Army expansion plans outlined by Sir Sam Hughes
Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia, said there are 37,000 Canadian troops in the trenches and 40,000 more in England awaiting front duty. He confirmed General Turner of Quebec to command the new second Canadian division. If Canadians go into action as two divisions, Gen Alderson would command the corps and Col A W Currie would command the first division. He noted the militia department aims to appoint officers with front experience to new commands, and Gen Mercer would head a third division if formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Hughes
England
Turner
Quebec
Alderson
Col
A. W. Currie
Militia Department
Gen. Mercer
Worm Exterminator Aimed at Child Health
A claim promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a simple cure for worms in children. The text urges action to protect youngsters by using the product, presenting a direct health danger and a remedy.
Overrun in Butter Making
Overrun cannot be accurately calculated until the milk is tested and the butter made. It is the difference between fat received and butter produced and varies with skimming thoroughness churn quality cream handling losses and butter composition. Moisture content can range from 10 to 15 percent or more, making overrun highly dependent on the butter maker’s efficiency.
Telegram Misses Bridegroom Honor With Underscored Message
A woman returns to the telegraph office to modify a note about a bracelet receipt. She asks to underscore perfectly lovely to please Arthur. The clerk confirms there is no extra charge and hands back the revised telegram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Youth
Aeroplanes and Artillery in War Role of Spotters
The article argues aeroplanes boost artillery accuracy. spotters in aircraft could vastly improve naval gunnery. It notes limited use so far in North Sea operations, urges the United States to fund at least 500 aeroplanes and seaplanes after Congress convenes. It frames air power as decisive in opening salvos and overall defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea
United States
Congress
New York Herald
Milk Room Sanitation Tips for Handling Dairy Products
Advice on keeping milk and dairy products sanitary in the milk room. Use galvanized iron copper or zinc surfaces, concrete floors, and avoid wooden buckets. Wash with hot water, rinse with inside hose, reduce dust and germs, and shield from flies with wire screens. Hang damp gunny sack over windows to lower temperature and improve cooling. Sunlight helps kill germs but may be impractical for summer storage.
German-America backing Allies after Belgium invasion
A Providence Journal excerpt reports a traveling correspondent found eastern Pennsylvania strongly pro Allied. He surveyed Lehigh, Berks, Northampton, Bucks, and Montgomery counties, noting Germans there condemn the Kaiser, dislike German policy, and express unwavering support for President Wilson after Belgium’s devastation and the Lusitania disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Belgium
Lusitania
Hohenzollern
Lehigh
Berks
Northampton
Bucks
Montgomery
Easton
Germany
Wilson
Providence Journal
Canadian Pacific Dining Car introduces buffet service
Canadian Pacific Railway patrons are offered a novel dining car feature a special buffet under glass covers with cold meats and salads. Passengers select from the display while a chef in white serves the items, marking the first cola buffet on a dining car and it is meeting with success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.P.R
Canadian Pacific Railway
Europe Regulators Map Wide Food Price Rules
After the war, most European governments enacted price controls on foodstuffs. Austria and Germany set bread flour mixes and later wholesale flour prices, controlling distribution. Turkey pegged prices for petroleum sugar and flour while Italy operated central monopolies for salt tobacco and matches. Denmark Holland and Switzerland also restricted prices.
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Europe
Austria
Germany
Turkey
Italy
Denmark
Holland
Switzerland
Tactics of the Huns and German naval aims
A German captain among West Australian prisoners discusses Germanys plan to crush Britain after France and Russia, build a fleet from their indemnities, and dominate the seas. He recalls evading British pursuers with wireless telegraph, sinking an adversary, and failing to torpedo HMS Sydney when the chance arose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imfeiy Internea
Main
Emcen
Germany
Britain
France
Russia
England
Emden
The
Sydney
Nothing to Equal Baby's Own Tablets
A vintage advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as safe and opiate free for infants and children. Mrs. Albert Bergeron of St Aga pit Que says the product cured constipation and teething troubles, and the ad notes tablets cost 25 cents per box and are sold by medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Bergeron
St. Agapit
Que
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville, Ont
Wheat transport rates and Buffalo threat to Canadian shipping
The piece notes adequate rail provision for moving wheat to tide water, but warns western farmers face anxieties over transportation costs. Rates east of the lakes depend on tonnage while western rates are fixed by the Dominion Railway Commission, with a possible rise due to wartime tonnage scarcity. It cautions against cargoes shifting to Buffalo routes, urging lake freighters to move quickly and cheaply to protect Canadian interests. Contracts for October deliveries to Georgian Bay are noted at three cents and higher than before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Railway Commission
Georgian Bay
Canada
Trust Kitchener In the Final Analysis
The Winnipeg Tribune asserts that Lord Kitchener embodies trust for soldiers and empire, citing his decisive leadership and Britain’s war ministry. Lord Rosebery supports confidence in the British government, and Canada shares this faith as sons go abroad to fight with minimal sacrifice when possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Kitchener
Lord Rosebery
Britain
Kitchener
Canada
Winnipeg Tribune
Feed the Soil From Manitoba to Ontario soil needs moisture lime and organics
The Canadian Countryman outlines methods to boost producing power of soils by adding organic matter lime and plant nutrients and by improving water supply. It warns marshes need no organics while sands lack fertility and humus and heavier soils need targeted attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Battle Changed Into Murder Sermon at St Pauls
The Archdeacon of London denounced the Zeppelin raid in St Pauls Cathedral calling the battle a murder. He cited hospital casualties including many dead children and urged accountability for the imperial action with biblical language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. Pauls Cathedral
Parmelees Vegetable Pills Endorsement for Liver Care
Many ailments arise from a disordered liver, a delicate organ affected by irregular habits and poor eating or drinking. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are presented as a gentle yet effective remedy suitable for even the most delicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parmelee
Soldiers wear varied identification badges in wartime
A description notes how each national soldier carries ID: the Russian with a numbered badge, the Frenchman with an embedded card sewn in his tunic, the German with a metal disk bearing his name, the British with an aluminum disk marked and church affiliated, the Japanese with three disks at neck belt and boot, the Austrian with a gun metal badge concealing a parchment leaf, while the Turk lacks a badge, deemed unnecessary.
Women Aviators Offer To Serve In France Front Lines
Women aviators in France express willingness to serve actively. Mme Martha Richer, secretary of the Patriotic Union of Frenchwomen Aviators, asks newspapers to publish their pledge. They offer free service to France or allied nations, claiming readiness to replace pilots guarding towns and head to the front.
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France
Mme
Martha Richer
Patriotic Union of Frenchwomen
No title provided in source
A clerk recounts a threatening reply after attempting to collect a bill. The employer urges the clerk to return and confront the bully, insisting the intimidation will not silence them.
Tremendous number of casualties I see by the paper
A succinct quip notes the speaker finds the phrase tremendous casualties in a paper and questions which paper. The other replies that it is a fly paper. The exchange highlights a humorous misreading of headlines or sensational wording.
Grape-Nuts Improves Health Says West Teacher
A West school teacher reports health gains after switching to Grape-Nuts. She describes weight gain, better appetite, steadier nerves, and improved sleep despite a strenuous job. Eyes strengthened, and she praises the food as nutritious and economical with a personal testimony that resonates.
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Canadian Postum Co
Windsor
Veal and Baby Beef Pricing By Age And Weight
The article explains veal age limits and weights, noting calves under three months and under 300 pounds fetch certain prices. Live weight 120 to 150 pounds yields top price, 100 to 150 pounds at high quality. Veal may drop to 2 dollars per hundred at 300 pounds, baby beef includes well fattened calves over 300 pounds. It also defines yearling subcategories short-yearlings and long-yearlings by age ranges.
New National Policy for Western Canada Land Use
Vancouver Sun argues a sweeping national policy is needed to fill vast vacant Western Canada lands. The piece links postwar soldier reintegration, urban unemployment, and a strategy to house two people per square mile in the northwest and one per square yard in cities, aiming to elevate Canada as a leading wheat producer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion
Great Northwest
Vancouver Sun
Hall's Catarrh Cure Aimed at Internal Remedy
Catarrh is described as constitutional and not curable by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and said to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Marketed as a non quack medicine by F. J. Cheney and Co. with testimonials offered. Sold by druggists with price. Also recommended Hall's family Pills for constipation.
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Asense
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
George A Hearn remembered as kind art patron
The New York millionairess art collector George A Hearn is remembered for his humane treatment of staff. He once mocked the scientific management craze with a dinner tale about a hod carrier and a ladder, illustrating a belief in realistic wages and steady effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Hearn
New York
Mr. Hearn
Hodcarrier
Ahere
Happiest Man Is Honest and Prosperous
The piece extols a man of fine habits who works honestly, saves money, avoids liquor, tobacco, and betting, loves his home, plays with children, and keeps his wife. It argues that honest labor yields prosperity and that conduct mirrors success, citing the Ohio State Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohbio State Journal
Extermination of Armenian Village by Turkish Forces
Reports describe brutal actions by Turkish troops against Armenians in a village of about 2,000 homes. Gendarmes ordered evacuation. after resistance, soldiers fled and returned with machine guns and incendiaries. The village burned, nearly all Armenians perished. survivors say men were drafted, women sold, and elders cast into uninhabited areas.
Asthma Remedy Claimed To End All Asthma Suffering
An advertisement extols Dr J D Kellogg's asthma remedy as the ultimate cure with countless cures in its credit. It claims to help even severe cases and provide blessed relief, arguing that suffering from asthma is needless when this remedy is easily secured.
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J. D. Kellogg
France at War Shows French Resolve in Trench Duty
The piece quotes Robert Herrick praising French soldiers for their grim silence. It counters American stereotypes of a frivolous national character, describing the French as cheerful, tenacious and devout about the justice of their cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Rhine
Robert Herrick
The
Chicago Tribune
War Conditions and Currency in Wartime Policy
The London Daily Telegraph argues Britain will honor paper money at face value while German notes have fallen about 25 percent and keep dropping. It notes the need to substitute imports, mobilize gold for government reserves, and sustain a total war effort with public resolve.
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London Daily Telegraph
Indian workers in US concentrated in seven occupations
The bulk of Indian labor in the United States is spread across seven job groups. Official figures show 85.4 percent of employed Indians work as agricultural laborers, farmers and stock raisers, lumbermen and woodchoppers, manufacturing and transportation laborers, basketmakers and weavers, launders, and servants or waiters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Witty remark reflects merging families and social status
In a brisk exchange, a man quips that his wife did not abandon her lineage she carried it with her. The line underscores social perception and the blending of families within a witty, cutting moment.
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Toronto
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Estern
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Cutter Laboratory
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California
Arlington Company OF Canada
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Minard
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