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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1926
Page
6
A fragmented clipping reports varied items including naval funding for Singapore, theft of a New York aviator's plane, publicity spending in London and Birmingham, a royal birth mention, and ambitious aviation tests with a multi engine hydroplane.
Trade figures show Canada shipped goods to Great Britain totaling 1,122,000,000? during the year ending July, higher than the previous year's 404,510,907. Exports of Canadian produce to Britain reached 162,003,151 with other quantities unspecified, reflecting broader 1925 trade movements.
The article notes a voyage on the SS W. M. Tapper up the Kuskoquin River to Alaska where more than 1,000 reindeer are loaded for transport. The cargo includes crated fish and canned goods to be shipped to Seattle, with the carrier identified as the Tarp.
A fashion plate presents a navy cape with polka dot silk and a matching frock. Details note a separate flutterless cape, tangle collar at neck, a back and front cross, a straight frock with rattored collar, set-in panel, tight sleeves, and a wide belt with large buckle. The pattern No 1209 fits sizes U6 EX and 20. The text promotes a home dressmaking book priced 10 cents as a practical guide to current style.
An address listing for the Winnipeg Pattern Order desk at 175 McDermott Ave. The notice notes pattern numbers and ordering steps for readers seeking printed pattern patterns from the union office.
Radio stations in the United States are preempting Canadian wave lengths and blocking the launch of new Canadian stations. The charge was voiced at a New York meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters by AL WK. McEwan radio director of the Canadian National Railways.
The United States Post Office Department issued a drastic directive dubbed Shoot to Kill to defend postal treasure on railway routes. The order applies to all employees and mirrors wartime protections as bandit threats grow, following a Chicago holdup that netted 154000 in currency. The Marines may be recalled to guard trains if needed.
The tulip, once popularized by Turkish and Austrian links, arrived in England during Elizabeth I's era. Bulbs soared in value during a late medieval surge, with hundreds of bulbs traded at high prices. Government intervention halted the bulb boom to curb speculative farming and agricultural strain.
Arrives in Potsdam to cheers from anti republican residents who praise a Hohenzollern return. The former crown prince, long living as a country squire, seeks a quiet life as government treasures threaten his property.
An oblique dialogue captures a moment of reflection as Mr Younghusband and a clergyman spar over metaphor and fate. A harried parishioner objects while a stormy line hints at disruption and personal fault.
The world’s largest undersea cable, 3400 nautical miles long, capable of 2500 words per minute between the United States and England, has been landed at New York. The cable, brought ashore by the Colonia, the largest cable ship, serves the Western Cable Telegraph and Cable Company, completing a three month operation.
A fragmentary item notes a child named Sophia and a grandparent exchange about a fly at a meal. The piece then reports the Fast Kootenay Power Company will spend 1,060,000 dollars to build a steam plant on the Alberta side of the Alberta British Columbia line at Chow's Nest. construction starts this fall using coal from nearby Crow's Nest Pass mines. The section closes with a folk adage about learning from experience.
Three year old Mary Ferguson Law son of Winnipeg sails on the Empress of Scotland with R G Latta and J Walker Bartlett as crew. The child will live with her uncle Ryan Ferguson in Woodstock after the trip.
Six British and Indian parties back a $3 million scheme to create a 300‑theatre chain in major Indian cities showing English films only. Funders include the Agu Blain and Maharajahs of Allwar Vallal Bikanir Jaipur and Kashmir who deny profit motives.
Golden Text Hebrews 12 1 2 directs patience and looking to Jesus for faith. Devotional reading cites Psalm 105 1 5 and asks pupils to interpret allusions. The piece includes literary excerpts from Longfellow Shakespeare Sangster and Langer and notes on the Lord s Supper as spiritual sharing.
A Manitoba hemp exhibit displayed in Toronto shows green hemp straw fibre flax and other products. Displays from LA Keys Fibre Mills include hemp cord flax straw hempen cloths and garden twine along with roofing felts and oakum.
An English medical missionary based at Zomba near Lake Nyassa describes leopard and lion danger around her remote Conteh Afriga post. Her nearest neighbor is five days away, and she notes hunters guard the homestead while she faces threats and disease afar.
A rough report indicates cement production in Canada rose to about 2,020,200 dollars in value for 1917, up roughly 6 percent from 1916, with total output surpassing 1,508,528 dollars the year before. Plants producing cement and related building materials showed a capital investment near 2.59 million dollars.
A Lima shoe dealer was killed when a cow fell through the roof into his dining room. The piece notes that animals are kept on houses in Peru and cites a cow’s life ending as a Tresh bee alongside scattered remarks on population growth and a dog named Roman.
A study shows 165 million in new wealth from immigrants into Canada, with a farmer’s productive value estimated at 5000 dollars per person. Railways note settlers’ share of revenue. for prairie provinces in 1916 average farmer investment in rail transport estimated at 776 dollars. Public funds invested in encouraging immigration seen as sound national business.
Manitoba government imposes a second year of protection for prairie chickens grouse and partridge through an orders in council closing the open season. Duck shooting will begin November 30 with a 20 daily quota from September 16 to October 1 then 8 per day thereafter until the season ends.
A misread tale recalls Father Bernard Vaughan in the United States where a boastful visitor at St. Louis compares English rivers with American ones. Vaughan replies that American rivers are also sickly, revealing a humorous exchange about pride and geography.
Elephants consume large quantities of fodder and rice daily, with a tall grown elephant eating about two thousand pounds of green fodder and at least twenty five pounds of unbuskil rice each day. The note discusses feeding a tame elephant in a big organization.
An odd description claims a "bird's appetite" applies to many creatures, noting birds eat several times their own weight. The text suggests opportunity knocks once, but friends knock constantly, reflecting a colorful, if unclear, expression.
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