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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
6
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a healing inhalant that cures catarrh onchitis irritable throat and other ailments by breathing its vapors. It claims safety for infants and doctors’ prescriptions with a three month supply priced at one dollar, distributed by Catarrhozone Co Kingston.
A report recounts the German Crown Prince visiting Zeebrugge and touring the United Kingdom with photographers and German agents. It claims the prince, identified as a keen photographer, traveled with a spy quartet to photograph coastlines from Harwich to Aberdeen while a British aeroplane bomb threat loomed. The article mentions Doctor Stein aron and Neidhardt as a Prussian spy chief and notes the trip occurred during a motor tour with the Royal Automobile Club.
A UK estimate puts four to five million dogs in Britain as a committee weighing whether to save food considers options. The note signals debate over animal care and resource use within the country.
The Edmonton Bulletin discusses war outcomes and Moslem ambitions, noting possible spheres of influence in southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Persia. It contends the Turk seeks future glory but gains little, and warns result depends on who wins with harsh consequences for the Turk.
The first United States tank, named America, is completed and ready for service abroad. It cost about 60 000 dollars to build and will be followed by more as production allows. It is larger than the British tank and designed to overcome its predecessor’s drawbacks with new features.
A late 19th century advertisement touts Putnam's Extractor as painless, fast relief for corns. It claims the product dries, shrivels, and peels the corn without harming healthy flesh, enabling easy removal, and offers the remedy for a quarter at any drug store.
Newspaper correspondent Rosner reports a conversation between Emperor William and Crown Prince about a tale of millions of frogs in the Ailette marshes aiding German troops at the Chemin des Dames. The exchange links battlefield deception to the decision to blow Coucy castle to save soldiers.
It states pale peevish restless children often suffer worms and that Miller's Worm Powders destroy worms to restore digestive health and nutrient absorption.
Charlie Hadn t Been Home after truancy and a long day of fishing, meeting a friend who asked if he caught anything. He replied he hadn t been home yet in Vancouver Province.
Widespread mobilization calls for volunteer labor as the United States faces a farm harvest surge. Citizens respond in large numbers to aid crop production amid the ongoing national effort.
The London Daily Mail urges extending Daylight Saving by another hour through August and halting street lighting in summer. It argues the extra hour saves fuel, boosts evening daylight for gardens and farming, and notes clock time is man made rather than sacred.
Thousands of acres in Manitoba will be sown to wheat in 1919 thanks to the Crop Boosters scheme. Forty agronomists traveled through the province in April and May, spreading the gospel of greater production. Final reports are now with the provincial department of agriculture. A ready pain relief is Dr Thomas Electric Oil famed for rapid effect and broad popularity.
A Buffalo Express item reports a Punko Motor Co sales manager pressed Mr Nutley for a public statement about his car sold last fall. The victim replied he did not mind saying the vehicle makes walking to pleasure.
Fragmentary ad style item urges readers to prepare for war and life insurance. Mentions Dr. Pierce remedies for uric acid joints and kidney issues. Includes instructions to drink water and take Anuris double strength, with price hints and trial package offer.
Forks North Carolina joins a regional push to condense milk with 6,000,000 pounds of buttermilk flow and 35,000 gallons of con article. The creamery by-product casein butter debuts amid patent filings and western creamery adoption, touted as a nutritious food amid current demands.
A Cincinnati man discovered Free Zone, a corn and callus remover sold by druggists in tiny bottles. A few drops on the tender area instantly relieve soreness and shrink the growth until it can be lifted off without pain or skin irritation.
London Times reports German press debates British empire unity after imperial conference. Experts grow moderate, doubt war will split Britain. Canada fading from talk while Japan and Australia may clash over the Pacific. Vorwaerts foresees a customs union and unity, with Germany hoping for a split among Dominions.
An article cites Paris spring market prices for straw and hay and urges immediate baling to reduce waste. It notes wheat straw at 55 to 56.40 dollars per ton, rye straw 40.80 to 44.20, oat straw 47.20 to 50.40, hay 68.40 to 73.20, and alfalfa 69.80. It argues storage efficiency and flavor loss from hollow hay stems and stubble, citing Successful Farming.
Figures show 475000 French women employed in munitions at two dollars daily plus fifty cents from the government and extra for each child if the householder serves in the army. Thrift grows as French banks hold larger deposits despite eighteen billion dollars raised by popular subscriptions for war finance.
Berlin articles celebrate the capture of American wagons deemed useful to the Crown Prince. The piece playfully suggests sending a red express wagon for his use, noting the favorable impression of such a gesture amid wartime rhetoric.
John Barrett of the Pan American Union reports fifteen nations have broken relations with Germany, seven remain neutral, and eight have declared war or taken equivalent action. He claims Pan American allies excluding the U S and Canada could muster 2,000,000 troops in two years and notes major food and supply contributions from the region.
At a mass meeting of nearly two thousand women in Vancouver the pledge bound attendees to exactly follow Canada food board requirements and restaurant regulations in their homes. It was moreover resolved to discourage any social events promoting consumption of wheat products pork sugar and fats.
The Magazine of Wall Street argues Germany’s postwar debt and inflated paper money risk ruin unless victory comes. It asserts 50 billion in public obligations and 15 billion in irredeemable currency burden the populace, with annexations and indemnities framed as salvation. The piece warns the German people face a future of wrecked credit and economic collapse unless the war ends with victory.
An officer was shot and declared dead during a battle. A burial party began the service when a servant noticed a facial twitch in the supposed corpse. He urged another examination, and the officer revived. The ordeal haunts him, causing nightly fears of being buried alive.
Save the Children notes mothers store a box of Baby's Own Tablets for quick use against summer stomach troubles. Advertises the tablets as harmless for newborns and useful to regulate bowels, sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr. Williamson Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario by mail or at druggists.
Potatoes are being dried at all plants in New York and Michigan for American soldiers in France. One New York plant employs 200 workers and dries 43 tons of raw potatoes daily. A USDA demonstration with local growers tests drying potatoes into potato flour as wheat substitute.
Capt. Louis Keene notes swallows building near trenches during bombardment while butterflies labor in dust. He observes birds warning of gas and blooms of flowers growing along No Man's Land between trenches in a Cartoons Magazine piece.
The Lokal Anzeiger Berlin urges replacing the current German anthem, criticizing the use of God Save the King as a sign of national expression and calling for a new, properly German tune to express patriotism.
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