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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
6
Foster trudges through snow in a Canadian wilderness, clutching a coat pocket cigarette case and wounded knee pain. Hungry and exhausted, he contemplates the owner of the coat and his own precarious situation as pursuit looms.
A late night freight crew encounter sparks a tense chase as Foster, injured and desperate, tries to catch a moving freight to Montreal. He reveals a bought ticket and recounts the drummer story, while a rail worker warns against bending rules. To Be Continued.
The New York College of Agriculture explains milk is a solid food after digestion, akin to cheese forming curd in the stomach. Boiling milk reduces curd size, aiding digestion, and milk is urged as a substitute for meat for children and some adults during wartime.
A Montreal Herald item quotes a long dispatch about a Russian Asiatic army captured Mosul area and moved toward Mesopotamia. Debates on Bolshevik influence, censorship, and possible British coordination are noted. The Birmingham Age-Herald joke follows.
A fragmented report recalls old time farming and water cure ads, with mentions of Anuric kidney remedies and Dr. Pierce promotions. It quotes Manitoba frontier memories, Red River life, colonist crops, and early seeding via guild methods, contrasting with later machinery.
A Mitchell Palmer alien property action confiscates stocks and bonds valued near 900000 dollars from Countess von Bernstorff’s vaults in Washington and New York. Mrs Marguerite Vivian Borida Thomason, now Mrs Dernstorff, is also to be seized. Palmer plans to buy Liberty bonds with the funds. Imports from South America jumped to 575000000 last year from 198000000, driven by wartime demand.
A vintage advertisement touts Catarrhozone as nature’s cure for bronchitis catarrh and colds. It claims inhaling pine scented vapors heals by breathing the air, with a three month supply for $1.00 and doctors endorsing it for all ages.
Fragmentary line describes amills at several places and two on the river bank to St Johns parish and another at Point Douglas. The passage questions whether agricultural Manitoba has passed through a wondrous transformation.
A reflective quotation urges tolerance for daily irritations and the habit of taciturnity. It emphasizes hard work to spare others from complaint and to focus on making others happy rather than self gain, attributed to Dr. William Osler of Oxford.
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