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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 22, 1920
Page
2
A few years of drought push Western Canada to seek rapid population and economic growth. Experts argue for radical farming changes and crop diversification to replace all grain crops, improve credits, and attract settlers while addressing credit, rail, and municipal burdens.
The article argues drought afflicted regions must adopt proven farmer methods and broader expert collaboration to develop drought resistant wheat and grains. It urges sharing real farmer experiences, testing new varieties from drier lands, and reducing reliance on next year harvests or government aid to sustain agriculture.
A promotional note extols Diamond Dyes promising rich fadeless color for fabric types from wool to draperies. Instructions claim the Direction Book with each package explains how to dye over any color and suggests using the Diamond Dye Color Card to match material.
The Winnipeg board of trade reports the Hudson Bay Railway needs 4,000,000 to finish. With 332 miles built and about 90 miles remaining to reach Port Nelson, the Dominion government has not fixed funding for this year. The West presses for completion.
Winnipeg Free Press discusses Sir Oliver Lodge’s view on reality and science. It cites Soddy Rutherford Cox Thomson and other physicists challenging senses and notes radium’s impact on geology and theories of the ether and matter. The piece hints at a new surprise in science as yet not widely learned.
Promotes baby happiness through health and bowel regulation. Advocates Baby's Own Tablets sold for 25 cents a box by Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Daily Mail says frequent wire cuts in Ireland push government to deploy wireless telegraphy. Naval signalmen will start the system and portable phones with about 30 mile range may relay messages between police stations and towns. The move is described as satisfactory.
The article argues for France to assume a protectorate role over Cilicia and links Armenian survival to a revived Armenian state in Transcaucasia. It recalls promises by Lloyd George and references treaties and regional protections, warning that abandonment would ruin the crusade for small nations and noting Albania’s peril.
At a London Ontario meeting of the Canadian Flax- Growers Association members discussed expanding the organization and boosting flax acreage, seed grading, and domestic spinning mills with Irish weavers. A June vote was left to decide on the plan.
The current high Canadian exchange spurs Americans to move to Western Canada. Buyers pay less for land, saving about 840 dollars on a 5600 dollar quarter section, enabling cash purchases and boosting western investments and trade.
Lieut. Col. J. K. Cornwall predicts the Peace River country will see the greatest rush into any part of Canada during the summer of 1920. He is in Ottawa consulting with government departments on northern interests after attending Montreal fur sales where prices surged. Cornwall, a longtime Peace River trapper and trader, urged watching the region this year.
An enthusiastic colonel predicts vast oil discoveries in the northern country, asserting the 1920 opening will surpass Texas and bring an unprecedented boom along the North River area, with fields rivaling the world’s largest.
A party argument over risky areas ends with a claim of a broken nose for one speaker. The other person shrugs off responsibility, contrasting the injured party’s caution.
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