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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
7
A widow speaks of Mr Smythe guiding her toward light and true Christianity while giving up smoking. McTavish doubts such converts and jokes about rewards, then moves on across the cornfield as Ross ponders Smythe’s meaning and longs for a stir of life.
In Bushwhackers Place a logging bee gathers to raise a new constable’s house with oxen bands, young men, and rough Broadcrook kin. Amid the bustle, Gloss faces Mr. Simpson with wary eyes as Mrs Declute directs the building race.
A short exchange shows one person claiming mind reading. The other confirms and humorously reveals the thought: I wonder what we can talk about. The scene plays on curiosity and awkward silence.
The piece argues that marked, nationally advertised goods cut shopper effort and costs. It cites Western Canada’s ads and Winnipeg Free Press Retail Merchants Monthly, noting local papers strengthen national campaigns. It highlights Sherwin-Williams’ localized tie ups and the need to align store identity with national brands locally.
Foreign visitors find Spanish clocks and watches unused as fixed appointments fail, trains run late, and the daily rhythm favors morning noon evening or night. The article notes a cultural indifference to exact time with manana as the running joke.
The Dominion headquarters of the employment service reports for the week ending October 23 showing 5 230 forms processed with payrolls totaling 731 950. Compared with the prior week there is a 1 percent drop and a 6 percent rise versus mid January. Further employer reductions are anticipated.
An advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as a remedy for indigestion constipation and stomach illness. It cites personal testimonials claiming improved digestion weight gain clearer skin fewer headaches and better sleep after use. The note mentions price 25 cents and urges readers to avoid failing health.
A Winnipeg Free Press quotation cites John Spargo defining Bolshevism as promising plenty and freedom but delivering famine and fetters, hate and chaos, corrupt despotism and fratricide, contrasting Moscow communism with socialist intellectuals and their cautious stance on the Lenin Trotsky era.
A tale from musicians recalls a party where Jenny Lind, retired as Mme Goldschmidt, praised then gently corrected Adelina Patti after Patti’s superb singing. Lind’s remark was a courteous reminder of her fame, prompting Patti to retort that she had heard of her grandmother.
In Paris, Leon Bourgeois tells how the League of Nations has an empty chair representing America. He says the chair remains, awaiting its occupant, and compares the situation to a family missing a son. Bourgeois wished for a League of Nations twenty years earlier.
Canada sets up a customs station at Port Burwell to inspect vessels entering Hudson Straits and northern coast trade. Royal Canadian Mounted Police will assist, marking an end to the prior lack of checks on ships entering the region.
A Freedom Wyoming resident inspired by a letter to the state agricultural college secured blue spruce transplants for five cents each. Starting with 250 trees, she oversaw 4160 planted by local residents, prompting nationwide interest in planting blue spruces.
The piece discusses a theory that major conflicts trigger postwar crime waves. It notes Britain has seen many murders recently and suggests observers see a crime wave sweeping Australia, with life in war zones allegedly fostering contempt for life among some demobilized combatants.
Canada currently tops global asbestos output and Ontario is a major nickel source, with Quebec near the top in asbestos. Today Quebec’s deposits are estimated to supply between 85 and 95 percent of world consumption.
Tony Neil, a famed trader and explorer, prepares to lead a winter overland trek to the Mackenzie River oil fields with three large dog-teams. He expects difficult travel from Fort Norman and uses past experience to anticipate the route and challenges. A separate note states that persons sharing a surname cannot marry in China.
Bone lending libraries exist where bones serve the role of books. Any bone may be borrowed for a week for 25 cents. Skeletons in collections can be valued up to 25,000 dollars with individual bones priced by condition from 30 to 100 dollars. Skulls fetch 1.25 to 5 dollars, vertebrae up to 5 dollars, and limb bones 50 cents to 1.25 each.
Canadian Pacific Railway intends to start grading the Drumheller branch line in spring. D. C. Coleman, general manager of western lines, said the line will open to serve the Knee Hill district between Acme and Drumheller, linking to the rich country there.
A note observes that holly trees show unusual resistance to insect predation, noting their leaves and growth habit may deter pests. The remark highlights holly as a durable ornamental with low pest pressure.
Comradesh p cites Express report on Japanese attempts to stir anti American sentiment in Japan. It notes Britain's stance toward the quarrel with America but emphasizes treaty duties and enduring war comradeship with the United States.
Across Manitoba this summer two hundred twenty nine fairs drew twenty four thousand nine hundred twenty seven adults and twenty two thousand six hundred seven children. More than twenty one thousand exhibitors participated as fairs ran in circuits with two judges per event from the Department of Agriculture covering livestock horticultural exhibits and girls home economics work.
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