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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
2
A London prize court forfeited forty pounds found on Lieutenant Spindler of the Libau but granted part of it as a month’s pay. The court also returned money to two other Libau officers who surrendered the Moncey after truthfully stating their cash. The judge noted differences in perspective between English and German officers.
The Hamilton Spectator notes upcoming ban restrictions on Jamaica ginger, signaling a softer temperance stance. A Hoover bulletin urges prudent purchase choices with a light joke about taxes and a cheerful plan for food spending.
In a Montreal Herald piece, Professor Forester and Albert Ballin praise the British empire as a carrier of wealth and intercontinental trade. The writer argues Germany profited from Britain’s empire while Britain bears the burden of policing a pirate German nation.
A young child at the station provides a humorous response when asked for her name, saying her mother calls her father hikes him. The anecdote precedes a sales pitch for Dr Thomas Electric Oil claiming relief from bronchial and pulmonary complaints.
The piece explains origins of World War I slang such as Bosche Boche Berthas Marmites and Jack Johnsons. It also mentions Holy Joe the chaplain and the grim postbattle burial custom of sewing soldiers in blankets, ending with Parmelee's Vegetable Pills advertised as a universal remedy.
In a Baltimore American quip, a ship remains secure without its anchor because its weight distribution and ballast maintain its hold even if the anchor is lost. The remark highlights maritime resilience and practical seamanship.
The Frightful Count in a German daily urges extending U boat activity to include Danish food exports to Great Britain. He notes the Copenhagen minister shows lively political interest in curtailing shipping between Ireland and British ports and seeks a broader submarine warfare strategy in Scandinavia.
The ad claims persistent backache stems from diseased kidneys and promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills as the quick remedy. It touts the pills as vegetable, mild and effective for liver, money and stomach disorders, urging a 25 cent bottle today. It also humorously notes thirteen as unlucky with references to President Wilson and the number thirteen in U S symbols.
Mrs Mantle of 117 King Street East St John New Brunswick credits Dodd’s Kidney Pills with lifting three years of weariness back pain drowsiness and neuralgia She recommends the remedy to kidney disease sufferers noting its kidney health benefits and blood purification The article also includes a humorous anecdote about a Buffalo man seeking Blank National Bank and a New York boy quipping about bank directors in Noo York
The Co operative Creameries of Saskatchewan has created a poultry department to grade and purchase eggs and poultry. The province aims to raise egg and poultry quality, expecting six million birds to grow to twenty million. Programs target youth through schools fairs contests and poultry stations in Saskatoon and Regina with strong sales of dressed poultry last year.
An authorization under the Saskatchewan Companies Act creates a company with 1 000 000 capital to produce binder twine and cordage from flax straw using a new process. It is estimated that one ton of flax straw yields 270 pounds of twine.
A local merchant in Marion Bridge, C B, on May 30 1902 asserts Minard Liniment as the first choice for customers and the best seller among liniments handled over the past year.
An appeal from Serbian students in Switzerland, publicized by the Serbian legation in Washington, details Austro Bulgarian forces denationalizing Serbia and Macedonia. Families were deported to Bulgaria, clergy and teachers removed, only limited schools allowed to operate, and Serbians resisting Bulgarian conscription shot as rebels.
The article argues Russia’s break with the Allies is stark as France and Britain dismantle Archangel depots and withdraw ships from the White Sea Murman coast and surrounding Arctic waters. It claims funds were squandered on warehouses and harbor works now aiding Germany, noting Russian defection as a ghastly wartime episode.
To guard the baby against colds nothing can equal Baby's Own Tablets. The tablets are a mild laxative that keep the stomach and bowels working regularly. Health and happiness follow from a well ordered digestion. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Lethbridge Herald argues that farm exemptions should bind exempted workers to farm duties rather than rely on farmers to enforce. It says official scrutiny will compel hired hands and farmer's sons to stay on the job or face conscription, making military service a farmer's tool to keep labor productive.
The article argues diminished European and U S wool output boosts wool prices. It highlights Western Canada as a leading future wool producer due to favorable Prairie conditions and rising small flocks. Sheep profits come from wool and lambs while feed costs are covered by the wool clip. A cartoon shows a wife asking about sewing. the husband replies with a joke.
Excerpt from Haldane MacFall's Germany at War argues that Germans claim the right to break laws against inferior races and to harm enemies, while insisting retaliation on Germans is an enormity. The text frames the concept as ruthless valor and calls subverting rules a virtue when directed at foes.
The two year old cow Mercedes Duchess Second owned by William Gilbert of Stony Plain Alberta has qualified in the Canadian record of performance. She produced 11266 pounds of milk and 420 pounds of butter in a year’s test.
The coal mines of Alberta produced 4,863,414 tons in 1917 from 283 operating mines. A copper mine opened west of Banff, and two shale mines operated at Redcliffe near Medicine Hat, according to a Mines Branch report from the Alberta department of public works.
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