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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 26, 1923
Page
6
A Canadian advisory urges vigilance during the summer break with emphasis on sanitary conditions at camps and resorts, safe water, swimming instruction, supervision for children near water and canoe use, fire prevention, and using holidays for learning and outdoor activity.
Industry in Czecho Slovakia gains importance from natural music love, wood supply, and skilled craft. About 4,506 home workers produce high quality instruments including 133 thousand violins in 193? plus 2,100 cellos and 1,300 double basses.
A Rio de Janeiro cablegram reports Phillips Milk of Magnesia awarded the Grand Prize of the Brazilian Centennial International Exposition declaring the product a world leader. The item’s celebrity status is affirmed by its recognized quality and enduring market presence.
The Post Office weekly bulletin from Ottawa dated June 16 lists 1923 rates for newspapers sent to Great Britain. Canadian newspapers mailed by private individuals cost one cent per four ounces to each separate address. Other newspapers or periodicals mailed by private individuals cost two cents per two ounces or fraction to each address.
The West Australian pearl harvester reports a 401 grain double-button pearl found at Broome valued at 60 000 dollars, surpassing the Star of the Wes which weighed 441 grains and was valued at 51 000 dollars.
Austrian inventors claim a new automatic device that detects passing vessels using a light beam and a selenium relay. A transmitter at one end and a recorder at the other log every object and person passing the beam during daylight tests near Vienna, with a bell or recording alarm triggered by interruptions.
Every mother knows how fatal the hot summer months are to small children. Cholera infantum diarrhoea and stomach troubles are common. Baby's Own Tablets help prevent ailments or rescue a sick infant, sold by dealers or mail at 250 a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
In written replies to House of Commons questions, Financial Secretary Wm Joynson Hicks says Britain paid about £14.464 million in six months interest owed to the United States on American loans due June 15. He also answered that a recent German gold shipment to the United States did not go to Britain’s credit in that country.
British district officer W. BR. Bell governs Malaita in the Solomon Islands with 20 police boys and a personal police state. He enforces British law while balancing native views to prevent rebellion and maintain order. Malaita covers 120 by 40 miles as residents seek health in the face of worm-related illness.
A flying wing design with a body that forms its own lifting surface will be tested in England. The all-wing aeroplane carries over a ton of load and promises faster, more economical flight. It will be multi engined with a twenty five passenger saloon and space for mails and baggage.
A Antwerp carpenter bought a painting labeled Jesus baptized in the River Jordan from a secondhand dealer for a few francs. An Antwerp art expert found the date 1640 and the signature of Rembrandt, with the piece valued at 2,000,000 francs.
Attendees praise the talk as impressive while one listener admits difficulty understanding. The exchange centers on Minard, with a request to reference his work and no additional remarks.
Apricot and raisin pie with soaked apricots, raisins, sugar and flour baked in lattice crust. Cherry conserve combines cherries, sugar, orange juice and raisins cooked to marmalade thickness then cooled and canned in sterilized jars.
An advertisement extols Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry as the cure for summer complaint in babies. It cites Mrs Lafontaine of Great Desert Ontario and claims 78 years on the market with 50 cent bottles. The piece also references a joke about the sun and notes Thomas’ Electric Oil for internal and external catarrh relief with testimonials.
The Ray Knight Ranching Company sold about 226000 pounds of wool to American buyers at 31 cents per pound, totaling roughly $76000. The price surpasses last year. The report also mentions German manufacture of carpets on a paper mesh foundation.
The Imperial conference on education opens with Duke of York and leaders from Britain and dominions in attendance. Speakers include Rt Hon Wood and Hon Peter Larkin, praising overseas delegates and long term planning in higher education. An ad for J J Kellogg's Asthma Remedy follows.
Sir Robert Laird Borden argues in the Yale Review that world unity for peace rests on public right and international justice, achieved via a system of periodic conferences and a common council. He credits the League of Nations with keeping peace and shaping international law despite U S absence, urging continued consultation and enlightened public opinion to uphold order and justice.
A Perth County horse ran away days ago. the driver was thrown from the bogey and instantly killed. The story notes the horse once drew news attention before cars, but the automobile now dominates accident reporting as railways shift to passenger service.
In Canada a cordial rivalry among provinces shows in dairy records and world fame. Ontario once held a world dairy record now held by Quebec and then by a British colony cow. Canada exports about 8.5 million pounds of butter from a 50.07 million pound production while importing roughly 6 million.
An old advertisement asserts catarrh is worsened by constitutional conditions and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as an internal remedy acting on mucous surfaces to strengthen the body. It invites readers to obtain circulars and lists J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as makers.
The British admiralty has withdrawn nearly one hundred battleships cruisers destroyers and submarines from active service and sold them for breaking up. Time has Tested it Dr Thomas Electric Oil claims wide use in Canada and beyond, praising its lasting value and high regard despite price.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt notes a self-centred youth speaking with an outspoken girl. The girl replies the face is a fortune and jokes about not paying income tax. The piece shifts to unrelated advice on painting a bed to avoid rust stains and a science fact about the sun’s surface being far hotter than Earth.
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