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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
3
The article offers lunch box ideas for schoolchildren including hot cold bottles with cocoa or ice cream, rolls with butter, crustless sandwiches, and minced meat or fish fillings. It advises using aged bread, butter as a growth aid, and cheese varieties, along with fruit, cookies, and occasional candy to improve lunches.
Japan plans an aircraft carrier able to house three hydroplanes. The U S government sells 200 wooden ships for 2100 each. Western states ranchers cull cattle for Omaha market at 7 50 per hundred pounds. Mary Garden hires Jeanas Dusseau for Chicago Opera Company season. Leth bridge Northern Irrigation project contract expected to finish on time. A gram of radium valued at 70454 dollars arrives in Philadelphia. Strasbourg Paris express crash kills four passengers and injures pilot. Canada seen as well able to face the future says Sir Robert Kigderstey. Balloonist M Stafford dies after 600 foot fall at North Adams fair. Manitoba at the National Exhibition shows well in butter. Toronto to receive two more dinosaur bones from Red Deer Valley for the Royal Ontario Museum.
The number of shareholders in Saskatchewan Co operative organizations at end of 1920 was 18 894. Paid up capital rose from 362 251 to 466 000. In 1920 54 associations marketed livestock shipping 912 cars and receipts reached 1 429 3. Fawn produce sold through associations valued at 86 220. Total supplies sold 5 885 385 up from 4 506 181. Aggregate turnover including livestock rose from 6 189 591 to 7 314 693 an increase of 1 125 103.
A Craik Saskatchewan man describes a severe diarrhoea attack with stomach cramps and perspiration. After using Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, he reports marked improvement and urges others to use the genuine product from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto price 50c per bottle.
Curtis Mc Cready of Montana selects lands in central British Columbia to relocate one hundred families this fall from Montana and Idaho. The report notes the move as a major settlement effort with regional impact.
A widow consoles herself with the belief that she cannot suffer worse the next time, reflecting on the trusted use of Minard’s Liniment by physicians to ease pain.
The garment described is a decorative sport coat in yellow flannel with extended front pockets outlined in black crepe, black crepe cuffs, a high collar detailed with black wool embroidery, and very wide sleeves. It is framed as suitable for athletic or spectator roles.
Mrs W Beesley of Mille Roche Ontario praises Baby's Own Tablets after eight months use noting improved appetite and teething. The notes claim the tablets ease constipation and digestion, making teething easier. Sold by dealers or 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario. An invalid in Paris receives a daily air mail bread supply from London.
The postmaster general notified publishers that passage rates for newspapers sent from the office of publication will double on and after January first. This marks another sharp rise after a large increase last January, as printers’ costs continue to mount. Source: The Orillia Packet via Minard's Liniment Lumberman's Friend.
The excerpt blends talk of family calling, a toying quarrel over a sister’s hair, and a description of reindeer skin as an indestructible layer against cold. It shifts to speculative Arctic scenes with sunlit spells, insects, and abundant bird life, referencing King Albert and Belgian ties in a cryptic fragment.
The Patriotic Fund of Saskatchewan reports 613 350 dollars disbursed in the year ended May. Past discharge grants total 90 732 dollars, the largest single expenditure item. The note ends with a humorous aside about a woman in the moon.
Samuel Thompson of Winnipeg Manitoba describes severe stomach trouble and a year of poor health ending after starting Tanlac. He says after two doses his appetite returned and he could eat anything, with five bottles taken and full recovery. He urges others with stomach issues to try Tanlac.
Canada spends about fourteen million dollars yearly on soap with 28 plants of which 13 are in Ontario. Over one hundred million pounds of soap manufactured and producers worth over 13 million dollars. Imports around a million, exports just over 100 thousand. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil claims to need no testimonial and is widely used for coughs colds cuts burns sprains and pains.
The Hudson's Bay Company once held 6,000,000 acres in Saskatchewan but now owns about half that amount. The notice cites dwindling land holdings and urges local patrons to support merchants to help rebuild the community.
Rebecca warns Jacob that Jacob must run for the doctor after Ikey swallows a coin like object. Jacob calms her, stating it was only a brass button, not a coin.
Catarrh described as a constitutional condition needing internal treatment with Hall's Catarrh Medicine which acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. The note cites Druggists and circulars from Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Also mentions Time and Tide a London newspaper owned by watchers and a remark on surnames dating to the tenth century.
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