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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
1
Classified notice outlines 48 sales and entertainments per line at ten cents for first insertion and six each additional insertion Sc. for each line. Advertisements of meetings and business notices listed in focal columns. Settlements monthly and payable in advance.
A playful table contrasts 1880 and 1900 purchases. The two dollar bill buys porterhouse steaks potatoes butter lard sugar flour soap eggs across numerous items, while the five dollar bill covers a larger list with potatoes butter ham lard sugar flour sausage soap and eggs plus a porterhouse steak.
A solemn elegy for Mrs. H. Gill recounts a fresh grave in the yard and a vacant home. It laments the family rift yet trusts the mother’s spirit rests with God, claiming she will shine again in divine spring.
A meeting is held at the Red Cross Rooms on Monday at 3 p.m. Members are requested to attend. The previously advertised sale is postponed to fall. A Sports Day booth will offer tea and ice cream. A pig donated by Mr. A Johnson realized 40.80 dollars. Ticket 99 won.
Brandon fair planned for next week as British aviators face accusations of dropping bombs on Holland. A French general leads the freelé army while England vows to vigorously counter the alien enemy peril. P. Burns Co to build a $100000 abattoire at Prince Albert. British air forces report 3856 enemy planes shot down in the past year. About 10000 Russians killed by German troops since peace declarations. Congress authorizes the president to seize all means of communication for the war period.
Reports from Lovain Belgium tell of a young villager son of the blacksmith who attacked German General Von Gluck. The assault, sparked by German occupation and the general's threats, fatally injured the commander. The youth vanished after being chased into his father's smith shop by a German officer, amid tales of Belgium’s depredations and other cinema exposures.
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