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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
2
Harvest season in western Canada brings hundreds of thousands of workers, horses, and machinery into busy fields. The piece urges strict safety, noting trains and elevators run under high pressure and stressing vigilant, careful operation to prevent injuries and losses.
The article describes carbon dioxide fire extinguishers that displace air to smother flames and cool the area, useful on switchboards and tankers to prevent water damage and major losses. It notes growing radio interest and renewed appreciation for local broadcasting, and mentions the leaning tower of Pisa being illuminated by electric fleets.
Joseph Navarro announces a trans Atlantic air service using double decker planes with 150 seats. Planes would fly London to New York in 25 hours with a 185 foot wingspread and nine 450 horsepower engines. Fare estimated at 55 pounds per passenger.
Vancouver Province reports marked decline in migration from Canada to the United States. The article notes distant green fields appear blue and cites eight times as many murders in the United States as in England, based on population figures.
A Potsdam appeals court ruled against a guide Max Schuts who charged English tourists 25 marks for a ground tour of Sans Souci Castle. The court reversed a lower ruling that fees were a luxury. the higher court fined Schuts 30 marks, upholding that guides are a daily necessity for visitors.
Nerviline touted for fifty years as a remedy for sprains bruises and rheumatic pains. It claims deep penetration quick action and relief for neuralgia lumbago and aching muscles. A Toronto Bay swim anecdote and rescue mention appear in the same fragment.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to restore blood quality, noting pimples eczema and scrofula as signs of poor blood. It cites Mrs E Bishop of Tarleton Ontario describing improvement after use and states pills cost 50 cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A Youth's Companion excerpt notes forty three thousand Indians live on their own farms and western banks hold thirty five million dollars of Indian money. Eighty thousand Indian children are of school age with sixty five thousand in school, indicating a strong future for young Indians despite pressures. It also mentions full bloods maintaining numbers and mixed blood increasing by about a thousand yearly.
A commemorative service for Edith Cavell was held at the foot of a Great Glacier in Jasper National Park. Rev James Edwards led over 200 attendees from Jasper village and the Park Lodge in prayer and the singing of Abide With Me near the Union Jack altar.
Miller's Worm Powders are available at chemists and drug shops at low cost. The product is promoted as a reliable remedy to expel worms and ease worm-related suffering, with mothers praising its effectiveness for children.
A household mouse travels over twenty eight miles on a cellar bicycle wheel while a boy’s bike hangs in the cellar. The tire route exhausts the mouse as it clings to the wheel top. Mother Graves Worm Exterminator is praised for safety and speed for children. An ad offers supplies to the man who helped the chemist’s wife running away.
Experiments indicate Ut Dure surpling delivers exceptionally high value as a fertilizer for crops including potatoes tomatoes and parsnips under government trials.
In Acts 16 5 to 38 the journey through Phrygia and Galatia is halted by the Holy Spirit. The team seeks Asia ephesus Smyrna and Laodicea yet are forbidden by divine guidance. The lesson frames disappointments as God’s indications guiding the path.
Refugees in a Polish camp face great misery as Poland orders the repatriation of thousands of Germans. Overcrowded facilities, loss of possessions, and dire distress among men, women, and children are reported, with a second camp expected if evictions proceed.
The King pressed a button to open the first section of Barking electric power station, hailed as a remarkable development in electricity supply. The section houses 325 000 horsepower, with total plant planned at 750 000 horsepower, aiming as the largest generating station globally. Sir Harry Renwick, chairman, estimated ultimate cost between 340 million and 45 million dollars.
In a fragmentary notice from a London Ontario paper, Charles Parkin, a postal worker once described as a gentleman, stands to inherit after the death of a Devonshire heir. He prefers his modest post to the Devonshire estate and shows no rush to pursue legal action to claim wealth.
An early 20th century advert promoting Dr J D Kelloges Asthma Remedy claims quick and sure relief for air passages. It urges homes with asthma to use the remedy to gain blessed help and comfort.
A preliminary report from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows Canadian universities in 1924 possessing assets of 80 864 627 dollars and income of 10 541 874 dollars with expenditures at 11 716 921 dollars. The 23 universities registered 39 372 students for the year ending June 30 1924, about one third female.
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