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Newspaper
Oxbow Herald
Location
Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
2
The New York Sun compares Wilhelm II and David Lloyd George as two strongmen shaping wartime policy. It frames Wilhelm as divinely empowered and Lloyd George as a democratic war minister wielding emergency authority.
Memories of Baron Fredri Owen recount 1878 incognito visit to Paris with Prince William of Prussia. Two men from Seotnd Yard, attached to the party, spoke English and registered under English names to avoid arousing suspicion of the prince’s true nationality.
Fragmentary OCR notes claim catarrhal deafness cannot be cured and reference medical opinions, but the text is garbled with broken phrases and names missing. The readable bits imply a discussion of a medical assertion and a potentially contested remedy without clear facts or context.
A new auto electrical switch for controlling lights also acts as an auto mobile overload circuit breaker, replacing the need for a fuse block. The device promises safer operation and could shorten electrical wiring by combining functions in one control.
Commander D Kinneir of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co died suddenly in Liverpool. Early in the war he guided the liner Arega through uncharted waters in the Straits of Magellan to escape a German cruiser, saving French reservists on board. He received the D S O from the King and a gold watch from France for his seamanship.
The advertisement extols Miller's Worm Powders as destroying worms in children without discomfort. It asserts worms are ground up and expelled with excreta, cleansing the stomach and bowels and preventing worm relapse.
An old farmer and his teenage son visit a editor to ask if there is money in the literary business. The editor claims twenty years in the trade, but the farmer sizes up the scene, then tells his son to return home and get back to plowing.
The Westminster Gazette notes a 1914 plan adopted by a brewer to compute standard barrelage. It shows a brewery closed and not used since, with authorities deeming beer brewed there as if from the brewer’s own plant under wartime spirit.
A fragmented essay mixes World War II era diplomacy and a humorous tale of Lester Woolsey and Boston beans, linking beans to diplomacy and sport in danger. It notes Woolsey’s covert passport mission, a restaurant toast, and the era’s spirit, ending with a drug advert for asthma relief.
A Swiss baker's statement reported by Paris Gaulois warns against rash actions amid a low mood of the mark. The text mentions enemies in awe, Roumania, and leaders now sowing caution as a long survey of California waters is projected to take 503 years per superintendent EL of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
A garbled OCR segment shows a riddle style exchange where a boy asks a teacher about cutting beefsteak and halves, with the teacher prompting further steps. The text is incomplete and contains missing letters, but hints at a sequence or arithmetic turn in a classroom setting.
The article notes modernity and youth of orders such as Modern 8 with its origins around 1868, the Indian Fie under forty, the Victoria Order still young at twenty, and the even newer Order of Merit, all quoted by the Westminster Gazette. It includes a vignette of a family exchange with a mother consoling a child after a toe injury.
Fragmentary ad copy claims nine skin changes yearly and purifies blood to cure scrofula and eruptions. It mixes medical claims with a street conversation about a town’s literary pride and a monument to a killed local figure.
Fragmentary report describes Minard's Liniment claimed to cure diphtheria amid wartime scenes. Mixed text references fighting in clouds, trenches, and high mountain actions in Europe, with incomplete details and garbled phrases.
Yale professor Charles C Terrey lectures at Wason University in St Louis arguing hairpins precede buttons in use. A rock stratum with hairpins predates layers containing buttons, supporting a view once popular among belles in Babyton.
From the Agricultural Gazette January 1917 report urges farmers to boost production for Empire food supply. It notes ongoing Allied efforts to increase yields, Canada’s role, and a German plan to sink supply ships, stressing the duty to raise output despite wartime strains.
A brief exchange suggests investing in a fireproof vault as a safe option for protecting funds. The dialogue frames the vault as a secure, reliable store of value against disasters.
Mrs. srame of Que writes that Baby was troubled by constipation and teething issues before using Own Tablets. The Brockville Ontario based William Medicine Co offers them for a few cents a box, claiming they regulate powers and ease colds and teething pains.
A letter to Private F. H. Malone from an overseas field ambulance unit recalls the big push. It notes air superiority, the sight of two Fritz planes shot down, and a vivid account of shells, bombardment, and a long barrage strip two to three miles wide, a striking wartime spectacle.
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