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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
2
A reader recounts long suffering from eczema and piles finally aided by Dr Chase's Olatient remedy purchased in Main. The account claims permanent relief after trying numerous doctors and treatments with inconsistent results.
Fragmentary OCR recalls a World War I scene with rumored new explosive weapon in use. Soldiers describe trench assaults, recharges, and a flat trench cleaned by attackers, leaving a corner with a military officer chained and in ruins as others perished.
A flat car of Peace River wheat graded No 3 Northern with no dockage and prepaid to Edmonton. The cargo traveled about 1200 miles via Edmonton, Dunvegan, and Hawish Columbia lines, then GTP to Winnipeg. The journey illustrated long northern grain prospects and wages data from Ottawa.
Mrs McEachten of Glencoe Ontario writes that she has used Baby’s Own Tablets for eleven years for her children and praises their safety and reliability. She states once a mother uses the tablets she will use no other medicine and notes they are safe, pleasant, and effective. The product is sold by The Dr Williams Medicine Co in Brockville.
Readers note many men with sizable families moving to truck farming, paying up to 200 a year for a small lot with twenty acres for truck farming and potential higher net returns than city work, per an Ottawa Seed Branch remark. A woman questions the idea while a man replies about quarreling and truth.
Women aged 45 to 55 report relief from menopause symptoms and related pains after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters from Maine Wisconsin and Minnesota praise improved health, night sweats and back pains diminishing, with long-term benefit claimed. The company offers advice from a woman reader service in Lynn Massachusetts.
A garbled fragmentary report lists Christian denominations in Buldiam with counts of priests and students, notes government statistics on believers from various churches, and ends with a confusing tax on dog males in a southwestern town, framed by a local newspaper notice.
A garbled blend of wartime and medical notes describes powders claimed to expel worms and improve organs, alongside a trench story where a private saves a wounded comrade under shellfire. It mixes old patent medicine rhetoric with World War I battlefield imagery and a rescue anecdote.
Gaspe area resident Peter F Patterson touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney disease and rheumatism after years of backache dizziness heart fluttering and nervous symptoms. He praises the product and its relief, noting a cold and strain caused his ailments before using the pills.
A fragmented column notes Sir Andrew Carnegie’s Skibo farm sale and Bar Harbor estate stay with changes in British standing. It mentions Gatling’s invention origin in North Carolina, limited wartime use, and a Paris embassy encounter with an American envoy, all amid unsettled war plans.
An article discusses oats smut losses in Quebec with high percentages and large monetary value in 1913. It outlines formalin treatment for seed oats to prevent smut, including solution ratios, application steps, drying, and safety notes. Also mentions Absinthe bans in France and social notes from the West End.
A garbled, variably legible collection of short items includes a farmer’s naturalization query about government rain, a Dane responding to a judge, talk of Minard’s Liniment, and assorted sayings about income and meals. The text shows humorous fragments and incomplete quotes with inconsistent spelling.
Raw ad copy touts Nereiline as a miracle cure for chest colds, coughs, and rheumatic pains. It claims rapid relief, safety for children, and broad cures from catarrh to sciatica, urging readers to buy the product and keep it at home.
Canada contributed two million dollars in food and clothing for Belgium relief. The announcement came in York via the Commission for Relief in Belgium, based on a report from Hector Prudhomme of Montreal, treasurer of the Central Executive Committee. Nova Scotia leads provinces in contributions.
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