Dairying Prospects in Western Canada Warmed by War Demands
Western Canada’s cheese industry is thriving with strong war demand and rising prices. Alberta’s lower foothills and cool nights boost milk keeping, supporting a future buildout toward Denmark‑level production. Hog markets provide a profitable adjunct, with Calgary price records and Monarch farmer selling carloads at high live weights.
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Canada
Western
Alberta
Denmark
Rockies
P. Burns Company
Monarch
Calgary
No Lack of Rations. Returned Soldier Relates War Feats
A veteran recalls near starvation when a shell blew up the grub wagon and rations ran out. A sympathetic woman consoles him as he describes battle fatigue and wounds caused by enemy shellfire.
Red Rough Pimply Skin Skin Care Sample Ad
Fragrant creamy emollients for skin scalp hair and hands claim to clear pimples blotches redness roughness dandruff itching and chapping. Free sample by mail with Book. Address postcard Cullctra Dept L Yeston. Sold everywhere.
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Cullctra
Dept. L
Yeston
Adv
Love Finds a Way Fiance Faces Tight Budget
A couple discusses budgeting during engagement with the fiancé's modest income. They plan to economize and do without many items Jack needs to manage the future together.
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Jack
Battle Plan for Codling Moth Control in Orchards
Missouri College of Agriculture expert T. J. Talbert outlines a three stage spray program to curb codling moths. Apply after blossoms fall with lime sulfur and arsenate of lead paste to fill calyx cups. Use coarse spray to reach deep into calyx and protect pollinators by avoiding full bloom.
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T. J. Talbert
Missouri College of Agriculture
Poison Spray for the Young Borers
Instructions warn growers to apply a poison spray to tree trunks to prevent borers. Before June 1 inspect trees for borers and destroy apple-tree borers by injecting carbon bisulphate. For peach trees remove soil and prune borers, then spray trunks with lead arsenate paste and lime sulfur solution, repeat mid July and mid August, with mound soil to six to eight inches.
Necessary Work in Garden and Orchard
Horticulture and apiculture relate as bees aid pollination while fruit flowers and cover crops provide honey. Gardens beautify homes, offer outdoor work for families, and teach intensive cultivation through manure use, mulching, fertilizer, training, and tillage.
Making One's Will Do and Don'ts from a Probate Expert
The piece distills Charles S Cutting's guidance on safe will creation. It lists twelve do's such as deciding property disposition first and using skilled drafters for complex wills, and twelve don'ts including avoiding ill health timing, not tying up estates too long, and ensuring witnesses and executors are properly chosen.
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Charles
Cutting
America
Chicago
Nfe
Mark
Population's Flow and Ebb in Immigration
The Philadelphia Record notes a regular ebb and flow in immigration based on labor demand. In 1915 arrivals were 423244 while 884174 returned home, about 88 percent. Over 1909–13, 743,? million immigrants. 3,210,958 or 43 percent returned. Many are birds of passage. few become permanent residents.
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Philadelphia
Sea water cure voyage from St Winifred’s hospital
Dr Winslow Anderson of San Francisco led a 14 member medical team aboard a Crowley launch to obtain 36 gallons of pure sea water. They carried twelve three gallon jugs with lead sinkers to lift water from 80 fathoms. The goal was a treatment using sea salt water to aid a patient. The party reached near the Farallon Islands.
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St. Winifred's Hospital
Winslow Anderson
San Francisco
Farallos Islands
Delight in gaudy clothes from discarded uniforms
A London clothes dealer trades in showy discarded military and official uniforms for sale in Africa and the Orient. Tales recount Africans wearing misfitting, oversized, or mis buttoned garments, and even splurging in mismatched outfits during intercultural exchanges with officials and explorers.
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London
Orient
Africa
Prince de Joinville
Gaboon
Echo of Tragedy from a Calamity to a Taxi Ride
A taxi driver recounts losing his wife and two children in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He spent years in the United States living in Cape Nome Seattle Portland and San Francisco before saying he would not return. The narrator notes the weight of this old grief on a simple day.
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United States
America
Cape Nome
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Mission
Will Irwin
Saturday Evening Post
Calls Sisal Workers Slaves in Mexican Harvest
Frederick W Blake former general manager of the United Railway of Yucatan testifies before a senate sisal investigation that Mexican sisal harvesters and many workers are practically slaves. He says workers barely earn a living, owe money to employers, and face forced labor and debt bondage. Planters live in Meridia and profits fund lavish lives including trips to Paris or the United States.
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United Railway
Yucatan
Senate
Frederick W Blake
Washington Post
Meridia
Paris
United States
Summer Seeker Finds Novelty at Home
Mr Cumrox seeks new summer scenery but decides to stay home for novelty. He explains he wants a place where he can do as he chooses and where the summer will feel brand new.
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Mr Cumrox
How to Achieve Social Success by Looking Bored
A Judge excerpt proclaims that social advancement hinges on appearing bored and superior. It urges contempt for common pleasures, scoffing at religion and politics, and constant aloofness. The guidance insists on self restraint and patronage from equals as a path to social climbing.
Woman Speechless After Theater Visit
A couple returns home on a dark dismal evening and the wife remains speechless for fifty seven consecutive seconds. The husband muses on why actresses rarely travel under their husbands management.
Stratford native on Shakespeare and his plays
James T. Fields recalls meeting a Warwickshire local who insists Shakespeare would not be heard of today if he had not written those plays. The anecdote frames Shakespeare's lasting impact through a boast about his works.
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James T. Fields
Stratford
Shakespeare
Warwickshire
The Lesser Evil in A Hoston Evening Transcript
Dialogue notes a strained marriage dynamic as Ethel resists a young suitor. The wife suggests she would welcome the suitor if the wife marries him, implying he would stay. The exchange reflects tension over daily visits and blame for disruptions.
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Ethel
Ahoston Evening Transcript
Mean Remark About Biscuits Sparks Shrapnel Factory Jest
A Louisville Courier Journal snip captures a caustic exchange about selling biscuits. One speaker jokes they could profit by shipping baked goods to a shrapnel factory, highlighting sharp humor in a domestic scene.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Beauty Fills the House
A compact Pittsburgh Post item notes widespread admiration for a young woman as suitors flock to meet her parents. The excerpt centers on compliments about her beauty and the social attention it attracts.
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Pittsburgh Post
Donkey Coat Said to Be Work of a Tualilur
A quip shows up in an old column noting that the coat of a horse is nature’s gift while a donkey’s coat is often the work of a tualilur. The remark contrasts animal coverings with human vanity.
National Guard of New York Receives Armored Train
A National Guard unit in New York announces the arrival of an armored train intended for rapid response and transport support. The delivery enhances mobility and security capabilities for state emergency operations.
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The
National Guard of
New York
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