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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 23, 1920
Page
3
A leading authority identifies South Africa as among the globe’s best fields for growing tin ger. He urges large scale government action since individual effort cannot meet the returns. Pine is deemed most suitable due to its resistance to twisting winds, yielding fine straight grained timber.
Win nipeg project records a major sale as Leitch McLean Company completes the purchase of seventeen elevators from Imperial Elevator Company in a landmark grain storage transaction.
In a Commons address Dr Tolmie notes Australia and the US hold vast sheep herds while Canada plans expansion. Measures include pure bred ram sales, prize competitions, wool price efforts, cooperative sales, share flock schemes, and dog protection legislation. Saskatchewan shows boosting wool shipments and prices. Ontario explores flock sharing.
The world uses between three and four million needles daily, totaling about 1400 millions in a year, indicating wide scale consumption and potential supply considerations.
An advertisement urges parents to accept only the California syrup of figs labeled with the name California to ensure a safe gentle laxative for children with stomach liver and bowel issues. It emphasizes fruity taste and full directions on each bottle.
The globe falls short of wheat, cotton, and sugar demanded by daily life. Even with economy trucked as remedy, increased production is required, starting at home yet dependent on overseas empire effort, per the London Daily Telegraph.
Ensilage and baby beef sales from the Canadian Pacific Railway supply farm at Strathmore Alberta sold twenty eight head of eleven month old cattle at an average price of 109.9 dollars per head and 721 pounds per animal. The price per hundred pounds averaged 3.25 dollars. En silage formed a large portion of the ration and aided the venture’s financial success in a season of high feed costs and tough market conditions.
The new theatre of Trans-Canada Theatres Ltd to be erected at Regina will cost 335000 dollars and provide seating for 1800. The stage will be large enough to accommodate the biggest productions on the road.
The Department of Agriculture studies new semi arid farming methods amid three years of crop failures in southwest Saskatchewan. A Dry Farming authorities conference is planned at Swift Current in July to develop general recommendations for settlers. The University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture also conducts sowing experiments with wheat and clover.
W. E. McPherson of Armstrong High School Baseball Team signs as secretary and reports relief from sore muscles and sprained ankles after using Minard's Liniment. Letter from Minard's Liniment Co. in Yarmouth invites other players to keep a bottle handy. Signed by O. McPherson, furniture dealer and undertaker.
The Ottawa Journal notes that Americans favor level headed approach to British affairs. It cites resolutions from American Legion branches and church groups as evidence that factional hatred is distasteful and that 66 Yale faculty members protested in Congress against political resolutions on Great Britain and Ireland.
Western Canada prepares for the first wool harvest as lambing ends and clipping plans form. Prairie provinces expect more wool than last year with higher prices. last season they sold about 3,695,000 pounds at roughly 58 cents a pound. Saskatchewan foresees about 100,000 pounds more from small farms, with Alberta and Manitoba showing similar gains.
Advertising copy claims catarrh is systemic and not cured by local treatment. It asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine, taken internally, reaches the seat of disease through the blood. The formula is described as a tonic and purifier, with testimonials and price in cents from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
A Berry Creek Alta resident uncovered fossilized remains in solid rock while excavating. The find includes a large shell fish and a big fish, with iridescent phosphoric hues and a crust of limestone revealing true lines of both creatures.
A note on wound care in workshops recommends carrying two bottles of Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for cauterizing wounds. It claims quicker action than carbolic acid and prevents skin burns, asserting no other oil shares its curative qualities.
The law permits the Turk to possess four Gives, but in practice he is usually found with only one.
An advertisement promotes Catarrhozone as a quick remedy for catarrh and ringing ears. It claims soothing vapor relieves head noises and deafness, with a two month large outfit for one dollar and smaller sizes available. Distributed by dealers and the Catarrhozone Co in Kingston Ont.
In Terpignan the Pyrenees a tragedy follows a group of boys aged 10 to 12 who staged a hanging scene from a film. A chair collapsed and the child swung from a noose. a rescuer cut the rope but the boy died. The article notes rapid deforestation with nine thousand five hundred acres felled daily for pulp.
Minard's Liniment is cited as a physician’s aid while worn-out motion picture films are shipped to distant markets in China and India and other less accessible countries where they are shown to local audiences.
A promotional account describes St Vitus dance as a nerve blood disorder in children. It praises Dr Williams Pink Pills, citing a Ontario family’s recovery and urging purchase from The Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
The Alberta provincial committee on field crop experiments chaired by Prof. G. H. Cutler recommends limiting summer fallowing in brush districts with adequate rainfall. They advise against deep plowing and early June work on heavy soils, favoring rotations with grass or green crops and, if fallow is used, pasturing or seeding oats or rape in July to lessen downsides. A separate note states that over 75,000 New York children finish their school careers annually.
An old advertisement touts Freezone as a cheap painless remedy for corns and calluses. It claims a tiny bottle costs only a few cents and, applied to the corn or hard skin, stops pain instantly and allows the corn to come off cleanly after use.
The article argues that keeping sheep on the same pasture year after year depletes soils of minerals and fosters parasites. It advocates frequent pasture changes, fresh grass, and annual introduction of a hardier ram from a different district to improve resilience and feeding efficiency, noting lambs especially need new seeding each spring.
The 54 story tallest structure in New York, the Woolworth Building, is being revamped to create more space. A special U shaped court on the west side is being closed up to the fifth floor and the two wings welded at their bases to provide new space sought by tenants.
If one be troubled with corns and warts he will find in Holloway's Corn Cure an application that will entirely relieve suffering.
A standard measure shows that thirty thousand cubic feet of air carries roughly one ton in weight. This conversion highlights how gas volume translates to mass in practical calculations.
A British shipyard worker has created remarkably strong paper caps designed for workers exposed to falling objects. The caps use chemicals to harden without increasing weight, with some styles weighing about seven ounces. In tests a one pound bolt dropped from 40 feet left only a barely perceptible dent. The head coverings resist water and acids and do not conduct electricity.
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