Western Canada farming boom cited in 1917 wealth surge
The article notes 1917 sales of wheat oats barley flax and rye totaling 270 million dollars and Winnipeg livestock sales adding 40 million, with hogs alone worth over 11 million. It cites tractor sales, land purchases, home improvements, and rising farm prosperity across Calgary Edmonton and southern Alberta as evidence of rapid agricultural growth and optimism for Western Canada.
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Western Canada
Winnipeg
Calgary
Edmonton
Victory
Alberta
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Russ
Department of Beets
Inc
Boschee's German Syrup Promoted for Coughs and Lung Ailments
An advertisement extols Boschee's German Syrup as a fifty one year used remedy for coughs bronchitis colds and throat lung troubles. It claims nights of rest and ease of morning expectoration helping the body to heal. Made in America and sold for over half a century.
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Boschee
United States
America
Adv
Ohio News Gleanings Highlights War and Local Events
Ohio news items report deaths including Lott Solomon near Columbus Grove and Rev. J. A. Snodgrass of Marysville. Officials like Captain J. M. Spanier face charges of misusing funds. Legal cases involve libel suits by Paul Schaaf and a murder sentence for Arthur Pendergast. War drives, drafts, and parole actions dominate, with draft quotas and training camp plans, plus local incidents across many towns.
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Lott Solomon
Columbus Grove
J. A. Snodgrass
Marysville
J. M. Spanier
Camp Sherman
Wadsworth
National Military Home
Dayton
Spanier
Max Burgheim
Cincinnati Freie Presse
Cincinnati Abend Presse
Paul Schaaf
Findlay
Angeline Zimmerman
Arthur Pendergast
Cincinnati
Adolphe Bergen
Sycamore
Wyandot
Wilson
Kiblets
Gracely
Ohio
State
Chid State Reformatory
Toledo
Frank Weiler
George Leighton
Gus Staiger
John Church
Russell Pizza
Wilbud M. Byers
Youngstown
Byers
Athens
John Kachinsky
Port Clinton
Edward Morgan
Irondale
East Liverpool
Alliance
Buckthorn
New Comerstown
William Moser
State Civil Service Commission
W. H. White
Cleveland Republican
Industrial Comptsssion
Ohio Defense Council
Cox
Literary curriculum ideas for first grade units
Provides a set of 9 teacher prompts on using Mother Goose Hiawatha Greek myths and classic tales in early grades. Includes aims for teaching, selections for below fourth grade, dramatisation stories, brief reviews, American hero stories, Stevenson poems and memorization, and a four grade patriotic pageant outline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamelin
Robin Hood
Robert Louis Stevenson
Examination questions for Ohio teachers April 6 test
Prepared by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to test mental qualifications of prospective public school teachers. Includes arithmetic problems on division, interest, rate, and word problems. farming and geography questions. and prompts on theory, practice, history, and grammar from various schooling standards.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Woman Works Fifteen Hours a Day in Peru
Peru Indiana resident Mrs Anna Meteriano recalls years of backache and dragging pains. Doctors urged operation until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health. She now works daily in a factory, does housework, and reports renewed strength and vitality.
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Peru
Ind
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anna Meteriano
West 10Th St
Open Air School Concepts and Geography Review
The text poses questions from a school exam on improving classrooms and student comfort. It covers infant health, open air schooling, air quality, temperature regulation, near sighted students, and weather-related recess. It also includes reading and geography prompts focusing on climate, pencils, and global locations.
Reliable Swamp-Root Kidney Medicine Endorsed
For years druggists note Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy praised as a physician s prescription. It claims to strengthen kidneys and liver and has many supporters. A sample bottle offer asks ten cents and to mention the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilmer
Dr. Elmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Ady
High School Agriculture Choose 8 Topics
A student prompt lists eight agriculture questions from a historic high school course. Topics cover definitions of bacteria germs microbes parasites reasons for farm accounting corn feed during drought period hog nutrition, Ohio weed law, chores on farms, barn evolution, decline and revival of sheep farming in Ohio, human-power savings and cooperation obstacles among farmers.
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Ohio
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Smith
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Wright
Stright
Gee
Flo
Edward W. Reckert
New Philadelphia
Reckert
Morgan H. Roberts
Thornville
Perry County
Ottawa County
Portage River
Carroll
Fairfield County
Donald Kramen
Samuel
Kramne
E. Gray Swingle
Springfield
Frank D. Goldcarp
Ironton
France
Red Cross
Richwood
Maud
Ohio War Savings Committee
Saies
Gordon Sand Company
Conneaut
Arlie Emmons
Portsmouth
New Selects
Herbert D. Campbell
Lima Republican Gazette
Collister & Sayle
Cleveland
Liberty
Cromwell Steel
Lorain
Eben Edwards
Joseph Scianni
Frank Swanns
Gallipolis
Toledo Screw Products Company
Helen Winks
Frank A. Winks
Thelma
Okey Morris
Clyde
Bellevue
Fremont
Knights of Columbus
John Zimmerman
Marion
Joseph N. Drake
Charles P. Taft
Taft
Coshocton
B. F. Price
Lancaster
Post Office Department
Mike Ryat
Cora Ralston
Dallas Ralston
Bellaire
Croxton
Owen Pratt
Plumwood
Union County
Rainbow Division
Paul M. Borrer
Circleville
Plain City
Pharisburg
Milford Center
Byhalia
Bert ‘Sharp
Liberty Center
Agriculture
State Board of Agriculture
Wooster
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Strayer and Norsworthy
Wilkinson
North America
Lake Erie
Earch
Eig
Marietta
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Rio Janeiro
Gettysburg
Odessa
Vladivostok
Montgomery
South America
J.D. Kellogg
Northrop & Lyman Co.,Inc
Buffalo,n.y
ATA Cieb
D. F. Jamison
Summerville
S. C
POST
American Flag Mfg. CO
Easton
West Virginia
the Gold Nursery CO
Mason City
Mason County
Wilson Medical Co., Inc
West Lafayette
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