Farm Labor in Demand in Western Canada
Western Canada offers 160 acre homesteads with favorable terms to farm laborers. Entry counts toward residency, leading to title after two more years. Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba boast fertile land, low taxes, good roads, schools, and high wheat yields. Land can be bought for 10 to 30 dollars an acre with potential to grow 70 to 80 bushels per acre.
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Canada
Western
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Timsted
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Checkerboard Bet Sparks Morning Gamble
An insinuating stranger asks Uncle Hiram Waybacker about risking money in a game of chance. Waybacker replies he does not mind risking a few cents and challenges the stranger to bring out the checkerboard for a quick game.
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Hiram Waybacker
Cascarets Claim Quick Cure For Bilious Headaches
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a remedy for sick headaches, biliousness, and digestive trouble. It claims for a ten cent box to cleanse the stomach, remove foul gases, and purify the bowels overnight, with effects by morning.
Unclear OCR Dialogue Jokes and Ad Fragments
A fragmentary page shows jokes about Castoria bottles unjust taxes and a classroom exchange on the Revolutionary War. The stray lines include a student misnaming taxis as the cause and a quip on the English equivalent of raconteur meaning Bore.
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Gertrude
Described quotes on temper and potato boycott
A Birmingham News fragment offers wry reflections on delay and stubbornness. It contrasts a boycotting urge with a potato beating them to it and ponders temperament as a fancy name for cussedness.
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Birmingham
Ala
Seizure of German Fleet Under M Madoo Orders
Federal officials seized German merchant vessels seeking refuge in Atlantic ports after war was declared. Boston led, with ships held as a safety measure rather than confiscated. Ninety one German vessels totaling about 600000 tons are affected including Vaterland and George Washington. Four Austrian steamers also tied up in New York and Hoboken.
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New York
Atlantic
Congress
United States
Germany
Boston
Secretary of the Treasury
Philippine Islands
Honolulu
Agopugo
Pacific Islands
Lloyd
Hoboken
Vaterland
George Washington
President Grant
Lincoln
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Aso
Old Looks? by Dr L H Smith
Persons with high uric acid often look older and show early gray hair or hair loss. A simple remedy is to drink plenty of water between meals and take Anuric before meals to expel uric acid, which may relieve backache rheumatism gout and other symptoms.
Anuric Tablets and Pleasant Pellets Sold in Illinois Ad
An Illinois notice touts Anuric Tablets for kidney trouble with a testimonial from Marcus F. Allen of Dale and promotes Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels by Dr Pierce. The ad invites readers to mail 25 cents for a vial or request from local apothecaries.
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Dale, Il
Marcus F. Allyn
Dale, al
Pierce
Dr.Pierce
Can't Be Done and Other Brief Snippets
A collage of quips and vignettes: a puzzled citizen asks for two words to explain a war, a student refuses to explain, a Yale stats line on graduate earnings, a fortune teller warns of a year to death, and Baltimore passes a dog-stealing law.
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Dobson
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Marine Eye
Emedy Co
Chicago
Germain
M’adoo
Flower of
Teuton Empire’s Marine
Thahmerasy
Arn
Odenwald
Praesident
Nassovia
Armenia
Bohemia
Pisa
Pennsylvania
Arburg
Magdeburg
Geo Washington
Hamburg
Eegees
Wee
Koenig Wilhelm
Allemania
Halla Et
Prinz Hitel Friedrich
Pring Joachim Sees
Partonia Cadel & Wane
Main
Aestee
Clara Mennig
India
Cincinnati
Newport News
Arcadia
Bnadee Seme
Budapesta
Kronpring Wilhelm
Prinz Eltel Wrederich Bores
Charleston
S. C. Libenfels
Eawaaee
Wilmington
N. C
Tate
Savannah
Hohenfelde West
New London
Conn
Willebad
Jacksonville
Fla
Freda Léonhardt
Sones
Pensacola
Rudolph Blumbe Vogesen
New Orleans
Andromeda
Breslau
Puget Sound
Dalbek
Saxonia
Stelpvek Ee
Ase
Gouverneur Jaeschkhe
Volsatia
Pommern
Bochum Wheat
Camilla Rickmers
Coblenz
Clara Jebsen
Carl Diedrichsen Sereemens
Treereee Elmshorn Wees
Pidsea Elsass
Teenes
Whee Esslingen
Wee Eae
Mark Deavevene
Ares
Eaee
Raja Achsen
Sambia
Seewee
Porto Rica
Bees
Seeaee
Leer
L. H. Smith
Illinois
Douglas
Wokin
W. L. Douglas
San Francisco
America
Brockton
Mass
Seware
Ubstit
Boys’ Shoes
W.L. Douglas Shoe Co
Spark St
Brockton, Mass
SPOHN
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Ind
U. 3
Yale College
Baltimore
Royal Baking Powder Co
William Street
Dr. Williams
Wall Street
Wall Street Review
Wallcrest Review
Broad Bt
New Vert
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