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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
2
In a 19th or early 20th century style pitch, Catarrhozone claims to heal coughs, colds, and catarrh by delivering antiseptic balsam through pine forest vapors. It promises reach to the lungs and bronchial tubes, safe, effective, and guaranteed with a two month course for $1.00, trial 66c, available at druggists or by mail from The Catarrhotone Co Montreal.
The narrator recalls winters in Spruce Creek, a close-knit rural Canadian setting. She describes hauling wood, family routines, and daily life, including visits from neighbors, weekly music, and Tuesday social evenings. Reading materials, library scarcity, and the joys of simple companionship define a warm, communal season away from city smog.
Henan bandits in Nanyang revive extortion by desecrating ancestral graves to demand ransom. 60 gangs with 600 to 2,000 members span villages around Nanyang, Henan, led by figures like White Wolf Wan the Bearded Wang the Monk Chang the Ninth. No strong action by authorities to suppress them. The article also notes a League of Nations push for synchronized daylight saving dates.
The piece traces early shorthand from Quintus Ennius in 200 B.C. to Caesar and Cicero. It notes Plutarch on Cicero’s oration, Ovid’s evidence of cryptic reports, and St Luke’s possible use for the Sermon on the Mount. Wax tablets bound by wire formed these early writing tablets.
The article notes mastodons once roamed Canada with tusks eight feet long. It cites a skeleton found near London Ontario and calls Red Deer Alberta the largest mastodon cemetery in North America. Geologists debate whether mastodons overlapped with humans in North America.
An economical republic likely spends less on its central government than any nation. Austria's president bureau budget totals 710,000,000 crowns annually about $10,000,000. It covers President Haintach salaries plus 19 secretaries and servants and all entertainment, travel, car upkeep, stationery and other office costs.
A didactic piece contrasts promptness with procrastination through old stories and poems. It features a repeated refrain urging immediate effort, warns that Put-Off Town embodies delays like By-and-by, and presents allegorical figures such as Old Man Walt and Grandmother Growl to illustrate the costs of procrastination. It cites Rothschild’s quick decision as a counterexample.
Ontario will manufacture its own educational moving pictures in a provincial plant. After examining private operation costs, the Provincial Treasurer announced a 30 000 plant purchase in Trenton from Atlantic Producing Company Ltd.
A long standing remedy claims to ease constipation colic and wind for babies and children. Marketed as a trusted soothing option with a history of use spanning over three decades.
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