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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
7
The article argues profiteering by individuals and corporations after the war worsens living costs, endangers national stability, and harms ordinary workers and families. It calls for government action to stop profiteering and reduce prices, noting the wartime production disruptions and rising hardship.
A call denounces profiteering by meat packers and manufacturers driving up the cost of living. It argues government action is needed to end the extortionate accumulation of wealth and quell social unrest before revolutionary pressures grow.
A Cincinnati man reports a method called freezone that can loosen both hard and soft corns so they lift out with the fingers. A quarter ounce bottle sold at pharmacies allegedly relieves soreness, dries to a sticky film, and does not irritate surrounding skin. The note claims it will prevent infections from cruder corn removal practices.
Paris papers comment on the German national assembly decision to sign the treaty. They stress Germany’s avoidance of responsibility and point to Scapa Flow destruction as proof of a changed attitude. Echo de Paris suggests German resistance would compel allies to seek security in victor military partnership.
Bureau of Statistics notes Canada sowing totals for wheat oats and spring wheat with 1919 figures. Total area sown to wheat is 16 958 500 acres versus 17 353 902 in 1918 while spring wheat covers 16 160 750 acres, 776 537 less. Oats area is 14 564 000 acres, down 136 000 from 1918 with May 31 condition readings across grains.
Echo de Paris reports Premier Clemenceau intends to resign once the treaty is promulgated after completing his wartime task. Parliament is expected to ratify the treaty in July. Also notes U.S. War Department expenditures from April 6, 1917, to June 1, 1919, totaling 544,610,000.
A French audience in Compiegne recalls General Von Winterfeldt saluting Marshal Foch amid armistice talks. He had earlier received the Legion of Honor from Poincare, provoking Foch who ordered him to remove the cross. The episode highlights shock at German courtesy during wartime negotiations. Also promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a harmless gut remedy with quick relief.
The Baltimore Sun argues Bolshevism proves a right to die by wholesale of plague and liberty to be idle. It claims reverses stem from a rotten core and lost public confidence, warning of tyranny over happiness. In Odessa workers resist mass nationalization while preserving managers and private ownership.
A local Kronezh Soviet proclaims a simple educational method: placard principal streets with portraits and brief news items to promote learning. The plan mirrors a historic public information drive and aims to boost literacy through visible, accessible notices.
The article extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a home remedy to restore blood and strengthen nerves during middle age. It cites fatigue headaches back pain and mood issues as common female troubles. It claims the pills improve appetite energy and overall health and cites a testimonial from Mrs H S Peterson of Aldford Ont. It urges women to obtain the pills from merchants or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
In a Florida Times Union exchange a public gardener asks about a plant’s family. The old gardener replies the plant does not belong to any family and belongs to the park, highlighting a humorous view on plant classification.
A jagged text fragment mixes an advert for Hall's Catarrh Medicine with claims of martial law in Hamburg harbor and a notarized oath by Frank J. Cheney from Toledo Ohio. It mentions Lake Superior as the largest fresh water body and includes disjointed legal and promotional lines from a period ad.
The Alberta Minister of Agriculture reports 10,000,000 acres broken last year, about eight percent of provincial farmland, up 2,000,000 acres from the previous year and more than eight times the 1909 crop area. The saying good things go as easily as bad things come.
An aged man extols Putnam's Corn Extractor, claiming it has relieved his corns for fifty years. The advertisement praises its relief and availability at the usual store for 25 cents during the era.
Paris reports German tallies of French prisoners in Germany were incorrect. Under-secretary Legn Abrams told the chamber of deputies that over 60 900 French prisoners were found beyond German figures. Missing soldiers total 314000 and the fate of many remains uncertain. Inter allied missions survey Germany to locate remaining prisoners.
A Fred Stone Film Company contingent of fifteen is en route from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Lake Louise, Banff and other Canadian Rockies resorts to film a twenty five hundred foot Western story. The all Canadian production will premiere in the United States Canada and Europe. It marks the first Sim company undertaking at Canadian Rockies resorts.
The Canada Year Book 1918 records capital liabilities of railways rising from 716 million to about 1.99 billion dollars since 1876 while passenger and freight totals surge to 53.7 million and 121.9 million tons in 1917 respectively. Earnings climb from 19.5 million in 1875 to 310.8 million in 1917. Practical remedies and household tips include Dr. Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy claims and Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for children. Eggs for winter packing advised with waterglass and other preservatives per North Dakota Agricultural College findings.
A conference between the National Farmers Union and the Farm Servants Union led to an agreement increasing farm costs. From Whit Sunday 1919 farm work days will be nine hours long, with a 54 hour week and holidays totaling 21 days yearly. Overtime during seed time and harvest will be paid at average wages. The agreement excludes stable and meal hours. The oldest known living tree is a cypress near Mexico City, estimated 5 to 6 thousand years old, affecting historical timelines.
Fire crews battle large forest fires forty to fifty miles southeast of Calgary in the Sheep Creek valley. Reports indicate valuable timber stands in the Prom area are at risk as flames threaten difficult to obtain resources.
Morning Post reports a miner at Netherseal Colliery Burton on Trent struck clay and unearthed a toad 200 yards underground in a coal seam a mile from the pit shaft. The creature 12 inches long with alligator like skin lacks a mouth now sealed but appears to be regaining sight and moving.
The Overseas Minister of Militia report for 1918 notes that 66 Canadian soldiers who lost their sight on active service attended St Dunstan's Hostel for Blind Soldiers, with about 46 still receiving instruction there. Rafale and locksmiths are not necessarily humorists as Iova laughs at them.
The piece claims heavy foods and little outdoor activity lead to a torpid liver and constipated bowels. It promotes Dr Chase's Pills as a private practice prescription that awakens kidneys liver and bowels to cleanse impurities and touts Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills with a world wide reputation.
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