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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
2
On the American armored cruiser South sea a young sailor is mentioned as part of a mined operation. The ship struggles in a gale with the bridge ambushed and many injured. An aviator surgeon and another surgeon decide to attempt a repair while the machinery halts.
Denmark resists allowing German residents to vote in Schleswig plebiscite, urging limits to north and central Schleswig. Danish leaders warn political and demographic tensions could revive old Alsace Lorraine disputes and complicate peace terms from Versailles.
A chaplain recalls learning that a German prisoner in his battalion, once seen in a Western Canadian city, crossed the barbed wire to approach a former acquaintance and offered help or exchange. The fragment hints at cross lines of contact between captor and captive.
The passage notes that affluent Americans in Exg the United States face taxation and redistribution after the war. It predicts those who benefited from inheritance will be hit harder than profiteers as prewar forebears fall back, and new heiresses tied to munition contracts rise to prominence by August 1914.
An page advertisement touts genuine Bayer Aspirin as the only authentic product now made by a Canadian company and sold with the Bayer Cross. It notes no German ownership, recounts wartime substitutes, and lists uses plus available package sizes in Canada.
A cryptic note claims that only one thing can restore balance, urging focus on a single remedy. The fragment hints at a simple solution amid broader concerns.
The report notes rising remarriage rates across 1910s and 1910s widow and widower groups. It cites many cases of young marriages and later-life unions, including widowers marrying widows and widows remarrying, with ages ranging from teenagers to the nineties.
The text notes Grand Duke Cyril living in a sparse room in Helsinki awaiting Bolshevik overthrow and possible restoration of monarchy. It states he would likely be named Czar as the next in line, recalls a narrowly survived Bolshevik attempt on his life, and mentions his sailor career and marriage to Princess Victoria of Edinburgh against Czarist orders.
The piece notes armor's decline by Waterloo and the triumph of Wellington's troops. It also mentions Parmele's Vegetable Pills as a safe remedy for women suffering digestive and liver complaints from a secluded lifestyle.
An advertisement touts Own Tablets as a mild thorough laxative suitable for infants and children. It claims safety and effectiveness, sold by medicine dealers or mail order from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario at 25 cents a box. A separate London dispatch reports Admiral von Reiter to face court martial over alleged armistice violations as Scapa Flow incident details are set for Paris ordered by the Allied council.
An Esthenian official says hostilities resumed along the entire Baltic front from the Gulf of Riga to Ronenburg after seven days of truce. The British mission failed to secure an understanding and some unsightly trouble is reported. medical hopes are hinted for relief.
In Edmonton Alberta the power to seize illicit whiskey stills may be extended from federal inland revenue officers to Alberta provincial police. The attorney general urged the change after noting rising numbers of would be distillers across the province. Currently police must report all cases to inland revenue for action.
Dear sirs this fall I was thrown on a fence and hurt my chest and could not work I tried many liniments none helped One bottle of Minard's Leniment warmed on flannels and applied to my breast cured me completely Co H Collaboom Rossway Digby Co Nova Scotia
The Canada Year Book for 1918 shows prairie fruit yields with apple trees bearing 2,574 and nonbearing 10,618 among three provinces. Orchard bearing trees 7,210, nonbearing 3,273. orchard acreage 674 and garden area 92,764. Strawberry output 20 355 quarts. currants 39 935 quarts. gooseberries 11 609. other small fruits 499 quarts. apples 1 899 bushels. other orchard fruits 1 393 bushels.
Bernhardi, a noted military writer, argues Kaiser Wilhelm bears fault only for delaying the war. He claims the Kaiser believed Russia would back down and England would stay out, and that he finally accepted the challenge only with difficulty.
Hermann Mueller, leader of the Majority Socialist group, charged Berlin militarists plotted to reassign the Hohenzollerns to the throne. He told the National Assembly that the former Kaiser is undesirable and should be watched as the author of Germany’s misfortunes.
Washington amendment to repeal wartime prohibition for light wines and beer failed in the House Judiciary Committee by 82 to 8. The proposed change would grant the president authority to repeal the wartime Prohibition Act as it applies to lighter alcoholic beverages.
Mutinous troops at Satten camp Surrey refuse to salute or obey orders. Two battalions deployed with machine guns. 400 men arrested including ringleaders. 1,800 sent to Dover and Canterbury camps. Main grievance cited as assignment to fight in France.
Circles in British military deny a wireless report that England plans to dispatch volunteer detachments to Persia to oppose Soviet power in the east. The report had claimed government action to counter Soviet influence, but officials refute the claim as unsubstantiated.
The Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation plans 8800 ton steamers to run between Pacific ports and Europe via the Panama Canal starting July 4. Delegates from the budget committee of the chamber will travel to Clemenceau to seek immediate explanation of the sinking of the German fleet and what France intends to do.
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