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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 08, 1919
Page
2
The article argues town prosperity hinges on local merchants and farmers collaborating. It urges turning the town into a true community center with services and meeting spaces, balancing farmer loyalty with city competition, and recognizing duties on both sides in sustaining local life.
An argument favors local merchants adopting cash in advance for farm purchases to preserve lower prices, with credit terms seen as unequal. It urges towns to support farmers by improving facilities for families, encouraging social ties, and strengthening cooperation between farmers and merchants to boost local commerce and prices.
An Ontario advertisement asserts disease stems from impure blood and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure. It cites a Napanee resident’s testimony about renewed health and urges purchase at 50 cents per box, six for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Quote from the Boston Transcript questions Charlie Sapp’s marriage plans with Miss Brisk and humorously warns of trouble if he does not watch out.
Reports from all sections of the Okanagan and southern Similkameen valleys indicate excellent fruit prospects for 1919. Bud setting suggests about a 50 percent gain in production over 1918, depending on frost absence and favorable spring and early summer conditions, says Fruit Inspector Hunter, Penticton.
An advertisement blend features Black Watch plug tobacco claims and a Cartoons Magazine cartoon line about weather and a Dublin style exchange. It touts Dr J D Kelloge’s Asthma Remedy as a natural cure and describes its vapor helping airways.
A fragment cites Bromo Quinine as a cold cure with dubious cautions and notes a rain of terror spoiling a woman's Easter hat. The text warns against borrowing trouble and promises safer remedies with Minard's.
A Cincinnati man promotes Freezone a cheap quarter ounce treatment for corns and calluses. Drops relieve tenderness and shrink the corn allowing removal without pain. The sticky solution dries without inflaming surrounding tissue and is claimed to prevent infection from improper self treatment.
Quotation emphasizes prudent timing over delay. The line echoes Shakespearean verse urging readiness and prompt action.
An advertisement claims lemon juice mixed with three ounces of orchard white creates a skin bleaching lotion. It urges straining through cloth, bottling, and daily facial and body massage for months of use, noting freckles and sallowness removal. The text adds a curious line about Java spiders.
In Coblenz, five civilians hoisted German flags after reports that peace delegates were en route to Versailles. Military police quickly removed the colors, with one flag remaining briefly as a crowd of about 200 soldiers gathered nearby.
The Hollo Corn Cure is said to remove corns by reaching the root and killing growth, preventing recurrence.
The Echo de Paris reports that the peace conference economic commission favors inserting into the treaty a provision granting allied nations the most favored nation status without reciprocity, to be applied to Germany and its associates.
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