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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1929
Page
2
A small excerpt describes Baby's Quiz Soap as ideal for babies with tender skin. The text likens its soothing feel to a rose fragrance and mentions its suitability for infants, emphasizing gentleness and care.
Summary of diverse global items including a Canadian tragedy, trade updates, political appointments, and transport speeds. Mrs. BH. Ligaen killed in a Brantford area car crash. Frasers Valley rope shipment signals trade expansion. Nurses council talks set for 1933 in Paris and Brussels. Ontario highways to be renamed King’s Highway pending legislation. German railway tests reach 130 mph. Buenos Aires laborer Juan Spivich dies after drinking winnings. Canada to US alcohol exports down sharply per U.S. Treasury figures.
A gathering of scholars from the British Empire the United States and Germany marked the Rhodes scholarships twenty fifth anniversary at Oxford. Prince of Wales former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and other notables attended a dinner. Baldwin announced that German scholars would be admitted again with two annual German scholarships tenable for two years pending university consent.
A fragment discusses export limits on Canary Island Lady Roberta bananas due to tenderness and mentions Phoenician navigation as a major ancient trading fleet. It notes their ships carried treasures to Mediterranean regions and to Britain, ending with reference to tin in the British Isles.
A New York clothier foresees radical changes for men in 100 years with bare legs, wide shorts, no coats, a jacket and shirt combo, and bright sandals. He attributes it to jealousy of women’s dress, noting historical shifts from 1776 to today and suggesting possible fashion revolutions ahead.
A report argues the Colour Bar Act deems skilled work for natives and unskilled labor as Kaffirs work. It laments the social stigma on whites performing manual tasks, calling it a barrier to industrial prosperity and a result of historic slavery. It claims one white man in twelve fits the described category today.
Thomas A Edison reports discovery of a weed that yields a latex fluid usable as a rubber substitute after testing 15 000 varieties. The weed is said to be perennial and mowable like wheat, reducing annual planting, though no successful machine yet separates the substitute from the fluid.
Heat and sweltering nights endanger infants with diarrhoea dysentery and colic. The ad urges mothers to use Baby's Own Tablets to regulate bowels and stomach, preventing or banishing summer illness. Sold by druggists or mail order for 25c a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A simple lemon crumb pudding combines milk bread crumbs salt sugar and an egg with lemon rind juice and melted butter baked slowly until set. Serve with a creamy orange lemon dessert made by whisking powdered sugar into cream then folding in fruit juices and chilling ice cold.
A fish and rice loaf recipe combines salmon or tuna with cooked rice, green pepper or olives, onion, lemon gelatin, and chili sauce. Dissolve gelatin in hot water, add cold water and ingredients, chill until firm, unmold, and serve with tart sauce. Includes trivia about hymn reading in UK villages.
John Stevens, a Cambridge landowner, is jailed in Bedford by an ecclesiastical court at Ely after refusing to repair St Edmunds Church on his property. The court cites a William IV era power to imprison in civil church matters. Stevens' relatives began repairs, but he remains jailed until the church court rules.
Victoria Times argues Australia must supply more to Canada while Canada buys more from Australia to balance imperial trade. It notes Canada holds a three to one dollar advantage but suggests purchasing Australian goods from the U S helps grow the exchange for mutual benefit. A child quip about a bookkeeper appears in a separate anecdote.
The lesson centers on Ezekiel 47 1 12 and Psalm 100 with the river image from the temple as a call for the church to spread life to the world. It describes waters deepening from ankle to waist and a river too deep to ford, symbolizing the church providing food for the hungry and healing for sick souls.
A poetic meditation on the river as a life source from God, suggesting beings thrive where the river flows and describing the tree of life yielding fruit twelve times a year. The passage emphasizes healing food and adaptability to human needs through a divine, inexhaustible vitality.
Premier De Rivera ordered officers of the British aircraft carrier Eagle to be decorated in Madrid for rescuing Commander Ramon Franco and three companions from the mid Atlantic. Reception will honor the Eagle crew with medals when the ship arrives at Algeciras or Gibraltar.
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