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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1930
Page
2
Charmian revisits a heartfelt letter from Jim Bennett that exposes her misgivings and remorse. John Carter asks if the note satisfied her, and Charmian admits she spoke harshly to Jim before his departure, feeling relief as forgiveness settles.
Doc and Charmian share a candid moment under a tree as a tense discussion about a letter lingers. Ezra Bascom arrives with urgent news that Luella Moore’s twin needs a doctor, forcing the pair to rush to the deacon’s while their private talk must wait.
Charmian reads a long letter from Jim to Grandma, revealing how his mother Sophie and Sarah Bennett’s twin bond affects him and their family. They discuss twins, ranch plans, Wickfield house, and past parish disputes as Grandma recalls old times and the doctor’s absence due to appendicitis.
In a Wickfield household, Charmian and Grandma discuss Jim Bennett, gossip about Sophie and Sarah, and the idea of an idle old maid. Grandma recalls twilight moments with Charmian’s mother, the verse of the vesper hymn, and Charmian’s childhood question about a lamp as she contemplates faith and memory. The tale ends with a reflective vignette about light, guidance, and the Lord as shepherd.
A Moncton notice recounts a woman comparing her case to one in the paper about a woman who felt weak and nervous before childbirth and then grew strong. It invites readers to contact Arts, Gos AmsEnauer at 82 Albert Street for help.
An Answers article traces how European names evolved from tribal labels to nicknames and trades. Early English names lacked fixed surnames, with examples like Baldwin meaning Bold Friend, and quirky surnames arising from trades, locations, or even the foibles of foundlings, as in Oliver Twist.
August 24 30 Winnipeg will host the British Medical Association meeting with an ice filled amphitheatre rink for exhibitions by the Winnipeg Skating Club and two local teams. A Indian pageant features about 75 Cree and Assiniboine performers in horse racing and trick riding. Prince of Wales honored to be inducted as Cree chief by Lord Dawson of Penn.
The Oil of the People extols Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a lasting, popular remedy. It claims the product maintains superiority, expands usefulness each year, and is chosen by thousands who would not use any other preparation.
A clever scam surfaces as London hosts a fountain pen swindle. Pens priced around $2 but worth 30 cents were mailed to individuals whose relatives’ obituaries had just appeared in papers. Executors often believed the deceased had ordered and paid for the pens without comment.
The Agricultural Council says coffee for every German soldier must be imported and proposes milk instead for breakfast to boost farm income. The suggestion aims to shift demand from imported coffee to domestic milk, benefiting farmers.
The winner of a large pool in a horse race was named in the papers, while space constraints prevented publishing the full list of losers.
Mrs T F Stewart of Pindl ater Sask recalls a family bout of dysentery two years earlier. After her husband used Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry, the family recovered after a few doses and have kept a bottle at home since. The product has been sold for 85 years by The T Milburn Co Ltd in Toronto.
Canadian Trade Commissioner Douglas S. Cole describes daily life in Britain filled with Canadian goods from beds to carpets and shaving brushes to cereals and flour. He notes a British morning powered by Canadian ranges and refrigerators, with offices, paper, furniture, and writing instruments all Canadian made. He highlights a wide range of products sustaining a Canadian lifestyle abroad.
Dust triggers asthma and even tiny specks cause severe suffering. The text asserts Kellogg's Asthma Remedy relieves breathing passages and restores normal breathing, supported by numerous testimonials each year.
A New York University physicist Dr Harold Horton Sheldon introduces a photoelectric cell based color matching device. The machine compares cloth samples, uses a palvanometer to gauge light reflectance, and declares a perfect match when the indicator returns to zero. A three division variance is a passable match.
A master urged pupils to think before speaking and count to fifty or a hundred. The next day he spoke with his back to the fire when several lips moved. The class shouted ninety eight ninety nine a hundred revealing his coat was on fire.
A guest hurries to the station after realizing he left an umbrella in his hotel room 456. The page boy confirms the umbrella remains by the wash stand to the left, noting the brief delay but safety of the item.
A compact page item links religious meditations on good deeds by Alice Cary and Thomas Chalmers with a brief medicinal notice for Miller's Worm Powders. The advert promises gentle relief for worm infestations in children when directions are followed, asserting safety and rapid health restoration.
Ragnar Ostberg, recently named Royal Academician, is arguably Europe’s best known architect. He designed Stockholm’s town hall, a near one million pound project celebrated worldwide. The copper roof plates each bear the name of the donor, and a marble hall floor was improvised by workers from leftovers.
The city utilities posted a surplus of 131,674 for the first five months of 1930 after administration charges of 7,083. Electric Light and Power gained 139,567, Water earned 11,391, while Street Railway ran a deficit of 12,140, per city comptroller 8S. B. Nelles.
A remarkable feature of the 1929 forest fire situation in Manitoba and Saskatchewan was that fires occur red and were fought in every month of the calendar year.
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