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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
3
A rural and urban appeal urges annual spring clean-up by housewives and authorities to remove filth and rubbish. Removing waste cuts disease vectors like flies, reduces fire risk, and lifts community pride. Farm clean-ups urged for homes and outbuildings to improve appearance and safety.
A Canadian safety rally highlights preventable fires as a major loss, with 62 percent of fires traced to preventable causes. Officials urge regular cleanup and rubbish removal, noting insurance costs rise from careless behavior and urging rapid, independent action before spring cleanup weeks.
An old advertisement for Baby's Own Tablets claims the product brings a smile to babies. It touts mild laxative effects to relieve constipation and indigestion, and mentions Dr Williams Medicine Co of Brockville Ontario selling at 25 cents a box by mail or through medicine dealers.
A child recounts waiting for a horse doctor after a horse fell, only to discover it was a man. The moment captures a humorous misunderstanding and a busy household scene.
Development of internal parasites to exterminate grasshoppers continues at the University of Saskatchewan under Dr A E Cameron Dominion entomologist. He notes methods must again be used this year but hopes parasite development will prevent further grasshopper plague in 1921.
The Saskatchewan government sold one million dollars of four year bonds at 10220 for a net cost to the province of 5.37 percent. announced by Hon. Charles A. Denning provincial treasurer. Europe has about 100 universities.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports declines in wheat and oats in public elevators nationwide totaling 760 988 and 737 085 bushels respectively for the week ending April 23 1920. Barley edges up 3 665 bushels while Western country elevators fall 2 503 535 bushels. Public terminal elevators rise 1 666 280 bushels with wheat and oats leading the gain. Fort William and Port Arthur private terminals show wheat up 113 857 bushels and interior terminals up 125 183 bushels, oats down 114 995 bushels. Eastern public elevators fall due to seaboard shipments. lake port elevators see little ship arrivals. Atlantic ports Portland and Baltimore record a wheat drop of 232 069 bushels with oats barley flax unchanged. Wheat oats and barley car inspections for week to April 21 total 110 cars up, while ax rye and screenings fall 341 cars. 64 percent of wheat graded No 3 Northern and better. Minard's Liniment noted. Lumberman's Friend closing line appears as a margin item.
Miss Eva P. Yateman of Kningersdorf Ont shares that after years of heart trouble fainting spells and paralysis she found relief using Milburns Heart and Nerve Pills. She reports rapid improvement after two boxes and urges others with heart issues to try the remedy. The pills cost 50 cents a box and are sold by dealers or mailed from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
The 160000 acre Colsa Francois and Stuart Lakes area in British Columbia is sold to a group of 12 prairie sheep farmers who will operate the land. A Manitoba rancher purchased 3200 acres near Stuart Lake and arranged options on 3000 more, while a Victoria resident acquired 2040 acres along the Necesse river. An influx of Swiss graduates from Zurich’s agricultural college plans settlement in the province, focusing on dairy.
The Medicine Hat Board of Trade pushes formation of two new irrigation districts south and east of the town, affecting about 15,000 acres. Surveys completed, plans ready, projects submitted to the provincial government for approval.
Ottawa based agriculture department issues a timely circular by Norman Cridde detailing pest control for pellucid locusts the native grasshoppers blamed for last year’s damage. It outlines poison bait preparation and application with the recommended eradication method and offers free access upon request to the publications branch in Ottawa.
A vintage style beauty ad promotes Danderine as a hair tonic to thicken and enrich hair. It promises long, lustrous strands, restored color and vitality, and reduced dandruff with a 31 cent bottle available at drug or toilet counters.
The piece argues farmers have a moral obligation to preserve and enhance soil productivity for posterity. It asserts that exploiting the land today robs future generations and equates neglect with crime, urging farmers to pass on better, more fertile fields than they received.
Conscience Moncey the Chancellor of the Exchequer publicly acknowledges receipt of fifty pounds conscience money from S.O.S. A big amount in the circumstances but small compared to what individuals owe the government when conscience does not compel disclosure. S.O.S. is described as a lonely fellow or possibly a she Montreal Garvette.
The Handley Page crews conducted over 300 bombing raids in the war with no aircraft lost to engine failure or defects. Many planes returned riddled with shrapnel and torn fabric yet landed safely thanks to the aircrafts famed stability and robust design.
A storage facility in Winnipeg with capacity of 10 000 tons, to be expanded to 20 000 tons, has been secured to store coal shipped from the Drumheller mines in Alberta. This marks the first time Drumheller coal has been stored in Winnipeg backed by the new arrangement and cost.
A Winnipeg owned Ancona pen led the Brandon experiment farm contest with 882 eggs from ten pullets in 26 weeks. White Wyandottes, held second and third by G. F. Thompson of Minnedosa and T. Lund of Stonewall. The single bird record is 120 eggs by Thompson’s white Wyandotte. best weekly pen total is 59 eggs by Symington’s Rhode Island Reds.
Hundreds of settlers are expected in the Nechacko Valley next spring. Several large interests controlling thousands of acres in the area have pooled their resources to plant crops in the coming season.
The British Empire and its Commonwealth cannot exist without the monarchy as the central axis of governance. The sovereign people remain most sovereign in Britain and the Dominions, contrasting with the American president's occasional autocracy. A paradox, yet true, reflects the monarchy's sturdy role in British institutions. Aa is also a river name used in Continental Europe.
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