Big Increase in Farm Products Across Alberta
Publicity branch figures show Alberta farms increased total agricultural production by over twenty million dollars despite drought. Oats led as the top crop with 1,147,382 acres yielding 34,397,117 bushels. Spring wheat valued at 20,387,812 dollars, barley 4,316,202 dollars, and livestock sales totaling 20,000,000 dollars. Overall farm output reached 78,616,891 dollars, with livestock valued at 110,044,630 dollars.
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Alberta
Wealthy builder’s daughter creates photo scene
Gossip notes that the girl’s family earned fortune from skyscraper construction while she poses for a photographer. The speaker comments on her prominence and behavior as they await further progress in the tale.
Safety First. A Credit Owed Sparks Harsh Talk
A terse quip turns on a rescue and a debt, as a man’s life saving is followed by a demand for repayment. The exchange implies risk and motive, with the debt framing the incident and hinting at social tensions.
Lydia E. Pinkham Remedy Praised by Michigan Woman
Adrian resident Mrs. Alonzo Baker credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength after months of weakness and backache. The witness notes how two bottles helped her recover enough to stop work and later finish three months of treatment.
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Adrian, Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alonzo E. Baker
Tecumseh St
Adrian
Mich
Lydia E. i
Lynn
Masa
Welcome to America A Greeting From The Temperance Union
An immigration greeting from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union encourages new arrivals to embrace American freedoms public schools libraries parks and opportunities. It highlights welcome from union members across the nation calling for temperance support and voting against alcohol while noting prominent immigrant children shaping business and government.
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Great
Republic
Golden West
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
America
Temperance Society
Loyal Temperance Legion
United States
New York
Liberty
Evanston
Ilinois
Mustard Roll Called For Prohibition Campaigns
A girl in Ketchikan Alaska told her mother she would sign the mustard roll after a school talk by Mrs Cornelia Templeton Hatcher head of the territorial W C T U The speaker said temperance forces would boost prohibition efforts and children would supply a right smart of mustard to drive voters to the polls on November 4 1916
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Cornelia Templeton Hatcher
Territorial
Whose Boys and the Early Drinking Habit
Investigations show two thirds of drunks begin before twenty one and one third before sixteen. Dealers push youth to drink for business. One family in five must supply a drinker to keep the trade afloat. question if voters tolerate this to support their saloons.
Temperance Speaker Contest Fits Undertaker Joke
A temperance speaker challenges the crowd to name an honest business aided by saloons. An audience member rises and asserts his business is harmed by the saloon, then reveals he is an undertaker, prompting a pointed exchange.
Parker's Hair Balsam A tolet Preparation of Merit
An 19th century ad touts Parker's Hair Balsam as a merit tobacco? tooth? hair tonic that eradiates dandruff and restores color to gray or faded hair. Sold by druggists for one shilling and sixpence. A stray moral gag about cowardice is included.
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Parker
Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Ends with Humorous Cheese Line
War Zone style ad touts Cross Ball Blue laundry soap made in America praised for household use. The playful copy asks Have a piece of this old English cheese and notes it is full of holes and gets riddled coming over, ending with a grocer endorsement.
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America
The Longest Step From Factory To Life Insurance
A Boston Transcript gloomily remarks on the world’s decline. A melancholy observer notes progress once, but European news suggests a terrible relapse.
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Boston Transcript
Odd Bits of Luck and Foggy Signposts
A Louisville Times quip recalls a gambling argument about a winning horse and a bank roll. A Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph humor piece shows a cyclist puzzled by a signpost reoriented to confuse the Zeppelins, with a local grin about directions.
Cars Leave Van Buren Schedules and Rates
Printed notice lists car departures from Van Buren at 2 52 pm, 4 22 pm, 52 pm, 7 22 pm, and 9 52 pm. Freight and Express Car service offered each way with party rates for groups of five or more. Contact the Bluffton Indiana Main Office for rates and agent information.
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Bluffton
Ind
Croxone touted as cure for kidney and bladder troubles
An advertisement claims Croxone ends backache kidney and bladder issues and rheumatism by cleansing kidneys and dissolving uric acid. It asserts all ages and durations benefit and promises money back if it fails in a single case. Drugstores sell an original package at a small price.
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Fler
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Undertaker
Carter
Carters Mie Iver
Daisy Fly Killer
Denison
Louisville Times
Poppleton
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Marion & Bluffton Tr. Co
van Buren
the New Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange, Mass
N. Johnson
Marton
Indiana
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Newark
Ohio
Second and
Washington Sts
Marion, MD
Grant County
West Main Street
Thomas & Thomas
Marion
N. E. Cor. Square
Starck Pianos
Chicago
P. A. Starck Piano
The
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