable partner exists. The speaker questions finding a wife and the lack of an appropriate father candidate remains unclear.
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