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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
7
Featherscontaugh and Company office on King Street East in Toronto announces patent related proceedings. The brief notice identifies the firm as a leading intellectual property entity in Canada.
Dr Schuster of the Trou Founders Curon argues at a Duselfort auction that Germany could endure thirty years by mobilizing copper from church and college monuments and unused stocks. The report appears in a despatch from Leinister. Other notes cover Western Canada homesteads, English speaking migrants, and a farmer’s tale of a beehive mishap.
Mr Paquin, a French-Canadian farmer in Lake County Minnesota, abandoned wheat to invest in beef cattle hogs and potatoes. He built a 240 acre farm with a creamery, a cheese factory and a general store nearby. From 69 to 100 head of cattle and 100 hogs, he fed silage and chopped hay, sold calves and pigs, and cleared substantial profits last year. The shift boosted soil fertility through manure and hay production, with five to six years of potato yields around 7000 bushels annually. He plans to move closer to town while keeping the best 240 acres and continuing farming.
A Board of Trade report notes 36,000 accidents this year, up from last year, with fatal incidents rising. The spread of motor vehicles matches horse-drawn incidents, pedestrians face greater danger, and daily journeys rise from 143 to 211 per person as car travel expands from city center to suburbs.
An unreadable 19th century advertisement text promises a reward for a catarrh cure not solvable by Hale’s Catarrh Cure. It includes references to F. L. Cheney & Co of Toledo and various endorsements or testimonials. The fragmentary passage mentions a postal or credibility line and unspecified recipients.
A India report describes vigorous recruiting for the Indian army fueled by front-line successes. Officers report high enthusiasm among volunteers and regiments as wounded soldiers return home praising care received in Europe. The volunteer movement has expanded with gifts to combatants and the sick supported daily.
A claimed government analysis certifies Faby's Own Tablets as harmless and free from opiates. Mrs Jos Castosiere of St Alphonse Quebec credits them with saving her child, and the product is sold by medicine dealers or mail order from The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Ottawa Free Press reports young men rushing to join the war effort with varied motives. A sense of duty mixes with rumors of battles and personal stakes as volunteers describe their reasons for enlisting and the urgency felt to head to the front.
A captured General Bel Nadi Hamad in an Algerian village hospital near St Main becomes the hero of an exploit that led to the capture of German General Presse The. A sharpshooter knocked him to the ground, bayoneted him, and allowed French forces to seize several prisoners. The piece then shifts to a vivid, unrelated portrait of Cocos Island and its ruler, a colored trader who descends from a Scottish sailor of 1820, noting palm trees and a lone sea setting.
Canada faces a near total horse shortage as the Department of Agriculture forecasts wartime demand absorbing most available sight horses for cavalry and artillery. Canada has already sold about seven million dollars worth of horses, with thousands more purchased by Britain France Italy and other allies.
A reader letter extols Grape Nuts for indigestion and nourishment. A mother describes relief from four years of dyspepsia after using the product, and her son improves with regular use. The letter emphasizes nourishment for body, nerves, and brain and claims strong health benefits.
Fragmented text discusses American sympathy with Britain, praise for free government over autocracy, and a note on rational efficiency. It also mentions an easy pill for repugnance to pills, emphasizing vegetable pills as a popular tonic for the stomach.
A fragmented reminiscence ponders how a town survives without banks, post offices, stores, and local services. It argues that citizen support, churches, civil government, and local businesses are interdependent and essential to a town’s comfort, happiness, and duty.
Letters from mothers and a Nova Scotia reader claim Dr Chase's Ointment cured infant eczema after several applications. One Belmont Manitoba note says the sore healed after the third application, another River John letter from Nova Scotia reports full recovery of a five week old baby.
A fragmented item notes Minarda Liniment claimed to cure diphtheria. It mentions an immigration movement between the United States and Canada with Canada favored, citing week ending January 18 statistics: Western Canada received 102 settlers, with 69 American citizens and 28 farmers among entrants, and 45,317 dollars in capital. A second fragment references German papers suspended in Berlin and a director of a news agency saying 1000 German papers, 100 political, ceased publication due to the war.
President Bryan informs German ambassador that the State Department does not seek to block warcraft exports to England and Russia. He cites correspondence with Count von Bernstorff on Curtiss aviation orders, including five additional craft and 35 airplanes of another type. Russia and other nations have entered further machine requests, all from Curtiss.
A 2500 BC Babylonian tablet, unearthed and partly deciphered by Yale University, reportedly contains one of the earliest law codes. Written in Sumerian, it refereed to injury, repudiation of a child, and livestock disputes. The fragmentary text sheds light on ancient regulation prior to Hammurabi.
A fragment describes eczema treatment claims with chemicals and odors, mentioning Cate ears Dept. D Bowing and various soaps and salves. It reads as a dated patent remedy type notice with product endorsements and directions. The text lists ingredients and warns about irritation and safe use, reflecting early 20th century medical advertising style.
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