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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1933
Page
5
A Christmas season appeal explains extra stamps on letters and parcels fund tuberculosis prevention. The stamps raise funds for education and treatment, encouraging healthier homes and prompting readers to check habits and environments to curb the disease.
A shopkeeper asked how much insurer would pay if his shop burned tonight, the agent replying with a grim joke about “TM years.” The tale moves to a businessman bragging of earning a hundred pounds weekly, then a note about dog collars studded with red glass for nighttime visibility in Rendon.
Unofficial figures from the wheat pool officials the Department of Agriculture and municipal secretaries estimate grasshopper destruction last summer cost Saskatchewan farmers about 20 million dollars. Final figures due November 1934. Also noted a monument to Australian aviator Hinkler unveiled in the Alps at his crash site. In the last financial year Canada admitted 11,974,588 pounds of seed marketed for seeding purposes.
Thousands of women grow tired, thin, and pale, with weakness darkening life. The remedy H. N. Pills is claimed to tone nerves, enrich blood, and restore health to normal.
Amist Fur Farmers in Saskatchewan will get relief from royalties on farm raised fur bearing animals under amended regulations. No royalties on silver black fox fisher or marten bred on licensed farms and rebates on other furs with proof pelts were farm raised. Import permits become free and pelts purchasers pay a fee equal to the royalty due, replacing prior 25 cent per pelt charge.
Hoboes adopt fair practice rules amid changing box car travel. They reject hitchhiking for nothing and refuse dishwashing for meals. Itinerant workers may earn 50 cents an hour for cleaning snow or shoveling coal and windows. Hoboes may chop wood for a bed or meal but not all day, and not to replace employed labor.
A Saskatchewan-wide dairy convention will be held in Regina on February 6 and 7. Thomas Watson of Prince Albert, president of the Provincial Dairy Association, announced the event. Dairy producers and manufacturers will have separate sessions on opening day, with joint sessions on the second day. Topics include fluid milk, cream trade, plant operation, and butter and cheese production.
A 50 year old woman describes severe rheumatism in both knees with three weeks off her feet. She notes the tonic effect of Kruschen Salts, reduction of rheumatism, and gradual loss of fat, claiming renewed energy and ability to work as before. She endorses the product to others.
Norman Sommerville recalls General Sir Arthur Currie in 1919 England as Britain faced strikes and unrest. In Richard Jack's studio the question of social peace arises. Currie replies that Britain must return to the Bible and family worship to find real contentment and progress.
Prize cattle sale at the Royal Winter Fair drew many buyers. The grand champion Aberdeen Angus steer owned by Howard T. Fraleigh of Forest, Int. sold for $432.25 at 1285 pounds, 35 cents a pound. The champion carlot from the Canadian Pacific Railway farm at Strathmore Alberta averaged 8 1/2 cents a pound. The second prize carlot from McIntyre Ranching at High River Alberta also averaged 8 1/2 cents. The Prince of Wales Shorthorn steer from a High River Alberta ranch sold after being bid up to 14 cents a pound.
The proposal to anchor a chain of great floating pontoons across the Atlantic as stepping stones for trans-oceanic air travel is being put into practical use by Germany. The Westfar en is positioned mid Atlantic for a planned regular air mail link between Germany and South America. A test flight showed a plane reaching the ship from Bathurst Africa in six hours and then to Natal Brazil in eight hours and 50 minutes, totaling under 15 hours of flight time.
India plans an international exhibition in New Delhi next February to display progress in home industries. The Association for the Development of Swadeshi Industries organizes the event to highlight cottage and growing larger enterprises. Organizers foresee a need for machinery across farming, mining, toy making, and related sectors.
A novice asks what happens if all the wheels break as an instructor explains that the hand lever brakes rear wheels while the foot pedal brakes all four. The passage notes over 21 000 people are employed in aircraft and engine construction.
Mrs Philip Bright J.P., presiding officer at the Juvenile Court in St Pancras, London, argues that juvenile offenders are treated too leniently. She cites a birching of a repeat offender and notes youths show less awe in informal courts. She advocates tougher marriage standards and says Britain is closing prisons as crime conditions improve.
A New York Times analysis argues that horse value could counteract dollar devaluation as farmers reassess draught power. It notes horse numbers fell from 20,000,400 in 1920 to 13,500,000 in 1930, with a March 1 this year tally at 15,250,000 and stockyard receipts up nearly 30 percent year to date.
University of Toronto chemist Prof Joslyn Rogers told the Women's Canadian club that alcoholic poisoning claims more lives than all other causes combined. He cited 10 percent from good liquor and 75 percent from bootleg or bath tub gin, warning homemade alcohol can be lethal. He emphasized the danger of drinking one’s own wine.
A naturalist notes African natives deem elephant meat a feast while a white man finds it tasteless and gumimy to toe teeth. He adds that most people reserve religion for times of trouble.
A Department of Scientific and Industrial Research report notes a vogue for multi colored bricks with rough textures in southern England and a wider range in the United States. Colors span white to black with variegated and matte tints and include names like cherry red and silver grey. American practice shows flowing color schemes and vertical emphasis in skyscrapers.
In Axmouth near Seaton Devon Mr and Mrs Henry Hoare celebrated seventy years of marriage described as a radium wedding. They were born in Axmouth and wed in the village church. He once served with the Metropolitan Police and recalls Jack the Ripper investigations in London.
One of the few genuine chinchilla coats left, valued at $40,000, belongs to a well known woman who plans to cut it into two small capes for autumn. The chinchilla is nearly extinct. One remaining coat is owned by the Queen of Italy while Germany contemplates breaking up large estates into small farms.
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