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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
8
Town offers a cleanup sale of odds and ends of doors, windows and mill work. Bargains include 14 panel front doors and oak quoins, with half and full winter screens and louvre close doors. Readers are urged to visit W Thomas’s house for a selling example and to compare costs for altering their own homes.
A humorous item notes the Manitoba Compensation Act Article 6 offering lodging at Brandon Zoo for motorcyclists who race without control. It claims riders facing danger will be housed free at the Home of Rest and fed banana broth and peanut meals, funded by their mothers.
A midwestern railroad roadmaster rebuked a subordinate for shaving on company time. The man retorted that his beard grew on company time. An upcoming advertisement promises a sale of odd stock with bargains for all purposes.
The community debates a high coming year tax rate while noting councils faced a long overdue choice. A Rivers editorial quips the tax crop will not fail, and Alberta towns like Innisfail levy 225 mills on the dollar amid rising costs. The Russell school opens with calls for stronger parental discipline and homework to curb street idleness.
A fragment discusses processing old boots and waste materials to extract useful chemicals. It mentions weathered substances forming a thick solution used to prepare crumbling products, and describes reactions involving nitrogen carbon and potash to make salts for dyes or pigments.
Rev John L Belford of the Nativity Church in Brooklyn urges brides to grow skilled in cooking and baking to please husbands. He cautions that charm and jewelry cannot replace steady work, noting changes in beauty and the inadequacy of dancing and talking as substitutes for domestic duties.
A collage of short anecdotes and oddities from a newspaper page. A man in a restaurant reacts to his order with calm curiosity. Horse sleep myths, a lost dime tale, and a quip about marriage provide light, antiquated humor.
A patient asks the dentist for relief as Dr. Buzzer insists the tooth must come out. Mrs Tungtwist objects but accepts the substitution offered amid tense Chicago newsroom banter.
In July 1910 Frederick Molden a London solicitor suffered a paralytic stroke and instructed a nurse to seal a drawer containing a will. After his death his nephew and the nurse found the sealed envelope empty, though the envelope remained in evidence at court. The puzzle of the missing contents remains unresolved.
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