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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1922
Page
2
A reader testimonial from Wood, noting relief from catarrh using Catarrhezone inhaler and Ferro npe to build up the system. Claims two months treatment for $1.00 in a Montreal company remedy.
A traveler records restless sleep on a Pullman journey to Carbon City Alberta, noting car swaps, a cowboys chorus, strict piano curfew, and observations about fellow passengers including Auntie Elinor, Sunny, and the private late-room with a snoring fat man.
Fragmentary report discusses fatigue as a sign of poisonous blood and mentions symptoms like persistent tiredness and back pains. References to Chaidoey and liver pills and dealers Bates Con Lid Toros appear as garbled OCR.
Stella the Wishing Fairy explains the Electrical Eel a creature that shoots electricity from its body to stun foes. The tale describes its origin from Pearl the mermaid, its freshwater habitat, and how it defends itself by dazzling enemies. The children react with concern over human hunting. Copyright 1922.
In a traveler’s diary style narrative the author describes a late night arrival at Carbon City and contrasts its modest hotel with Winnipeg and Elba. He notes stark landscapes between Wind Beg and Carbon City, admires the Mounted Policeman in Regina, and laments the arid climate, lack of trees, and flat river valleys. The piece ends with a mood of homesickness and hints at continuation.
Rome considers a device by Ernesto Fragano and Ettore Villa that limits car speed to a set maximum. The centrifugal mechanism disrupts motor function if the driver exceeds the chosen limit. Narrow streets, hills, and poor paving heighten danger, prompting officials to study mandatory installation.
The Calcutta exposition of 1454 displays about 4000 distinct Bengal rice forms. In a separate note, the Orinoco River floods roughly 46,000 square miles during the summer rains.
Arthur C. McPhail of Winnipeg describes severe prior illness after pneumonia and a long decline. He credits Tanlac with restoring appetite strength and energy, claiming he now eats, sleeps, works, and feels better than in years. The ad notes Tanlac is sold by good druggists.
Patterson New Jersey resident George L Howdetd won an all American typewriting speech contest at the Pageant of Progress in Chicago. He bested 159 other entrants by writing 126 words a minute for 30 minutes in a grueling timed competition.
Summer complaints such as diarrhoea dysentery and cramps attack many children. A remedy suggested is Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry on sale for 60 cents per bottle by The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario. Mrs Gee of Sudbury Ontario reports her five children rarely sick and that two or three doses relieve summer illness in her experience.
The Alberta Provincial Government purchased Sir Sylvia Car Born a year and a half old to join the high class Holstein herd at Stony Plain. The bull comes from a long line of noted ancestors renowned for milk and butter production. A London Daily Express quotation urges independent thinking and personal exploration.
Advertisements tout beige Spanish lace over georgette dresses and a georgette braided girdle as fashionable. Miller's Worm Powders are praised as a reliable worm remedy available at chemists. Holloway's Corn Remover is promoted as a trusted corn treatment. Local merchants urged to support town economy. The Ark’s wood blamed on cypress by several scientists.
The English toy company German Toys, profitable until 1919, has just failed. The half million dollar shortage is blamed on German competition. If Germany must pay debts to the Allies, she must sell abroad, but doing so would drive allied firms out of business.
Mexican birds show a clever winter cache technique. They haul acorns across miles to dry mountain stalks of last year’s agave. They fill hollow stalks with acorns and later retrieve them in small loads to a yucca tree where they bore a cavity, insert the nut, crack it open, and eat.
A historical advertisement claims asthma suffering can be relieved by Dr J D Kallogs Asthma Handy. It urges early use and asserts the remedy quickly clears airways and offers comfort, stating no home should be without it.
An old Scottish verse scene centers on a wildster meeting a tinker who avoids church duties. The exchange questions piety and skill as the tinker retorts by asking whether the man can craft a tin pall, revealing stubborn trades and stubborn faith.
A colossal Redwood, standing about 210 feet tall, was relocated a distance of 20 feet still upright. The move preserved the tree’s vertical position and did not require lowering the trunk.
A historical notice extols Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator as safe for children and effective. It claims the remedy works promptly, though wording is peculiar and includes an odd reference to an ostrich plume under a year old and subsequent cycles every nine months.
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