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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
6
A damaged clipping discusses the strain on urban residents facing rising costs and limited means. It notes tens of thousands striving to cover basic needs such as food clothing and education while seeking some security in old age, amid social temptations.
The article argues Western Canadian farmers should keep their best farm help, especially their own sons. It notes youth drift to cities or other professions, and urges incentives and encouragement at home to enable independence on the farm benefiting individuals and the nation.
Fragmentary verse-like ad copy condemns lying and promotes Putnam's Paintess corn salve as a cure claimed to be unmatched. Mentions cheap corn salve and urges readers to ask for Putnam's Extractor at 25 cents.
A fragmented telegram notes Bit Bohing could not attend the office today or yesterday. The terse wire signals absence and unsettled whereabouts, leaving clerks unsure of his plans.
The piece argues that violence cannot achieve reform and condemns terrorism in America. It notes that fresh bombings illustrate a hateful idea of forcing aims by destruction and calls for free debate as the Anglo-Saxon method to alter political institutions. The Nation and trial bomb throwers are cited in critique.
A monument to William Tyndale, the Bible translator born in Gloucester and active in Hamburg and Cologne, stands near Brussels. After four years of occupation it shows no material damage but inscriptions are faint due to lack of protective fencing and may need cleaning and regilding.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine promising internal action to cure catarrh with a $190 guarantee and 75 cent dosage. It also reports a Copenhagen release on the Russian Soviet Government budget for 1919 with revenue of 20 billion rubles and expenditure of 50 billion dollars, noting plans to cover the deficit with new paper money.
Leicester visit highlights a wartime victory speech by King George. He calls for a new order for common life built on liberty, unity, and cooperation to secure peace, praising the people's heroism. The monarch expresses a wish to join the public in postwar peace efforts. The notice ends with a commercial plug for Holloway's Corn Cure.
The Admiralty proposes forming a commercial fishermen cooperative with Treasury backing. About 400 trawlers and drifters built for mine sweeping and patrol work would be handed to shareholders in the new enterprise. The aim is not to compete with existing firms or earn profit.
Fragments describe anti- agitation activity with agitators gathering in rural plots and meeting in woods near cities. Attorney General Hopkins issues directives to local officials on handling agitators amid no reported violence.
The coming peace renews overseas tourism with Americans leading arrivals to New Zealand while British officers are expected to tour the thermal regions and Dominion lakes. Separately vast tracts in Western Canada will be surveyed by experts using new aircraft for mineral and timber resources.
The article notes enormous coal reserves in Shansi enough to supply the world for centuries and highlights rich copper, antimony, and potential gold and silver deposits. It suggests China could become a leading copper producer and hints at vast mineral wealth amid mounting interest.
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