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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
6
An advertisement extols Dr Hamilton's Pills and Ville water as cures for headaches and general health, claiming quick relief, improved digestion, energy, and stable spirits. The prose also shifts to a narrative about settlers, a mother’s baby and an old Injun Noah, revealing a family origin tale linked to a remote homestead.
A father and son discuss keeping a vast Ontario timber claim from being ruined by rival buyers. The father recalls a past ranching life in Arizona and a betrayed wife who stood by her man, shaping the son’s resolve to defend their land. The Bushwhacker group vows to stand together against encroachment.
In extreme southwestern Ontario lies Bushwhacker's Place a timbered tract of over two thousand acres known as Bushwhacker's plate. The landfront faces Rond Ean a tranquil harbor where walnut shadows drift on moonlit waters. Homes are log built with ash slabs roofs and blue clay chinking while settlers hunt trap and fish letting timber stand until needed for firewood.
Switzerland bans daylight driving for motor cars on Sundays from May 1 to September 20 to allow non owners to enjoy holiday excursions without disturbance from dusk.
London reports that the Armstrong Whitworth Scotswood works on Tyne are being expanded after wartime reorganization to become the largest and best equipped locomotive plant in the British Empire. Output is set to exceed 45 engines weekly by summer 1920 with annual capacity over 400 heavy marine engines.
Mrs. P. H. Ryan of Sand Point NS testifies the pills relieved her nerve exhaustion and sleep trouble after six boxes. The ad promotes Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills as a remedy for hot flushes dizziness and nervous weakness, priced 50 cents per box from The T Milburn Co. Limited Toronto Ontario.
The Bible Society notes a remarkable collection but highlights the largest Bible in the world housed at Stockholm’s royal library. Its covers are solid planks four inches thick and each measures a yard long. An estimated hundred asses’ skins furnished the 309 parchment leaves.
An explorer returning from China notes natives increasingly favor English. Arabic numerals now taught alongside Chinese figures, making learning easier for young Chinese. Braille serves the blind in China where leprosy remains prevalent.
A promotional notice extols Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills as long enduring and highly favored by the public. The ad claims widespread use and lasting value, asserting the pills’ peerless standing among standard vegetable preparations.
The U S Department of Agriculture declares tales of ancient Egyptian mummy grain germination fictitious. French tests show grain older than a few years won’t germinate. German tests indicate under ideal storage wheat barley and oats may germinate up to eight of ten years but few survive twenty years.
An old advertisement extols Danderine as a tonic beautifier that cleans dirt and grease from hair without dryness. It claims hair becomes soft with glossy highlights, youthful glints, and renewed color, while also preventing dandruff and hair loss. It urges purchase at drug or toilet counters.
Practical guidance on June or July prairie breaking to improve sod rot, air exclusion, and mulch preservation. Instructions cover furrow plowing depth, backset, packing, discing, harrowing, timing after rains, and a note on using the Mt Wilson Observatory telescope as a power comparison.
The article notes dramatic growth in Great Lakes shipping from 1850 to World War I era, with 37 852 vessel passages through the Detroit River and tonnage exceeding 76 million, freight value over 1 billion dollars. It cites wartime reductions in 1917 1918 and expectation of sharp future increases, outpacing Suez Canal throughput.
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