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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
7
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a quick remedy for bad cold catarrh and bronchitis. It claims inhalation clears the throat, relieves congestion, aids expectoration, and offers a two month supply for 50 cents or one dollar for a bottle from Catarrhozone Co in Kingston, Ontario.
Foster and Alice discuss a risky plan to aid Lawrence Frater, aiming to stall Daly’s certainty that Lawrence is in Britain. John the loyal servant agrees to assist covertly with a car and discreet action as tensions rise at Featherstone House.
The Ottawa Journal notes the United States ready to place trained troops under allied command and brigade American forces with British and French divisions. It argues the move shows full American commitment to victory over Germany, even at the cost of fielding a separate American army.
German papers discuss letters from the German Fatherland party printed on watermarked paper reading Strong in English. Leipsic Volkszeitung questions whether the letters were furnished by the English.
Holland adopts daylight saving time with clocks moved forward one hour in April and returned in October. The change applies to all local time and affects rate calculations during the summer period.
A Canadian shoe company operates 8,000 pairs daily with six distributing branches and over a million dollars in stock across coast to coast. It employs sixty travelling salesmen to service about 10,000 retail dealers, including 5,000 handling its A H M Shoes.
The Indiana poet Riley faced arithmetic trouble and ran from class during The Death of Little Nell lesson. He spent sixteen years skipping school and reading folklore from Brandywine to build a lifelong education. He played guitar and fiddle, acted in local shows, drew well, and earned a poor reputation while hiding a richer inner life.
An Irish governess in Vienna recalls food shortages amid Vienna strikes. She details breakfasts with apple refuse coffee and black bread with jam, no fats, marginal meat, and scarce wine. Clothing costs are high with shoes costing £6 to £7 and stockings made from nettle fibers. She notes poor living for workers despite high wages and blames England for the misery.
The Chicago Herald cautions readers not to waste the extra daylight hour gained. The piece urges prudent use of the time rather than idle pursuits.
U S ordnance experts tout a mobile long range gun under construction near Philadelphia as superior to the German 75 mile gun. The American weapon features greater diameter and weight shells, mobility, and a guarded facility with officials overseeing the project.
A young shopper adds six cents to buy bread, asks for another cent as prices rise. The clerk notes the cost increasing and references yesterday's price, highlighting inflation pressures in a small town market.
In abridged World War I theater dialogue a British officer cuts to the point and orders a swift surrender from a German soldier, derisively calling the scene no opera.
A witty exchange between a husband and wife about spelling the word graphic, with humor on whether to double letters. The joke hinges on language play and typographic accuracy.
A Toronto Star correspondent argues for renaming daylight saving to daylight gaining. He contends daylight was present but misused, due to misaligned clocks. The proposal frames the change as a mutual gain for both early risers and late sleepers, and echoes poetical lines about lengthening days.
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes a poet asking the editor for feedback on a spring themed poem. The editor replies that the piece does not do spring justice, prompting critique of tone and imagery.
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