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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
6
The report notes rising German living costs with debts increasing to cover essentials. Bureau figures show many households aged over 26 forced into debt to meet basic needs as weekly incomes lag behind price spikes. Rigid budgeting limits nonessential spending to mere pennies.
A Kingston Whig readers note repeats a quip about Minard's Liniment curing dandruff. The Old Fogey claims it was a pawnbroker who aided "Sweet are the" to use adversity as a joke. The exchange reflects humorous local chatter in the paper.
An item describes steel helmet manufacturing, stamping, shaping, and finishing processes for soldiers. It notes the French army’s adoption reduced deaths from head wounds and cites Toronto Mayor Church recounting a joke about dieting rules.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for diseases claimed to arise from bad blood. It cites improved appetite, health, and spirits, and offers the pills at 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 via The Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville.
Sun Life of Canada reports 1917 figures with over 47.8 million paid in cash new business, assurances in force above 311.8 million, assets up 7 million to a record level, cash income 19.288 million, and policyholder payments over 8.8 million. The 1917 record highlights strong credit and the new head office on Union Square.
A Saskatchewan fire prevention drive led by Fire Commissioner Arthur E. Fisher seeks to curb fire losses amid wartime shortages. Bulletins and cinema visuals urge rural communities to ban fire carelessness, preserving grain, food, and essential goods despite conflicts abroad. The campaign seeks wide support from organizations and individuals to back the effort.
The government architectural branch drafts standard plans for eight twelve and sixteen bed rural hospitals to fit local conditions. Most districts will use the eight bed one story building estimated at 12000 dollars. Didsbury likely hosts the first rural hospital with twelve beds. Miller's Worm Powders advertised as a remedy for worm-infested children and related stomach liver and bowel troubles.
Sir Leo Chiozza Money told the House of Commons 200 British built merchant ships of 1 600 tons plus completed last year, totaling 1 067 696 tons. Losses of vessels 1 600 tons plus were 598 in 1917, with cargo imports down about two percent. Details show 54 ships totaling 301 715 tons gross completed over three months, with standard vessels accounting for several ships in November December January. A stray paragraph advertises Dr Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy and a note about a man hitching a team when police remind him not to.
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a new drugless inhalation treatment for bronchitis and irritated throat. It claims the device delivers healing vapors directly to the lungs via a vest pocket inhaler, with prices from 25 to 1.00 and wide use by professionals in many countries.
A Winnipeg dispatch reports livestock production in the Western Provinces is booming with Winnipeg Calgary and Amonton yards recording 1917 sales of 60 million dollars an increase of 24 million over the prior year. Edmonton district livestock in other lines reached 3 million dollars. Cooperation with Washington to allow free cattle movement across the line is expected to double prairie business in 1918.
A playful verse fragment shows a clash between a bold speaker and a chorus of kilts. The distant voice argues the pose is worthless while the chorus counters with a sly quip about a saxophone penny.
A fragment shows a mother seeking relief for sickly children from Graves Worm Ex terminator. It includes a school scene where a teacher struggles with a child named Marjorie spelling out a joke about a knife and corkscrew.
A Boston Transcript exchange notes a two hour shower while Mrs. Styles shopped in a department store waiting for her change. The quip contrasts outdoor rain with a dry shopping trip and mentions Mr Styles.
A farm claimant reports boosting poultry to six hundred hens annually after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for organic trouble. The notice claims renewed health and ability to perform farm work.
A nurse or health column extols balanced eating with milk water bread and cereals while warning against tea coffee and dirty food. It promotes F. J. Cheney Co. catarrh cure promised with a $100 reward and sells all's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs Bilton asks if Tilton was surprised by a gift from her husband. Mrs Tilton responds she was suspicious in Edmonton.
Quick method shrivels the corn by separating its root from the top. Putnam's Corn Extractor relieves pain, lifts out the corn in a day or two, and is claimed to cure even tough corns. Costs a quarter in any drug store. buy today.
In Liberte Edmond Laskine argues the Allies control vital markets and key raw materials. He urges a conditional, time limited boycott tied to Germany accepting peace terms, with duration extending if the war lasts longer.
Economists estimate the war’s cost and offsetting benefits with liquor prohibition cited as the major positive outcome. Ferrero calls it a social revolution, with conservative figures in the billions and unhurried analysts predicting prohibition could repay war expenditures within a generation.
The Canadian market has absorbed 75 percent of sugar maple production and the United States would take all that could be sent. Demand for pure maple products has long exceeded supply, reflecting persistent market pressure and growing interest in maple goods.
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