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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
3
Readers of the competition paper debated at length what age marks youth and adulthood. Judges and participants argued about when a man becomes old or aged enough to marry, with opinions ranging from early twenties to after marriage and even a week after wedlock.
A correspondent notes Japan’s century old forestry practice with 1200 caretakers caring for trees regarded as sacred. Thinning and arboreal care occur every two years for 120 years after planting, yielding remarkable results despite past financial losses.
How to knock the gizzards out of him describes flea anatomy and behavior. It explains how fleas bite by piercing the skin and sucking blood, aided by clawed feet and backward hairs that aid movement. It offers home treatment like washing pets with carbolic soap and using gasoline to kill larvae and adults after thorough cleaning, with cautions about fire.
A St Petersburg despatch recounts a meeting between the Czar and the newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of Russia. The dialogue features humorous phonetic misreadings and light banter about items and drinks, including a jest about whisky.
A Rivers branch special meeting will be held in town hall on Wednesday May Sth at pm to discuss binder twine needs. Those requiring twine are asked to submit orders by the date. Also advertised is route cards for the Percheron stallion Tiberon owned by Wim E Stewart.
The Gazette prints a comprehensive business directory listing general stores insurance and loans hardware and tinsmiths farm implements men’s furnishings etc. Named entries include J A Grummett C W Angel J Moxley North American Lumber Joe E Thompson Jan A McKenzie Rivers Drug Co and Chas W Angel among others with professional services from F G Lehiwalm M.D. J H Couch G W Walkey and several lodge officials.
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