Canadian Heroes Return Home By All Water Route
Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of Asia completed a voyage through the Panama Canal, carrying Canadian veterans home from England and France. The nine and a half hour transit cost 9332 dollars, with celebrations from Cristobal to Victoria and Vancouver as crowds greeted the returning heroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Van‘de Orient
Europe
England
France
British Columbia
Edward Kemp
G. M. Bosworth
Canadian Pacific Overseas Service
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
Canal Zone
Cristobal
Miraflores Locks
Canal
Victoria
B. C
Vancouver
Water Front
Orient
Kansas Governor designates Arbor Day date
Governor Henry J. Allen proclaims April 4 as Arbor Day in Kansas. He urges all residents to plant trees this year, suggesting many trees be planted in memory of soldiers and others who died in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Reconstruction problems to challenge churches in Boston conference
The Inter-Church World Movement of North America opens a New England regional conference in Boston today to address the stupendous issues of reconstruction facing churches across North America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churches of
Physical Department By Dr Wellaman Cleaning the System of Poisons
An upbeat health column promoting morning hot water with laxcarin to cleanse the digestive tract. It claims benefits for dullness, headaches, bad breath, and various ailments by flushing the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels. Laxcarin is advertised as inexpensive and sold by Laxcarin Products Co. in Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Laxcarin Products Co
Dept
E-82
Pittsburgh
STEP SAVING SCREEN SUGGESTED FOR HOME USE
A practical guide proposes a simple screen as a useful home furniture piece. With minimal effort and few readily obtained materials, readers can craft a functional divider at low cost. The article emphasizes ease and economy for daily household tasks.
Sewing Woes and Jumbled Supplies in a Rustic Household
A fragment describes the chaos of rural sewing life with missing thimbles, unsuitable thread colors, tangled spools, and scattered hardware. It notes supplies like burlap, denim, brass hooks, and tacks, emphasizing disorganization and the difficulty of gathering proper materials.
Sewing Screen Craft From USDA Directions
Old manual describes folding two panel sewing screens 28 inches high and wide, with a drop shelf and top groove for buttons. It lists lumber and hinge quantities, color choices, and a walnut hull stain method using walnut hull dye and potash for a brown floor finish with optional paraffin oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Els
Fastenipg
Sewing supplies and tools for needlework projects
The text lists preferred colors and a detailed inventory of sewing supplies. It covers needles in sizes 7 to 10, threads in Nos 50 70 and 100, basting thread, a sturdy thimble made of cellulose or aluminum, and warns brass thimbles may stain or harm. It recommends sharp 5 inch shears, small pod point scissors, abundant sharp pins, a tape measure, cardboard gauges, a 32 pencil, and an emery bag for needle maintenance.
Make It Er Clothes Buy War Stamps And Remodeling
Home demonstration agent explains thrift remodeling of old cloths to save material costs. It lists potential remade garments from coats suits skirts and dresses for women and men, plus children’s outfits and undergarments, with several practical recutting ideas. Leftovers in March are best used by reheating cereals and blending them into soups and sauces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bay
Chile
Cat Town
Miss Lizas Lilies and a Gate Reopens
In a sunlit yard Miss Liz a Start known as Miss Liza to Fairview neighbors shares spring blooms with her old friend Sylvia. A long quarrel with Mrs Patterson’s family ends when a gate between yards is opened revealing a lily bed and rekindled friendship as Sylvia accepts Dick Patterson’s plea. The reunion brings Jennie and the couple back to the garden, closing six years of separation.
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Byma Stuart
Gray City
Eliza Start
Lisa
Sylvia
Miss ‘Liat
Dean Patterson
Sylvia Monde
Jennie
Ivin
Dovers
Fran Hee
Dick Patterson
Liza
Mrs. Scaart
Cama
Women Conductor Reinstatement Ordered by War Labor Board
Washington reports the national war labor board reversed its December 3 1918 decision and ordered Cleveland street car company to reinstate women conductors discharged March 1. The board ruled the women did not have their day in court and affirmed employees’ seniority and privileges upon restoration after a hearing led by attorney Frank Walsh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft and Manly
National War Labor Board Today
Cleveland
Ohio
Detroit
Frank Walsh
Torney
Lemon Skin Whitener Lotion Ad
A vintage beauty remedy promises a lemon based skin whitening lotion. Combine two lemons juice with orchard white from a drugstore to yield a quarter pint for daily facial use, claiming to fade freckles tan sallowness redness and roughness.
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Aly
Fragmented local notices and social items from a Burma era paper
An OCR damaged page lists social events and names including Mae, Mrs Totin, Mr. Viewsat, and Mrs. Childs with mentions of farms, a high water event, a Ford purchase, and a Burma divorce line. The text mixes personal notices, committee actions, and scattered dates, with several garbled phrases making full details unclear.
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Weil
Liteke
Epeenner
Delut
Wiixen
Ford
Frijay
World’s Most Beautiful Model Miss Morton Grey
Miss Morton Grey is billed as the world’s most beautiful and famous artist’s model. She is credited with posing for Barne Jones Mona Lisa studies and works by Herbere Oliver and Frank Dixey. Her acting career includes stage roles and a touring American appearance in Three Faces East.
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Morton Grey
Barne-Jones
Venus
Barné- Jones
Herbere- Qoiver
Frenk Dixey
Lucifer
Lucier
Tien
Pachee
Charles
Sidham
Deerbohm Tree
Forbes, Robertson
Pan America
To the Brave American Women War Tonic Promised
A wartime appeal praises American women for labor in homes and workshops and urges use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic and nervine. It promotes tablet and liquid forms and offers a trial package for 1 cent, claiming vitality and vigor for weary workers.
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America
Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pain Relief Remedies
The advertisement promotes Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pills as effective for biliousness sick headaches constipation indigestion and liver stomach and bowel discomfort. It highlights glass vials and asserts reliability and favor with users as a trusted remedy.
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Esate
Pete
Irmon Cpos
Physical Department
Dr. Wellaman
Tate
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Asquith
Elizabeth Asquith
Antonio Ribesco
Rumania
London
Rumane
Evelyn Loyd
iCopyright
Eigiby the McClure Newspaper Syndicate
AR Labor Board
Meron
Mrs Totin
Witsoe
Beria
Baers
Bretort
Teesepane
Smit Purbir
Bear
Childs
Frieg
Bartorts
Charley Cooper Yistacs
Weis
Bratt
Mix
Pinder
Seunty School Board
Getise Piet Satray
Che Papules
Thearsdee al Fridas
Burma
Soma
Fongl Ib Ag
Hampton Roads
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