German Diplomacy Faces Few Frontiers for German Finesse
The Kansas City Star notes German diplomacy has secured repeated successes across eleven nations. It credits Wilhelmstrasse with remarkable finesse and predicts limited theatres remain in South America and China.
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Germany
United States
South America
China
Kansas City Star
Kings Open First British Foreign Language School
King George opened a school for the study of Oriental languages, the first of its kind in Britain with 320 million speakers abroad. The war highlighted the need for wider language knowledge and the British people showed greater linguistic ability. A farmer's joke about a son joining a strike en route to a job is told in the text.
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King George
Josh
Countessel
Dominion publics embrace shared foreign policy duties
The article argues that Canada and New Zealand and other dominions now face European issues as intimate concerns. It asserts that war proved world unity and that no region can be secure while others falter. The war cabinet embodies this new shared responsibility across the Empire.
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Belgium
Poland
Balkans
Canada
New Zealand
Empire
London Times
Woman Credits Dodd's Kidney Pills For Curing Six Month Ills
Miss E Demers of 190 Maisonneuve St Que says Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her chronic indigestion sick headache and rheumatism after six months of suffering. She took seven boxes and claims full recovery and urges friends to use the remedy. Her father also improved after using the pills. Harry Lauder’s Empire assets rise with another 40000 investment in War Loan bringing total to 295000.
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Harry Lauder
How's This Catarrh Cure Ad and Prize Punchline
An OCR fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with dubious claims and pricing while mixing a joke about a dog and a cat show. It cites Toledo Ohio as a seller location and notes druggists carry the remedy. The second line features a pun about a dog taking first prize after a cat.
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Hall
Cheney
Toledo
Bible Readers and the War Across Western Asia
A note links war developments in western Asia to ancient biblical sites. It references Beersheba and Amos, Hebron, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and the Israelites, Gaza and Philistines, Hebrew slaves, Samson, and Mount Muntar, tying modern events to early history as a newspaper read.
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Amos
Ebron
Raham
Isaac
Jacob
Gaza
Edom
Samson
Muntar
Hebron
Soil Importance Echoes in War Time Ration Talks
A wartime column stresses soil and food reserves as vital as ammunition stocks, arguing that secure crops and sustainable farming are essential under present conditions. It notes widespread reliance on preserved food and efficient distribution to sustain both civilians and troops.
Britain heightens price controls prompt potatoes at three cents
The Montreal Star editorializes that Great Britain fixes potato prices at three cents a pound and fines traders who charge more. It suggests Canada would embrace similar food price controls, noting fines of five dollars for violators.
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Great Britain
Canada
Montreal Star
England’s Transformation Through War Time Resolve
The Chicago Tribune describes England since 1914 as a transformed nation. A grim but proud arc from peace to strengthened navy and army, robust economy, and national resolve, framed as a miraculous wartime rebirth.
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England
New
Chicago Tribune
La Follette Proposes Britain Sell Canada to U S
The Wisconsin representative suggests Great Britain sell Canada to the United States for ten billion dollars. A Toronto paper notes the idea and jokes about replacing mischiefs with comic figures during the war. Also advertised Holloway's Corn Cure promises relief from painful corns.
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la Follette
Wisconsin
Great Britain
Canada
United States
Katzenjammer
Toronto Mail
Empire
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Battle of the Peoples
A Quote from the New York Tribune likens a current conflict to a battle of the peoples against Machiavellianism and urges freemen to test their brain power. The remark frames the struggle as a civic, intellectual contest rather than a film or novel.
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Mary Pickford
Harold Bell Wright
Nervous Diseases in the Spring Promoted
An medical authorities state nervous diseases peak in April and May due to vital changes. Dr Williams Pink Pills are advertised as restoring blood, curing neuralgia epilepsy and other spring ailments, and improving appetite and energy. Sold by dealers or mail order from The Dr Williams Co Brockville Ontario 2.50.
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Williams
Aoe & Then
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Parmelee's Vegetable Pills Highlight Digestive Cure
The ad claims Parmelee's Vegetable Pills mainly use dandelion and man rake to cleanse the stomach and intestines, restoring deranged organs to healthy action. It argues they are the best remedy for indigestion and that trial will prove their efficacy.
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Parmelee
British Columbia Fruit Industry Growth Report
The British Columbia fruit industry has progressed in two years, now supplying 60 percent of fruit consumed in the prairie provinces with plans to supply all. Statement by 4h McDowall, manager of the OkanaGre United Growers of Vernon, B.
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British Columbia
Prairie
Dominion
McDowall
Okanagre United Growers
Vernon
Minard's Liniment Endorsed for Sore Throat and Colds
A letter from Chas Whooten of Port Mulgrave endorses Minard's Liniment as a reliable remedy for sore throat and colds, claiming it relieves and cures promptly.
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Minard’s Liniment Co., Limited
Minard’s Liniment
Chas, Whooten, Port Mulgrave
Windsor Chamber of Commerce backs farm work vacation plan
More than one hundred Windsor Chamber of Commerce members will spend a week of their vacation to farm work without pay to boost Ontario’s food production. The move follows a Windsor meeting where W R Knowles urged urban cooperation with farmers to increase crops, with plans to involve high school students retirees and experienced workers. Officials expect about 1 000 Windsor area men to participate or support the effort.
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Ontario
Windsor
Chamber of Commerce
Church Moved by Locomotive for Theatre Remodel in South Bend
An old church in South Bend Indiana was blocked up and hauled on a two track route attached to a freight engine. The locomotive slowly pulled the bulky structure several blocks to near its new site for conversion into a theatre. A separate quip about a patient complying with medical directions follows a cartoon caption.
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South Bend
Ind
Dust and Asthma Relief Promised by Kellogg Remedy
An advertisement extols Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy claiming it relieves breathing passages and restores normal breathing. It cites numerous testimonials and positions the product as ending asthma agony caused by dust particles too small to see.
Advertisers Not Pirates Here Is A Nut For Every Household
A fragmented ad themed piece notes prices of commodities advertised for sale rose less than non advertised goods. It suggests practical readers can crack the nut with a hammer and mentions a Stayn bag of potatoes and a ledger related to business spending.
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