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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
6
The piece praises Canadian forces on the western front who have stormed a key hill near Lens and pressed toward a beleaguered French city. It highlights shared valor and the alliance with American troops, noting Canadians as first to answer every call and to face danger and skill.
An American operatic singer meeting a longtime friend on Unter den Linden sparks a joyful English exchange. A German woman, overhearing the English, strikes the singer with an umbrella and shouts Gott strafe die Vereinigten Staten, accusing Americans of betrayal.
The housewife learns the new meat price order requires butchers to display in their shops the prices they may charge for cuts and joints. Wholesale maximum dead meat prices are not required to be memorized and mainly warn cattle buyers from overpaying for live animals.
The article extols Dr Thomas Electric Oil for widening its circle of friends daily. Orders come from distant western and northern regions due to its fame and humane impact. It emphasizes moderate cost and broad accessibility.
Discussion notes a rich sulphide ore deposit near The Pas north of Schist and Flin Flon lakes. It argues Manitoba’s wealth in copper and gold is underappreciated and links development to the Hudson Bay railway, timber, water power, fur trade, and vast virgin territory.
A brief World style note cites Minard's Liniment as curing diphtheria while critiquing Kultur as defined by Hermann Fernau in The Coming Democracy. It calls out Kultur’s traits such as learning without character and ideals without dignity as reflected in a recent Argentine Swedish incident.
The article weighs salt needs for dry and producing cows. It recommends about five ounces per week for dry cows and scales with milk yield for producing cows. A twenty pounds per day producer would need four ounces weekly, forty pounds daily about eight ounces, totaling roughly half a pound weekly for a twenty pound per day cow. It warns against excess salt with excessive water and notes free access to salt is safe and not harmful.
The piece argues that wartime labor shortages will hit farming, especially threshing. It highlights the heavy field labor around threshing and suggests portable elevators to move grain from machine to elevator, reducing two teams and one man and saving money. It notes the cost of labor and compares to the faster, more certain Armstrong machine.
Halibut sells for twenty two cents a pound in Vancouver up from four to six cents three years ago. About four hundred thousand pounds were landed at Prince Rupert Vancouver and Seattle with eighteen hundred pounds destined for Vancouver.
A druggist can obtain a greasy imitation of MINARD'S LINIMENT from a Toronto house at a very low price and label it as his own product. The fake is the poorest seen so far among imitations. Ask for MINARD'S and you will get it.
The remark from the London Daily Telegraph asserts resilience amid sorrow and danger. It declares that despite sedition within the Russian army and grim forecasts, the nation remains steadfast in battling for the right and upholding its ideals.
Alberta southeast of Cypress Hills contains manganese dioxide deposits totaling about 800 000 tons valued at 54 400 000 and being sold to the British War Office for 68 to 69 dollars per ton. Engineer is James F. Reilly of Montreal. Hersey and Allied interests control the enterprise, per Montreal Weekly Witness.
Plenty of Company says she showed interest in prison reform while visiting a large prison. A burly ex burglar responds that friends are not coming to see him, noting they stay away, while she observes the scene.
A promotional testimonial from Miss Berha Nilsson of Stockholm Sask praises Cuticura Soap and Ointment for curing an itchy inflamed facial rash. The ad urges daily use and offers free samples from Cuticura Dept. A Boston USA.
J Ellis Baker notes in The Nineteenth Century that since 1640 and especially after 1713 Prussia enforced rigid discipline with citizens obeying commands and paying taxes. He argues the ruler is sacred, outranking God, as shown by harsher lese majeste vs blas phemy penalties and widespread suppression of dissent.
An article stresses anemia affects both sexes, especially teens, causing weakness, headaches, and pimples. It advocates Dr Williams Pink Pills to restore rich blood, improve appetite, energy, and growth, with sale details and mail order from The Drake Medicine Co. Blackville Ontario.
The piece argues that newspapers must charge for advertising and rent space to survive. It compares free ads to rent-free living and warns that giving space away undermines the paper’s financial viability.
Amid sea lore of torpedo deflectors and leaps, the navy clings to its old plan to net or destroy fast attackers. A new microphone reveals U boats’ whereabouts, but the sensational claims remain untrue.
James Begg of Southwold argues milk price at 1.80 per hundred supports margins of 5 600 to 6 000 pounds per cow per season. He urges feeding, weighing, and Babcock testing to identify top cows and stresses selecting good bulls to improve yields.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications as the disease affects the whole system and requires an internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to act through the blood on the mucous surfaces and was prescribed by leading physicians. The formula is touted as a tonic and blood purifier, with testimonials offered and distribution by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Hall's Hairy Pills for constipation is also advertised.
England’s meat supply shows a sharp decline with July receipts at 20 802 tons versus 23 954 in 1918 and much lower than pre war levels. First seven months of 1917 fall short of 1914 by more than one third, with prices set to fall through autumn. Also notes fodder shortages in Holland may boost meat imports.
Senator Manuel Coronado of Cuba plans an Escadrille Cubaine offering to France with full equipment. Thirty three Cuban youths from elite families volunteer for aviation training and fund their own planes. Coronado seeks Navy support for preliminary training at Pensacola Aviation School.
A columnist notes that cows are sensitive machines needing gentle handling. Harsh treatment reduces milk, while a stable notice urges patience, kindness, and treating each cow as a mother. The piece concludes with a plug for Holloway's Corn Cure.
The Victoria Colonist estimates BC mills could produce 2.5 billion feet of lumber per tannum and pulp and paper plants would supplement eastern demand. From 1912 to 1914 BC handled only about five percent of Pacific foreign lumber exports, despite vast resources and potential to supply most of the demand.
An English activist interrupted a dairy farm milker in a barn asking why he is not at the front. The milker replies that there is no milk at that end, signaling a grimly comic clash between home front and militant rhetoric.
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