Painted Fires Chapter XIX War News Shakes Eagle Mines
In August a train officer reads headlines of war in Europe to Ted and Sim as townsfolk react to looming conflict. Old Sim warns of inevitability and the burden on families and soldiers, while villagers debate duty and the Maine slogan as an English recluse visits and is labeled crazy by locals.
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Ted
Europe
Sim
Eagle Mines
Helmi
Maine
Jack
Heli
Old Sim
Parke
Dixie Land
Georgia
Hermi
Canada
Helm
Bagte Mines
Simpson
Jim Simpson
Empire Echoes in Rip Van Winkle Style Outline
Fragmentary OCR text recounts a colonial scene with a joke about English power and a frontier settlement. It mentions an Englishman, a river named for him, shelter of boughs, a dog, a gun, and a man who could live off the land with modest tools. The passage ends with a tease of continuation.
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Garett
Rip van Wink
King George
Large Federal Road Outlay in Canada 1925-76
George W. Yates reports year ending March 32 1627 saw 7 436 miles completed under the Canada Highways Act with federal subsidy plus provincial programs yielding 88 miles improved in 1925 at an outlay of 2935 dollars. Total Canadian road spending in 1976 was about 15 100 009 dollars with 24 708 miles eligible for federal aid and 18 775 001 dollars paid to provinces. subsidy year expected to finish with current funds.
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George W. Yates
Highy
Canadies-Investigation And Venus Flight Schemes
The article mixes grim notes on rat cases of infectious disease and typhoid with a fanciful tale about Jules Verne inspired plans. It highlights a Miami chemist Professor Robert Condit who proposes a rocket like machine aimed at Venus, claiming a single jump to the planet and questions on return, while discussing technical risks and public interest.
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Canadies
Childres Eus- Jury
Enaure Agatzat
Jules Verne
Wansever
Robert Condit
Miami
Earth
Condit
Will
Venus
Je Condit
Matai
Necesair
Fox Farming An Exterlided Industry
The report references fur farming and notes it as an extended industry in coming years. It mentions government remarks by Minister of Agriculture about fox farming, open market prices, and rising exports to the United States amid European attention.
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Depar
Motherwell
United States
Pine merten name origin tied to conifer love
A brief note explains that the pine merten derives its name from its affinity for conifer trees. The piece emphasizes the unusual association between the term and pine forests.
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Merten
Cream Rice Pudding and Theatre Quips From Page
A recipe for cream rice pudding uses four tablespoons of rice sugar salt milk water and nutmeg baked slowly for three hours. Also included are comical lines from a Small Town theatre manager and exchanges among Alice Virginia and Fred Inard's Liniment for asthma.
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Borden
St. Charles
Quotes and light verse on temper and kindness in period prose
A collage of quotations on self control, virtue, and kindness from Epictetus to Dorothy Pattison and George Eliot, followed by an advertisement for Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy touting its relief and guaranteed success. The text blends aphorisms with a medical ad claiming dependable results for asthma.
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Epictetus
John Lubbock
Dora
Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison
English Prisons For Sale Amid War-Era Decline
English prisons fully equipped with gallows condemned cells graveyard warden house and grounds are for sale in groups as war induced declines cut prison populations. Twenty jails remain on offer with bids weak though some titles fetched sums such as Newcastle 125000 Carlisle 50000 Downpatrick 100 Brecon 1000 with many going begging.
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Home Office
Gui Cne Pilin
Stornoway
Hebride
Newcastle
Carlisle
County Down
Downpatrick
Brecon
Wales
Fragmentary wartime lecture excerpt and dialogue clip
The excerpt shows disjointed lines about warfare, worms and a lecture. It includes a reference to a lecture attended by Reeves and a remark about an audience described as black. The text presents disjointed phrases with incomplete context and mixed topics.
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Jeeves
Reeves
Haig Diary May Reveal Sensations From War Years
TheLondon Daily Express reports that Earl Haigs diary of war years, deposited with British Museum trustees under seal with directions that it remain unopened until 1940, may include frank criticisms of war chiefs and politicians and could hold sensational disclosures once opened.
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Earl Haig
Feld Marshal
London Daily Express
British Museum
Tesven
Confidence for Young Mothers Keeps Laxative Tablets Handy
A short home remedy note encourages keeping Labys Own Tablets for infants and children to ease colds fevers sour stomach irritability and teething pain. The mild laxative claims to act without gripping and be free from opiates and harmful drugs while promising safe use for emergencies. Sold by medicine dealers or by Brockville Medicine Co.
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Laby
Medicine Co
Brockvill
The Great Columbia Teefield Remedy Notice
The Columbia teefield in the Canadian Rockies covers 15 square miles and feeds streams. A remedy for earache is offered by Dr. Thomas Selectric Out. A few drops on lint or medicated cotton placed in the ear relieve pain.
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Great Columbia
Columbia
Canadian Rockies
Thomas
Selectric
Inherited Money Highlights Early Newspaper Ideals
An Oklahoma editor who inherited a quarter of a million dollars is cited as another example of the paper’s pledge to help young men. Mentioned are Minard's Linkment for sick California Kentucky Massachusetts and New Jersey each with one woman in Congress. A 25 cent piece dated 1876 is noted as worth 20 cents.
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Oklahoma
California
Kentucky
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Congress
Philips Milk of Magnesia Ad
An ad touts Milk of Magnesia as a 50 year standard antacid, claiming it rapidly neutralizes stomach acid. It promises quick relief from sour stomach, with a pleasant taste and safe, effective action for general use.
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Philips
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