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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1925
Page
1
First in a series of crossword puzzles announced with cash rewards each week. Puzzle titled Crossword Pozzles invites solvers to submit solutions for a chance to win prizes.
A ten cent entry covers prizes for weekly crossword contests. About thirty-five contestants expected. more entrants may raise prizes. Entries due by the Wednesday after the issue date. Correct solutions prize based on diagram puzzles in the Review. Only pencils allowed. diagrams must be from the printed pages. Roblin Review Editor's decision final.
A jumbled OCR excerpt lists numerous short clues and partial definitions, including bread knife, girl names, weights, directions, and common words. The items mix languages, abbreviations, and vague references, creating a collage rather than a coherent article.
A list of crossword vertical clues with numerous misspellings and garbled phrases. Entries include contagious disease, last, baby’s first word, parched, a doctrine, to make dear, a bar room, small, exclamation, a direction, Amesdow, skilled people, form, war heroes, fathers, comrade, insects, small child, to call, pronoun, crippled, sun dried brick, a number, animal, like, Promoters farm, to knoce, lake, decors of the Sultan, completed, Mab er, wheel on furniture, place of gastration, partisan, Gehiner, viewer, number, thoroughfare, multiple mis-spellings.
Correspondence notes visiting dignitaries and local activity in Dauphin and Kamaseck. The Togo Bonspiel features ten outside rinks with a full swing, followed by a Crand Challenge prize return and a well attended Old Winners Dance at Davis Hall with Furtney orchestra. Guests include Allan Tripp Jas D Foggles and Craten Lee Davis Aber Crombie, plus Leach bringing second prize.
Makaroff Mr Ed Howe seeks Winnipeg treatment. Holy Communion service planned. Residents visit Winnipeg for Sadie Curle in hospital. Roblin Players perform An Old Fashioned Mother. Makaroff Girls Club reports March meeting with new secretary Ethel Rogers. Quilt and church platform projects discussed. Albert Olsen rents farm. Mrs Sawickie recovering. Mr Hill plans to move to England with wife. Union Ladies meet at Mrs Odinelson. Secretary elected. A sleigh accident near Leiland injures none seriously. Team rosters and captains listed for local games.
Foster anticipates an early spring this year as residents discuss the season. Mr L. Sawickie returned from a business trip to Gilbert Plains. Mrs Sawickie of Gilbert Wain had been visiting her son Levi's home in recent days.
In Grand Narrows Mrs ALC McRkuipht hosted friends of St Patrick’s flag ceremony and a March play, while the Literary and Dhiiistiy Society met to prepare the copeert and the WPM meeting elected two delegates, Mr Dizon and Mr A J McKnight, for the conference at Dauphin on March 4.
Roblin church activities filled the week with events from a parent and child debate to curling and broomball. The Father and Son program drew about 440 in attendance for a Sunday service, with a large congregation and a final toast to the King and national anthem. Gifts, a sale, and a David and Absalom sermon rounded out a memorable week supporting the Boys Work Board and local youth work.
Geo E Phillips named lay missionary for Anglican Church with service announced for Sunday March 15 at 1 am in the LV? church.
Kraft Cheese brand showcases a recipe book with over sixty serving ideas. The Montreal firm promotes five pound blocks and foil wrapped rind products, touting patented processes and national consumption trends for cheese. Free copies offered by writing Kraft in Montreal.
A rambling Roblin column praises local citizens and town life, listing postmasters, doctors, barbers, a dentist, and other notable residents. It recalls trips to Canora and Precieville, jokes about Swedish names, and hints at upcoming features about local figures like Jim Will and Jack Gill.
The note presents a scrambled puzzle solution with several misread names. It lists potential contributors such as Hew, Woblin, vod MroT Yoo, trad Mic Elizabeth raaglie Roblin and references a contest editor and reader participation in last week’s puzzle.
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