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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
7
A boy confronts his stern teacher near a log house as moonlight reveals woodcock and ducks in flight. The boy questions duty and honesty, demanding the teacher reveal his absence from school to a dying mother, while a dog growls between them.
In a dim clearing a young bushwhacker confronts a teacher as Colonel Hallibut’s mill fires late and the saw rings out. The outlaw warns the outsider to return to the “clearing” while the mill’s glow illuminates the tense standoff by the log house.
A boy enters a rustic home where a gaunt man with sandy hair sits by the fire and a young woman nurses tea. The story shifts to a sleeping elderly woman as Roy approaches the bedside. the scene ends with the line to be continued.
Professor Bragg explains that the blue sky comes from sunlight scattering by atmospheric particles and that red and yellow components are seen at sunset. He demonstrates light through water turning red in fog and shows wind and water whirlpools producing tree and telegraph sounds, noting echoes of historical eruptions like the Cataclysmic ash event of 1768.
Sir James Craig lays out a four part method to neutralize drifting mines. A destroyer investigates reports, fishery protection flotillas clear mines, merchant and fishing craft receive rifles and ammunition, and experts render safe mines ashore. From February to May 1, 26 drifting mines were destroyed by His Majesty's ships.
Dr Robert R Moton of Tuskegee Institute told the Southern Sociological Congress that over the next two years lynching and mob violence would be wiped out if whites and blacks keep calm. He cited Tuskegee records showing six lynchings so far this year versus eighteen in the same period last year.
Farm laborer Jules Reant once listed missing since August 1914 was captured at Lille. He had secreted herself in a German granary five years near Auchel in Pas de Calais, aided by neighbors who fed him and protected his hiding place during the war. He left confinement in July.
A Justice of the Peace officiates a wedding with the bridegroom declaring I do. The justice warns remember you asked me to do this and to not blame him for any consequences, highlighting a tense, tongue in cheek moment.
England consents to give France twenty five percent of oil from Mesopotamian and Near East wells. The agreement outlines France receiving a quarter of the production as part of the oil collaboration between the two nations.
An advertisement urges readers to stop falling hair by using a small bottle of the tonic sold at drug or toilet counters for a few cents. It claims the product stops hair loss after several applications and makes hair grow strong, soft, glossy, and lustrous.
Over eighteen months, Saskatchewan loan approvals reach 12.5 million of a 59.9 million Dominion total with 3,162 loans and 2,869 settlers. Saskatchewan reports 89 men in training and 9,266 settlers nationwide for Dominion totals. Total land purchase, encumbrance removal, improvements, and stock funding amount to 32.7 million, 1.85 million, 6.57 million, and 18.77 million respectively. Soldier grant entries reach 6,625 among western settlers.
A poultry observer notes hens keep their chicks active all day with short rests. Proper feeding is crucial as many mistakes arise from poor feeding methods. Incubator hatched chicks can grow normally if the machine is properly operated, but maintaining strength remains the feeder’s major challenge.
A parliamentary return shows that six million forty seven thousand ten dollars and twelve cents in surplus stores were disposed of by government departments through the war purchasing commission between December 1, 1918 and March 31, 1920. The militia and defence department sold five million eight hundred fifty two thousand seven hundred forty seven dollars and seventy five cents in goods including blankets woollen and cotton fabrics and footwear. Sales began in December 1918 and most items were offered by tender with many bids deemed too low and price lists prepared and advertised.
The Manitoba government, after representations by Charles Robson, will pilot advanced fares for bona fide domestics. Val entine Winkler announced a cap of 100 women, with the government covering about 50 to 75 percent of their fare, funded at 7,500 dollars for the year, aiming for federal provincial cooperation.
A testimonial from Stephen Crouse of East Clifford Nova Scotia credits Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills with restoring strength after years of heart trouble. The ad claims the pills regulate the heart and nerves and edition notes price 50c a box, available at dealers or by mail from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario.
Premier Millerand told the finance and foreign affairs committee France would receive 55 percent of Germany's indemnity with Britain getting 25 percent and the rest shared by Belgium Italy and Serbia. He noted the 120 billion mark indemnity would bear interest not less than five percent plus a one percent redeeming rate and would exclude coal and compensation for destroyed mines and cattle.
The Navy Appropriation account for 1918-19 lists gratuities for special services totaling £134,901. Awards include £10,000 for hydrophones, £7,000 for a patent bullet, three £2,000 coastal motor boat prizes, £2,500 for silvering mirror process, and £500 for roll and depth recorder improvements. Submarine sinking gratuities reached £5,184 7s, and mine sinking £39,883 18s 5d, with mercantile crews receiving £45,203 lis. 1id in minor gratuities.
Hon. C. A. Dunning announces Saskatchewan government policy on a new bureau of labor and industry tasked with developing local resources. The bureau will explore every feasible industry, study practicability, and promote support for domestic enterprises among residents.
More than 300 people show interest in goat breeding in British Columbia as nine tenths of Canada's goat men live west of the Rockies. The Canadian Goat Breeders' Association notes a Dominion program to start recording milk yields of registered goats beginning early next year, to align with dairy cattle standards.
Reports from Nome indicate gold has been found in northeastern Siberia and many boats await navigation to ship men to the new fields.
Visitors in England learn of long lasting traditions such as a sentinel guarding a lawn statue of a queen’s favorite rose. The guard remains in place centuries after both queen and rose vanished, a reminder of enduring local lore. Also, a wry note suggests experience gains are measured by selling for more than their cost.
Sir Oliver Lodge in a lecture notes that Earth has captured only a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy. Radiation from countless stars continues to fill space, which remains near absolute zero despite endless output. The ether remains transparent and heat arises only when radiation meets matter. The vast reservoir of space shows no detectable rise from solar energy.
Fires continue aboard former German ships now in British hands with the Imperator catching fire in the captain's cabin. Fire crews contained the blaze and police opened an investigation as outrage over the string of in port and at sea incidents grows.
The report notes that in German states Saxony Bavaria Württemberg and others literacy is high with few illiterate adults while Serbia before the war showed 78.9 percent of adults unable to read or write indicating a sharp educational disparity.
Researchers note that American Indians are rarely seen with facial hair, a pattern observed across diverse tribes and regions in sociocultural analyses and historical photographs.
Saskatchewan plans to construct about 700 miles of long distance telephone lines this year under the state program. It will use 28,000 poles and roughly 1,200 miles of wire. Labor shortages and high wages, plus costly materials, have hindered many firms and slowed the overall building program.
A French doctor, told of his son's distressing accident, continues to the bedside of a gravely ill patient. He learns on his return that his boy had died in his absence, a poignant tale of professional ethics and personal loss as reported by the Providence Journal.
The stage manager directs the nervous writer toward the curtain and orders him to explain himself on stage. The crowd calls for the author, and the manager insists he must go out and say he is sorry.
Maud thanks Jack for obtaining a nice engagement ring and credits the jeweller as well. Marie understands the jeweller assisted in the same way.
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