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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
2
The piece argues Canada has avoided major industrial strife until Regina printers struck over a 44 hour week and restrictive shop rules. It contends wasteful double work and nonproductive actions harm public costs and overall wealth, urging unions to raise productivity to ensure fair wages and broad prosperity.
Canadian House of Commons amendments include a clause enabling nurses who were resident in Canada before the war and served overseas to qualify for land settlement. Life in Mexico is described as monotonous since General Nilla's retirement. Colin Volcano has resumed activity, belching smoke and ash like Vesuvius. Vancouver Province notes a slogan for the coming year: Buy at Home to boost local prosperity by circulating money within the district.
The Tor nico ranch in Creston Valley has been leased for one year at 1000 dollars for ten acres. The rental excludes the house and the property is fully planted with fruit trees. Also noted is a public health advisory about pinworms in children and a promotion for Miller's Worm Powders as a remedy and health booster.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture offers four prizes totaling 600 dollars at the Canadian National Exhibition next year to show the superiority of pure bred sires in stock raising. Dairy cattle class awards go to best calf yearling and two year old sired by a pure bred bull, cows may be grade or scrub. Similar prizes in the beef class. Also includes unrelated quips about Eskimo houses and home spending.
The article describes practical soil acidity testing using a three plot alfalfa test. Plot one receives no lime, plot two one ton per acre, plot three two tons per acre. Alfalfa performance determines lime need, with various lime forms such as finely ground limestone, slaked lime, or marl.
Practical guides to repurposing yesterday's roast into varied meals. Reheat beef in a double boiler, craft spaghetti sauce, or bake a crusted beef stew. Lamb veal and pork leftovers are sliced, seasoned, and fried or baked with sauces, with soup bones kept for flavor. The piece emphasizes thrifty cooking and creative repurposing.
A vintage advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as a mild laxative that quickly steadies bowels and stomachs to relieve constipation indigestion and fevers. The copy claims cross babies become happy and urges mothers to treat fussiness with the tablets sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Fifteen men have been engaged by the Dominion Trading and Transportation Company and will depart for the companys gold claims on the Upper Peace River at once. Machinery ordered in San Francisco has arrived in Edmonton and is being assembled prior to shipment north on one of the companys barges. The gear includes scrapers hoisting engine steam engine centrifugal pump two power boilers and three thousand feet of steel cable.
An old newspaper ad touts Nerviline Liniment as a fast fix for a dragging aching pain described as passive inflammation of adjacent tissue. The copy stresses deep penetration and strong effect, claiming five times stronger power and urging readers to keep a bottle on hand, sold in 35 cent sizes.
The Federal Chief Justice orders use of British spellings in official papers. He mandates programme and centre replacing program and center and states English spelling is acceptable. The ruling signals a shift in language policy for court documents.
A French electrician asserts he invented a machine using electric current from tiny wrist and ankle batteries to relax nerves and induce sleep, even for chronic insomnia sufferers. The report also notes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a vermifuge safe for delicate children.
Catarrh benane described as influenced by constitutional conditions. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is promoted as a tonic and blood purifier. It claims to cleanse the blood and boost the system to restore normal conditions, allowing nature to work. Circulars available from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Canadian Western Fuel Company governing Nanaimo coal mines on Vancouver Island is reorganized into a five million dollar corporation and will operate as the Western Fuel Corporation of Canada Limited.
During the first two weeks of May about 1,800,000 pounds of halibut were caught on the British Columbia coast fishing banks. Almost all the catch, except 200,000 pounds, entered Prince Rupert.
D B Macmillan, chief lieutenant of the Peary North Pole expedition, sails from New York in a 115 ton egg shaped craft designed to rise above ice pressure and ride the pack. The vessel will use whale oil as supplementary fuel for the voyage around Baffin's land.
Mrs. Margaret Bever of 305 Hughson St North Hamilton credits Tanlac with ending two years of poor appetite gas pain and dizziness that kept her from leaving home. After a month of treatment she reports no weakness, restored appetite, and full mobility, praising the remedy and recommending it to friends. Tanlac is sold by leading druggists.
Laura Bromwell a famed loop the loop flyer and holder of a women’s loop the loop record died when her aircraft crashed at Mitchell Field Mineola New York at about 1000 feet after completing one loop and heading into a second. The 23 year old from Cincinnati had set the 199 loops in an hour twenty minutes record on May 15 and earlier that afternoon flew a two mile straightaway at 135 miles per hour. The Canadian J N 4 type aircraft with a Curtis engine was involved in the fatal accident.
A colored preacher led converts to a Louisiana river for baptism. An objector among them challenged trust in the Lord. The pastor cited Jonah, then the group joked that an alligator might sleep in the sun and forget about the worshipper if it swallowed him.
In March 1921 Canada admitted 11 009 immigrants with 4 865 from Britain 4 292 from the United States and 1 852 from other countries. For the year ending March 31 total immigration reached 148 477 with 74 265 from the British Isles 48 059 from the United States and 26 153 from other countries, a 27 percent rise over the prior fiscal year.
An oil advertised to ease pain relieve colds dress wounds and subdue lumbago. The Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is pitched as a faithful friend for sailors fishermen lumbermen and outdoor laborers exposed to injury and the elements. It urges the home medicine chest and travel kits include the remedy.
The piece argues Germany pays reparations mainly to preserve its own survival as Allied forces sit near the Ruhr, the industrial core. It suggests Berlin would rather meet bills than let the Ruhr fall under occupation, framing Germany’s actions as self-interest and fear of disruption.
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