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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
6
A Saskatchewan column argues for a Safety First campaign as motor traffic rises across the prairie provinces. It cites U S and Ontario accident figures, attributing most fatalities to human error and urging motorists to apply common sense to prevent crashes.
The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, speaker of the Northern Ireland senate and son of a former Canadian governor general, arrived in Quebec aboard the Empress of Scotland. He plans to tour Canada coast to coast, noting little change in Northern Ireland’s industry except slight Belfast shipbuilding uptick. Also includes a joke exchange about a cold and a brief remark on the first typewriter designed in Detroit about 300 years ago.
Commander Richard E Byrd announces a prepared emergency crew for the Antarctic expedition. The group will include three aeroplanes and modern radio gear to maintain constant communication. If any section is in trouble the rest will act as an organized relief body without outside aid.
At the closing session in Montreal the Canadian Fisheries Association announced a national fish week from October 20 to November 4, with an intensive publicity campaign to precede it. The note ends with a light line about would be dramatists.
Ernst Wierkoetter trains daily in Lake Ontario and protests the distance shorten ing while anticipating strong competition from George Young. The race will run along the sea wall with tens of thousands watching, and entries are arriving rapidly, likely surpassing last year.
In the hot months diseases like cholera infantum colic diarrhoea and dysentery strike quickly. Mothers are urged to use Baby's Own Tablets to regulate the stomach and bowels and avoid danger. Available from medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents per box. Also advertised are Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for children.
The Canadian Wheat Pool with 142000 members reports contracts received at head office totaling nearly 100000 acres in a single day. The pool requires farmers to market all wheat through the pool for five years and claims higher farm prices without raising bread costs. It notes significant fox farming data and promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a remedy for worms and digestive issues.
A funeral tale centers on a well known Scottish physician whose age remains secret. Friends tease mourners that the plate in the casket will reveal the truth but it only lists Dr. Caleb McNabb and odd details like office hours and a cryptic Susburn reference. Minard's Liniment and UL 1743 appear as tangents in the quirky recollection.
Rail expansion north and east of St Paul de Metis opens a 50 mile square fertile district with rapid growth. In 1927 the line extended to Elk Point and in 1928 from Elk Point to Hiensburg, 20 miles more. A future steel line to Bonnyville 40 miles northeast will traverse free homesteads and rich agricultural land near Ashmont. Saddle Lake Reserve nearby becomes a settled community of over 50 families after transfer by the Laird Settlement Branch.
A collection of kitchen instructions and ad snippets. Recipes include ginger ale lemonade using lemons, ginger ale, water, and sugar serving six. A meat raisin gelatin salad with plumped raisins, meat cubes, celery, and paprika uses gelatin dissolved in water with vinegar and Worcestershire sauce, set in a square mold and served on lettuce with mayo. Also contains a patent medicine claim for Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil and a couple of quips about burying hatchets and ancient monuments.
Earl W. Davidson, a Terre Hill Pennsylvania railway telegraph operator, showcases a phantom radio that turns a receiving loud speaker into a broadcasting microphone. From his home the system sends voices up to fourteen miles while tuned to Chicago Pittsburgh and New York stations. Davidson demonstrated the device in New York last week before returning home to refine the invention.
The Canadian Historical Association placed a cairn in Lethbridge on July 18 to mark the opening of Alberta’s first coal mine in 1872. The event recalled a father of Confederation and West settlement era, with backing from the Lethbridge Historical Society the Natural Resources Department of the Canadian Pacific Board of Trade and city officials.
Eileen Magill of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Flying Club demonstrates skill by reaching 8000 feet and performing a tail spin for the first time since her solo debut. The piece also notes farm sizes in Manitoba and nearby provinces and promotes Holloway's Corn Remover with a moral aside on spending.
The Reichstag passed a sweeping amnesty with more than two thirds majority, releasing thousands of prisoners including Imperial Army deserters. Bavarian Folks party opposed. Reichstag adjourned for autumn.
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