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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
2
The Peace River district completes a revival of immigration from the United States. It is estimated that about 75,000 people, a highly desirable class, have arrived and taken land this season, doubling last year’s intake. FE L Pease of the Royal Bank comments.
A maid Meg tells a stern man Mrs. Tredway is ill in bed and cannot come. He insists on the truth, presses for why she failed to appear, and questions a delaying message while pressing for silence and exact details. The confrontation hints at secrets behind Mrs. Tredway’s absence and the maid’s role.
Meg faces a menacing man, Mr. Matthews, who suspects recognition of her. She pleads for Mrs. Tredway's protection and earns a conditional promise: a month of silence in exchange for restraint, as the uncertain power dynamic between maid and powerful suitor unfolds.
Mrs Alfred Berthelotte of Ediver Crossing New Brunswick reports severe scalp itch burning and flaky scales. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with instant relief and complete healing in one week. Ad urges daily use for skin troubles and offers samples by mail from Cuticura Boston.
Daily submissions to the U S war department top new ideas for ending the war. Inventors propose sun blinders, aerial torpedoes, self propelled bombs, armored coats, chain linked sabres, parachute survival gear, modern catapults and other devices. Nearly 10 000 inventions have been offered since war was declared, most rejected for impracticality.
A Winnipeg newspaper estimates Manitoba farmers will gain between sixty five and seventy five million dollars in cash receipts this year over 1916. Wheat leads with about 199 million, oat value rises despite lower yield, and dairy products should exceed five million more. Manitoba butter export demand grows as prairie banks rise westward in clearing figures.
War department opposes wives of officers accompanying husbands to Europe and forbids continued practice. Many have enlisted in the American Red Cross to stay nearby, but this circumvention must end.
The Kill Kare Farm in West Summerland British Columbia reports cucumber yield from 1 4/9 acres filled 5 445 peach boxes weighing about 54 tons. At eighty cents per box the proceeds total four thousand three hundred fifty six dollars.
Madame Sukhomlinoff wife of a Russian general was recently sentenced to a bastille for treason. She was famed as the most extravagant woman in Russia with a yearly dress bill of 150000 roubles and a perfumery expense of 15000 roubles. When asked to cut costs she ordered the messenger who brought the bill whipped and expelled from her mansion grounds.
The Saskatchewan agriculture department issues receipt and accounting forms to aid livestock marketing by co operative associations. The set records a year's business, includes a bulletin, and ships free to each association, with future sets at about five dollars.
A Louisville reader recounts years of female troubles and nervous head pains. The letter praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for avoiding surgery and restoring health, inviting others to seek free advice from the medicine company in Lynn Massachusetts.
The Germans showcased a captured British aeroplane to prove their air power. In the first town shown, residents were terrified, fearing swift British raids on Germany. The display backfired, highlighting the enemy’s destructive weapons and provoking anxiety about future attacks.
A New York World note mocks the idea of a giant airship 600 feet long used against Great Britain being brought down in France by a farmer with a shotgun while hunting rabbits. The piece frames the tale as adding terror to war and satirizes the absurdity of such a venture.
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