Canadian lands offer homes and wheat gains in war effort
A wartime pamphlet extols farmer efforts and higher crop prices, urging Americans to farm more and Americans to buy land. It praises Western Canada for vast wheat yields, cheap land, and strong homesteading incentives to boost grain output and support the Allied war effort.
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Chicago Journal
United States
United States Navy
Canada
Europe
Western
Western Canada
Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Ad
An advertising fragment touts Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claiming it cures pimples boils carbuncles and dries them up. It notes the product comes in tablets or liquid and ends with a moral line about great men doing much for others and seeking posthumous fame.
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Doctor Pierce
Council War Talks Open in Washington Amid Draft Showdown
Edward W. Pickard surveys a week of wartime action with allied councils in Washington led by Balfour and Viviani, massive war funding, and debates over selective conscription. The piece notes U boats near New York, French and British offensives in northern France, and shifts in Russia and Germany amid mounting pressure for victory.
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Edward W. Pickard
America
Washington
Balfour
Rene Viviani
France
England
Congress
House
Senate
Wilson
House Military Committee
Dent
Democratic Party
Council of National Defense
Berlin
Russia
Sweden
Petrograd
Germany
Austria
Wilhelm
Prussia
Tisza
Hungary
Warsaw
Norway
Spain
Alfonso
Buenos Aires
Brazil
von Bissing
Belgium
Voice Frozen to Post in Wyoming Cold Snap
A Castle Rock observer reports extreme cold causing odd incidents. Weather notes include a man missing breakfast due to a frozen voice at a post, then thawing later as described in a tale cited by the Boston Transcript.
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United States
David Moore
Castle Rock
Wyo
Moore
Boston Transcript
File Clerk John Haymond’s Plain Answer
In the Indiana House of Representatives, Muncie’s John Haymond explains the job of a file clerk by saying he files things. A witty exchange with a young acquaintance recalls a Winchester uncle who bled things but wasn’t a clerk.
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John Haymond
Muncie
Indiana House of Representatives
Haymond
Winchester
Indianapolis News
Dog by parcel post question in old tale
The exchange features the Old Fogg asking if a dog can be sent by parcel post and the Grouch affirming if it will male. The dialogue styles a humorous rim with a pun on mail and male.
Old siblings resist aged care in panic ride to hospital
Kitty Goetz, 100, and her brother Igny Karisch, 98, refuse to enter an institution as their squatters’ shack is swept by wind. A police sergeant arrives in a sleek automobile to take them, speed and fear in the air, toward Kings County hospital.
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Kitty Goetz
Igny Karisch
Rosedale
L. L
Kitty
Kings County
New York Tribune
Youngster at Church Sees The Dominie In Vestments
A humorous church scene follows a boy misidentifying the officiant in vestments as a man and reacting to the offertory. The child asks if people are leaving as the sermon ends, prompting a stern reply and a warning he won’t return.
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Bobby
Dominie
Richmond Times
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