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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1923
Page
2
The piece argues for voluntary Empire preferences among Dominions to strengthen the whole without centralizing power. It contrasts this with fears of loss of autonomy, notes mutual benefits from cooperative policies, and cites Allied wartime strength and global trends to support a federated yet autonomous Empire.
A fourteen story hotel to be built in Atlantic City will be owned operated and patronized exclusively by Negroes. The steel reinforced concrete building carries an estimated cost of 750090 dollars. The article notes a feat of lifting 800 lead shots and compares the effort to carrying fifty tons.
The Dbondea Weekly Telegraph notes a record of safety with only five deaths among 1,186,479,0110 railway passengers last year, a rate of one in 260,000,000. The article includes a dialogue excerpt about theater and a camel reference.
A fragmented wartime finance report references government actions and Canadian finance strength. Mentions Pie ts Pista and Be weed fer lo peq, with vague notes on trusts, investments, and editorials about Canadian capacity and economic resilience.
An old notice claims Nerviline relieved a two year backache and related ailments. The message lists various users and urges trials, noting improved comfort after using the remedy.
A nine year old Indian boy, who survived 27 days wandering alone in wilderness around Pas Man, was found with bow and arrows. He described fending for himself, foraging, and entering cabins for shelter and supplies, after reportedly fleeing from a boarding school near Thy Hey Diddy.
Historical view argues rheumatism stems from blood quality and can be cured by enriching blood. It claims many elderly stay free of rheumatism by maintaining rich red blood and praises Dr Williams Pink Pills for improving appetite, skin, and eye glow. Pills sold for 50 cents a box via dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Coal yields Coke and gas through heat in brick ovens or furnaces. By products include benzene, naphtha, cyanides, coal tar dyes, medicines from coal tar derivatives, and oils with sweet scents. Ammonia, fertilizer, and medicinal cures are produced. vitamins, perfumes, and sweet oils originate from coal.
Corns Warts and Bunions are promised painless removal with Putnam's Painless Corn and Wart Stractor the long tried remedy. The ad appeals to readers to avoid substitutes and seek the trusted treatment that has proven successful for fifty years.
A fragmentary article discusses pearls forming through disease effects and sediment intrusion in oysters. It cites expert speculation about fortification of pearls during tidal changes and mentions studies counting grains of sand entering the oyster.
An advertisement urges keeping Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry on hand to prevent cramps and diarrhoea during summer. It cites personal testimonials from Mrs Wo El Judd of Ontario and Mrs H Hourston praising quick relief after trying various remedies. The product is sold at 50 cents a bottle by The T Milburn Co Limited in Toronto.
The world’s tallest electric sign lights Broadway above the Hee Gouin National Bank building on Columibus Circle. The 347 foot high sign spans 85 pounds wind pressure with riveted 5 000 bolt assembly and two additional signs visible across Manhattan, Long Island, the Bronx and beyond. Also noted is a Farmers Oil advertisement inside a farmhouse, touting Thomas Electric Oil for children and adults with cold and pain relief and a reminder to keep a bottle at home.
The article notes British Columbia produces about five hundred mills supply roughly three and a half billion feet of lumber and a similar amount of shingles annually. Valued at $85,000,000 the province’s lumber industry appears set for growth over the coming decade despite unrelated jokes and ad copy.
Preliminary mineral production report shows Alberta mined 3,312,991 tons of coal in the first six months of 1925, up from 2,258,296 tons in the same period of 1922.
The Kansas City Star notes that credit rests on character in theory if not always in fact. It cites J Pierpont Morgan who said he would lend a million without security to a man with character and none to a man without it. A Kansas City banker adds that untrustworthy men cannot offer trustworthy security.
LamBuk science touts its balm as mirroring Zam-Buk by treating wounds and sores with a pure herbal formula. It claims to repel germs and promote new skin growth, with Zam-Buk broadly acknowledged in the description.
A legendary jumper in the animal world, the black FRM of South America, reportedly clears heights remarkable in the wild such as a twelve foot fence. Observers note it can vault from ground to branch in a single leap, surpassing other animals like the bok and kangaroo in agility.
A wax mask of Napoleon, made hours after the emperor's death, was found in a small French town. It traveled to England, then to Russia via a diplomat, and later to Holland and Bavaria before disappearing in recent decades. An English medal firm has engraved 35,000 war service medals daily with recipients' names.
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