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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 23, 1939
Page
5
The automobile industry lowers prices and broadens markets while creating vast wage payments and new employment opportunities. Machines reduce costs and expand demand, turning tech progress into widespread work, not mass unemployment, as observed in discussions cited by the Minneapolis Tribune.
Mary Ramsay Wright now 90 recalls Fort Garry becoming Winnipeg and the arrival of the first steamboat and train. She notes her family origins from Scotland in 1848, birth inside the fort, early prairie grasshopper plagues, and her husband Archibald Wright’s capture after Fort Garry fell in 1870.
A 50 year old triangular mansion at 145 Piccadilly near Park Lane was nicknamed Four Winds by the Queen for its royal view. The property boasted 20 bedrooms nine reception rooms twelve kitchens and a strongroom with a two man swing door. The Duke and Duchess of York once used the residence before the throne.
The New York Danyers explained omitting a comma in Clara Booths interview about hobbies. Booth denies shooting cats and clarifies her love for real cats, while a Bronx SPCME.F.F. member demands an editorial condemning the alleged hobby quote.
Furniture makers announce a revival of the rocking chair with smaller models and gentle rockers. The piece emphasizes soothing nerves, poise, and baby cuddling while noting hopes for preserved traditional squeaks.
A Glasgow teacher explains to a class of first year pupils about the present holder of the office. The discussion elicits laughter when a pupil blurts out Sir Walter Disney. The note includes a humorous aside about a teacher’s quip.
Frank Gardner Hale of the Toston Society of Arts and Crafts argues few precious stones are flawless. He says diamonds are not the most valuable, emeralds replace rubies, and many so called uncut stones are simply cut. He notes synthetics may be perfect but flawed stones exist. He also claims even water hydrogen could yield a dynamite-like explosion.
From outer planets Earth would show all lunar phases from crescent to full disc. About one quarter of Great Britain's million regular golfers are women.
The Earl of Egmont from Calgary has had his claim to the title confirmed and is entitled to sit in the House of Lords through the British peerage, while an Irish title does not confer a Lords seat. A contested lineage with Robert Pownall ended in court. the Alberta rancher father’s line remains the holder. A Newfoundland dog Bruno received a medal for aiding a Chinese youth in a river rescue near Montreal.
An overview compares Canada’s radio fee with publicly owned systems in other nations. Germany charges about $9, Denmark $3.40, Italy $6.50, New Zealand $7.50, South Africa $5 to $6, Norway $5, Australia $3.75 to $8.75. Canada’s broadcasting programs are viewed as superior to most of these countries.
In 1830 Muargate stood against an inventor proposing steam navigation. In New York a new fashion trend introduces dog pajamas.
A six year old boy in Pensacola Florida is reported to have repeated inhaled gasoline fumes from car tanks. Officer Drew Coleman notes the child places his nose to the tank and inhales until dizzy. The story recalls early telegraph era cross channel links from 1851 and the difficult oceanic routes of settlers.
Estimates indicate over a hundred births per minute while numerous factories rise in small towns across South Africa, signaling rapid demographic and industrial expansion.
A Dominion Agriculture bulletin argues milk should form a cornerstone of diets for all ages. It recommends daily intakes of a pint to a pint and a half for children and a malt daily for adults, highlighting milk as a prime source of protein vitamins and minerals.
Amid shortages Germans rely on roasted barley as a coffee substitute while waiting for relief from Brazil. Long queues form at shops and police intervene against coffee hyenas as a joke circulates about barter for butter and eggs to obtain coffee.
Coffeepots are placed on the grains of Arabian chiefs in Palestine and Syria to mark the hospitable character of the departed leader.
The text lists varied figures from transit speeds to piston frequency and annual rail passenger totals. It notes a whimsical line about the New Year beginning after fruit cake, and ends with a garbled phrase about miles of wool in stockings.
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