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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1932
Page
3
Doctors cite constipation as a common cause of baby fussiness and restless sleep. Castoria offers a mild vegetable remedy to cleanse wastes, relieve colic, and promote relaxed comfort for infants and older children, with Genuine Castoria branding on the bottle.
Pope Pius likely to inaugurate the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next June via broadcast. Winter wheat harvest is only two percent smaller than last year, per 15-country reports. Dr. O T Avery wins 1500 for dissolving pneumonia germ’s protective covering. Ontario legislature rejects Nixon motion on lieutenant governor. Russia ranks second to the U S in industrial output and national income per Amtorg. Britain to press India program despite threats, Hoare declares. Jessie F Montgomery earns American Library Association fellowship funded by Carnegie Foundation. Unemployment insurance operates in 17 foreign countries. Robert Cedric Sheriff arrives in Hollywood to join Universal as a scenarist.
A young Frenchman serves with the colors for 18 months and stays in the reserves 28 years. A young Japanese serves two years and remains in reserve 23 years. A young Italian serves 18 months and stays in reserve 19 years. Retaining such systems prevents meaningful army reductions.
A difficult test for announcer applicants at an American broadcasting company saw only ten of 2,500 candidates over two years receive appointments. The exam included the tongue twister The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us as a challenge.
Mayor Frank Murphy announced plans to work with the city’s bankers to refund about 31 million dollars in interest and maturity charges due this year. If agreed, it would cut Detroit’s 1932 tax levy from its 76 million dollar levy. if not, tax rate could rise by about 3 dollars per thousand. The current rate is 22.63 per thousand.
The piece catalogues sharp remarks by British statesmen about opponents. It cites Disraeli on John Stuart Mill as a finishing governess and a Balfour quip about half wit, then notes Gladstone's rare biting line that a man “was of a composition to which water would add stability.”
The first Turkish divorce statistics show 2127 divorces in a year as modern western laws slow proceedings. Istanbul leads with 246 cases while 131 took over three years to decide and 742 were resolved in five to eight months. Incompatibility is the top reason with 1329 cases, and women were the violators in 260 of 290 infidelity divorces.
Miss Hannah Riddell a Scots descendant who moved to Japan as a church missionary over four decades ago dedicated her life to leprosy care. She refused traditional mission work to aid door to door beggars, attracting better class patients and inspiring the government to build hospitals modeled on her Resurrection of Hope.
A poem by Aline Michael extols a mysterious beloved with vague hair and eye descriptions and cool kind hands that comfort. Interspersed, a separate note warns that metal wall buildings offer light weight and insulation, while tomato plant leaves droop at signs of escaping illuminating gas in a home.
The author argues Africans will eventually demand self-rule, noting rapid changes as new schools roads and stores spread. With no ancient civilization burden and fewer entrenched customs, Africans may abandon indigenous ideas and move toward Europeanized culture, accelerating transition.
Betty Barclay offers a dessert recipe using quick-cooking tapioca boiling water salt rind lemon sugar lemon juice and stiffly beaten egg whites. Cook tapioca with water and salt for 20 to 30 minutes remove rind add sugar and juice fold in whites chill and serve in sherbet glasses.
A simple relish combining sliced oranges pineapple and spices baked to serve six to eight. Use two large oranges four slices canned pineapple one teaspoon cinnamon eight cloves nutmeg sugar lemon juice and pineapple juice. Bake in a moderate oven for 2 to 214 hours for a flavorful meat accompaniment.
The United States public health service announced a new toxoid based on scarlet fever germs mixed with anti toxin and preserved with formalin. Still in testing, it is deemed highly satisfactory and some physicians are using it to treat their own children.
The Sunday school lesson analyzes Genesis 2 8 to 3 24 and Psalm 1, focusing on Eden planted by Jehovah, forbidden fruit, and the fall. It explains temptation from the serpent and Eve and Adam's disobedience, the wages of sin, and the immediate consequences of death and expulsion from the garden.
Dr. O. T. Avery of New York discovers a method to pierce the protective armor of the pneumonia germ and to dissolve it with a microbe byproduct. His work, recognizing the germ's armor and enabling white blood cells to destroy the invader, earns a 1500 prize from the American College of Physicians in memory of Dr. John Phillips.
A government statement shows 4,909,989 automobiles entered Canada from the United States for touring in 1931, down 499,469 from 1930. Of these, 3,439,492 entries were for under 24 hours, 1,469,753 for up to 60 days, and 744 for up to six months.
In the fiscal year ended March 31 1931 not from Brazil nuts imported into Canada were valued at 38 998 144. Shelled walnuts led with 4 806 662 pounds valued at 1 003 151 including 2 500 000 pounds from China and nearly 2 000 000 from France. Breen peanuts totaled 25 828 421 pounds valued at 971 216, mainly from China with 21 091 728 pounds valued at 729 108. Spain supplied most almonds not shelled at 931 556 pounds valued at 97 000, and of shelled almonds 1 732 343 pounds valued at 441 131 with Spain providing 1 501 327 pounds valued at 364 854.
Prof Lachmian Gilchrist of the University of Toronto outlined the newly discovered neutron to the Royal Astronomical Society. He noted its weight as a 640th part of a million million millionth of a gram, with a gramme equaling about 2 600th of an ounce.
The human circulatory system ensures every drop of blood passes the lungs about two thousand times each day, facilitating gas exchange and oxygen delivery throughout the body. This constant loop underscores the lungs' central role in respiration and metabolism.
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