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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1923
Page
5
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a rapid antiseptic remedy from Australia using Blue Gum Tree extracts to stop colds, coughs, and catarrh. It markets a two month course for $1.00 with a small trial size available, sold by druggists or by mail from The Catarrhozone Co in Montreal.
Rehabilitation work on the Hudson Bay Hallway advances. The Prince of Wales to preside at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley next year. A cenotaph for Arthur Gerimth and Michael Coltrane unveiled beside Dublin government buildings. British immigrants to Canada numbered 26 626 in ten months, 19 600 in 1922. Italian grape and olive crops hit by storms in three communes. Cairo to open a training school for Egyptian women doctors and a hospital for poor women in December in memory of Lord Kitchener. Sir Erne Robertson Hay Blackwell to study Canadian penitentiary system. Great War Veterans Association to extend information service with speakers nationwide. Bedford Manitoba Noxious Weeds Act administrator retired after 35 years. A French Bar secretary position now held by a woman for the second time in the history of the federation. Shedy Mile Lucille Tinayre, 24, to take post formerly held by Millarand and Poincare. German grain buyers place contracts for 12 795 000 bushels of rye from Russia for next year, part paid in goods.
The rapid rise in Saskatchewan's butter exports, led by Cooperative Creameries, marks a key feature of the provincial dairy industry. A recent shipment of 25,000 pounds of butter was sent to China, underscoring growing overseas demand.
A Woodbridge Ontario reader praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from female trouble including headaches backaches and dragging sensations. She credits the product for improving her work ability and recommends neighbors use it as well in a testimonial shared with the paper.
William Witt, who lost both arms, operated a foot controlled device to perform tasks such as soup lifting, tea drinking, peeling, lighting a cigarette, sewing, hammering, draughts, writing and typewriting. Invented by W J Thompson, the Edinburgh gas adviser, the device used metal levers and attachments to adapt ordinary utensils.
When back aches appear throughout the day and you feel tired or depressed, Dr Hamilton's Pills are advertised as mild vegetable restoratives with mandrake and butter nut. They claim to revive the liver and kidneys, ease back pain, and restore vigor. 25 cents at dealers.
A Rome Institute cablegram summarizes global wheat conditions and places Canada as the leading supply for world markets with prospective shipments: Canada 290 million bushels, United States 180 million, Argentina 120 million, Australia 49 million, India 26 million, Russia 20 million, Balkans 1 million.
Save the Children notes that keeping a box of Baby's Own Tablets at home helps guard infants against stomach troubles cholera infantum and diarrhoea in hot weather. The tablets, guaranteed harmless by government analyst, are sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Natural Resources Bulletin reviews Saskatchewan's mineral wealth from metals like gold and iron to non metals such as coal gypsum peat and petroleum. It notes 1921 coal production at 335632 tons and estimates 4000 square miles of promising coal areas while cowl herds and hog industry expand in northern Alberta.
The term vestibule derives from Latin roots referring to an entry area where humans left their outer garments or belongings. The word’s history traces to a doorway space named for storing items before entering a room.
A teacher asks which is the biggest diamond to the world. A sharp boy answers promptly that the ace is the largest. The moment captures a playful classroom exchange.
A 1910s style appeal by Charles Walter of 51 Brunswick Avenue Toronto argues cancer can be treated at home via potassium and diet, blaming civilization and poor feeding for disease. It urges natural living, warns against artificial life, and promotes Holtwaway's Corn Remover as a remedy.
The Regina post office reports a direct Canada to Germany parcel post exchange arranged for the first time since the war began nine years ago. Parcels will be packed in Montreal in summer and Halifax or St John in winter. Rates range from 23 cents to 1.37 dollars per 11 pounds with packing and declarations as for England routes.
Cholera infantum or summer complaint is a dangerous bowel illness in children during summer. It starts with diarrhoea and vomiting, leads to rapid weight loss and prostration, and can be deadly. Parents are urged to use Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, advertised by The TP Milburn Co. Toronto, as a proven remedy, 59 cents a bottle.
In September 1912 Dr. Gustav Stresemann, newly named German chancellor, visited Chanadia and officially represented the German Empire in Ottawa during an abortive effort to end the Canada Germany customs war. Also noted is Miller's Worm Powders widely demanded as a reliable worm remedy affordable at chemists and drug stores, praised by mothers for easing their children's worm troubles.
Laborers from remote Northern Argentina villages are lured by recruiters with promises of high wages then transported in flat cars to plantations. Workers live under open skies with scant food, endure hard labor, and receive wages only as credits at plantation stores, where prices are inflated. The system, overseen by Argentina’s National Labour Department, uses alcohol to exploit workers. The text also cites a health ad for Dr Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy.
More than 650 Swiss immigrants have bees and are placed on prairie farms in the last three months, per Thomas Gelley Dominion Immersalal Commissioner in Winnipeg. Many are along the Canadian National Railway lines across the three prairie provinces.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports on Canada’s religions from the 1921 Census. About 97.6 percent identify with Christian denominations, 1.9 percent with non Christian faiths including Jews and Oriental religions, while around 0.5 percent profess no religion. The Anglican Church in Canada is growing fastest due to immigration.
A quirky scene shows Maving Jimbleberry entering a department store and asking a floor walker if they stock stationery. The floor walker replies no, and Jimbleberry remarks that he would enjoy the job if they did.
Farmers are asked by the Dominion Ex perimental Farms Division of Botany to send weed names and suppression data. A July issue form will be mailed to 300,000 readers. include soil type, drainage, crop rotation, and suppression methods. The list includes couch twitch grass, Canada thistle, wild mustard, wild oats, bindweed, and more.
Pulpwood exports from Canada to the United States last year surpassed 1.9 million cards valued near 10 million. The trade has doubled since 1912 amid a steady yearly rise. Tokyo, Japan, is described as Greater Tokyo, now the world’s third largest city with a population figure cited.
One of the world’s great iron ore regions lies inland Brazil with pure beds and abundant supply. Development is limited by transportation but locals smelt ore into basic tools. Water power could drive electric furnaces, solving the area’s economic development. Brazil currently imports much iron and sheet from abroad.
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