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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1923
Page
3
A grainy clipping advertises unusual medicines and pills for constipation and digestive relief. It touts Nature's restoratives and urges readers to buy from various sellers, warning to accept no substitutes. The piece mentions sale across locales with a sensational tone.
A garbled World Happenings summary notes Emigration movements from Canaries to Great Britain and Canada, a Paris exhibition value, a record voyage loading 282 cattle in two minutes aboard the Canadian Victor, and a London to Brighton sea broadcast enjoyed by passengers. It mentions US support for permanent world court, Australian guns proposal, China population estimate, Alberta harvests, Moscow dispatch about a Russian volunteer fleet, and overseas emigration by shipping firms in Hamburg and related topics.
The Tiadly Newe reports Britain unveils a Hractor tank with a gun turret and a field artillery compartment. It can draw agifery into auction and acts as a self-contained floating unit with double the range of earlier tanks. An initial order for 22 units is planned at 40 400 dollars.
A Baby's Own Tablets praised as a mild effective laxative for constipation colic and fevers in infants. A Quebec mother testimonial supports regular use and the product is advertised at 24 cents a box from The Doings Withains Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The article discusses a theory that vast heat exists beneath the earth's crust, possibly in the core or pockets, causing water to turn to steam and force exit routes like volcanoes. As the crust cools and contracts, pressurized gas may explode, triggering earthquakes.
Excerpt notes that when you study other lives you see uniform patterns birth, love, work, aging, death. Recognition of common fate leads to a realization of fire as simple and universal, making self feel less singular in humanity. Fragments reflect John Erskine's ideas on literature and discipline.
Dr C. Lawson of Los Angeles predicts doctors will teach health rather than treat disease. He argues disease is an abnormal condition fueled by fear and pessimism. By promoting knowledge and optimism, he says health can be maintained and fear overcome.
A long time American resident of Japan explains why Japanese habits seem odd at first. He notes saws drawn toward workers, horses backed into stalls, clocks showing remaining hours, and blacksmiths sitting to work with resting feet as four hands. He cites logical reasons behind each practice.
Article notes the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition plans printing aboard liners Berengaria Aquitania Maurevania Carmania Franconia Tyrrhenia Gallia Ionia Scythia. Hootypa machines to be installed on first three ships as a major step. Bi daily news via Radio Communication Company. voyage price one shilling threepence.
Canadian National Railways launches a new poster series highlighting Canada’s beauty. Posters feature Mount Robson in the Rockies, Edith Cavell, Luc Beauvert and Lower St. Lawrence scenes, Minaki Inn, Great Lakes and Port Arthur routes, and a depic tion of an aged Quebec village with ox cart.
Canada bought electrical apparatus largely from the United States in July. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics records total imports at 1 212 115 dollars with 179 596 dollars from the United States. The United Kingdom supplied 92 000 dollars and Japan about 9 000 dollars.
Canada produced 147, 7B2,771 pounds of creamery butter in 1922 valued at 51,580,780 dollars, up 19,008,104 pounds and 3,093,045 dollars from the prior year. Cheese output totaled 136,579,473 pounds valued at 22,067,106 dollars, down from 162,137,494 pounds and 28,710,030 dollars in the previous year.
A Cincinnati church boasts a 10 foot diameter 12 foot high bell weighing 30000 pounds and styled as the largest in the United States and rivaling Moscow’s. Its deep tones shattered windows and risked the tower, and the bell has since been rung only by hand hammering.
Fragmentary OCR text describes burglars forcing a library window and a grave midnight scene with a saint figure, unclear dialect and stray phrases. No clear event dates or named entities to anchor a full summary.
An advertisement touts Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry for diarrhoea vomiting and abdominal pains with a testimonial from Mrs Ernest Morie Webb of London Ontario. It claims rapid relief, notes price 58c, and lists The T Milburn Co Toronto as producer. The text also includes several unrelated notes on army veterans settlement and medieval ferry rewards.
The British Columbia Game Board reserves forty square miles on Vancouver Island north of Cowichan Lake to protect the elk herd. About 300 elk are said to inhabit the area near North Cowichan Lake as improvements are planned for real protection of this rare big game species.
The cooperative associations of Saskatchewan earned a substantial net profit of 110 997 during the fiscal year ending April 30 1823 as reported by the cooperation and markets branch of the Provincial Department for Agriculture.
Minard's Liniment for Sprains notes a vast workforce of 380000 Japanese veegels in the industry celebration.
By end of June there were 502 cow testing centres and 24 203 lists with 2 085 dairy herds under test under Dominion dairy officials. Five provinces show rises in herds tested, led by Saskatchewan with New Brunswick and Alberta following. In British Columbia, five co operative associations oversee about two thousand cows tested monthly.
Advert says Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil benefits both internal and external uses. It claims relief for sore throat croup whooping cough chest pains colic and other ailments. Bottle is inexpensive and should be kept on hand.
John Hewlett of Redlands California seeks permission from Supervisor R H Charlten in Los Angeles to establish a butterfly farm on public domain within the Angels Forest reserve. He requests 40 acres to be planted entirely in flowers for butterfly cultivation and color decorations.
Auction in Winnipeg reports fur prices advancing to 250000 with 90 percent of sales to buyers in New York London and Paris. Beaver silver fox and bear led demand with beaver up 20 percent silver fox up nine bear up ten.
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