Reading Observer 03-1916

great
my back

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a great

dizZlDe8a I hsye often come over
I W&I told that my kllney8 W81 e t1 e

cause of tbe trouble 110 I begll.ll to U86 Do 8
backache kidney pIlla I am glad. tl fly 'Ii 0
reoommended for I denved wonderful reI ef
from them
From the first thoy dId
A
good I oontinued to moke progress all II 01
hme I waa ta.lung tbem nnhl at last tho
backache dlzzmee8 aud headaches left e
altol'ether 'I bere 18 nOlhmg In lllY 0plUion
to equal Doan • pill.
(Slgoed)
E. Scudder
OJl/eptember 29tb 1910-0",," th." 'I,a
leUr-Mr.. Boudder ••,d - My I •• IIIL

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uSI~1 clommc,n

..orse troubles, It s

sense, m6derate bad

\lelp the kIdneys with

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Bac,ka,che KIdney PIlls
Dr JACOB expI'!llsed the hope that when he told
them Bome plaIn facts about tUberculOSIS they
would 80 from that ball as di8CIples or recrn.zta In
the ~t army fightmg the ternble enemy of
tuberculOl!ul It waa due to 19norance Ilone that
th~1 had IUch an o~erwJielmmg dea.th rate from
tub8rculosll
On behalf of tbose brave fellows
wba were at the tront domg thelr duty for Eng

K.",omg

"",~~.~tell week

by week tbe

contmuea good and I 1 ave hAd uo

kidney h ;ouble

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all

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of Bomg

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el and le&nung
lIlrl'fenng that they h&.w
And those 01 UI who f1!
have done and how much

a better chance of .. mak
at the prnent moment
11 .. depot m Dnb--.treet
Its energ1e1 to ea.smg the
,",o,t\n,ded m thIS country and abro&d
surgIcal and num.ng
the discomfort of
crlpphn,
h.. this

£10,000

AFTER·CARE OF ICONSUMPTIVES
SILVER BULLETS TELLING
Wa.r Finance rea.d before the

B~~tti::~~~.n:S;:OC:;:~".:;ty

Slr George: PaIsb de
strength of Great Br ta.m
to btl much greater even than It
to be If s1IowanCl!l IS made for the
Increase In the country 8 stock of gold Stnce war
began It IS ev dent that tlie natIOn has succeeded
10 meet ng nearly the whole of Its war expenditure
out of lts tnc~me WJthout bavmg needed to draw
upon Its accumulated ca.plt&l to anv apprecIable
extent
In Germany where Dr HelfJerlch the
Fmance Minister no longer talks of bemg able to
run the war ~tqout new taxes or of recoupmg war
exp6Il11011 by mdemnttle. from the conquered, a
desperats app6&1I~ bemg made lor .upport to the
Fourth War Loan
I This
the fourtb war loa.n.
may be the [ ••t' Tbat ,. the comfort and hope
held out to the l poorest who .,.., told tbat they
can and mus.1epntl"hute
EveryhOdy can and
!iiol.l alionld and must pa.y
OfIrmany 18 rea.li.smg
every da.y mom. ~teJy "'that Great Bntain s Silver
bnlleta a.re more effective weapons: than her
pOl.on ga. and plratl"," ""hmarmeol
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BERKSHIRE'S HELP FOR M-L1ED

II FAR~ERS

Berkehl.!'e ha.s eontnbuted ovflr £1300 tdlranlll

owell .till further the cOWlty. total ne Fund
Beeks to enable e.lhed faJ"Dlera _hOM landa ha.ve
beeD devastated lD. the wa.r to mate & fresh lta:rt
a.nd lt 1000 for IIUpport 6peeia1ly from Englia.h

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LOS~NG

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of p;rovldmg good readIng for
Mllor! was the subject of a meetmg
the ausp ces of the R-onglous Tra,ct,
l'Societ.. at the A.bbey Hall on Wednesda.y
lhe
Mayor 1M" I G Sutton) preSIded and the Rev
.Ii R Buckla.nd M A Secretary of the Soc ety
told of the '" Ide dIsh b\ tlOn of ] tera ture among
sold ers n camps and at the front and to the
Grand Fleet wh ch s be ng ern ed on by the
Soc ety The Rev J P Robson 11.1 ~ D stnct
Secre~ry also adflrcssed the meet ng
The MAYOR sa d that they were met tha.t aJter
noon to hefr ab u~ a I up to d ,te vork by an old
fash oned iocletyj
lbe Hel glous Tra.ct Society
-.I;
vas tou d d a 1 ~tle n ore than a hUI Gled years
herself back aga.m lD the Vlllage where ahe had go I t t c members had adapted themselves to
spent so many yeo.rtl of her hf~
She knew that. the tr.nes and 1 ke m y more who were try ng
the present water logged cond t on of the land was to do the l' best m the present t nerp;ency tbey
moat deplor&ble but they aU hoped the. conditlOns were try n~ to mftke 118e of the experIence of the
In
Sh
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d to find th Ch
past hund d years The t tIe of the Soc ety was
wou r Improve
e was pease
e: lJ.lr not t ') c~y a.n attructne one but the tract that
man;In sympathy WIth the objects of thIS Women S tlf.lcd to be g Yen qway pron scuoulIlv ill tl e streets
Committee becatlS8 lIbe had been told that em was ToOW almust tt h ng of the put
Ihev had
ployers did not th nk women would be of any uae 01 j to look at tG c:.Ltalogue of the Soc ety to see
Sbe :i~lshed the employers would give women a what the So wty !if; dOing The c ,talogt e contalOs
h to
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books 0 a.U 1 Js for people 0 every age and of
'"
evcr} cia!:'s 1 he 1 resent effort '" as to ma.ke the
c an
The object of the Women , Committee was
work u5elul not 0 ly to the 50Jdlers but also to
try and mduce a. larger number of women to sup t.he pr !Soners 01 '" ar tlJa.t were here to
them
plement labour on tbe laud The BerkshIre Com profit.ble hterrlur.
Uno or the beet
mlt~ came moo exIStence about June 1915 and coula dQ for tho:.c mer. was to give them sODoetblD'g'l
was supplemented by some offie Ills of the Rea.d ng good to rea d The suld crs vho were now
College and a scheme Wa.8 started for lDstructlon or III thl3 barracks vele t he same people as
met evervi da:y
tl} the same thoughts
10 mIlking
The College placed at the Commit- ldea.s and t must be a. 1I0urce of rjaiit~r~~~l~~tl~
tee.a disposal theU' farm at Shin6eld. fI'hus \9'as to them to haNe some thoughtfu
to
started wha.t was probably the first CommIttee of rea.d The 8010 en; d d not only want concerts a.nd
that kind Other Committees of a like~ Chara.cter com c eoterta. nment5 the n ore they had of that.
spra.b.g up and were recently summoned to a can sort of th n!? the more thev vanted something
more I ke the r home I fe 1 he Soc ety wa.s trvmg
ference In London Lord Selborne urge t\lem to to coiled l:iooks a.nd maga.z nes to prOVIde those
try to take & reglSter of women III the county toWDS men w th someth r.g to read m the r Ie sure t me
'fho were wlllmg to help the fa.rmers round The work vas sel( ~ upport 19 for the Society dId
about That was done 10 December and they were not make i~ p fit out of the books they Bold and
now holding meetmg. urgIng women t~helP and the pr ce 'v s fixed t the Jowe<::t po ss ble figure
The RCV~ <\. n. BUCKL,\ND sa. rf th lot when once
that meetmg was one of the first M
WII1 ams those, ho be l ~ved I Chr st a 1 wUlk of an active
was takmg the names of wI ~llDg helpers lU Son k nd unde to H. ha.t. had been dOl e and I!\ bemg
nmg and when the roll was complete It would be done by t e Soc et) they ,vot ld want to help It
eent !Fund to all the farmers round about 110 that more and JVore1 He told ho v the SOCIety had sup
th.~
il could see who W&::I Wliling to help
The plied dema.nds for 1 terature for aold en m Eng
L~
1
la.nd BelgIan refugee8 soldiers III Italy Germ.a.n
b
who scheme was very Bllllple for I e lU'U re used pnsonere In Ch nH. Hunganao prisoners 10 Rn88H~
to
tled. down by red tape either by the Boa.rd Germa.n p~lsonel s In France etc He said that
of Tmde or the Board of Agnculture Custom was qUlt~ apa.rtJ from the rehg~ou8 meilsa.ge to be glven
a mOSt; difllcult tiring to fight but she was out to there '" as tindoubtedly a. tremendous need for good
jjght~· it because she believed It W8.Ii the duty of clea.n lIterature for the sold ers and sa.ilors
It
to COMa forward when the natIon wa.s &. common th ng for a. la.rge number of troops
to be dumped duwn vhere there WU8 no prov 13 on
them In a crlSUS like the present
Some for them at all If an appeal was made for hter
talked of the Inconvemence J ~ but she ature there wds u~ a.lly a response but a. great
'What lDconveDlence had the natlo~ been put deal w .. 'lbatJpeople did not wlSh to find house
war and who ba.d a. right ~ make an room for a.nd ome of t Wa.tI not deslrable for dis
tnbutlOu !lmong the ,;;old ers at all
He had re
t th18 t Lme ! It cently
of t heIr own eOQvemence a.
loo~ed liound a. sold eUI readmg room and
that the great maJority of w9men were found not~ ng.ltbe e hut a. few ne ;v~pa.p€rs and
when Jt came to making a great !acn lIome perJO~ cal~ of a. tot very edify ng character
the bIggest sa.cnficel 'fas to sa.y
good Those who opened read g lOoms knew that theTa
-"'" ,- 'h
ni Ik
d she thought. that on the was a tremendous nee 1 for good I terat re and
10 e me 0
an
r
It was th~t need t..h t.. t1i~ Soc ct.y was try ng to
they liad done that vefY; well but they had fjUpply
60 well when they were called on to do
The Rev. J lP Dom~oN" uppealed t o people to
th ngs that woul(l upset theIr~ everyda.y take [l. pnftlca~ sha.re In the \'i ork In wh ('h the
They compared very l.llnfaVOUrabl$ w th the Socloty w¥ engaged
of France lU tha.t mt tter a.nd hat must
the MA.~OR thanked the two Bpeake~ and a.t
he put right
Every extr cabbage h ey cou Id the oonclu IOn Iof the meet ng tea. was served to
grow In thell' gardens was an wta toW&ri-<lR
_ t h e re tho comP j Y
hel of the great hurden on the country
Every

fa

the AgrICUltura.l Retitlf of All es Fund to da.te aod
the fund nowl sta.nds at; £00 000 A glft lI&le on
8. coMlderab18 scale wh ch 18 be ng organised at.
Reading for the first week: in May 18 expected to

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p A~A~
I E THEATRE.

person who cultivates an aJlotmeot r.r garden
bette"! than before who can grow c,bb.ges or
~
To be ran downl m heaJ.th and to loee their attractive
potatoes better than before were hel P ng In t.he
n ... 11 the do~bl, mi.tortone of many f!1T1! Their great questlon of the productIon of foo
pal.d cheeks &tld dUll eyel tell every.one that the,. are
Th6 women were asked to come ou and help
The wonde rful per£ormonce of Duncan s Royal
aoomed to day.lo! fw.e"'~ed headache and are VIetims
the farmer beca.uee there were DO men to be goL Scotch 'Collies wh ch s be ug p eGentcd at the
of breath1esmeu. and bloodltlltle81
th s week s e .. L '" COl S derablo
The aJUe1DIC ~I if abe negl&ete her health may 00 & lhere ~;m ght be flame who could not g Vile all thcll'
Not. only do these
Illft'erer aU her lifel for a.n actin happy "'oman cab
ell,.t.ures perform
not bill d.e'relRP!ed I-out of 0. bloodleu cowlUmpti.ve t me "but they were a.aked 00 lS&y who.t they were
looking guol wtihout the help of new rIch blood
y lhug to do and then the emplo~rs 10 the
t r cks but they a.lso per
Take heed paled weak pili BloodleMneae must not locahty would know w~at to do whe the t me
sketch on their own Josef
be neglected PIBDty' of r good &lr a. Dounahmg diet came
They were pot asking those m charge of
vocahst from the Liege Con
and reat:will help! you but the cure ..,.OU Deed m08t
h s oat ve language when he
promptly 18 nell" blood You may have little I.ppetit8 young chlldren to neglect those childrep It. "o.s
yea but be has got 0 I so
rour ncrTe. mayl keep 10U awue at Dlght yout' pass ble for sueb persons to take charge of the
that he now sings Engl sh
debility J:Ilay m&k~ recreation dtfIieult but theae are all ch ldren of others while the parents wen;t to work
that be does not fa 1
1l(rOB that"'ou
make your blood nch and red and Tha.t was a. thmg to be left t.o the md Vjdua,l Judg
ment
It had Deen sald t~at women who vere
at each perform
10 HUW JOur
th by refillmg your 'YelIUI
Good WlW bIded III abundance such 1.11 mates all the recelvlDg sepa.ra.hon allowances had Ito need to
ddferenoe betw" BOund Ihealth and uncertain health work f9r the money She hoped such 901thmg was
to gtrle aJ::Id 1I"0me~ 11 su~lied by Dr
,PlUk not true III most places
l~ was not po. quetitlOn
pills for (l&le peopl~ I ~ Begm then to dar by btalnlng & Of whether the women n~deil the wages or not
lIupply from your !Jep.ter ouly:w for Dr
ilh&XD.8
The
calt
had
come.
to
them
to do lohe r ,art m the
FREE -Frur lI.qtf~rel"B lIhould read PIa n Ta.lk:s
war and the peoplc who did pot answe It because
• medic&l ""de lor wom.n offered ft.e to 611 who they ~: d not need the mo;nev were eople she
send .. ~d
to Hinta Dept 46 Halborn
though} Lord Selborne meantl"'llIen he
They
Vw.duct Londi u
are tlajtors to their country
:M ss CBlLLI~GWOnTIl told 01 her recent v s t to
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France l and ot the wo k she found ~e Flench
women do ng n the absci cc of the n e
Mr W H. G ~RU po nted 0 t that I had bee 1
Bald tHat they had a blgger enemy to face than
the Get-mans and that ,. . afS I:itarvatlO
'lhcle
",ere no men ldt to cult vute the land and With
Oar Portrait
lot
BATrALION
out th~ wome I t could not he done
wa.s the
Is of MIlS
d tty of women," to COUle 0 t and help He would
ASHLEY
ltke to l show them how "Women came 0 t 50 years
ORDERS
ago fle h8d done work 10 a. tield WIth twenty
women! I" the field 1bey had to war/< III tho,.
Orders fpr l Week endIng April lst
Sunday -par~e~Xing Edwe.rd Statue 9 40 for days beC8.u:;e thQ.s6 were the du.ys of lowlwilges and
Didcot
It 18 hPJ
there w1l1 be a good attend large fanul e lS and 80 the women w9rked from
&Doe as the B&t~ Ion mIl not be lOin'" to Didcot April.
December Whut the women could
1:1
on the Bunda.y ~OiOWl1!8'
then t G wonlEn could do to day
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By r rder H 11, Jl;INGHAM Adjutant
Mrs INGLBBY moved and MIS BAR~HOLOW.EW
seconded a vote of tha.nks to the speo.k:ers WhICh
was c¥,rled 88 also was a. vote of thankB to the
(A B
ad D C-paD1... )
Chauman moved by Mrs W lLLIAlIS
Sunday -Boo ~e,t~lOn ordera
Tea. :was served at the c1oso of the meetwg'
Mond&:r.-Po.raf!~ armoury 7 for guard duty at
C;ntra groun!!;, il!'feld telegrappy cl .., Armory 8 large numbel' of na.mes were enrolled
Tue<day ,slioo>i~g B Co 1I'aetory renge 7 9
A LIST OF HELPJ£RS
Wednesday ~p&Il1l parade
Armoury
3
..,00""•• ,of
Berkshire W""j"n'.
D Co
Shooting A 901' IFactory ril.JJge 7 9
RaJl on Sal;u"lay
.Alfred streetf raugr 79
Thursday 2.....Claas for Derby reoru b Illld mem
hers Corn Exchan,g:e 7 t Shooting C Co Fad,ory
range 79 1 All Compames Bulsometer range 7 9.
Sa.t.urday ~mpa.ny parade Ar~pur'y 3
The attent on pf all members of A to D Com
pan e. 18 caJled t'.o (tlle not1Q8 III the Armoury rf

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ferrmg to the PullQmeter range
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Sunday ----.See Battahoh oi1iers
Monda.y -8hQOt ng- the Barracks

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change not) .oolDS' aV&lllble
WedD~ay -S pall DI claaa: 8

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VOLu?lTEER DEFENCE
REGIMENT

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AT THE ROYAL COUNTY THEATRE

Meetmga are bemg held In vanotl8 parts of the
county by the Berbhlre Agncnltural War Committee to CODS der the further orgaDUJt).tion of
tbe county w th regard to women IS work on the
land and to encourage the enrolment of women n
the reg sters tbat are bemg dra.wn up to &8S st
farmers A meet ng attsnded almoat entirely by
women. was held at the Pearson Hall S~nnm~ on
Tuesday arternoon Mr S J Farrer o~ CharvliJe
farm pres de4 and the speakers were MISS Potts
and MISS Ch II ngworth
The CIlAIR)IAN explruned the scheme of reg 8
trA.tlOn for women a.nd told of h s own experIence
18.flt season when hiS corn was shocked by
London glrlR
t-.
MISS POTTS eTl)Tessed her pleasure a.t finding

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0fin~uDlty of aeemg

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AN APPEAL FOR FEMALE LABOUR

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spheres to do theu- duty tP.: Engla.nd &5 well h
the first fifteen months of ~e war we lost 109 725
soidje.ra and sa.ilO1'8 but d~ng the twelve months
endiDt"l913 t.e number of children sacr Geed under
fi'\t& yean was 140 957 ~ ~5. 000 of those were
under one year old
On 1beha:1f of the children,
on bphalf of the England tpat was ~0 l.be when he
and lt hey would be no more, h . . .ked them to II've
him theIr close a.ttention I Tubereulol! 8 was &
prevent ble d se~ Jt waa la.rreata.ble and cumbIe
ConsumptlOD waa only on~ fonn bf tuberculOSIS
whIch was a d sease that a.ttacked the lungs bra n
the bowelff the lUtcstm~ Iand the JO nt8
That
DUserable dITty httlo germ they ca.lled the tIber
cole bacdlu. haa to lie ma~mficd 6000 or 8 000
tlIDe~ before they could .eel ,t ~l"th tbe naked eye
It ~uld not grow outsld~ the human body but
under oorta.in C rcnm8t LIlces It would retam Its
Vltru~ty and po~er for m ecruef for a. long penod
Put It In th& -o.omes w~ ch
more ltke p g
It would retaJD Its vitality fr,r 130 to 150
Buned 1Jl tbe ground ,t wpuJa retom lIs
for l20 days Tal<" the germ rlgbL away
top of a h gb bIll out. of the reach of smoke or ... ,~c...~.,~
or dn-t aud wbere there
nothmg but pure clean
a. r m a few mmute5 jthe germ would die Pla.ce
the germ In the ra.y., of
bla.z llg 8un m a. few
m nutes Its Vitality woul ~se
1: be lecturer
emphas sed the nece88 ty herefore of an a.bund
ancelof fresh n r and aU th ~ sun they could get In
tbe home. Wby hel a.ked d d the ladle. troat
f[CSll rur &nd '"-'Pshme the ~mghtest and best gifts
GOd as bemg the r worst enemies 'lhey should
keep open thf.Jr 'wlndol'fs iNev~rmmd If the roses
on thell' wall paper was faaed 'Jy the sun for the
roses on the cheob of thelrl chi dren were far more
lmportant COnsumption was Ithe disease of d rt
e.nd 61t.b It was not hereditary To say tha.~ he
cause the fo.ther n.nd :rnoth~r had consumptIOn I the
chilcmn "'01ild l
, t w'!'
blasphemou. m""
They mIght Just os '\fell
that because a man
had t wooden Jeg his: ch~ldren would all have
wood,m legs
There mlgh,'t be .. dl8pOS tlon to
warda the disea.se bot tha.t made It. more meum
bent [upon them to
the hves of the clhld
ren concerned

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Doan 8 pills cured we

. . . ure :Jou •• k tor DOAN S .nd get DOAN sthe Pills Mu 5cuddc:r bad

land, he 8sked those at hpme m theU' own httle

Kneeling by the m ,tch,,r.
'ou feel son?
All nght he
nght don t y'ou ,
How long IS It
Four day.
wben I get my
I turned

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Frida,. --"Shootmg thfll ll&rraoke

Range omee.. Monday Sergt
Friday:!foei'gt MaJor
A. 8 OOOPEB rapt, 0 C, E · p.,mp,;ny,

Corpl Silver

pu.rOON
the bull"

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