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Newspaper
Tisdale Recorder
Location
Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1915
Page
2
An advertisement touts Nerviline as a powerful pain suppressor that penetrates deeply to ease aches in muscles and joints. It promises fast relief from rheumatism lumbago and strains and urges purchases of a large family bottle from dealers or Catarrhozone Co Kingston Canada.
Private Archie Bothwell at Belfast recalls a silent Borderer who never spoke except yes or no. In a trench retreat a comrade lay wounded and the quiet man knelt beside him. He raised his rifle to face the oncoming Germans and died as his fellow soldier lived to save another.
A letter from Mrs HM Hewer of Eastburg Alta praises Dr Chase Kidney Liver Pills for relief from years of indigestion constipation and headaches. The ad claims strong control over common ailments and lists pricing with a Toronto address. A joke exchange about husbands follows.
The article notes alfalfa as premier dairy cattle feed and praises silage made from corn with grain and meat. It warns against adding beans or peas to silage due to packing problems and spoilage, recommending pure corn silage and curing high protein legumes separately. It concludes that farmers producing high protein roughage lead in milk production.
C B May 30 notes MINARD S LIN MENT as the year's top seller and first choice for pain relief. NEIL FERGUSON confirms it as the best selling liniment among many brands handled.
A World War I anecdote recalls Colonel Pearce Serocold describing British troops disguising trenches by donning new clothes and stuffing old garments away. The German gunners shelled the open trenches for days before realizing the ruse. Also advertised are Parmelee's Vegetable Pills praised as top liver remedies and several light jokes about domestic life and manners from a vintage paper.
An experiment at North Dakota Agricultural College tested screenings against oats and bran and pigeon grass seed. Amos Ewen and Ephraim Weathund fed three pens of sheep for ten weeks, finding screenings produced greater gains than oats and bran and pigeon grass seed also showed improved gains. The piece ends with a note on worm hazards for children and a cure claim for Mother Graves Worm Exterminator.
In 1880 Colorado had 4 506 farms valued at 42 million dollars. By 1910 there were 46 170 farms worth nearly 500 million. Principal crops include wheat oats potatoes sugar beets alfalfa livestock fruit flax vegetables and poultry. Potatoes yielded 110 bushels per acre in 1915, wheat 24, oats 36 and hay two tons per acre.
Spring use emphasizes impurities in blood and fatigue. Dr Williams Pink Pills are advertised as a year round tonic and blood builder that purify blood, restore nerves, improve appetite and digestion, and clear skin. The ad urges purchase from any druggist or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 50 cents a box or six for $2.60.
A conversational fragment contemplates marriage and finding a partner who stands as a direct opposite. The dialogue mentions bright girls in the neighborhood and muses on ego and perception, reflecting social banter from a past era.
The Vossische Zeitung reports Count Karolyi met a wounded old servant returning from war. When asked his reward, the man asked for kronen to cleave one ear to the other, revealing he had lost the other ear at Shabazz.
A compact snapshot shows an old ad claim for Minard’s Liniment curing dandruff. The passage also recalls William Dean Howells praising modern American letters with a vignette about asking for the Letters of Charles Lamb in a New England village department store.
A garbled medieval style excerpt discusses deafness not cured by eppticetion and links a mucous inflamed Eustachian tube to ringing in the ears. It notes catarrh as a common cause and offers a cure with money for circulars from J Henry & Co Towea Beit Drage.
A quirky exchange recalls a scene at a school where an Irishman refuses an emetic, fearing the guest cannot keep it down, prompting a humorous inquiry about the best place at the aunt’s gathering near the fire.
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