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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1930
Page
6
Ad copy promotes Carter's Lite Liver Pills after meals to neutralize gases and ease sour acid stomach. Claims cleanse stomach and bowels, relieve indigestion, and act as a tonic. Encourages buying a 25¢ package from druggists.
World Happenings briefly notes the death of the Earl of Helston owner of the Grand National course at Aintree. He died at 59. Other items include Soviet spring wheat totals, CPR hotel plans, Lena River flood damage, Dieudonne Coste earning a top aviation medal, a Montrose man finding a Washington obituary, future aero car dreams, a British steel innovation, and Windsor border chamber talks on a western Canada goodwill tour for August or September.
Extracts from Fridtjof Nansen's will, read in Oslo before the Norwegian Society of Science, show one fourth of his fortune to fund the Nansen Fund for scientific work. The fund will receive 25 thousand dollars from the estate, with the interest directed to Nansen's sister. the fund has supported polar and oceanographic expeditions in recent years. The Farmer's Advocate notes political gains by farmers as leaders in Canada and Prince Edward Island.
The Rev C E Macartney, D D laments widespread dechristianization and loss of religious influence while quipping that modern vices persist despite calls for reform. He notes ongoing doubts about jazz, elections, and weather, and remarks on the female mosquito as both stinging and singing.
Dr. P. E. Doolittle, eleventh term president of the Canadian Automobile Association, drives from Toronto to Vancouver to join the Golden Twilight caravan. He traveled 3,163 miles on largely Canadian roads in ten days and plans to turn east at Kamloops to loop back toward the Atlantic.
War books flood European markets with huge output, but dealers complain of weak sales. Russia reportedly avoided the craze. A Sheriff gift of an autographed Journey's End to London’s Imperial War Museum finds the institution holding about 50,000 war books.
The item showcases a toast tan suede trimmed blouse and box plait skirt with a seventh eighth length coat. Sizes 12 to 20 years. Pattern price 25 cents. Include pattern size when ordering. Address Pattern Department.
Instructional note from a local ad lists ordering patterns with a Winnipeg address at McBersner Ave and Uper Tinton. It presents a simple mail order pattern supply option for residents and crafters seeking fabric and sewing patterns.
Manitoba Jubilee Impressions surveys six decades since Manitoba joined Confederation in 1870. It recalls early provincial disputes over jurisdiction, boundaries, and subsidies, noting Sir John A. Macdonald and Oliver Mowat shaping a long, quiet settlement and Manitoba’s prominent role in the federation.
The Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan elected 1 C C F as grand master for 1930 31. Other officers elected include Deputy Grand Master M A Fletcher Colgate grand warden grand secretary Fr B Gray Regina grand treasurer H E Armstrong Regina grand representative Hugh Green Watson and grand representative for two years J A Hagerman Unity.
The text traces Manitoba's boundary expansion from 130 miles outward to 1912 adding a north sector with Hudson Bay coast and ports Nelson and Churchill. It notes disputes shaping political reputations and asserts Manitoba now symbolizes Western rights and interests in Canada.
The article notes swimming grows easy with many competent teachers in cities and that even urbanites should master it. It contrasts urban progress with country youths who find a self taught swim hole, and humorously recounts a tar brand owner struggling to start his engine. A boy questions the flow after winding, and a bee sting spared Dobbin from leaping a telephone pole.
The devotional piece surveys how great thinkers and poets from Carlyle Ruskin Arnold and Shakespeare to Lowell Longfellow Browning and Tennyson revere Christ. It highlights Christ as source of righteousness and the regenerator of humanity as cited by Hillis in The Influence of Christ in Modern Life.
Henry Moeller of Wilste Holstein sailed as a clipper crewman and later captained river barges for Lackawanna and tugs for Hamburg America. He retired to Hoboken in 1920 and died recently, his daughter placing his purple silk umbrella in his grave coat. A note on Poland’s spruce forests and human lung air cells follows.
Dr. E. H. Boomer of the University of Alberta told the National Research Council that gasoline can be produced commercially in vast quantities from oil sands in Northern Alberta. A new method by Boomer and Dr. A. A. Clark yields light waxes for gasoline, and a semi commercial plant now operating suggests Western Canada will soon be independent in motor fuel production.
A 19th or early 20th century style notice urges mothers to consider Eagle Brand Condensed Milk as a safe easily digested infant food during hot weather. It notes breast feeding is best but bottle feeding common, praises Eagle Brand since 1857, and offers a free booklet Baby's Welfare from Borden Co Montreal upon mention of the paper.
Salvation Army Commissioner Mackenzie reports more than 200000 Chinese children have died of famine in Northern China since January. He cites widespread hardship and says about 30000 Chinese wives and daughters have been sold for two to three dollars each to provide food for remaining family members.
A specialist remarks that the patient suffers brain tag and ennui and should take more interest in business. The patient, a pawnbroker, says the law prevents him from doing so, prompting a tense exchange over restrictions and motivation.
A contemporary notes that women accepting smaller salaries are ousting draughtsmen from their roles, highlighting changing workplace dynamics and gendered wage pressures. The remark frames women designers as a force reshaping the job market.
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