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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
3
An ad touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the best remedy for excess stomach acid, claiming it neutralizes acid within minutes. It markets the product as a physician prescribed staple, with a simple dosing method and direct directions on each bottle.
A rugged crew fights a spreading forest fire on a Torenta hillside. Andy and Connie lead water and rescue efforts while Wilkinson and Donald oversee the unit. A collapsing cottonwood and a heroic save near collapse test their endurance as rain finally nears.
A brief advertisement claims Nerviline gargles curb throat germs and relieve congestion while Nerviliog and Dr Hamilton's Pills purge impurities. It asserts rapid relief from grippe influenza and bad colds, promising five very satisfactory results.
Reports tabled in the House of Commons show that in 1927 to 1928 three Chinese immigrants were admitted, two students came as non immigrants, and eleven Chinese were deported. The 1923 24 registration lists about 55 71 thousand Chinese in Canada with 48 305 men 1 302 females and 6 099 children under 18 in BC. Japanese entrants numbered 511 in 1927 with 275 adult males 557 adult females and 236 children under 18 over two years.
Floyd Smith showed a new passenger dump valve device at a large airfield demo. A 180 pound dummy seated in the apparatus slid from 1 500 feet, the parachute opened in under two seconds and the dummy landed safely, a feat claimed to be highly reliable.
The Oakland Municipal Airport in California features low ground rental and hangar rates, with a $1 per plane overnight fee and $2 for sub‑1,000 square foot spaces. Larger spaces run $4 daily or $75 monthly. Services include plane washing, mechanics, bunks, and a seaplane channel linking to San Leandro Bay and the San Francisco ferry post office. A 150‑seat restaurant, coffee shop, dining room, banquet space, news stand, and other station facilities are noted.
Western horses totaling about 25 000 were shipped from Alberta and Saskatchewan to Ontario Quebec and even Prince Edward Island. Shipments included heavy draught and light range stock with about five percent unbroken, a carload of Percheron and Belgian range horses sold in Paisley Ontario at public auction for an average of 71 dollars per head. Traveller asks if fast trains stop here and a porter recalls a past smash-up.
The verse urges faith and calm amid sorrow with lines from Psalm 116 and a reflective note on trust. It reminds readers to temper content and fold away fears, suggesting resilience through future years. The piece closes with a Spanish proverb about God writing straight on crooked lines.
A newspaper note cites a prominent naturalist's claim that Mots are near sighted. The piece also mentions a rising trend of people in China wearing shirts.
The long running automaton chess player in a New York dime museum was actually Peter J. Hill, a skilled chess expert who sat in disguise for nine years. He moved pawns with mechanical jerks, staying silent to hide his trick from players. Also noted: whales have the largest brains among mammals, weighing about 7,000 grams.
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