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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
11
A brief exchange between a candidate and an election agent discusses a recent agricultural speech. The agent praises the address while noting a few improvements could have strengthened its impact.
The article notes Russian women at ooean women university specializing in mining and taking roles in the roads movement. Some will manage canal and waterways expansion while others hold executive positions in the Ministry of Graduates and architecture firms.
Census and Statistics Office estimates fall wheat area at 1,042,200 acres, up from 16,700 last year. The total tonnage of eToys is reported as above average by 8 percent over the past seven years.
The article notes rising hog prices in Toronto and strong demand from England for Canadian bacon and pork products. It argues Canada could increase exports if hog supply grows, with emphasis on breeding for bacon quality, feeding efficiency, and securing steady supply to meet British demand. It warns competition from Ireland and Denmark and calls for thrifty management and good feeding to yield returns this year.
The advertisement touts Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil as the cheapest curative preparation available. It claims widespread availability in every Canadian drug store and through country merchants, urging everyone to own a bottle due to easy access and moderate price.
The French Government pledges a subsidy of 1.73 dollars per bushel to farmers for all spring wheat grown this year outlining support measures for the agricultural sector.
A newspaper advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy cured in all stages of catarrh. It claims success through constitutional treatment and offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure, urging readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio.
An American nurse in a hospital writes of a helmet saving a blind boy by deflecting a bullet from the forehead. She notes no new eye class and links headgear to preserving sight, recounting a case where the helmet’s peak redirected a fatal impact.
A Bureau of Standards report audits farm mutual fire insurance and state marshals data to show lightning rods are highly effective with about 99 percent efficiency. It notes many struck homes had no rods and urges grounding fence wires to prevent fires and protect occupants.
A Detroit Free Press reprint quotes Dr. L O Howard of the U S Department of Agriculture predicting insects can form nourishing soups and meals. He notes education is needed for Americans to accept puree of mosquito beetle or grasshopper dishes and that luxuries at low prices drive consumer choices.
An advertorial praises Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator as sweet and palatable for children while promising quick and thorough results against vermin.
The Chicago News comments that overeating hinders men's thinking, noting in some cases this may be for the better. The remark appears as a pointed editorial aside on appetite and intellect.
The advertisement asserts asthma reduces health and urges early use of Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy. It claims the remedy acts quickly on air passages and brings help and comfort to homes affected by asthma.
Dr Grenfell notes a British and Canadian soldier's overcoat weighs eight pounds dry but can reach forty pounds when wet and muddy. He proposes replacing khaki with canvas cloth, which he wears in Labrador.
The ad claims two main causes of biliousness are constipation and liver weakness. Dr Hamilton's Pills are said to correct constipation and improve liver action, offering lasting relief rather than temporary purge. Each 25¢ box is promoted as preventing headaches bad stomachs and bilious complaints.
One hundred twenty three enemy firms, businesses conducted by enemies before the war in Great Britain, have been officially wound up. Still more are to follow.
A playful warning compares a girl's cooking school diploma to a leap year proposal, suggesting caution in romantic advances and the thematic test of credibility in relationships.
Manufacturers send travelling salesmen with light motion picture projectors to demonstrate machines. A blank wall becomes a screen, showing harvesters, feeders, and planters at work in any season. Films help overcome buyer resistance and persuade wary customers to learn about new equipment.
Pleasant Bay resident Harlin Fulton says Minard's Liniment is the only brand asked for and kept in stock, with widespread use among locals. In a quirky aside a Gulfport porter jokes about the Gulf of Mexico being only a "po'shun" of it, cited from Lyceum Magazine.
A quoted exchange remarks on what a judge might consider contributory negligence in a case involving tickling a mule. The fragment hints at judicial reasoning and respondent attitudes but lacks a cohesive report, dates, or named parties to form a news card.
At a banquet Belgian Consul H L de Give recalls an anecdote about German food shortages. A Landsturm regiment departs Berlin amid a tense crowd when one man shouts Long live Germany and a veteran responds with What on to rebuke the remark.
After weeks of milk only, a wounded soldier is promised a light meal but receives a tablespoon of tapioca. He complains the portions are in the same proportion and, instead of eating, asks for a reading matter. He then asks for a postage stamp.
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