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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
2
A provincial government survey will lay out a model townsite at Fort Churchill Manitoba. Obituaries note Charles Angers’s death in Quebec at 71, former MP for Charlevoix. Regina budget notes a 1920 assessment rise per city assessor Weatgate.
An anecdote recalls a Shanghai episode where a missionary enjoys tea spiked with rum, while his wife later drinks plain tea. The tale notes the differing reactions of the couple to the same beverage.
The item notes Visa Minard's Link to finance matters and reports 20 foot long manufactured lightning lashes produced at General Electric Company Pittsfield laboratory. An accompanying remark observes that a man’s usefulness may end when his salary rises.
A government report notes rapid growth of Alberta electric transmission during 1928 as lines spread across the province from Edmonton to Magrath with a major gap near Millet Ponoka. Sir Hubert Wilkins reports Antarctic ice melt at Deception Island enabled limited exploration but prevented snow plane use and his team did not reach the South Pole, surveying for weather stations instead.
Warns against cutting corns with old razor blades due to infection risk. Promotes PUTNAM'S CORN EXTRACTOR as quick safe relief. claims it shrivels corns and causes them to drop off. 25c at dealers.
The pattern No 369 showcases sheer tweed fabrics in purply blue tones with silk crepe vests and velvet accents. It offers multiple color combinations including coppery red home spun crepe satin mahogany brown and dark blue velvet. Sizes range from bust 16 to 44 inches. Pattern price is 25 cents with 10 cents extra for Fashion Magazine copy.
The Springfield Union notes Cuba taxes bachelors and even runs a matrimonial bureau to collect photographs from spinsters and bachelors. It suggests Cuba aims to bring lonely men and women together to overcome insecurities that hinder courtship and marriage.
Mothers warned that March weather endangers infants with rapid temperature shifts and colds. Baby's Own Tablets are pitched as a quick cure and preventive laxative to ease digestion and stave off childhood ailments, sold at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co. London moorings offer self relief for Londoners avoiding rent by living aboard Thames yachts at three guineas yearly.
Oshawa Ontario resident Mrg Burton writes of relief after taking two boxes of a Milburn Co remedy. He reports feeling better with color returning to cheeks and increased energy after three years of nervousness and fatigue. Price 56c per box available at druggists or by mail from Milburn Co Toronto.
A Canadian scholar, Prof. Shotwell of Columbia University, is named as a real author behind the Kellogg Peace Pact. The piece praises his influence on Woodrow Wilson and his international theory work born in Canada, noting his exile from his homeland despite eminent stature in the United States.
A letter from Bert Has sells and partner Crammer of Rockford announces a renewed effort to establish an aerial mail route from Chicago to Stockholm via Greenland. They propose 500 mile relays with refuelling at Sault Ste Marie Cochrane and two interim stations between Cochrane and Greenland and ask the Cochrane runway be kept open for a spring start.
Sugar beets proved the best paying crop in Taber Barnwell irrigation district last year earning an average of 69.59 per acre. Alfalfa followed at 25.85 and wheat at 23.27 per acre. The project’s average value per acre was 28.97.
Sunday school lesson centers on faithfulness in stewards. It surveys biblical texts from Genesis 12 and Deuteronomy to Jonah Malachi Matthew Acts Romans and Corinthians, highlighting Christ’s kingdom as spiritual not political. The Acts account of the apostles on the Mount of Olives frames the commission to witness to all nations under the Holy Spirit’s power.
Read like a vintage ad card for Eagle Brand products. A recipe turns day-old bread into cocoanut cakes using Sweetened Condensed Milk and shredded coconut, with browning tips and a prompt to request the Eagle Brand Cook Book New Magic in the Kitchen from The Borden Co. Ottawa address.
Regina attracted 12 industrial concerns in the past year with about five million dollars in site, building, and equipment investments. The developments are expected to employ around 2,000 people while housing for about 1,000 families was built amid ongoing demand.
London Ontario inventor RK Gee of the R T Gee Company claims a method to draw radio waves and light energy from the air and store it for nighttime use. The process promises to revolutionize illumination by using aerials to absorb and store daytime energy for later reproduction.
An advertisement touts Dr. Thomas Eclectric Ol as a remedy for lame back. It claims rapid skin absorption and deep tissue penetration for speedy relief. The copy asserts strong effectiveness and urges readers to try the product to be convinced.
The rocket sled weighing 240 pounds was tested at Schlieinsheim aviation grounds by Max Valier inventor of rocket vehicles. Using two rockets Valier achieved speed on level ground while spectators failed to determine practical speed on a showy slope.
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