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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
7
An ad touts Dr Hamilton’s Pills as a tonic for better health. It claims improved liver function digestion and regular bowels with a focus on general well being and energy. Sold in 25¢ boxes for family use.
The newspaper notes the serial story is omitted this week due to constraints. It promises the same tale will resume in an early upcoming issue with the continuation.
The Canadian overseas forces report tabled in Ottawa by Sir Edward Kemp highlights a four year war history, noting 533 pages of data on personnel strengths at armistice. It praises administration and training leaders and details divisions, operations, maps, and the RAF service with 8000 plus Canadians holding air force commissions.
The report notes overseas Canadian forces earned more than 17 000 medals and awards including 61 Victoria Crosses 182 Military Crosses 19 Distinguished Conduct Medals and 66 6 Military Medals. It praises administration discipline and esprit de corps among all ranks.
An engineer returning from Cologne area says four of eighty machines stolen from his works between 1915 and 1917 were recovered and many Belgians fear further losses. He notes eight workers died in Germany and four more machines are in Belgium, amid war profiteering with German machines used for munitions and new tools arriving in German plants. He urges strict tracing of missing parts and mandatory restitution to Belgian industry.
Early in the war two German spies reached the Orkneys disguised as neutrals. They reported to the German chief of intelligence that Scapa had no defences. Under scrutiny they were executed after German authorities believed they were trapped.
A leaflet describes German traders masking cloth through dyeing processes. They bought velveteen in Lancashire and cloth in Yorkshire, shipped materials to Germany, dyed them, and produced camouflage goods for concealment.
Sir J J Bunyan of Pilot Butte Saskatchewan writes of suffering shocks to the system and nervous weakness. He credits Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills with restoring strength after six boxes. Pills cost 50 cents a box, available from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario.
Machine gun fire in Unter den Linden triggered panic as a group of wounded men pressed to parade against a martial law ban. Gustave Noske, national defence minister, ordered prohibitions, and government troops dispersed the crowd with gunfire.
Describes female anemia symptoms and claims Dr Williams Pink Pills enrich and purify blood. Endorsed by Mrs Louis D Larsh of Windsor Ontario with a testimonial of weight gain and vitality. Available from druggists or by mail Brockville Ontario The Dr Williams Medicine Co.
Geneva Empress Zita and ex Emperor Charles arrived at Nyon from St Paul on the western shore of Lake Geneva. The crowd hissed the former rulers as they alighted from the train. The ex-emperor appeared ill and depressed while the Empress wore a Parisian gown.
A Sunday school excerpt discusses Abraham's blind obedience to God, the motive of love over fear, and the solemn obligation of obedience. It cites Matthew 7 and John 14 21 24, warns against false prophets, empty profession, and stresses hearing and doing Christ's sayings as building on rock. It notes Vancouver war veterans supporting law and an Irish baptism anecdote.
Fragmentary text notes a young man declaring to return to the farm and an aged phrase about historical bank notes in China dating 2,897 years. The passage blends poetry lines with reference to ancient currency. Irregular phrasing and missing context limit specifics.
Rear-Admiral Sims of the US Navy lauds Britain's naval supremacy and the Grand Fleet at a Chicago Association of Commerce luncheon. He calls the British fleet the decisive factor in Allied victory, noting American forces benefited from Britain’s efforts without faulting American achievements. The address stresses unity with Allies and mutual respect among nations.
The article cites four million illiterate adults in the United States and links poor teacher salaries to educational decline. It highlights a June Pictorial Review piece by Ida Clyde Clarke and contrasts U S pay with Canada. A New York ad scene shows a $65 monthly teacher salary versus a $120 barber’s wage, underscoring pay inequities.
A Meadow Brook Farm resident recounts severe temple pain and a brain clot discovered after an operation in Montreal. After trying Dr Chase's Nerve Food, she reports relief, restored sleep, appetite, and nerve strength, praising the medicine and warning against substitutes.
Victoria reports strong objections from the British Columbia Electric Railway Company to a 1920 implementation of driving on the right. The company argues that converting tramcars will require a large expenditure to modify rolling stock to meet the new left to right driving rule.
A reflective line urges readers to imagine life from others’ positions to reduce misery. It attributes much of human woe to the wall of self centeredness and promotes empathetic understanding as remedy.
Advertises a lemon juice and orchard white lotion to bleach and soften the skin. Claims daily use can brighten the face neck arms and hands, with a home mixture costing little and available from druggists and grocers.
In Winnipeg dispatch William Pearson chairman of the newly formed Farm Land Dealers Association says the Dominion Government is currently receiving about 2500 inquiries weekly from the United States. Western Canada labour farm tanda through four associations. western proxies.
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