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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 27, 1923
Page
2
A narrator recalls the Mowbrays and other settlers on a Soldier’s Settlement Board farm near Stonewall. Mrs. Mowbray’s keen memory and openness expose neighbors’ hopes, hardships, and the social texture of frontier life, including Gwen Severn and Jack’s fraught marriage, and the steady toil of farming families adjusting after war.
The narrator confesses awkward affection and frank talk with a girl as Jack returns, while Murray mocks the narrator’s grandfathery tone. He hopes the couple will realize their feelings before it is too late. The piece then shifts to Mme Gagnon, the Belgian French-Canadian neighbor, and her bustling large family under Baptiste Sr. and Narcisse Pambran.
The first snow delayed the kitchen roof but spring brought warmth as a crude stove shed comfort. We stored winter potatoes in a dugout cellar while meals moved to a separate kitchen. We enjoyed sleigh rides, a snow house, and bush rambles with Narcisse Pambrun regaling us with mixed French English tales.
An insurance firm in Louisville offers lower burglary insurance rates for houses protected by a dog. The dog need only bark. no specific breed or type is required. The policy emphasizes that a barking dog meeting the requirement qualifies for the discount.
Mile Collin, war nurse and Croix de Guerre recipient, demonstrated a baby parachute on a 350 meter drop at Sly Les Moulineaux Field. She descended calmly from 180 kmh, reporting no shock at deployment and a gentle suspension in the air, challenging prior calculations.
The article explains salt’s link to the word salary from Roman military salt allowances. It notes salt’s essential role for life and health, estimates daily needs at about half an ounce, and mentions Arabs of Hadramaut and Nicobar Islanders as exceptions. It cites Dutch medieval punishment of bread without salt and the Via Salaria as the ancient salt route to Italy.
The Department of Immigration reports 43,333 entrants from all nationalities in April to September 1923, more than double the 46,831 tally for the same period in 1922. British arrivals reached 61,962, with the United States at 13,065 as part of the six month totals.
L. D. Wilgress Canadian Trade Commissioner reports on a flat consignment of Canadian apples sold in the German market within two years. Except for ten barrels sold to a Berlin dealer serving smart hotels, buyers were Scandinavians or other non German firms. About 87 percent of the buyers had no other regular occupation.
A massive public barometer on the German Museum tower in Munich claims unique status. The dial shows Munich’s weather with a centric mercury scale from 71 centimeters, where right indicates fair weather and left signals bad times ahead. The tower hand links to an interior barometer, tracing their slightest moves electrically, with an eight foot dial and a wand weighing about a hundred pounds.
Boston lawyer Anderson reports continuous daylight in Finland during summer, noting people working at two in the morning and his own inability to sleep. He theorizes extended sun hours grant energy and recuperation usually from sleep, linking daytime wakefulness to human life and sun.
A short Irish exchange centers on a blank paper only described as a letter from a wife. The joke hinges on the running gag that the couple are not on speaking terms, prompting the era’s wry humor about domestic silence and misunderstanding.
Three carloads of dairy cable from Quebec and Ontario are welcomed by Manitoba farmers. Hon. Nell Cameron, Minister of Agriculture, calls the move a hopeful sign for Manitoba dairying and a step toward stronger regional cooperation.
An advertisement warns that untreated colds can lead to catarrh and consumption, promoting Catarrhozone as a remedy. It claims quick relief by inhalation, clearing nasal passages, stopping hawking and spitting, removing discharge, headaches, and bad breath, with a month’s supply priced at $1.00 and a small size at 80c available from druggists or by mail from The Catarrhozone Co. Montreal.
Professor F J L Lloyd of McGill University reports banana juice contains rubber that can be coagulated into a solid with ammonia. The banana rubber differs from tire rubber as ammonia keeps it solid. Lloyd also shows a method to measure tannin by a paper strip and iron salts.
A business correspondent, invited to dinner by a friend, delivers a formal prayer. He thanks the Lord for recent favors and asks to merit continued confidence, ending with amen.
E A Henry D D retells how forgetting small duties can cause major harm in daily life and wartime errors. The piece urges vigilance, memory, and responsibility for boys and girls, linking memory to character, duty, and personal growth with practical examples and moral exhortations.
An early 20th century notice touts Fletcher's Castoria as a long standing safe remedy for children. The ad emphasizes its pleasant taste and soothing properties while claiming physician endorsement and directions on the package.
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