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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
5
An old advertisement promotes Pine Air as a cure for catarrh and colds. It claims strong results and lists a price and availability at druggists, substituting for Catarrhozone. The copy references Montreal as a source and markets to broad audiences.
The writer muses on the beauty of northern winters and the sense of home they inspire. They compare Canadian winters to Russia, recall art like Sugar Camp's Habitant Hauling Wood, and praise the stillness, snow, and twilight. The piece laments urban smoke, cherishes natural scenes, and notes memory and instinct shaping attachment to winter.
A memoir fragment recalls rural life, a close-knit community around Spruce Creek and Murray. The narrator describes Jean Montr and Gwen Severn, book lists from Carnegie libraries, musical evenings, and visiting neighbors, with memories of Cambrial war losses, local families, and social ties that shaped a quiet, contented season.
Bands around Nanyang Henan revive ancient extortion tactics by threatening to desecrate ancestral graves to extract ransom from wealthy families. Reports say 60 gangs with 600 to 2000 members each operate across 50 villages, aiming to emulate feared thieves known by epithets such as White Wolf and Wan the Bearded. Authorities have shown little effort to curb the gangs.
The League of Nations recommends all governments using daylight saving adopt identical start and end dates to secure uniformity in summer time. The proposal aims to minimize confusion across nations and streamline time changes worldwide.
Ancient Rome used abbreviated writing of 1100 signs devised by Ennius around 200 BC. Cicero Horace and Pliny reference shorthand, and Ovid notes its use to convey Caesar's secrets. St Luke reportedly used shorthand for the Mount, with writing scratched on tablets of wax bound into a book.
Ancient accounts describe mastodons roaming across Canada with eight foot tusks found near London Ontario. Scholars debate extinction timing with some placing it before man’s advent while others propose a long contemporary period in North America. Legends place a large mastodon cemetery in Red Deer Alberta as a northern epicenter.
An article notes Austria spends little on its central government with a budget of 71 million crowns annually about $10,000 in tradition. It covers President Heinisch and 19 secretaries and staff, plus all entertainment travel and office costs.
A reader excerpts a backcountry teaching piece urging children to stop delaying tasks. It contrasts By-and-by with prompt action, cites Rothschild as a warning against hesitation, and tells of Put-Off town led by Old Man Walt and Don’t Carr to illustrate procrastination's penalties.
Ontario will produce educational moving pictures at its own plant. After reviewing costs and private operation, the Provincial Treasurer announced a $20,000 purchase of a modern plant in Trenton from Atlantic Producing Company Ltd.
Advertisement promotes W Fletcher's Castoria as a trusted remedy for Cometipation, flatulence, wind colic and diarrhoea in babies and children. It asserts benefits of soothing feverishness, regulating stomach and bowels, aiding food absorption and natural sleep, with a genuine product having the signature.
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