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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
2
A baby chick grows rapidly in the first eight weeks with proper care. Provide warmth bedding fresh air and attentive care. Include green mineral and animal foods in proper proportions and give scratch grains as mash. Cleanliness is essential. Holloway's Corn Cure tops the list for results among corn cures.
The passage argues poverty is more than hunger and door to door begging. It condemns the use of birth as a marker of poverty and cites cold, hunger, and mental distress as ongoing, pervasive hardships that define true poverty in Spence Porter’s Atlantic essay.
At a Munich Farmers League meeting Dr Heini warned that cattle stocks are depleted and soil is exhausted. He said pre war conditions cannot return and rebuilding will take decades with limited exports. He urged a middle path between free trade and state control.
The vicar praises a parishioner for a sermon’s impact while Tommy admits leaving before the collection. The exchange ends with a wry note on thrift and church service as recounted by The Argonaut.
The text explains long transoceanic cables require relay stations and nations vie for suitable islets to host them. It cites German and English territorial moves around the Caroline, Marianne, and Samoa groups to illustrate strategic cabling needs. It then touts Ameras Miller’s Worm Powders as a prompt worm relief with claimed health benefits and praises Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills as effective purgatives and bowel cleansers.
A brief Milestones item presents a playful exchange as Johnnie dodges a question about the first use of shingles. The vignette highlights a schoolroom moment with a subtle humor note.
A St Louis Post Dispatch item summarizes government pamphlets urging fly control. It covers poisons such as formaldehyde and sodium salicylate, spraying with lavender water, and natural repellents like geranium and honeysuckle. It notes blue decor deters flies and suggests burning pyrethrum powder and carcasses.
Fragmentary text discusses defeating Germany and Austria and condemns visions of victory as propaganda. It references German propagandists and urges decisive action, mentioning Poland and wartime stance.
A farmer testifies about a freight train owned by the defendant company hitting his assumed mule. He notes the animal was bright and would have escaped if it had outrun the train into the woods, reflecting on the incident with a practical aside.
Advert claims Putnam’s Extractor removes corns quickly and painlessly. It promises a painless cure that works on old and tough corns, peels the corn off, and costs about a quarter at the druggist.
A condensed report cites a dual faith guiding citizens and soldiers. It recalls Verdun where the French vowed they shall not pass, and a London Daily Mail echo that no thoroughfare will be allowed, praising heroism and noble resolve.
An excerpt shows a lecturer discussing eternity as a vast concept beyond human mind, followed by a Voice from the Audience asking about paying for a $700 piano on the installment plan.
The passage from the Toronto Globe praises Western radicals as the driving force of a new war parliament. It commends their alignment with public sentiment and their focus on primacy of the war. It describes their disregard for political shibboleths and their commitment to using national resources to advance Progressive aims benefiting the people.
Plans envision a civilian Tabor to do engineering work behind the lines in France freeing American soldiers for front duty. Over 16 000 foreign laborers have been engaged on roughly one thousand projects. The program could grow to a quarter of a million with workers drawn from abroad including Chinese Moroccans as exports of labor continue.
The passage promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills asserting they restore appetite and digestion. It claims they stimulate the liver, bowels, kidneys, strengthen the stomach and heart, and instantly bring vigor so users forget sickness. It urges insistence on Dr Hamilton's Pills at 25 cents per box.
The article urges reducing bread and wheat consumption to aid Allied forces. It notes Canada and the United States must cut intake as shipments to Britain and other fronts are insufficient. It cites shipping limits, rail cargo demands, and the need to preserve vessels for soldiers and munitions. It includes a British cable urging increased wheat and meat exports and highlights four months until the 1918 wheat crop.
The Westminster Gazette reflects on the cost of resistance versus submission. It argues enduring sacrifice secures lasting peace, drawing a parallel to Napoleonic conflicts where stubborn perseverance yielded ultimate safety and order. The piece urges continued resilience against ongoing tyranny.
Mrs. Edmond Gagne of Tikuape Quebec reports strong satisfaction with Baby's Own Tablets saying they cured her baby of constipation and are essential for homes with young children. Thousands of mothers keep a box ready to guard against constipation colic colds and minor illnesses. Sold by dealers or mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Krockville Ont at 25 cents a box.
A country returnee lawyer confronts a lazy junior clerk at his office. He discovers a spider web on the typewriter and learns the clerk had set a spider to trap a fly rather than fix the machine. The tale ends with the clerk’s quip about the “spider” being introduced to catch the insect.
Edmonton user ARCHIE FE LAUNDRY reports a fall caused a very bad sprain and a doctor’s instruction to rest three weeks. After applying MINARD’S LINIMENT, they returned to work in six days and praise it as the best liniment.
A federal agriculture circular urges Canadian farmers to expand fibre flax production to aid Allied war needs. It explains reduced European exports, with France and Belgium limited and Russia blocked, and notes flax’s vital use in aeroplane wings, machine gun webbing, and uniforms. The Department of Agriculture offers the circular free from Ottawa Publications Branch.
In an address at Folkestone Rudyard Kipling denounces German conduct in World War I. He argues Germany pursues a creed built on organized evil and questions how peace can exist with a nation that believes such acts will pay. He cites drownings and other horrors to illustrate a system designed to break humanity.
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