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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 01, 1923
Page
2
A family memoir recounts Murray and Margaret Anne shaping a home after war return. They discuss balance between individual initiative and community responsibility, hope for daughters’ futures, and the children Nicolas and Rupert growing amid faith, schooling, and domestic life.
Mrs Oscar A Anderson of Leslie Saskatchewan reports relief from distressing menstrual pains headaches and backache after four bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She urges every woman to keep the remedy on hand and recommends its use.
In Chapter Eight, Teddy Murray arrives in Winnipeg after the war. He is eager but unsettled, just turned twenty, resisting his parents’ wish for college. He entertains varied plans from the Mounted Police to Peace River work and a clerical career in America, while awaiting a clear direction.
The narrator recalls Teddy Aldwin and his older brother Murray, describing Teddy's arrival in England after World War I, his charm and troubles with money, and Murray's stern but caring discipline. The passage also notes a hoped Christmas reunion for the family in 1920 and reflections on family bonds and past separations.
The Hamilton Spectator notes that out of 106071 applicants to join the British army more than 51000 were rejected. It explains the high rejection rate by stricter admission standards and war‑worn physiques. An engineer adds that 5000 people now do work with machinery that previously required 16 million, highlighting technological efficiency.
The article previews new Canadian National Railway Pullman cars built by Canadian Car and Foundry in Montreal. It notes luxurious features for ladies including private dressing rooms with movable mirrors and multiple wash basins, enhanced privacy with curtains, and refined ventilation, heating, and safety. Cars weigh 169,400 pounds and are named after system stations such as Algonquin, Allandale, Amherst, and Windsor.
The Baltimore American quotes a music publishing firm executive teasing a scheme to recruit inmates from a lunatic asylum to write songs. The vice president coldly asks for the idea while the pro argues for a get rich quick plan.
The Seaside Soubrette notes how the seaside hall filled with her voice last night. London Mall reports 36.22 percent of registrants were held for military service.
Messages from the Department of the Interior report Hawaii National Park figures show Kilauea’s Lake of Living Fire fluctuating due to subterranean disturbances. The lake rose 30 feet in a day on May 12, flooding the crater with molten lava over 2,000,000 cubic yards and expanding to more than forty five acres.
The University of Chicago claims possession of the oldest preserved plant specimen found in a coal ball near Harrisburg Winds. Dr Aleph C Noe, paleobotany professor, says coal balls preserve tiny plant forms and underpin our knowledge of ancient flora.
A Utility Bulletin describes a device called the cackle switch. It uses a Glock like switch to turn electric lights in the hen house on at dusk or dawn and off after a set number of hours, aiming to increase waking hours and egg production.
The piece ponders how excessive quiet can harm city dwellers and provoke a clash over peaceful lodgings. It contrasts urban silence with the desert or plains and notes that too little noise can drive some people to morbidity or madness, urging moderation in silence. Bicycle manufacturing in France began in 1863.
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