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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1919
Page
7
An advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as a quick fix for dull sallow skin and general health. It claims purifying blood, boosting energy, and eliminating headaches, indigestion, and bilious fits with regular use. The Catarrhoznent Co. has sold them for forty years in 25c boxes under guarantee.
Irene, traveling with her father, struggles across a swift glacier stream with a log bridge and later covers her accident with a stick. She treats her father’s injury, cooks supper, and surveys a rough room where an old man lies nearby as night falls on the Rockies.
A young horseman rides through a valley under moonlight, stirring a woman’s awe and awakening a sense of manhood, silence, and vast, shadowy gulfs. Soft breezes and evergreen scents frame a spellbound vision where conventions fade and living feels urgent.
A girl awakens to a night scene at a ranch in the foothills as a team unhooks outside. She learns a wounded man and a doctor have arrived, while a boy named Dave helps with the rescue and shares the grim realities of injury. The tale contrasts blunt frontier conventions with newfound frankness.
An Ontario testimonial claims Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills alleviate heart palpitations and nerve disorders. Mrs. Walter Greives says after eight months of weakness and dizziness the pills restored sleep and daily activity. The ad lists pills at 50 cents per box, The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario offers mail direct sales.
A distraught girl thanks Dave for bringing a doctor and supplies after a harrowing night. He recalls the journey and insists the ride was for her, while she worries her father may not recover as they eat breakfast. He jokes about the coffee and rice, showing his practical care.
Hospital records warn cutting corns invites infection and pain. A Cincinnati authority says a quarter ounce of Freezone from the drug store relieves soreness, then lifts the entire corn with little cost and no pain.
A man jokes in a teasing yet sympathetic manner as a woman contemplates her father while the two continue a quiet, unfinished conversation. The scene closes with the note that the story will continue.
Lieut. Commander Albert C. Read of NC-4 predicted air travel to Europe by airship would be common within three years. He spoke at a dinner in honor of him and other NC crewmen hosted by the American Flying Club at the Hotel Commodore. Read noted English and French enthusiasm for aviation and surprised by US apathy upon return.
Krupp works in Essen issued a statement to its workers warning that strikes and unrest in Germany have led to lost orders. A Dutch contract was awarded to England over Krupp due to distrust of German capability. Steel deliveries for the Norwegian state railway were also given to an American firm at higher cost.
Gov. Calles of Sonora Mexico, newly named minister in the Carranza cabinet, issues a decree imposing execution for anyone involved in liquor. He aims to curb moonshining and smuggling after returning to transfer power to Adolfo De La Huerta.
Report from the Rhineland notes strong talk that William II will avoid trial under the peace treaty terms. Friends of the former emperor hint at suicide as a preferred fate to facing judgment, while Germans admire the idea of resisting French justice. Rumors also mention a "death by own action" club among former submarine commanders on England's blacklist, seeking to elude trial by self destruction.
Sir Sidney Low compares present European parceling to 300 years past. He notes medieval divisions like Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Baltic states, with later absorption into Austria Russia Turkey and Prussia. War fractures empires, promising a 20th century map echoing old kingdoms and republics.
Melba told a Red Cross audience a humorous tale about a newlyweds and a rich aunt fond of music. The aunt visited and learned the couple had recorded her favorite violin solo on their gramophone. The wife played it and the record impressed the aunt, but a final quip from the horn section hinted at the aunt’s will and a joke about Dutchman.
The Naval Department reports a rise in May sea fish value to 3,085,050 dollars from 2,229,877 dollars the year before. The increase exceeds 800 thousand dollars in total value for the Atlantic and Pacific coast catches at landing.
In the House of Commons the Minister of Finance Sir Thomas White tables supplementary estimates totaling 36 723 120 dollars for parliament before prorogation. The major item 10 000 000 dollars funds vessel construction under the shipping program with further public works harbor and river improvements including 500 000 dollars for a new dry dock at Esquimalt and harbor works at Port Arthur Fort William Toronto Quebec and St John. About 23 494 256 dollars come from current revenues with the rest for capital.
A Belgian farmer reclaims his Poelkapelle area farm near Ypres after armistice. He clears, levels, digs and plants wheat on several acres. A German pill-box serves as a family shelter. The Agricultural Relief of Allies Committee helps smallholders with English livestock. Hundreds of cattle pigs and poultry have been distributed to Belgians.
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