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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 23, 1933
Page
7
The article notes a surge in hoarding gold across Europe as open sales falter and banks avoid deposits. Officials tolerate this private reserve, viewing it as a latent asset that governments could mobilize by decree if needed, while citizens prefer hoarding over state control.
Four years ago Mrs Estelle Withers of Granville Centre Nova Scotia faced a mortgage and possible loss of her home. An skilled rug hooker she began selling hooked rugs to raise cash and paid off debts. Her business grew, providing a steady income and orders, including from a Halifax firm.
A fragmentary item notes unemployment, rising revenue, and expanding trade amid a mix of fiction and quoted musings from Robinson Crusoe. It weaves a desert isle backdrop with humorous asides on clothes, defense, and loneliness, ending with a playful reward offer.
Mrs Viola Evans of Kansas City achieves a remarkable feat taming several wild hummingbirds after three years of patient study. The birds now drink from a test tube and even join the family at table, with one favorite named My Lady entering the house to eat.
A golfer complains of topping the ball and asks a pro how to stop. The professional replies with a concise remedy turning the ball upside down and striking it from the same place.
The Indian population of Canada is described as practically stationary at about 108000, likely half the size of early British America. It notes a rough estimate of 1100000 Indians across the continent north of Mexico at the time of white settlement.
Three defendants in a cane in Lon Go case were identified as North, Northeast and West. The brief report lists the defendants by directional surnames and provides no further details.
A visiting young Scot recounts a rock tossing seal off Campbellton on the North Coast of Scotland. He says the animal surfaced beside a fishing boat, hurled a rock, then clapped its flippers before swimming away, leaving the crew astonished.
Chairman Cochran leads a protest backed by psychologists challenging the Civil Service Commission rule setting 40 as the maximum age for federal job applicants. They argue performance peaks between 40 and 60. Gar Wood the boat racer is noted as superstitious, and a remark on electric safety razors in Netherland India appears in the same piece.
Northwestern University astronomers with Ottawa and Vancouver observatories will study a drift theory claiming continents move. Dr. Oliver J. Lee says observations run two months and will be compared with measurements a decade hence to see if landmasses narrow. Longitudes at each station will be precisely determined.
Dr A Graham of Washington University told the Oklahoma City Clinical Society a simple emergency fix for forgetfulness. He urged sweeting the patient with sugar candy or cake to revive them, describing the procedure as a delicate operation that cures the ailment permanently.
Museen, a boiler tender aboard the British freighter Braghlen, longs to reach Mecca but must first clear 1,200 in debts while earning only two dollars a day. Years of voyage have left him farther from the pilgrimage than ever as monthly ports drain funds and ships pass him by.
A Johannesburg man used the nom de plume Gladys and Co to claim a £30,000 Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes prize. Auditors delayed payment to prove sole ownership, during which time favourable exchange rates increased the payout by £9,400.
University of Saskatchewan scientists tested hens to verify a 357 egg annual target. Dauntless Derreen from Agassiz tied the official mark, while Lady Victorine, a Barred Plymouth Rock, laid 258 eggs in her pullet year, though not in an official contest. Professor R. K. Baker notes pullet care aids output.
The Milwaukee Woman's Club plans a campaign to prohibit terror movies for minors. If unsuccessful they will pursue a law barring children under fourteen from attending films. An Italian architect designs a steel construction system claimed to cut costs in half.
A courteous man asks at a public library information desk for Correggio and his Flight Into Egypt. The clerk jokingly directs him to Room 121 for everything about aviation, while noting Italy's lottery tax has increased revenue by several milieus this year.
British and continental police intensify drive against drug rings moving cocaine heroin morphine and other narcotics into the UK. Scotland Yard and European authorities plan coordinated traps while smugglers exploit innocent couriers such as a schoolgirl’s bag carried by an elderly woman. Drug dependence grows with more people seeking cures despite preventive measures by physicians.
Wesleyan University researchers in collaboration with Canada's National Research Council conclude that mere proximity to poison ivy does not cause dermatitis. They extract and analyze oil from ivy leaves gathered in Middleton to identify the carrier substance triggering skin reaction.
Walter Lippmann argues that once a speech or article is published the speaker crosses a Rubicon. The audience demands infallible guidance, the speaker seeks vanity, and opponents ready to misquote push to cling to a fixed stance.
The Niagara Falls review reports two traffickers punished, one in Montreal gets fourteen years in a penitentiary, twenty five lashes, and a $3,000 fine, while the other faced a trial across the line on a technicality.
Soviet shipment of gasoline to Japan triggers price war as especially sharp drops and mounting cocoons in Japan reflect broader energy tensions.
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