Western Canada Awash In Promising Harvest Outlook
Rain across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta boosts belief in vast grain crops with 1915-like yields possible. Labour shortages loom as Manitoba seeks 10 000 harvest hands Saskatchewan needs 15 000 Alberta 5 000. Officials expect migrant workers from central states aided by favorable railway rates through Winnipeg and border offices.
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Nebraska
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Boundary Points
Chicago
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Mich
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Shakespeare Plays Mocked by Class Lapses
A high school test asking students to name five Shakespeare plays yielded humorous results with misnamed titles such as King Liar and A Merchant of Venus. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a pupil quipped that Shakespeare’s famous poem was Venice and Adenoids, illustrating playful student misunderstandings.
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McBath
Venice
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aspirin Bayer ad claims genuine tablets trusted since earlier
An old Bayer advertisement promotes genuine aspirin tablets labeled Bayer Tablety of Aspirin. It asserts safety by millions of users and physician endorsements for over twenty years. It touts unbroken Bayer packaging with directions for relief of headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism and colds. It notes small tin boxes of 12 tablets and larger druggist packages and identifies acetylsalicylic acid as the active ingredient.
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Bayer
Dinner Hostess Serves Tin Utensils by Mistake
An invited guest recalls dinner with friends who were light housekeeping and who served tin knives and forks. He notes realizing too late that his hostess had chosen the metal ware for the occasion, which spoiled his appetite until conversation resumed.
Plywood: A Stronger Than Steel Wood Revolution
The Forest Products Laboratory explains plywood builds strength by combining thin veneers at various grain angles. Tests show across and with the grain plywood vastly outperforms steel in certain pulls, enabling lighter aircraft wings and durable wall coverings.
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Forest Products Laboratory
Department of Agriculture
Too Many Like Bill Smith
A Department of Commerce official comments on aliens who come to the United States to stay briefly, but reports a tale about Bill Smith who overstays and leaves a costly farewell dinner charged to his cousins. The story ends with the family learning the meal was charged to Pa Vanderpelt.
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Department of Commerce
Alexander
Bill Smith
Vanderpelts
Bill
Florida
California
Pa Vanderpelt
Mother's Opinion prompts bachelor to leap year romance
An Indianapolis bachelor dines with a friend and his six year old son. The boy answers a question about marriage with humor, saying his mother wants him to amount to something. The bachelor then offers as a leap year suitor.
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Indianapolis
Avery
Bobby
Vin
When the Glothes Give Out
In a quizzical exchange Judge remarks about a barrel needing alterations and wonders whether to seek a carpenter or a tailor for fitting, capturing a light legal milieu with humor about improvised remedies.
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Obediah
Tam
Woman's remedy praised in Knoxville testimonial
Mrs. Pearl Hilt of Knoxville writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her back pain and fatigue from female trouble after doctors failed. She credits the tonic along with Liver Pills and Sanative Wash and urges others with similar ills to try the product.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pearl HiLt
Jiacksboro St
Tennessee
Lydia HE
Pinkham
Nervous Spells Near Heart Failure Entonic Remedy
C B Leats of Lay Maryland reports relief from nervous spells and heart pressure after taking Eatonic. He had seen four specialists but says one box rapidly stopped symptoms and removed poisons and gases. He urges others to try Eatonic via their local druggist with a money back promise.
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C. B. Leats
Lay, Md
Eatonic
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Fort Worth
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