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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1925
Page
2
The piece urges early Christmas gifts and cards to ease postal congestion. It notes postal workers face long hours delivering parcels and urges shoppers to plan, mail early, and follow postage and packing guidelines to speed service and spread goodwill.
Readable scraps show a farm setting with exchanges about a stove fire, a delivery of a range, and a tense moment for a bystander. Names appear as Walter and Nora with scattered phrases suggesting a domestic mishap and a warning to hold on.
A French engineer M. de Monge introduces a frameless plane using front wing attachment for ailerons and rudder. Two nine horsepower engines power the craft with a projected range near 3000 miles and a speed around 100 mph with fuel efficiency. The British and German designers are noted for similar aero nautical concepts including yacht conversions and light sail systems.
Diamond Dyes offers a simple kit to tint or dye fabrics from wool to silk and linen to cotton. The package claims fast, lasting colors for lingerie, dresses, draperies, and more with clear directions for wool silk linen and mixed fabrics.
A home remedy note recommends Baby’s Own Tablets to ease early cold symptoms in children. Mrs. Cadieux of Holyoke Mass testifies the tablets work fast, are tasteless and safer than liquids, and easy to give. Sold by medicine dealers or mailed from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville for 25 cents a box.
In Saskatoon an agent explains land deals while two Danish farmers place two thousand dollars in one thousand dollar bills on the desk. The purchase covers a section twelve miles from Saskatoon. The agent, Alex Fespersen, is a former Danish immigrant.
Canadian high commissioner Larkin and Mrs. Larkin hosted a dinner at Lancaster Gate London with guests Hon Alan Houghton US ambassador Kipling Lord Whitelaw Speaker J C MacNeill High Commissioner for the Free State London and Mrs MacNeill and Right Hon Austin Chamberlain foreign secretary among the attendees.
Mia M Parks of Consecon Ontario writes that her nerves were so bad she could hardly do housework and could not play or think clearly because every little sound felt like a shock to her.
An advertisement style fragment mentions a product on the market 32 years claimed to relieve heart and nerve troubles. It cites The T. Milburn Co. Limited Toronto and includes quoted snippets about people named Marjorie Anita and a worm exterminator remedy for children. An obelisk in Egypt is referenced with a weight of 1268 tons.
Sunday school lesson outlines Tertullus prosecuting Paul before Felix in Caesarea. The accusers claim Paul disturbs Jewish peace, opposes Roman law, leads Nazarenes, and defies temple worship. The Jews endorse the speech, contrasting flattery with truth.
Scientists report a new device called the radium clock that supposedly runs indefinitely by atomic energy. The claim notes no dangerous ingredients and suggests safe use, though the source reflects early 20th century optimism about perpetual motion concepts.
Mrs. Feltman of Brooklyn accepted a $25 000 radium package misdelivered by a new ambulance driver hired by King’s County Hospital New York. The error arose from confusion between radium and radio parts and a delivery to Dr Duryea’s radium hospital.
Reports from the Department of Marine and Fisheries note a good sockeye run this year, the first since 1909, in the Stuart Lake district at the Fraser River headwaters. The advance of sockeye in the Fraser’s spawning area has been hindered for 16 years by the 1918 Hell's Gate rock slide blocking river ascent.
British bluejackets aboard the Repulse staged a string of cabaret sketches during the voyage home from South America. The Prince appeared in a notable role as a woman in one act, drawing praise from the crew for his comic turn.
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