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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
2
Vivid fragments recall soldiers coming home or not returning with missing figures and personal possessions. A mother’s grief, boots, coats, gloves, scarves and photographs evoke the cost of conflict and the hope for peace amid sorrowful memories from fronts and aftermaths.
Cultivate Land des Armees notes 738 acres armed last spring in the vicinity of the taois im the Tmmnediste area. Barley, potatoes and vegetables produced, ores worked for fay and preparators. Army Tesco remained on Farm material made from Rigi. Abandoned for the Communes. Daily women assigned to tasks with barrows rollers cultivators and various vehicles described.
Literary notes describe Andean village doors with air allowing keyholes shaped like birds and swans. Harry A. Franck writes of San FM Colombia and Narino towns where intricate locks open to air but resist motive strain. The piece also touches on a remedy, trust in a young dealer, and a jest about a department’s mistakes.
An eminent surgeon studied sheep and wartime fatigue. In a Marne area experiment hundreds of thousands slept nine days with forced marches nearby. Soldiers slept on the move in villages and roads, even in water or on stones, many were captured while asleep, helmets missing as evidence.
Early arrival at a concert yields blurred impressions of two women behind the speaker. They whispered in SH notes and chatter, with phrases about rent and river imagery raising questions. The narrator and friend react with weariness as sounds resemble an organ recital.
A Capreol Ontario report praises Dodd's Kidney Pills as a remedy after years of suffering. Mrs Sawyer and Mr Sawyer share relief from misdiagnosed conditions after doctors failed. The piece notes a clergyman teaching reading, while Miller's Worm Powders claim to expel intestinal worms and repair damage.
Zeppelin raiders face extreme hardship and grave peril in high altitude flight. The rarefied air endangers crew due to explosive hydrogen oxygen mixtures and the risk of sparks from metal objects. Crew nerves are strained, making repeated missions unlikely.
Mrs. D. Owen, nearly 96, daughter of Capt. James Bennett of the St. Helena regiment, was born on St Helena in 1821. She witnessed Napoleon's funeral as an infant and helped unfurl an embroidery silk flag from the boat carrying the coffin when the body was exhumed in 1840.
An ad touts Baby's Own with claims it guards against colds and keeps stomach and bowels working, aiding health and happiness. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville.
A fragmented quotation from the Birmingham Age-Nerals touches on someone who avoids self reference and prefers private humor. The passage highlights a persona who values subdued amusement and witty conversation as a form of quiet enjoyment. The text is fragmentary and reads like an interview or column aside.
At a Paris meeting in January Lt Vandervelde read a manifesto from Belgian exiles, pledging peace with independence and justice despite German oppression. Public reaction split between praise for the heroic stance and impatience with anti peace faction claims.
The honorary secretary Miss Golland Merrit resigns as secretary to take the vice-presidency. She introduced the guild to Canada and travelled west to spark interest. In accepting the new appointment from Her Majesty, she has the good wishes of all officers and Mary F. Angus voices praise for her work.
A fragmented quotation discusses gender roles and work ethic, contrasting a woman's love of her work with pay and a man's hesitation to keep tools when faced with hard times. The speaker cites a castaway attitude toward labor and endurance in daily tasks.
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