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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1924
Page
5
A tense store confrontation between Karmack and Seymour ends in a draw after a brutal brawl. The struggle features a sap weapon, eyeing the upper hand, and both combatants suffer injuries amid onlookers and a dramatic arrival of a witness.
Sergeant Seymour and Corporal Gaspard Le Blanc review a five week old dispatch from Ottawa after a stray special arrives at the camp. Factor Karmack and Constable Lou Marr engage in quiet talk while the group waits for orders and news from the commissioner.
The account describes Pygmies in African forests aiding the Melgian government by hunting with poisoned arrows. It notes tactics to gain animal and elephant access, details the arrow and poison, mentions the extinction risk for the white rhino, and discusses chimpanzee behavior when danger appears, comparing movements to human traits.
Nimble Dick, a milk wagon horse owned by W. J. Northrave, wowed the Toronto Eglington show with a 27 foot leap. The jump stood as a remarkable feat, just 443 feet off the English record set at the Richmond show under similar conditions.
A Southern Sudan lungfish arrived at the London Zoo Aquarium. The species burrows in drying marsh mud and remains dormant in a mud cocoon until rains return. The specimen from Southern Sudan was delivered in a cake of baked mud and now occupies a large tank in the Tropical Hall.
The state fish and game commission reports thousands of crippled ducks gathered in the sloughs of Victoria Island in the San Joaquin River delta. Officials say the cripples form a cooperative colony, unable to keep up with healthy birds, yet all examined were crippled.
A historical note on how the orange evolved from a pear shaped fruit about the size of four cherries through 1,200 years of cultivation. The text also includes a dialogue about high brows and daily labor.
Waldemar Kaempffert argues Mars may house stronger, taller beings with greater muscle efficiency under lower gravity. He suggests Martians could outperform humans in tasks like lifting, throwing, and digging, and that Mars’ older age implies a higher intelligence even before Earth’s dinosaurs.
The New York Times urges protection for gorillas in danger of destruction. T A Burns of the British Museum says hunting apes is akin to murder. Carl Akeley notes a child gorilla speared after its parents’ deaths and laments its pleading expression.
Vast areas of Queensland and New South Wales are overrun by prickly pears. The cactus, introduced to Queensland years ago by an American girl who brought a cutting from California, proves highly proliferant and nearly impossible to eradicate.
Fruit growers and dairy interests in the Okanagan are focusing more on dairying. The provincial government has helped several dairy ventures start up and butter exports at creameries have begun to fall. Some herds have recently been purchased from Eastern Canada.
California quarantine for foot and mouth disease is nearly fully lifted as no cases have occurred outside California. Officials warn flareups may occur but the U S Department of Agriculture reports no forces are ready to quell any outbreaks.
The piece warns of summer risks to infants including cholera infantum dysentery and related illnesses, promoting Baby's Own Tablets as a remedy sold for 25 cents a box by The Dro Willhimye Medicine Co Brockville. It also notes Alberta’s rapid growth since becoming a province with 1923 agricultural output valued at $225,000,000.
A cryptic exchange unfolds as a caller asks the hostess about a hint and a child answers with a cryptic line. The fragment hints at a puzzle or game moment captured in the unreadable OCR segment.
Grain from the North shipped via the Madman ton line through Dunvegan and Berhtish Columbia Railway over the last ten months reached 4,620,500 bushels with 2,681,060 bushels of wheat.
A Woodbridge Ontario letter from Mrs Edgar Simmons describes relief from female ailments after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonial urges others to try the root and herb based remedy, claimed to have helped many women over forty years.
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