Uncle Sam Financier Adjusts Four Cent Postage Dent
A quirky item notes Uncle Sam as arranger of a four cent postage dent in a comic tone. A restaurant map reports two ice cream plates sold apart from a meal owed to the Government, with stamps and portage disputed as not legal tender. The tale ends with the collector demanding a certified check for two cents and remarks on absurdities observed in the records.
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Sen
Conic
Mar
Comic Opera
Brooklys
Good roads the west Canada must build better highways
The article argues Canada lags in road quality compared with Europe and the United States. It urges provincial leadership, expert planning, and sustained maintenance for main highways, with municipal control only on local arteries. It also promotes using winter works programs to employ unemployed during off harvest periods.
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Europe
America
Atlantic
Canada
United States
Quebec
Ontario
West
Lhues
Faisly &Rs
Western
Hudson's Bay opens new Victoria store building
The $5,000,000 Hudson's Bay Company store in Victoria formally opened with an official luncheon attended by EW Beatts, president of a Canadian Pacific stairway party in the province. The event highlighted the balanced duties and privileges of success.
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Victoria
Hudson's Bay Company
EW Beatts
Une Canadian Pacific Stairway
Nerviline Household Remedy Ad Promotes Quick Digestion
An old advertisement touts Nerviline as a universal stomach aid. It claims twenty drops relieve sour stomach, belching, and gas, with sweetened taste and rapid relief. The copy urges households to keep a 35 cent bottle on hand for common stomach ailments.
Germany Builds Twenty Motor Vessels In Shipyards
Germanys shipyards show a shift to motor ships with twenty vessels planned or under construction totaling about 133000 tons. The program includes converting former submarines into merchant ships with roughly twenty guns removed and installed on merchant hulls.
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Germany
Saftin
Minel
Agriculture In The Northland Report
The Northland reports robust grain yields this year and abundant produce. Tomatoes and cucumbers thrive while cabbage reaches four and a half feet in circumference and potatoes attain twenty inches in length. The article notes large yields and impressive growth overall.
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Northland
When Does Bronchial Trouble Begin To Get Serious
An early warning cough grows into dangerous bronchial trouble. The ad touts Catarrhozone as a remedy to heal throat spots, ease coughing, clear breathing, loosen phlegm, and relieve nostril and chest irritations. It promotes two months of daily use with priced options.
Prosperous District Braces for Grande Prairie Growth
Indications point to unprecedented prosperity for the Grande Prairie district as settlers influx and substantial capital arrive. Lumber orders rise and overall business activity increases amid expectations of a ten to fifteen million dollar crop value. Mother Graves Worm Exterminator promises relief for suffering children. Europe’s longest tunnel claim and unrelated patent medicine ads fill the page.
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Grande Prairie Country
Grande Prairie
Britain Launches Large Reforestation Drive in Canada
A sizeable team works around Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, gathering fir and hemlock cones. Collected cones are to be sent to Westminster for seed extraction to support a major revoresting scheme in the British Isles.
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Port Coquitlam
B.C
Rangers
Westminster
British Isles
Corns Between The Toes Painlessly Removed
A brief notice honors a female gardener, noting she plants potatoes and shows progress this year. The piece references a calm remedy and the community’s support for her efforts. No further names or dates are provided.
Baby's Own Tablets Praised by Mother's Testimony
Mrs Fred Murphy of Charlotte town PEL writes she has used Baby's Own Tablets for eight months for her baby and cannot speak highly enough of them. The tablets are described as a mild thorough laxative safe for newborns and sold by medicine dealers or direct from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville at 25 cents a box.
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Haley
Fred Murphy
Charlottetown
Pel
Dr Williams Medicine Co
Brockville
Protest at the hotel prompts terse room warning
A rude exchange occurs between a bellboy and a guest described as from the country. The guest protests about paying for a room with a folding bed. The bellboy interjects sharply and directs her to enter another room labeled Hope as others’ ambitions mirror society.
Uses for corn cob binders and furfural byproduct
The Department of Agriculture notes corn cob can yield a useful paste as a wall binder and adhesive in the Sast and Uk regions. The remaining residue contains about 10 percent high grade furfural, a key chemical in coal tar products and the growing chemical industry.
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Department of Agriculture
Wall Boat
Muddled Medicinal Trade Notice Appears in Ad Page
Fragmentary OCR shows a garbled medicine ad mentioning catarrh nostrums and various company names such as Cheney & Co and Teledor. The readable bits hint at a patent remedy listing ingredients and claims, but the full details are unreadable. The item resembles a late era classified advertisement for medicines with promotional language.
Admiral Kerr Denounces Battleship Programme
Vice Admiral Mark Kerr in a September review condemns the Admiralty new battleship programme. He says command of the seas has passed from battleships and argues Britain has sufficient ships for any European contingency. The article cites London Sunday Pictorial. The note adds astronomy fact that Betelgeuse is 27 million times larger than the sun.
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Mark Kerr
Admiralty
Admiral Kerr
Europe
London
Pictoria
Large Sale of Pure Bred Livestock in Northern Alberta
One of the region’s largest livestock sales occurred when Hon. Y. Smith Minister of Railways sold his herd at Camrose’s Kirkum Ranch Company in Sexamith Alberta for 25000 dollars. About one hundred head of cattle, all of the Fairtax Hereford breed, were purchased by the Ranch Company.
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Alberta
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