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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 11, 1934
Page
7
An editorial urges Canadians to take personal responsibility at the start of 1934. It contrasts individual duties for health, speech, and daily actions with broader state shifts, noting health habits influence life, and urging youth education to prepare for responsible living. It calls for fearless, courageous discharge of duties to strengthen nationhood.
A Swansea grocer, L. Rees, won the Grocers Exhibition contest in London to become champion grocer of Great Britain. Captain W. C. Perry, 85, of Charites, claims to be England's oldest Royal Artillery gunner, with eight sons who also served. The clipping also mentions odor removal tech, daily thunderstorms, a joke from a professor, a Birmingham radio snatching cat, German cattle branding substitute, and a general life-affirming sentiment.
Export figures show Canada significantly increased shipments of be ham and bacon and live cattle to the United Kingdom this year, with egg and turkey exports surging. Butter gains offset cheese declines as overall trade shifts are detailed alongside language-change observations from University of Toronto scholars.
A reader describes rapid weight loss using Kruachen Salts with a 19 pound total drop, relief from headaches, and daily vigor. The ad-like testimony promotes Kruschen as a natural blood cleanser that reduces undigested matter and watery waste, claiming fat loss and abdomen reduction over time.
In Canada’s north a 20 Eskimo labor group organized against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Hudson’s Bay Company. They demanded 25 dollars per ton for unloading and won, with pay pooled among about 20 men after the navigation season. Aklavik hosted the standoff and credit accounts were set up for supplies.
A woman school teacher at Regent's Park leads a class of 40 boys aged 9 to 11 in football drills including tackles. In other snippets a sailor mentions paying a brother to stay out of a room and a joke about hoving two girls at once. Also noted are new uses for corncobs once waste material.
A fine bone ship model, believed crafted by a French POW, is showcased at Greenwich RNC. Experts say bone from prisoners fed meat formed the material. Walter Runciman owns the piece. Lieut. George Hunt repaired and rerigged it using miles of silk twine and 771 ivory blocks and dead eyes.
Experiments by the Lacombe experimental station tested barley as the top Canadian grown coarse grain feed for hogs. Four trials used 134 hogs to compare feeds and determine barley’s superior performance. A German grave lamp design promises to glow during severe weather. Also notes about American sports spending and a new book on haggis.
Canada ranks as the leading producer of asbestos and has the British Empire's largest talc output. It exports feldspar, gypsum, salt, arsenic, diatomite, and grindstones while producing sodium sulphate, magnesite, silica, and more. Non-metallics and structural materials like clay, sand and gravel, limestone, granite, and marble are abundant and largely in early development.
Dr Harold Diehl of the University of Minnesota announces a new treatment for head colds published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The regimen uses codeine and papaverine and shows definite improvement in 75 percent of students treated. Medical records indicate no other cold treatment as successful.
The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities sold gopher poison in 1933 at a level 88 percent higher than any prior year. The association also distributes a weed-control chemical used to eradicate certain noxious weeds.
A Carlisle England vicar has painted the church interior orange with blue pews and a white altar. The porch is royal blue and the building is floodlit at night, creating a vivid, colorful church appearance.
Owen D Young warned that capital seeking excessive profits labor seeking excessive wages and the public seeking excessive bargains will destroy each other, a caution on overreach in economics and society.
The Civil Works Administration launches a nationwide effort to build air craft landing fields in about two thousand cities and towns, creating infrastructure projects and local employment opportunities during the public works program.
The fragment recalls a frog that attempted to puff up like an ox highlighting inflation hazards. A dialogue asks if a grandfather lived to an old age and answers with a tale of being swindled three times after turning seventy.
The London Daily Telegraph notes Hitler’s claim that Germany remains downtrodden despite postwar mitigations. Evacuation of the Rhineland and foreign control ended, reparations erased, and Germany admitted to the League, yet promises of disarmament and equality for years ahead alarm international confidence. The piece urges calm and reads the episode as a future lesson.
In Wheatley a man four handled an attempted robbery using a newspaper he carried. The Goderich Star urges readers to subscribe, claiming a paper can prove handy in such moments.
Mrs Mary Rees of Brynhyfryd Swansea died at a century old in the thatched cottage where she was born. The remark on modern girls notes a lack of principle yet draws interest. A Hawaii official says no snakes exist there and none are admitted alive.
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