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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
3
An advertising claim touts De Maniniten's Mills as restoring blood nutrition and skin clarity. It asserts rapid mood improvement and removal of humors causing rashes and pale complexions, urging purchase of a 25 cent box for men women and children.
In Castleming, detectives, solicitor Wakeman, and Anthony Richardson plot to use trusted servants to fake Miss de Rochefort’s movements. They consider moving her to Dr Richardson’s house to thwart abductors and keep Marie’s tale plausible. They plan a kitchen maid impersonation and staged nursing to mislead observers.
Thomas Atkins refused bitter medicine as two or three V. A. D. s urged him to drink it with promises of recovery and even rosy cheeks. He asked which of the attendants was Rosy, brightening the mood on the ward.
At Lacombe sale of livestock in 1900, 41 head of pure bred Shorthorn cattle, 22 purebred Hampshire Shropshire and Oxford sheep, and 700 grade ewes and lambs sold. Shorthorns averaged $133, pigs averaged $51, and hogs brought $49.32 per head.
A Persian gun weighing about two tons, captured by British forces in Mesopotamia, is displayed on a Horse Guards Parade carriage. The gun bears inscriptions praising Shah Safi and the Lord of Victory, with chronograms linking to 1635 6 and 1628 42.
A brief exchange mocks arguing with people who refuse to listen and those who beg others to listen. The witty back and forth highlights stubbornness and irony in dialogue.
A reflective piece likens life to a farmer guiding a plow through hardship. The speaker urges steadfast work, urging the plowman to persevere through setbacks, raise the team, and keep faith to reap a harvest when the chestnut sun sets.
A Farm Journal excerpt extols a plowman for his steadfast work as he guided his sons and daughters to become honest, good, and clean adults. The passage lauds his life improving the world through quiet labor and virtue.
The food administration plans to save fruit pits and nut shells to produce high grade carbon for gas masks. Two hundred peach pits or seven pounds of shells make enough carbon for one mask. Acceptable pits include peach apricot prune olive cherry and plum. shells from Brazil hazel walnut and butternut are also usable.
A Baltimore woman, long bedridden with organic troubles and nervous headaches, heeded her sister’s advice and used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before agreeing to surgery. She reports feeling better after five bottles and urges others to try the remedy before an operation.
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