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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1918
Page
6
A damaged notice from 17th century records shows Miss Que stating long term skin trouble after vaccination. She describes itching burning swollen fingers and impact on work and sleep. The brief includes date and signature indicating a personal medical grievance in a local administrative notice.
A colored evangelist pledges great banquets in heaven. An audience member jokes about who will wash the dishes, highlighting humorous moment and tone of the gathering.
Mrs. Edmond Gagne of Tikuape Quebec writes she is well satisfied with Baby's Own Tablets. She says they cured her baby of constipation and are essential in homes with little children. Thousands of mothers keep a box as a safeguard against constipation colic colds fevers or minor illnesses. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A brief Milestones item notes a playful exchange where a teacher asks Johnnie about the first use of shingles and Johnnie deflects with modest humor. The vignette captures a moment of classroom curiosity and wit.
A farm journal writer advises grounding fence wires to prevent cattle losses from lightning. Install ground wires about every 100 feet, stapled to posts for contact, extending above posts like rods and reaching moist soil to improve safety.
The article details a civilian force to perform engineering work behind the French front to free American soldiers for combat. It notes recruitment of French and Italian laborers, plus diverse nationalities, to work on roughly one thousand construction projects. The plan envisions a civilian army potentially totaling a quarter of a million, with imports of American labor as needed.
The Western Members are praised as the steadying force behind a new war parliament. They align with public sentiment, ignore party lines, prioritize war effort, and push policies to enhance the people's position and power. The Toronto Globe notes their decisive, broad national focus.
The advertisement claims Dr Hamiltons Pills restore appetite and digestion, stimulate liver bowels and kidneys, strengthen the stomach and heart, and instill vigor. It urges insistence on Dr Hamiltons Pills priced 25c per box as superior to other medicines.
Frederick George Kellaway reports at a London exhibition that women now dominate munition work. He notes growth from 220,000 in 1914 to 1,000,000 today, with 300 trained weekly and 40,000 to 50,000 placed through ministry schools. He says women contribute to all defensive measures except flying aircraft.
Voice from the Audience Did you ever pay for a $700 piano on the installment plan Life.
Grace tells she cannot be seen any more and her brother recalls the moment when she turned out the lights revealing a quiet, tense domestic scene.
Long submarine cables need relay islands to cross oceans. The Vancouver to Fan ning Island leg shows 3458 nautical miles of relay free run. Nations vie for small islets like Caroline Marianne and Samoa groups, noting Britain and Germany hold such strategic islands globally.
A farmer testifies that a freight train struck his mule. The attorney asks if the mule was on the track. the farmer replies the mule was clever and would have hidden behind a tree if he had come out ahead of the woods.
Miller's Worm Powders provide relief from worm-related ailments in children. The formulation is described as effective and invigorating, addressing fever, biliousness, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, and other symptoms linked to worm disorders in the stomach and bowels.
An advertisement touts Putnam's Extractor as the painless, sure remedy to lift a corn. It claims quick shriveling and peeling of even old corns without pain, available at the druggist for a quarter.
At a Farmers League meeting in Munich the Bavarian leader Dr Heim warned Germany faces a grim future. He said cattle stocks are depleted and soil is exhausted, making pre war conditions unlikely to return. Rebuilding could take decades and exports may not recover. He suggested a middle path between free trade and state control.
A reflection on national faith in soldiers and the call of courage. The French at Verdun vow They shall not pass while Allied troops at Ypres embrace a plain motto No thoroughfare. The piece honors heroic sacrifice and the enduring hope that noble conduct will prevail.
A medicine that acts on the stomach yet passes unaltered to the bowels offers a powerful purgative and cleanser. Par melee’s Vegetable Pills are described as the best of all pills and have established their effectiveness over years of use.
A satirical exchange questions excess profit and government seizure. Congressman Flubdud laments losing salary as the tongue in cheek dialogue critiques economic control and earnings thresholds.
A harsh parliamentary tone is quoted from the Boston Transcript noting shifting loyalties in Europe. The Austrians face an empire in peril while Germany shifts toward alliance, and Bulgarians begin to sense the same pressure amid global scorn.
Holloway's Corn Cure leads the field as the most effective remedy so far, with superior results compared with other cures mentioned.
A government representative states that five million tons of coarse and grassy hay will be required this year to produce a filler for high explosives. The hay is macerated and about 20 percent of the explosive bulk comes from the resultant fibre replacing cotton.
An advertisement extols drinkable water and Anuric to purge uric acid, claim relief from kidney issues, backache, and rheumatism. Dr. Pierce of Buffalo endorses a milk and vegetable diet with limited meat, urging a month long trial of Anuric at 8 doses daily.
Laura Spencer Porter argues in Atlantic that poverty is not only bodily deprivation but also psychological and spiritual lack. She distinguishes born poverty from earned hardship and warns that unfulfilled hunger of the mind and heart can be harsher than cold and hunger.
A Edmonton reader, Archie E. Laundry, credits MINARD'S LINIMENT for a severe ankle sprain after a fall. The doctor ordered no walking for three weeks, but six days later he was back to work, praising the liniment as the best.
A lawyer returns from the country to find signs of laziness by his junior clerk. He shrieks that a spider has woven a web over the typewriter, but the clerk explains a fly blocked the works and a spider was used to trap it.
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