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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
7
Jean and Burke race a runaway mare through Devonshire countryside. Burke’s controlled, steady handling clashes with the horse’s fear and the crowding danger as they approach a deadly hill. Jean assesses Burke’s strength and restraint amid the perilous pursuit.
Don ald 3. Wees describes three months in NE Paraguay's Grand Desert facing extreme hunger floods and jungle perils. He barely escaped being eaten by inch long ants and trekked 18 miles to reach friendly Indians after his group grew starving and ill.
The Vatican considers a compact jail near the ancient mint now a power house. Since the 1929 Lateran Treaty Vatican City holds the right to try and incarcerate individuals who commit misdemeanors or crimes within its borders.
The Commons Railway Committee discussed whether Canadian railways should charge the public for time tables. Britain already charges a small fee while the North American standard is to provide them free, though some readers take them unnecessarily.
Despite tighter finances the Victorian Order of Nurses reports 1931 as outstanding. Miss Elizabeth Smellis, chief superintendent, spoke to the board of governors in Ottawa with Senator George P. Graham noting renewed public sacrifice and courage in welfare work. Mother Graves Worm Exterminator offered as a remedy for sickly children.
Baltimore voted to repeal the 200 year old Sunday observance laws by a decisive margin over 83 000. The change ends restrictions that once barred certain activities including attending moving picture shows sport events and some retail purchases on Sundays.
Annie Wilson of Toronto recalls severe anaemia at sixteen and how Dr Williams Pink Pills rebuilt her health by creating new blood. She endorses the pills for anaemia and run down conditions and notes they are available from druggists for 50 cents a package.
Aline Michsell's poem The Rhyming Optimist offers a romance themed gift wish with images of gems and gardens. The page also includes Miller's Worm Powders advertised as a cure for children’s intestinal worms and a promise of restoring digestive health and immunity.
The first official recognition for Air Scouts comes at the world Scout jamboree in Hungary next year with a special Flying camp. M Stephen Horthy will lead the camp for pilots and gliding enthusiasts from participating nations.
Prof G Mackinney of UC division of plant nutrition discusses plants turning carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. Earlier Liverpool's E C C Baly reported formaldehyde and carbohydrates formation in vitro, but no replicable procedure exists. Researchers stress photosynthesis is vital to life and energy capture remains unsolved.
A devotional note quotes Psalm xxx 3 and Palmer on trusting God's guiding hand. It cites Fenelon about virtue and a Vienna housing figure, noting 38,320 chain apartments and 4,000 family residences since 1928.
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