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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
3
A note describes a chaplain of the pivots receiving the Victoria Cross for tending wounded under constant and heavy shell and machine gun fire on the Thames-side parish front. He treated twenty two gravely wounded in two days and led volunteers on a third day to bring in more wounded, behavior praised as outside his ordinary duties.
The article promotes Baby's Own Tablets as essential for infants, citing Mrs. Richard Boston from Pembroke Ontario who says the tablets saved her daughter when other remedies failed. It notes the product sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Convictions for drunkenness in Great Britain have decreased by 49 to 50 percent. Secret drinking, however, is believed by some to be on the increase.
A Chesford Ontario resident attests Dodd's Kidney Pills as a valuable tonic and medicine for kidney health. Article notes kidney issues affect blood purity, causing fatigue and disease risk, urging use to prevent rheumatism diabetes and Bright's disease.
The Germans were superior in machine guns for months but Britain now has a gun that can beat this. Invented by American officer Col Lewis and made in Belgium, it appeared just as German scouts entered its city of manufacture. In a trench, a two man crew using the gun accounted for 330 Germans in half an hour.
A London newspaper notes women earning for the first time in England are spending gains on health and fatty foods. Observers say English girls grow plump and well nourished, with American girls rarely matching the trend. Drug stores display beauty aids prominently as interest rises.
Alfred Rochay of Roxton Pond Hotel and Livery Stables endorses Minard's Liniment as the best medicine for both family and stables after years of use. He signs as proprietor.
A terse item notes a rubber stamp invention for marking golf ball owners initials. A mention of Minard's Liniment Lumberman's Friend appears alongside a comic depiction of a polite dentist’s attendant asking what name to announce to a distressed patient.
Advertises Nerviline from Catarrhozone Co. Kingston Canada as a quick acting direct-applicator liniment that cures rheumatism and eases back pain neuralgia headaches and other aches with claims of 50c family size and 25c trial size available from dealers.
The piece cites 78000 annual US cancer deaths and rising mortality from 1900 to 1913. It discusses asthma remedies from Dr. Kellogg and notes on fire insurance curiosity, plus a Russian giant aeroplane claim and a heroic wounded salute with bullet-hole humor.
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