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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
4
The Junior Auxiliary will hold a concert at Wheatland School on Friday evening September 27. Admission is 25c and 15c. Mr and Mrs Clark and Miss Edith Clark of Brandon visited Mrs H Dodson over the weekend.
The H E S announce three special prizes for the upcoming fair. One dollar for best darning on socks. One dollar for best knitted pair of socks. One dollar for best collection of vegetables grown by a boy.
A compiled reference listing prominent local businesses and professionals for readers in town and beyond. Includes general stores, hardware, lumber, insurance, real estate, printing, drugs, furniture, farm implements, optical services, clinics, legal services, and fraternal organizations with names such as J A Grummets, C W Angel, J C Cousins, J Moxley, North American Lumber, J L Risse, T R Grieve, J A McKenzie, Gazette Office, Rivera Drug Co, D C Jonason, Wareham Bros, F G Schwalm M D, J H Coue, G W Walkey, Chas W Angel, F W Buggey, J Barker, L O F Dunsmore.
Sir Charles Rocz, head of the Rosa Rifle Co., holds Balnagown Castle in Easter Ross with vast lands extending 60 miles west to the watershed. The estate includes Bonnington near Glasgow and about 200 crofters and tenants. Deer forests yield 50 to 100 stags. 12 shoot lodges plus nine to ten days deer stalking by Sir Charles yearly. Modern taxes erode income of 15 to 18 thousand pounds. feudal ties fade as landownership grows less lucrative.
A selection of brief historical anecdotes notes a professor’s dismissal of steam crossing the Atlantic, a curious voyage with the first steamship, and a humorous tale of Dr Parr and Charles Lamb discussing tobacco use and philosophical calmness.
The article notes strychnine as a powerful vegetable poison with odd effects and mentions doses around a thirty-second of a grain. It discusses its use in medicine as a stimulant and cites rare overdose cases, including one that allegedly cured itself, as reported in an exchange.
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