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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
4
An ad features Mrs S Wilmot of Kansas praising Catarrhozone for bronchial trouble and catarrh after other remedies failed. She claims the inhaler strengthens the throat ends coughing and restores health. The package lasts two months with a small size sold for pennies through The Catarrhozone Co. Montreal.
Elizabeth plans to move her family from the snowbound prairie to a warmer southern climate seeking a utopia. The voyage brings hardship as the heat weakens the children and John falls ill, revealing the folly of abandoning roots for an idealized sunny life.
A Toronto woman writes that she suffered from pain and cramps after her father objected to a marriage, and she credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief and renewed life. She offers her letter to help other women and promote the medicine.
Elizabeth and John, long away for the promise of greener fields, come back after six months. They endure cold, snow, and hardship but learn a lesson about distant lands. They settle into the prairie, finding compensations that outweigh earlier yearnings for the sunny south.
A view on the idea that all living plants emit electricity upon death and how capturing this energy could power humanity. It notes a hypothetical catastrophe if all trees in a forest died simultaneously, causing instant widespread electrocution for people and animals within miles.
France struggles to replace small silver coins with paper money, which fails to solve the issue. Aluminum coin proposals were tried but metal supply remains tight. The nation needs about 400 million francs in small money, while the mint can produce at most 100 million francs annually.
Procter McGee editor of Oral Hygiene warns that people misuse the mouth as a substitute hand from infancy to old age. He notes risks including enamel wear, tooth loss, loose fillings, and potential cancer from cheek and gum irritation, urging bite-thread habits stop and use scissors.
A London publisher, Ernest J. Benn, tells the New York Times that America is a paradise compared with England. He argues there is no real poverty or inefficiency here, predicting socialism won’t take root, labeling the U S an industrial El Dorado versus Europe after the war.
A note on English practice for preserving domestic coal in summer describes surrounding the central pile with a wall of coal blocks and whitewash. The piece also urges loyalty to country and community, urging preference for Canadian made goods and support for local dealers.
At the annual Merchants Bank of Canada meeting officials voiced tempered optimism about business. Reports show the bank in excellent condition, expanding influence home and abroad, with new stock issues and rising loans offset by some deposits decline. Crop prospects are promising and monetary liquidity appears favorable as Canada Unlimited is cited. The Board was re elected with Sir H Montagu Allan as President and F Howard Wilson as Vice President.
The Canada Air Board proposed donating a German airplane to the Saskatchewan branch of the Canadian Air Force Association. The exact model was not specified but it would be air worthy rather than a display piece. The main hurdle was paying about $200 in freight.
The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture urges use of a railway special rate for hay and feed, urging patrons to support home industry by buying from merchants in their own town rather than distant sources. This notice promotes local trade and railway price incentives to farmers and businesses.
At the annual Edmonton sale this spring thirty one Herefords including calves aged ten to eighteen months brought an average of 245 dollars per head. Jealousy bears a lot of fruit that should not be preserved.
An English shopper prides herself on thrift in a Boston Transcript anecdote. She visits a market gardener and selects two marrows still growing. She asks the price and pays eight pence on the spot. She refuses to cut it now, planning to return next week.
A Manchester reader recounts letters from a West African man who misuses English multisyllables in business proposals. The missive ends with a claim of shared nationality and equity, reflecting colonial attitudes toward language and commerce.
The Reichs Bank and the post office are empowered to buy all forms of gold in world markets to boost reserves and aid reparations. They pay 260 paper marks for two gold marks, 5700 marks per kilo of fine gold, with weekly rate updates. A 10 percent sales tax applies except on gold. Barter within Germany is banned and gold exports prohibited by law. only the government may buy gold with special jeweler concessions.
Tact is the surmounter of difficulties and remover of obstacles. It proves useful in solitude by guiding a man into the world and in society and commerce by helping him pass through it successfully.
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