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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 31, 1922
Page
2
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a medicated air remedy that strengthens the voice and eases coughs and breathing. It claims pine woods vapors in Adirondacks promote healing, targets nose throat and bronchial issues, and offers sizes with prices. Available at Catarrhozone Co. Montreal and storekeepers.
An excerpt describes a Winnipeg traveler returning home with family and friends accompanying her. The narrator notes farewells to Elba acquaintances and the late train, meeting Jerry Brown of Brownsville Saskatchewan who comments on travels and safety as the journey continues.
A narrator describes meeting Mr. Brown and his frank tale of his widowed mother and five siblings who homesteaded West. The exchange includes humor about a Wild West show and street-life chatter in Elva, with a lettered address mixup and a party wiggle of gossip and gum. Mary reacts with disbelief to the revelations about the narrator’s companion.
Mr Sloth Bear arrives at the End of the Earth with a message for Mrs Bear and asks the Wishing Fairy to grant a wish to quiet her three cubs. The Fairy instructs Mrs Bear to place cubs on her back to keep them still, a method echoed by the Opossum babies. Daddy Bear praises the granted ease of travel now that the cubs will stay put.
In a fragment from a diary or letters, Mary rebukes a confidant for lack of discretion and a warning about future secrets. A box of roses arrives with a note from Jerry Brown as Mary contemplates sending invisible hairpins. The narrator mentions Brother Jeremiah, plus guests Mrs Bingham and Sunny from Alberta, whom the narrator and Sunny befriend.
In a confidential chat on life on a ranch Sunny recounts a tale where her dog David, named for a famous fighter, nearly overpowers a cat named Thomas Becket during a chickens errand. Mrs Bingham interrupts searching for Sunny as the story continues.
Improved crop conditions lift all lines of business across western prairie provinces. Farm implement houses report a higher demand for dairy machinery than any period since the war, with growth spreading to areas where mixed farming was previously minimal. Support local merchants and buy at home.
A humorous anecdote on a Chinese editor returning a manuscript with a mock refusal slip. The note praises the work as divine and declares printing it would force authorities to adopt it as a model, offering mock apologies and praise.
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