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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1924
Page
6
The article urges a year end inventory of life beyond finances. It compares personal growth to business stock taking, urging honest assessment of health habits debts to self and country, relationships, education, and community contributions, to measure real gains and avert dead stock in the new year.
The Amat League of America and the American Radio Relay League report World-wide tests show daylight or natural phenomena may absorb radio waves. The aim was to explain why five weeks of Arctic daylift blocked communications with Bowdoin, Donald MacMillan's ship frozen near Etah, Greenland. After daylight ended, Prince Rupert 3460 miles away relayed contact with Bowdoin. Magnetic basalt in southern Greenland and magnetic iron in New York and Canada are cited as possible causes.
Tires should rotate with the newest on the rear right and move to left rear then right front then left front as wear occurs. In a fully new set the right rear wears fastest followed by left rear and so on. When rear tires show wear, swap with the front tires and continue the sequence.
Do minion Experimental Foros authorities stress that keeping fowls’ digestive systems in good order boosts egg output. Store crisp cabbage, mangels, or sugar beets in root cellars for winter feeding and offer green feed daily around nine a.m. Cab bage tops and alfalfa or clover leaves can supplement when roots are scarce.
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce directors announced US production would reach four million vehicles this year after eleven months totaling 3 717 709 motor cars. November output stood at 25 125 passenger cars and trucks, with a May peak of 395 409 vehicles.
A mystic hoodoo statuette from India, once owned by Gustave Lebon and later by Sadie Carnot, is believed to curse holders by death or assassination after attaining high office. It moved from Mme Carnot to Premier Poincare, who surviving tenure sparks fresh fears among his security detail.
An advertisement describes Nerviline as a long standing remedy for sprains bruises rheumatism lumbago and neuralgia. It claims quick deep penetration and lasting relief for both internal and external pains and urges readers to buy a 35 cent bottle from a dealer.
After a Winnipeg caucus of provincial supporters, the Manitoba government is drafting legislation to encourage a voluntary wheat marketing organization. Some caucus members favored a compulsory wheat board, but opposition to compulsion grew, and no decision has been made. The mood favors government steps over private member action.
A 26 cent box of Baby's Own Tablets from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. is advertised as a mild yet thorough lavative that relieves constipation and indigestion in children. A Ontario mother reports her little boy improved quickly and now enjoys better health.
British engineers convert a motorcycle engine into a light airplane enabling planes to fly twice the distance at triple speed with the same gasoline use. Des Haviland planes, six horsepower, fly from Croydon to Brussels about TSR miles. Wireless-equipped machines in Canadian forests could patrol 10 900 to 12 000 square miles daily, cost similar to a car, aiding fire detection.
A weekly John Bull piece mocks Lloyd George's shifts on European settlement and unemployment. It accuses him of flipping from warning that European peace would harm British trade to urging peace as a cure, and questions his stance on reparations and defiance of M. Poincare.
Ottawa studied assisting radio broadcasting as the Department of Marine weighs how to support stations relied on by readers with 100000 radio users in Canada. Receivers number fluctuated from 63 to 98 this year. $2,000,000 invested in sets. Manitoba aids broadcasting via phone. Dominion refunds provincial license fees.
An English market letter to Ontario Department of Agriculture from London dated December 1 warns the cattle trade is in a dire state due to widespread foot and mouth disease. Movement is restricted across districts, many herds destroyed, and in ten months Britain imported 352,802 cattle from the Irish Free State while Canada sent 38,240. The figures show the scale of changes needed for Canada to win the British market.
Fred Salter foreign traffic manager of Canadian National Express reports rapid growth in Canada to Old Country express traffic. He says improved exchange rates will boost business. Salter was in Winnipeg with H G Waring of London, European agent for the CN Express. Minard's Liniment relieves pain.
A breakthrough torch uses a cylindrical jet of air around the flame to blow water away, enabling heating iron to its melting point while submerged. The intense, localized heat raises the metal enough to heat through iron and steel.
A disturbing account reports a tribes ritual where a deceased tripesman’s body is exposed to the elements until the head separates, after which the skull is placed in a native skull house to remain. The description highlights traditional customs and community handling of the deceased.
Britain faces 1245 outbreaks of foot and mouth disease with 1,245 slaughtered cattle 41,183 cattle 20,014 sheep 22,125 pigs and 34 goats. Government paid 1,246,000 in compensation. salvage revenue estimated at 234,000. Also promotion for J. Kellogg’s asthma remedy claiming to end choking and improve sleep.
Captain N T Munn reports the Dominion Government has set up three Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts in the far north, with the northernmost at Hulcamere Land near latitude 76N. Other posts likely west of Pond's Inlet along Lancaster Sound and at Lake Marbor in Hudson Straits. Munn, who traded with natives since 1915, returned to Winnipeg after turning over stations to the Hudson's Bay Company for about 60,006. The Cumberland Gulf fur crop totaled about 4,000 foxes worth 124,600.
The Liverpool Weekly Post notes French scientist Edouard Bella speaks on television via wireless telegraphy as a future reality. It mentions transmitting photographs drawings handwriting and handwriting over the wire and French postal authorities setting stations with apparatus. The article ponders upcoming marvels and fears for the next generation.
A Canada Magazine piece recounts an English recruit’s lean start on a Western Canadian farm. He notes muscleache and hard graft but praises sympathetic farmers who ease beginners in. The story promotes harvest season as healthful and profitable, offering about 250 dollars after three months, while warning applicants to prove they are up to the challenge.
Brief note describes frost bites from icy winds and chilblains from cold exposure. Recommends Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as an effective preparation to counteract inflammation and relieve pain with prompt action and simple application.
Peter Petroff, former head of the Bolshevik foreign affairs office now with the Soviet commercial mission in Berlin, warns Germany against repeating Russia’s food confiscation mistake. He says Russia’s famine-era seizure set farming back for years and will deter farmers from growing surplus crops unless compensated.
The International Agriculture Institute of Rome reports world wheat production excluding Nuavia at 3,461,000,000 bushels. This is 351,000,000 bushels more than the previous year and 559,600,000 above the five year average.
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