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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
6
A public vote by American Airlines patrons showed 15 000 against and about 2 000 in favor of serving cocktails on flights. The firm maintained its alcohol free policy, citing passenger safety and inability to police intoxication on board.
Bermuda faces a coin shortage as tourists avid for keepsakes take silver threepence half crowns and shillings. The colonial economy relies on pounds shillings and pence, with English money preferred in official buildings and foreign money accepted in shops. To cope, merchants issue similar change and hold diversified tills, while authorities consider new notes less attractive to visitors.
A small room at Calgary police headquarters houses a lab to manufacture revolver ammunition. Future cartridges will be issued to officers, as city estimates allow only 350 for ammo and target practice. Equipment including gas furnace and bullet casters were acquired for on-site cartridge production.
In Perth Western Australia a propaganda drive supports the men’s hat trade amid a no-hat movement. Advertisements from Australian and international manufacturers urge wearing hats to boost employment and retail sales. The campaign features window displays and signs promising work for sales staff if hats are worn.
Dr R C I Reed of the University of Illinois College of Medicine described using up to 3 000 000 units daily of vitamin D for arthritis with safe administration and positive results. A 47 year old woman with long standing arthritis recovered enough after three weeks on 200 000 units daily to remove a ring for the first time in seven years.
A retired colonel jokes about his doctor warning that whisky shortens life. He recalls a 24 hour abstinence six months earlier, quipping that he never had a longer day than that. The exchange ends with a sly acknowledgment of the health tip.
A monument to Auguste Bacoffer will be erected in Villeneuve Loubet France. The base will list his invented dishes with Peach Melba leading the list. Moxart conceived the score for the Magic Flute in a dream.
Pollock return to Passamaquoddy Bay restores life to Wilsons Beach, the chief line fishing port of Charlotte County. The two mile waterfront is lined with drying fish and activity across wharves and upland areas as 800 residents, aided by women, process the catch and seek good prices amid a busy season.
The Dionne quintuplets negatives are insured for over two million dollars with policies totaling 2,000,300. They are guarded in a steel lined Hollywood vault against earthquakes fires thefts hurricanes and other mishaps that could harm the films. In 1929 Edwin Dickinson’s painting The Fossil Hunters won 500 dollars second prize at the National Academy New York City despite being hung upside down.
In Berwick Nova Scotia H F E Watts of South Waterville topped local reports with 35 barrels of Bramley Seedlings sold to a London firm earning £45 9s 4d averaging $6 42 per barrel across grades. The broker called it the finest account sales since the war.
Arid Bela Bulgaria residents used broken wine vats to fight a town fire threatening to destroy all. With no local water, villagers fetched wine from cellars and poured it on flames, rescuing houses as the blaze subsided.
Catholic and Protestant schools in Manchuria now enroll nearly 4,500 pupils across multiple missions and urban centers, reflecting broad religious school expansion in the region.
A long history ties gold seekers to coal in Alberta. Nicholas Sheran, early prospector, found coal deposits near Lethbridge leading to a thriving industry. The Coalhurst mine and Fort Whoop-Up area spurred British and Canadian investment, creating jobs for hundreds and shaping a growing town with a golden jubilee.
Ernest Hemingway argues that civilizations exhaust land through overuse and exploitation. He warns that trees are cut, waters drained, and soil degraded by foreigners and machines alike, leading to soil exhaustion and eventual ruin when humanity abandons beasts for machines.
Dr William Allen of the University of Saskatchewan reports extensive machinery replacements are necessary on prairie farms in the coming years. The conclusion is drawn from an exhaustive district survey conducted by the professor and colleagues.
The speaker notes that business activity is rising again with several civil answers indicating progress. The exchange suggests that orders may be forthcoming despite not yet landing new ones.
The piece argues seeing is the key sense shaping knowledge and happiness. It notes light, not darkness, guides vision and warns of eye strain from poor lighting. It cites rising childhood vision problems and urges professional eye exams and proper study lamps at 275 candlepower.
Five hundred children in Tiflis Park of Culture and Rest will build a 3,000 foot tunnel and station as an extension of the famous Children’s Railway. The original line, run entirely by children with two stations and 1,200 feet of track, opened three months ago and has carried 65,000 passengers. Engineers from the Transcaucasian Railway supervise the project.
Ethel Wah eldest child of Mr and Mrs Jim Wah longtime Swift Current residents returns home after nearly 17 years with relatives in Canton China She spent about two years in a Swift Current public school and now begins to relearn English after forgetting much of her early schooling.
A Dominion topographical survey costing one million dollars completed a study to locate wells and springs across more than 100000 square miles. Berlin police report a method to lift fingerprints even when gloves are worn. Honduras shipped about 1.6 million banana bunches in the latest month.
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