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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1923
Page
2
Moran assesses Wade's deserted Double Arrow range and rides out to strike back. He returns to Dorothy's cabin and confronts her, forcing a brutal assault as she pleads for help, while danger and a looming deadline press in.
London remains the world’s financial center despite the United States holding half of all monetary gold. The piece credits London's money market, discount market, market knowledge, insurance system, and low interest rates, shaped by British banking tradition and training.
Saskatchewan farmers earned 229 prizes for grain grasses and vegetables at inter national shows in Canada and the United States from 1911 to 1922. Sweepstakes or first prizes totaled four dollars while livestock and wheat exhibitions were prominent at all events. German women receive strike funds aiding households as Ruhr occupation disrupts work and incomes. Mushroom growth reaches its late stage in hours.
An old advertisement claims Catarrhozene clears nasal passages and catarrh by inhalation. It promotes two months of use for five dollars with a small size for sixty cents and offers mail order from The Catarrhozone Co. of Montreal.
A London article by a Ukrtish scientist foresees wireless guiding ships at sea trains and road travel and even directing human movement. A wireless lighthouse on Inchkeith Island demonstrates vessel control in foggy seas as plans to internationalize wireless ship guidance unfold with a cross Atlantic aero plane mission aided by Glace Bay and Ongar stations.
William Hohenzollern quarrels with Dutch authorities over local taxes in Doorn. He claims compulsion to reside in Holland exempts him from payment while Doorn and Amersfoort councils press for arrears and enforce retroactive tax claims.
Dr Paul Kammerer claimed to have made eyes appear in the cave proteus a sightless aquatic creature. Placing it in daylight damaged vision but five years under red light and a lightless water environment allegedly induced pigment and optical development. He suggested hidden ocular potential in living beings.
The George Inn in Norton St Philip is among England’s oldest inns. A half timbered house with three foot thick walls, it was licensed as an alehouse in 1897. Notable visitors include Duke of Monmouth and Oliver Cromwell who stayed there on June 26, 1685 before Sedgemoor. The bedroom holds a small oak chair from the period and the massive door retains old iron bolts. The site also features old oak settles cupboards and fine oak panelling.
A hotel treasurer at the Waldorf Astoria sold 5000 dollars worth of gold dust and nuggets to the Government. A Western traveler arrived with little cash and asked the hotel to guard his gold, then requested sale to settle his bill with the government as the purchaser.
Canada exported 23,228,598 bushels of wheat in June, up from 11,760,477 a year earlier. Wheat flour exports grew from 764,625 to 904,619 barrels. For ten months ended June, total wheat exports reached 205,000,000 bushels, an 68,000,000 bushel increase year over year.
Balcalrn Ringlet a yearling filly imported for the Prince of Wales ranch near High River won first place in Clydesdale females at Calgary's summer exhibition. The triumph highlighted the event with added interest for local breeders and attendees.
The Domin ion Labor Gazette reports a marked rise in employment across all industries with unemployment down 30 percent from a year ago. The text notes a warning that individuals lose identity when adopting others airs.
A Victorian style recipe note provides a chocolate raisin frosting using milk sugar unsweetened chocolate vanilla and Sun Maid raisins. It then outlines a biscuit like dough with apples and raisins baked in a shallow pan topped with butter sugar and cinnamon for about thirty minutes.
Professor H Turner at the Royal Institute explains how apparent star sizes relate to distance. He notes the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and cites Michelson's method that measured Alpha Orionis as 400 times solar size, with plans to gauge smaller stars later.
A young Frenchman rode a bicycle from the first station of the Eiffel Tower to the ground in under ninety yards total travel, making jumps of forty steps then fifteen to twenty steps each, finishing with only a minor leg scratch and no damage to the bike. Electric light meters in Toronto are read by photographs from a special roll-film camera.
Thirty seven searchlights will be installed along the post department night air route from Chicago to Cheyenne. The units from General Electric in Schenectady will each deliver 6300 can dlepower and stand 54 feet on steel towers. Emergency landing fields, lit by the post, will be provided at each town for night pilots.
An Ontario testimonial for Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry claims rapid relief from diarrhea vomiting and cramps. Mrs Ernest Morris describes severe symptoms followed by swift recovery after four doses. The product sold at 50c per bottle by The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto.
A commercial aviator charged fifteen cents per acre to dust cotton fields in Texas, needing three hours to treat a 46 acre field. The farmer said traditional methods would take over three days. A remark on temper and age accompanies the note.
Residents of Platou district and visitors from nearby regions joined public leaders from across Canada for a pageant marking the 50th anniversary of Scottish settlers in Canada. A replica of the ship Hei tor was featured. Typewriters described as white paint allegedly improve output and reduce eye strain.
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