Canada's Interest In World Condition
Six years after Germany’s challenge and two years after armistice Canada faces unsettled world conditions. Russia and Poland war, Greece and Turkey clash, and Western Allied forces contend in Europe and the Middle East. The piece argues Canada’s duty to the world and its stake in securing trade, production, and food access while shaping postwar commerce and peace.
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Germany
Russia
Poland
Greece
Turkey
Europe
United States
Syria
Gresce
Messina
Creche
Canada
League of Jons
Asia
Canada must shift toward essentials and curb luxuries
The author argues individuals should conserve earnings and emphasize essential needs. Excess demand for luxury goods has pulled labor from basic production, harming the less well off. Canadians should cut luxury production and speed up essential goods while saving funds for personal security.
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Canada
Parmelees Vegetable Pills Promoted as Harmless Purifier
The ad claims Parmelees Vegetable Pills use mandrake and dandelion as sedative purgatives that cleanse and purify the digestive secretions. It asserts the pills benefit the liver and kidneys and offer a highly effective concentrated medicine for sufferers.
Wireless Telephony Experts Report Long Distance Voice Message
London based Marconi experts at St John’s Newfoundland report hearing voice transmissions from the Chelmsford station near London over 2000 miles away. They identified Capt Round’s voice and several words but could not discern a connected sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Marconi Wireless Company
St. John’s
Nild
Chelmsford
Capt Round
Ation
Annou
Cholera Infantum and Baby's Own Tablets
Cholera infantum is a sudden childhood ailment common in summer. Baby's Own Tablets are urged to regulate bowels and sweeten the stomach, claimed safe with no opiates. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Rn Ag
Dr. Williams? Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
Within Sight of the Day
Howe's Monthly warns that US factories may close and luxury production decline as workers shift to necessary goods. Observers predict food import reliance and possible famine if wage boosts and short hours persist, signaling a broad economic propaganda toward self-starvation.
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United States
Howe
Farmers Will Survive Hard Times By Steady Work
The article argues that postwar upheaval will ease for farmers who stay with farming and persevere. It notes wartime disruptions will fade, prices for crops will stay favorable, and steady effort will lead to long run gains and a comfortable home life despite short term uncertainty.
Rolling Stone Proverb Through Ages And Oceans
The piece reflects on the saying a rolling stone gathers no moss and traces its spread from ancient Greece to America. It questions whether moss stands for riches or pleasure and notes the proverb’s continued resonance while suggesting shifts in interpretation across cultures and time.
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America
Pilgrim Fathers
Washington Irving
Christian Science Monitor
Australia’s First German Capture by Pilot Easton
The Melbourne pilot Easton stopped a German steamer from Hamburg entering Portsea as Britain and Germany war began. He warned the captain of ships firing on the entrance, a forted warning that kept the vessel from turning back. Easton’s calm device kept the ship from proceeding further into Australian waters.
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Raston
Melbourne
New Zealand
Hamburg
Melbourne Heads
Easton
Portsea
Britain
Germany
Australia
Bourne Argus
Incredible Cure Claim for Throat Ulcers and Quinsy
An ad claims Dr Th as Eclectric Oil prevents ulceration and swelling from sore throat when taken with a bit of sugar. It says it soothes irritation and makes periodic quinsy sufferers immune to attacks. The copy urges use for immediate relief and long term immunity.
Western Tour of Mackenzie King to Speak in Principal Cities
The opposition leader Mackenzie King plans a two month tour from Ottawa with stops in western and eastern provinces. He will deliver speeches in major coastal cities and aims to begin around now, with most speaking activity concluding by mid November.
Isn’t This Romantic Two Toes and Coin Extractor Ad
An odd ad promotes Putnam’s Coin Extractor claiming it cures coins with a “paintess remedy” priced at 25 cents. It boasts five years of affection and a harsh penalty of death by five applications, presenting a surreal product pitch.
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Putnam's
Home Teaching Duty for Parents Warned by New York Evening Sun
The article argues it is the duty and privilege of all parents to impart worthwhile life lessons to their children. It warns that abstaining parents may entrust teaching to unqualified outsiders and cites radical agitators as seeking to strip home instruction from children.
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New York
Milburn Heart and Nerve Pills Ad Seen in Ontario
An Ontario advertisement features Miss Eva P Yateman describing illness and spells cured by Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. The copy touts relief from pains and nervous symptoms, urging purchase by mail order from The Milburn Co Toronto Ontario.
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Eva P. Yateman
K. Agers
Lark
Milburn
Milburn Co
Toronto
Saving First Hundred Dollars Builds Wealth Mindset
Those new to thrift discover the hardest part is saving the initial hundred dollars. Once achieved they gain mental and financial benefits, feel stronger against temptation, and sense stability, courage, and progress toward happiness and success.
An Easy Job Lady Conversation Dialogue
A stage whisper exchanges between a mistress and Bridget. The mistress says she will be at home only Wednesdays from three to five. Bridget muses that such a short window will provoke a lively stir at home.
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Bridget
Gratitude Ready to Offer an Excuse
A brief aphorism notes that gratitude often accompanies an attempt to justify faults or omissions. It suggests a reflex to soften accountability by framing actions as understanding or forgiven. The idea contrasts harsh honesty with polite, apologetic rhetoric in social interactions.
Are You One of These at Table Off Renters Pay
A fragmented question asks whether renters can access exact information about a house or asset without owning it, implying a class on rental data or ownership concepts. The readable text hints at guidance on access to information in a rental context.
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Hoares
Spend your rent money on your own home
The text argues renters should invest in home ownership instead of paying rent to others. Over ten years of rent totaling $4.20.00 would equal the house price, yet yields no ownership. It suggests a third party might offer $4000 on a term, but renters would still need another house and ongoing payments.
Airplanes as Carriers of Disease and Pests
A lecture by H Max Lefroy at the Royal Institution warns that airplanes could spread crop pests and diseases. The talk cites July incidents where aircraft carried white ants and spreads of yellow fever mosquitoes, along with the chinch bug’s historic wheat losses. It notes a 1600 French witchcraft execution count of six hundred women.
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H. Maxwell Lefroy
Royal Institution
London
Chalmers Mitchell
Africa
West
Brazil
Grading Contract Awarded for Weyburn Lethbridge Line
CPR officials announce a contract for grading eighteen miles of the Weyburn Lethbridge line to be undertaken this summer. The westward work runs from Altan on the Saskatchewan Alberta boundary toward Manyberries on the Alberta side, with about 20 miles to be constructed to link the line ends.
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Weyburn Lethbridge
Altan
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manyberries
Oil Boom at Unity Prompts Large Oil Effort
The discovery of oil at Unity has prompted Imperial Oil Company to mobilize material and crews to sink a well by a homesteader, with several cars of gear and a substantial workforce already at work.
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Unity
Sa Town
Dows
Imperial Oil Company
Minard’s Liniment Relieves Colds at London Hospital Milk Costs
A fragment notes Minard’s Liniment as a remedy for colds while reporting the London hospital’s milk bill, now about $80,000 yearly, up from $25,000 before the war, reflecting rising operating costs.
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Minard
London
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Cee
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He Lumber
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Watrn
E. D. Smith & Sons, Limited
Western Dison & Trorsdale
Winnipeg
Regin
Hed
France
Weyburn
Lethbridge
P. R
CPR
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