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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1926
Page
7
The week’s great strike in Britain hits nearly five million workers and cripples public services, provoking a global ripple. Analysts link the unrest to outdated mining methods, high costs, and wartime demand shifts, urging modernization to restore competitiveness and employment.
Four years ago no Turkish women worked in factories in Constantinople. Now about 20,000 Turkish women are employed in industrial jobs across the city, marking a rapid shift in local labor participation.
A fragmented line recalls aging nostalgia with mentions of bread brown sugar and meals. The speaker reflects on time, taste, and a faded routine, hinting at personal history and domestic scenes.
F H Harman president of the Winnipeg Real Estate Exchange reports a revival in farm land purchases rivaling 1913. One company alone buys about 20,000 acres monthly since October, selling wild land to bona fide farmers for pasturage and stock raising with prompt payments. Demand centers in Saskatchewan and Southern Alberta.
Diamond Dyes offer 16 cent packages with simple directions for tinting or dyeing fabrics in wool silk linen cotton or blends. The ad urges choosing Diamond Dyes and telling druggist the material to color for permanent rich shades on lingerie dresses coats and draperies.
Mrs. Mary Huffman aged 104 of Indianapolis set a believed world record for a passenger flight with a 15 minute ride after being piloted by Farnum Parker 15 from Anderson the youngest aviator. Also aboard was her five year old great grandson Carroll Davies Millet n Worm Powders ad follows.
The article describes a Chinese thief using a hook tied to a bamboo pole to fish valuables from hotel room windows. It notes that guests often wake to find clothes missing along with pocketed items. It also mentions Worms Cause fretfulness and a claimed Worm Exterminator product for health.
The Toronto Star notes the long effort by successive Canadian governments to finish the Hudson Bay route, with rail lines extended to 70 to 80 miles from Hudson Bay. It rebukes western claims of waste or bribe and says political talk is widely overheard, urging clear national discussion and completion of the project.
Captain Mackintosh of Imperial Airways piloted a Handley Page H P L llper from London to Paris in 90 minutes carrying six tons with a 154 mph average, a new record for a big passenger plane. The Napier D H express held the London Paris speed record at 87 minutes, showing Mackintosh almost matched the fastest mile pace with a full load.
The British government plans to press the United States to allow revenue cutters to visit the Bahamas and collaborate with British ships in searching for contraband liquor, a step short of a new treaty.
Although Canada was not the birthplace of Dr. Thomas' Eelectric Oil it is its home and the name has spread from here to Central America South America the West Indies Australia and New Zealand. The oil is well regarded and in demand in these regions.
W. W. Grantham a prominent English lawyer travelled worldwide and arrived back in London in a smock frock which he calls an ideal garment for men.
After illnesses leave you weak Tanlac promises quick restoration of strength and appetite. The ad claims Tanlac cleanses the blood revitalizes digestion and puts the body in fighting trim. It urges buying two bottles to start regaining full vigor and endorses Tanlac Vegetable Pills for constipation.
Announcement notes Bishop Harry Roberts Carson of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Haiti will travel between parishes using naval aircraft. Authorities have issued orders allowing the bishop to use naval aeroplanes to reach island communities otherwise inaccessible.
Mr W L Whitman of Beaver Harbour Nova Scotia reports years of kidney trouble including rheumatism Brights disease and lumbago improved by Dodd's Kidney Pills. He praises the medicine as wonderful while warning early protection matters. Also notes telephone cable New York to Chicago cost 25 million and life expectancy of Eskimo about 60 years. Darwin once called a dunce by his teachers.
A Dutch inventor received a patent for extracting power from the atom by heating titanium-bearing mineral sands to 1700 degrees Celsius until disintegration releases heat. The heat is used to run a turbine via a boiler heated by the resulting steam. The patent is seen as a stepping stone to major future energy advances.
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