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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
7
An authority identifies Africa as a leading region for timber growth and urges government action on a wide scale. It notes pine varieties as best suited for resilient, straight-grained timber despite winds that twist growing trees and strain wood quality.
The Leitch McLean Company completed a major acquisition in Winnipeg by purchasing seventeen grain elevators from the lingerial Elevator Company, marking one of the largest deals in the grain storage sector.
The message highlights sheep sales through cooperative wool growers in Canada and Saskatchewan. It notes increased consignments and higher average prices, with progress described as a national model. Legislation protects sheep from dogs, and efforts extend to Ontario and broader Dominion providers via organized sales and state-based flocks.
Fragmentary note states daily intake ranges between three and four antifon needles, totaling about 14 million over a year, with no clear source or context for a health or medical report.
A vintage advertisement promotes California syrup of figs as a trusted laxative for children. The copy urges parents to look for the California name on the package to ensure a harmless remedy for stomach, liver, and bowels, touting a frosty taste and full bottle directions.
The London Daily Telegraph argues that global scarcity in wheat cotton and sugar exposes limits of economy as remedy. It calls for greater domestic output and insists imperial powers must boost overseas production to meet inhabitants’ needs and restore comfort and luxury.
Ensilage and baby beef sales from the Canadian Pacific Railway supply farm at Strathmore Alberta totaled 28 head with an average weight of 721 pounds and an average price of 109.90 dollars per head. The baby beef price equated to 5.25 dollars per hundred pounds. Ensilage supported the feeding enterprise amid high feed costs and challenging beef production conditions.
Regina will see a new theatre built by Trans-Canada Theatres Ltd costing 335000 dollars with seating for 1808. The stage will be large enough for the biggest road productions.
The Department of Agriculture focuses on new dry farming tools amid three years of crop failures in southeast Saskatchewan. A conference of dry farming authorities is to be held in Swift Current in July to develop amendments and advance experiments at the University of Saskatchewan and related institutes.
A letter from W. E. McPherson secretary of Armstrong High School baseball notes that since using Minard's Lintment the team recovered from sore muscles and sprains. He urges every baseball player to keep a bottle handy. The letter dates to June 1 1919 and mentions Yarmouth.
A dated note argues that American public opinion should guide policy on Great Britain and Ireland. It cites resolutions from several groups including the American Legion and church bodies, urging opposition to partisan congressional resolutions in foreign relations. Sixty six Yale faculty members reportedly sent a message to Congress.
Western Canada prepares for the first wool harvest of the season as lambing ends. Farmers across Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba expect a larger wool output this year with prices likely higher than last year when 33 million pounds sold at about 38 cents per pound.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claims to cure catarrh by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. The preparation combines tonics and blood purifiers and is sold by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio with testimonials available.
A Berry Creek Alberta resident uncovered fossilized remains in solid rock during excavation. The find includes a huge shell-fish and a large fish, with iridescent phosphoric hues visible in the rock and a crust of limestone broken to reveal the mollusk and fish outlines.
In factories workers use carbolic acid for cauterizing wounds. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil offers quick relief without scarring and skin damage. No other oil matches its healing qualities. The law allows four wives but rarely has more than one.
An old advertisement claims a vapor inhaler Catarrhozone cures catarrh and related deafness. It promises relief for ear noises and throat and lung catarrh with a two month trial and sizes sold locally by Catarrhozone Co in Kingston Ontario.
In Perpignan Fy renves region a tragedy spurred by moving pictures prompts concern about their effect on children. Eleven and twelve year old boys staged a hanging scene from a film, the chair collapsed, and one boy died before rescue arrived. Large scale deforestation noted with nine thousand five hundred acres of forest cut daily for paper manufacture.
Minard's Liniment is described as widely used by doctors. Worn-out motion picture films are exported to China India and other parts of the world where they are shown to native audiences.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as an effective remedy for St Vitus dance a nerve and blood disorder. It cites a Ontario family case of a fourteen year old girl who recovered after months of illness and pills. The pitch claims superior results and offers mail order at 50 cents per box of six for 2.50 from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Alberta crop committee chaired by Prof. G H Cutler advises that in well watered brush districts summerfallowing is unnecessary for moisture conservation and may be used to control weeds. A good rotation with grass or green crops can largely eliminate fallow. If used, shallow plowing, late June work, or July oat or rape seeding can lessen negative effects.
An advert promotes Freezone as a cheap, painless corn and callus remover. A tiny bottle is said to be bought at drug stores and applied with drops to instantly stop hurting and allow the corn or callus to lift away, root and all, without pain.
The article argues sheep flourish on frequent pasture changes to avoid parasite buildup and mineral depletion. It emphasizes fresh grass improves palatability and digestion, urges annual reselection of hardy rams from outside the immediate district, and notes lawmbs need fresh seeding each spring for best results.
The 54 story Woolworth Building in New York is being revamped to create additional space. A U shaped court on the west side is being closed up to the fifth floor, welding the two wings at their bases to provide space needed by tenants.
An odd advert claims Holloway's Com Cure can relieve suffering from coins and warts. A note mentions thirty thousand cubic feet of air weighing about a ton, suggesting a curious product misdescribed in this fragment.
A British shipyard employee has invented astonishingly strong light paper armor for workers exposed to danger from falling objects. The material is hardened with chemicals without increasing weight, with styles as light as seven ounces. In a test a one pound bolt dropped from 40 feet left only a barely perceptible dent. The hats resist water and acids and do not conduct electricity.
An old health tonic promotes strong blood and immune support for colds and influenza. It cites wild cherry bark and other roots to aid digestion and lung health, with tablet or quid forms and a nasal rinse recommendation.
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