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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
2
The nation should favor a few brilliant leaders from universities over large numbers of average graduates. Public funds must support broader access to high quality education while entrance standards tighten. Scholarships and better curricula are urged to ensure capable leadership for national and global challenges.
Viennese scientist Helmuth Husserl aboard a whaling vessel reports Antarctic air contains chloride and iodine and proposes sending hospital ships full of patients south to test potential curative properties.
Historical note recalls Jacques Cartier era when Indians used spruce needles to combat scurvy. Modern research links cabbage sulfinic action to anti anemia, but requires 20 to 25 cabbages daily for effect. New jars seal and lift from utensils via a woman’s invention. blinding headlights cited as top cause of death.
A 15 ton true relief map of Canada completes after five years of tar graphical survey work in the Resources Department. Lakes and rivers appear blue on sand colored earth with glaciers marked in red. The map, 11 feet high with 11 foot floor radius, includes 45 sections built from cardboard contours, shellacked and plaster cast, mahogany paneling, and cross lighting to emphasize relief.
Professor George B Ray of Long Island College of Medicine says plain gelatin with orange juice or water can boost energy, potentially by glycin in gelatin. He credits researchers who consumed gelatin and exercised to test the effect, noting science blends brain work with hands on trials.
An exiled Habsburg, Archduke Franz Joseph, now promotes tourism and traffic in Britain. He travels from Cannes to London for business, publicizing Britain in India and Egypt. Married to a Viennese Baroness, he pilots his plane while she acts as wireless operator and speaks six languages. He has not visited Austria since 1918 and holds Spanish citizenship since 1927.
A pre AMA meeting note rejects tooth and tonsil treatments as main infection cause for rheumatism arthritis and similar diseases. Dr. Reimann and Dr. Havens say mouth throat symptoms reflect a general infection, not the root cause, while observers report an eagle guiding a fledgling and a distant marmot whistle.
In a High Court civil action a wa man juror sought exemption claiming disbelief in capital punishment. The judge explained the case concerns a wife suing her husband for 200 pounds after he gambled away money intended for a fur coat. The juror then said she had no objection to serving and wondered if she had been wrong about capital punishment.
The Windsor Star recounts James Dunbar a 67 year old Huron County farmer who impressed Justice Godfrey and 24 neighbors with his honesty. He lived with his uncle for 28 years after promised farm inheritance, spent his wife savings of 1200 dollars and worked without pay to secure the claim.
Shredded Wheat stuffing combines biscuits parsley butter celery onion mushrooms optional oysters giblets stock and seasoning for roasting. A cheese biscuit recipe uses flour baking powder salt shortening cheese and milk yielding 18 biscuits. An onion market note mentions Berne Switzerland holding an annual sale in mid November with medieval roots.
A ship with no iron or steel was launched on the River Dart at Dartmouth named Research. It will spend its life roaming the oceans to study electricity currents and storms using delicate instruments. It carries no tinned foods, using salted preserved meat instead. Lake Nicaragua harboring fresh water sharks is noted, and Indian life expectancy is below 25 years.
A reader reports severe rheumatism pain on damp days hindered arm use until Kruschen Satta provided relief. The letter attributes uric acid crystals as cause and says Kruschen boosts internal organs to eliminate excess uric acid, improving health and work ability.
Alfred Henry Loader Blake a World War I veteran living in Biddleswade England left £1000 from his estate to repair St Andrew's Church Greyhaid in a published will. He spent years gazing at the church and street from his window and sent gifts to passersby with no nurse.
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