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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
7
A fragment from a nature tale follows Baree the young wolf dog as he wanders from home. He battles a partridge, grows wary of a deadly ermine, and learns hunger and resilience after a perilous first expedition with owls and a bear nearby.
An old fragment promoting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claims it helps many ailments including constipation and aches. It mentions Liver Pills and booster remedies, touting effectiveness for women, with a vague customer testimonial and address in Kea.
Baree enters Pierrot and Nepeese’s trapping ground in the Gray Loon country where a lynx or wolf departs beavers. Nepeese, a sixteen year old Cree daughter, eyes the kill as Pierrot urges readiness for tomorrow. Nepeese takes aim at Baree with Pierrot’s gun, promising a deadly shot.
Bates is struck by a rifle bullet fired by the Willow as Pierrot and Nepeese watch. The dog Baree writhes in pain, yelping as the forest scene ends with suspense and a note that the story continues.
The article surveys how nations vary in coffee making from black and hot in France and Brittany to Turkish style with grounds included. It notes Italian blends, Austrian milk topped with cream, and Mexican methods using cloth bags and sweetened milk.
On a midwestern university campus a monument honors Hanson a student who played scrubs for three years then joined the army in World War I. He volunteered for a hazardous scouting mission and was killed on the French battlefield the inscription says he refused to quit matching his football grit.
A 19th century note describes seaweed collected October to March for trimming hats sold to milliners. Laborers harvest, clean, and sort the weed, which is treated with glycerine to fluff the fronds before dyeing with waterproof colors and rinsing in artesian water.
A Montreat Herald report notes a Serbian inn offers abundant hors d oeuvres and a full plated meal in leading hotels. For about 40 cents a traveler receives multiple meats and sides including tongue ham sausage sardine veal egg beef salmon croquette and salads. The sequence shows generous hospitality and regional dining customs in the Balkans.
Sir Thomas Lipton stressed the importance of fulfilling a customer’s order exactly as given. A tradesman’s mistake shows how misreading needs can ruin chances, illustrated by a 24 year old’s rose gift mix up that led to an engagement break.
Brief notes spotlight Michael Faraday and a frugal galvanic battery made from seven pennies seven pieces of zinc and seven soaked papers. It also mentions Faraday at the Royal Institution and an early frictional machine. A second feature promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for human and equine ailments and cites an ancient woollen cloak found in Sweden as a relic.
A young Parisian surgeon devised the episcope to let medical students in an adjoining room watch operations. The device uses lights and mirrors to enlarge the scene and a loud speaker relays the surgeon’s remarks without disturbing the patient or the operating team.
The Washington Association seeks ideas for a motoring ethics code via a nation wide canvass. The American Automobile Association in Washington will conduct the survey to prepare for a national committee to draft a code. The aim is an honor system on the roads testing drivers responsibility among all highway users.
Mothers keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets to treat stomach troubles cholera infantum and diarrhoea in children during hot weather. Government analyst guarantees they are harmless even to newborns and they help regulate the bowels. Sold by medicine dealers or malt at 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
X-rays examine unopened oysters to identify pearls. Oysters without pearls are returned to beds unopened in hopes of future pearl production.
Geysers a mile from Reykjavik have long heated homes by laundry use. Townspeople now plan to pipe hot water into shell houses to heat the entire town, aiming for a nature powered, fully approved style.
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