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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
9
In Sydney Australia repatriation of Germans started with the first group sailing for Germany aboard the steamer Willochera during the war.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine with bold claims and a $100 reward in a jumble of misprints. The snippet also references divorce statistics from Ottawa and plans for farm schools in Youngstown, Raymond, and Gleichen, plus Manitoba butter shipments to New York at 60 cents per pound.
Advices from Tokio state Japan will begin a submarine tunnel under the Shimonoseki Strait this year with a target completion in 1928. The $10,000,000 project includes two years of geological study and a seven mile length with one mile undersea, plus engineers sent abroad to study Western tunneling methods.
Edmonton proposes amendments to the Liquor Act giving the government power to fix prices charged by druggists for liquor on physicians prescriptions. The price framework will be established by forthcoming order in council.
Paris reports the supreme economic council has formed a committee including Herbert Hoover, Lord Cecil, M. Clementell, Signor Crespi and Baron Emil de Cartier de Marchienne of Belgium to study liquidation of world food controls and address economic problems after the upcoming harvest.
Thousands of mothers across Canada say they trust Baby's Own Tablets for their babies noting they are safe and free of opiates or narcotics. Mrs. David McRobb of Divide Saskatchewan reports high satisfaction and would not be without them. The tablets cost 25 cents per box and are sold by medicine eaters or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
At a Cold Storage Association dinner Sir Joseph Broadbank noted 50 British ships with refrigeration capacity of 50 000 600 cubic feet, a record. Rt Hon G H Roberts said since early 1918 producered tonnage never fell below 32 000 000 tons in the United.
The Washington Star reports a lively exchange among patrons with jokes about prohibition and saloon life. Characters named Black Watch and Cactus Joe banter over spirits and cheer, reflecting a mischievous, humorous tone amid lean times.
An advertisement touts Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills as a remedy for fainting and dizziness. It claims the pills strengthen the heart and nervous system and cites a testimonial from Miss Mary McCoy of Algoma Mills, Ontario, who says she has not had a spell in six years. The product costs 50 cents a box and is sold by The T. Milburn Co. of Toronto.
A reader prize entry from Sergt H Jordan of the 19th Hussars Aldershot proclaims the wheel as the world’s greatest invention. The essay lauds wheels as essential to taxis trains watches ships and all modern machines, concluding that wheels make the world go round.
A young woman touring famed grounds lingered to view peacocks. A gardener whispered that the birds are obstinate about tails but shed them readily for a quarter, revealing a playful quip about their vanity.
A fragmented note recalls older confidence that colds faded with time as families sneezed and suffered together. It contrasts modern remedies with a claim that steam inhalation and vapors eased symptoms more quickly.
Professor Toole of Guelph Agricultural College reports on production costs for butter beef and pork from 437 Oxford county farmers for the year ending February 2 1918. Milk price averaged 2.10 per 100 pounds with malt cost 2.17 per 100 pounds and labor effects noted. A range of 250 to 275 for milk production costs is cited with wage allowances and investment return. discussion on steers notes price rise from 40-45 to 100-125 for 1400-1500 pound cattle and calls for a western range owner to Ottawa to explain the increase.
In an address for the Colonial Emigration Society Lord Milner urged stronger UK and dominion cooperation to direct emigrants to proper channels and improve their odds of success abroad. He called for closer government collaboration and practical support for emigrants.
The vacancy caused by Dr. J. H. Grisdale's promotion to deputy minister of agriculture is filled by E. S. Archibald BA Dominion animal husbandman. Archibald, appointed Dominion husbandman in 1912, has served as acting director of experimental farms for the past year.
The article traces how names like Elizabeth and Tiger recur across centuries in the Royal Navy. It notes Elizabeth ships from 1514 onward, later prefixed Queen, with Elizabets linked to mixed success. Tiger spans three centuries, from the 1300s to modern battle cruisers, illustrating naming continuity in naval history.
Alberta fairs grow with eighteen in Vermilion district, sixteen in Olds, and fourteen in Claresholm, far surpassing last year's total. A note on health adds that Parmelec's Vegetable Pills aid stomach function to improve overall well being and work performance.
An epidemic of mysterious origin has struck the Waverly baby home in Portland. Eleven babies have died, twenty one are affected, and twelve are in critical condition. All patients are under three years old.
Harlin Fulton of Pleasant Bay reports that MINARIS' LINIMENT is the only liniment stocked and in steady demand at his shop, with many customers choosing it as their preferred remedy.
The London Daily Chronicle notes aviation could aid fisheries by spotting shoals from planes and signaling trawlers below. Observers would watch on principal grounds to indicate fish schools to waiting boats, aiding U-boat hunts and industry.
A scheme, backed by German Foreign Minister Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, aims to buy newspapers abroad especially in Russia to spread German propaganda. The capital is 62.5 million dollars with 12.5 million to be government funded on Scheidemann's recommendation. Between two evils some folks have no choice, they embrace both.
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