21 May 1936
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 21, 1936
Page
1
Advises consulting a family doctor about safe headache relief and asks specifically about ASPIRIN. Notes early concerns about stomach and heart effects, then cites scientists’ praise and widespread use as a fast relief for headaches rheumatism neuritis and neuralgia, urging informed, regular use.
In Boone County a meeting to form an irrigation company ends after a violent outburst. Buzz Hamilton shoots at Fleming. Buster Townsend is wounded. Buzz is arrested and jailed for three years. Fleming and Helen form a partnership to irrigate their lands.
Fleming scathes Kilgo for manipulating events and turning allies against him. The heated exchange reveals deep grievances as the rift widens in the ongoing chapter.
Link Fleming faces a violent feud over land and a dam project with Buzz Hamilton and Kilgo. Accusations of layoffs and arson threaten the spread as a landslide wrecks work, while Fleming orders medical care and guards a dangerous rift.
Fleming races across the prairie toward irrigation works after a muffled roar from the dam. Shots erupt as he dodges bullets, seeking cover behind a red boulder while pursuing the assailants in a dangerous horse pursuit.
Albert G. Burns president of the National Inventors' Congress spoke at an New Orleans exhibition about future industrial advances. He cited air conditioning, television, aviation improvements, and all metal dirigibles as major developments likely to reshape living, housing, and employment, arguing that true inventions create jobs. Burns noted about 22 000 active inventors in America.
La Plata lawyer and U S DOJ special attorney stopped in a Jefferson City flower shop en route from Rolla. He ordered a bouquet for his wife and urged ice on the stems as a joke. The clerk complied, then the customer quipped an apparent parting jab as he left.
The famed London omnibus Old Bill, one of two survivors from early war days, arrived aboard the M S Pacific Enterprise on loan to the Vancouver jubilee committee. A museum relic, it is preserved as a war memento and displayed in the Pacific region.
A reflective sermon on compassion and duty toward the distressed, urging readers to act as neighbors to all in need. The speaker cites Scripture Genesis 4 9 and asks how one should respond when life interrupts with suffering.
British engineers harness ancient Roman cistern networks in the western desert of Egypt. Underground galleries extend miles, supplying sweet water through accessible cisterns. Excavation progresses daily, making these reservoirs a major water source. The system likely stored fresh water in dry periods when the region fed Rome.
Dr J M Howie of the Church of Scotland Mission in Calabar said lepers are easier to get along with than other people. He noted the mission cared for about 1,600 to 1,700 lepers in Nigeria with around 5,000 under treatment by missions nationally, but many more remained uncared for due to lack of funds.
The Indianapolis News says heaven is a dry warm fed safe place. The Detroit Free Press counters that an American need not go to heaven to find such shelter, as prison offers it.
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