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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 27, 1919
Page
7
A promotional pitch touts Catarrhozone as a safe cure for bronchitis and colds, claiming doctors endorse it for infants and that a $1.00 bottle lasts three months. The narrative shifts to a fiction scene featuring Lucy, Foster, and Lawrence aboard a train and in a hotel, with tension over a dangerous shaft incident.
In a tense scene Lucy distrusts Walters as he presses Lawrence for promised photographs. Walters sits among the group with quiet menace, while the late train looms and the valley holds its breath. Lawrence plans to fetch the packet, as Lucy frets over delays and a looming confrontation.
Dayton Montgomery county plans spring construction of bridges valued at 1,500,000 to replace those destroyed on the road. An additional 1,000,000 will go to the Wright Dayton airplane factory center development. The projects will create about 1,500 jobs.
The C D 258 floating electric power station, a steel barge with a 1000 horsepower electric plant, two 20 ton oil tanks and an onboard workshop, served the war office for military transport docks harbors and canals. Its universal power supply may shape future sea river works and remote river towns.
Edmonton plans a $250,000 picture theatre at 101st Street and 163rd Avenue opposite the Rablacy site with construction set to begin in May. The Alberta British Cinematograph Company will be incorporated in Alberta within two weeks. promoter F N V Smith from England leads with partners Marquis of Queensberry and Capt James Anderson.
A Division of the Northwest Mounted Police is to be established in British Columbia with headquarters at Grand Forks, outlining a new police presence in the western province.
Misery and weakness for years described by Mrs. Lizzie Courtney of Oskaloosa Iowa. She reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and urges other women to try it. The letter mentions irregularities, inflammation and backache as common ailments treated by the remedy.
The American Architect criticizes voluntary codes as wasteful and slow to revise. It argues codes should be minimal, only covering structural safety, sanitation, fire protection, and life safety, with rapid updates to match advances in building practice. It urges cities to reform codes to attract intelligent investment. Prince Rupert records a February halibut catch of 824,800 pounds, a port industry record.
A St. Louis lawyer notes scarce black walnut and other woods used ornamentally. He recalls old southwest Missouri tax houses with walnut interiors and cites a farmer who sold a pasture tree for 23 and a stranger resold it for 600, illustrating walnut price escalation.
Alberta produced dairy products valued at 27 500 000 dollars in 1918, topping western provinces. The total marks a rise of about 30 percent from 1917.
Weekly working drawings of buildings may be obtained from the Editor for 3.00 per set. The design may also be purchased through the local Lumber dealer if he is a member of the Western Lumbermen's Association.
Regina city commissioners are told to draft a suggestive construction program for the year. One item is a new nurses home. In Port Arthur and Fort William up to February 28 residents bought war saving stamps totaling 10 227 dollars, averaging 33 cents per person.
An advertisement extols Dr Hamilton's Pills as a simple quarter cost remedy for aging looks and poor health. It promises renewed blood purity liver activity and bowel regulation through extracts and herbs, claiming cures for headaches blood disorders constipation and indigestion with widespread 25c box sales.
The Winnipeg city council promotes a housing scheme to aid returned soldiers and others with Dominion government loan offers for small houses built during the year. The Manitoba Association of Architects is asked to cooperate, with local architects drafting modern designs for submission to the city housing committee. Both imperial and American governments have pursued similar programs.
The article warns that spring weather brings colds and grippe and that a cold can lead to influenza. It urges early warding off, purging with laxatives such as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic to soothe mucous membranes and improve blood quality.
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