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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1923
Page
1
An ad-promising Catarrhozone claims to ease throat inflammation and phlegm, prevent colds, and keep airways germ free with a dollar two month outfit sold by druggists. It warns against substitutes. The narrative shifts to a suspense scene describing a rancher Wade trapped in a fissure as a mountain lion stalks below, eyes glowing and danger imminent.
A confrontation in a narrow hideout escalates as Wade accuses Moran of murder. Moran taunts Wade with threats, while Wade vows to expose the killer and survive the night. Wade struggles with hunger, smoke supply, and a mountain-framed prison as night approaches.
Hemford Nova Scotia woman, mother of four, describes severe weakness after her last birth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength, curing backache and enabling her to work again.
Dorothy reports Gordon Wade has vanished after a suspected kidnaping. Mrs. Purnell doubts the claim while Bill Landry tracks a possible trail. Moran and Senator Rexhill loom as suspects amid town turmoil. Dorothy worries and seeks to help as fear and tension rise.
Dorothy Purnell frets over Gordon and Helen Rexhill while Mrs. Parnell pushes tea and calm. Dorothy admits Wade’s kiss has changed her view of him into a lover’s claim, while fearing Moran and Moran’s office shadow. She weighs sacrificing her future for Gordon’s safety.
The piece contrasts teaching animals with a dog showing playful imitation against a horse’s dignity. It argues horses need brainwork for feats, are wiser than presumed, and conceal knowledge from humans while avoiding accidents. It notes mules and bullocks blunder, horses seek freedom, and may plan to escape to liberty.
United States consul at Aden reports autos have supplanted camels as the main passenger carrier between Djibouti and Zeila across the sands of the desert. A night trip that once took longer by camel can now be made in four hours by car.
The article notes no company will plant a tree for every cut down as reforestation cannot keep pace with campers and smokers. About twenty five airplanes survey forests for fire detection. Common causes are unextinguished campfires cooking fires and discarded cigarettes.
Vincent Jones of the California Psychical Research Society announced a successful method to obtain thought photographs. He showed a cross image captured on a photographic plate wrapped in opaque paper placed before his eyes while concentrating for ten minutes. Another method involved holding film strips to the forehead for about fifteen minutes during focus.
Prof. W. L. Carlyle, manager of the Prince of Wales ranch at High River, returns from a trip to the Old Country with high bred horses cattle and sheep to stock the Prince’s ranch. Included is Will Somers a famed King George racehorse. Carlyle notes strong British demand for Canadian stocker cattle and urges breeders to meet market needs.
A Stratford woman incubated 18 eggs in a modified electric range warming compartment. She kept the temperature at 90 degrees using a hat box lined with flannel, and the chicks hatched successfully.
Prof. R. C. Wallace of Manitoba University told Winnipeg Rotary that Canada has become increasingly industrial, noting 80 percent population growth, 120 percent railway expansion, and 700 percent rise in industrial use over 25 years. He also cited high child losses to U S divorce courts and land ownership concentration in England.
A Jersey City officer resigns to return to bricklaying, noting it yields higher earnings and less boredom. The piece contrasts national trends in police and mason numbers since 1890, citing 83,000 police and 134,000 masons today and arguing bricklayers are harder to recruit than good policemen.
The total storage capacity of Port Arthur and Fort William elevators is expected to reach 65,006,000 bushels by September according to the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce chief statistician. The 1900 capacity was 5,700,000 bushels with Port Arthur holding five percent. By 1924 the capacity is projected to reach seventy million. The piece ends with a playful line about a son wishing his father had a filling station.
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