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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
3
Tom Burbury overhears a covert exchange among Jasper Morgan and Heyer after a wrecked vessel. He slips behind the brig to learn what the men conceal, while Laura Gasperd and Clayton Kenny onlook from the gaming room as Sir Anthony West boasts of luck and a costly night at the Old Kent Road.
In a Mayfair gambling room at Number Nineteen Brown Street Laura Gaspard and Clayton Kenyon watch the baccarat table as Louis Gaspard banks most of the bets. Sir Anthony West may be the key to the bank’s fortunes as the night grows tense and the stakes rise around the green felt.
The Czecho Slovaks in Yekaterinburg searched for the ex czar's body but found nothing certain. Rumors place the corpse in a coal mine pit or imply various alternate fates. Some allege differing Bolshevik accounts of his death, with conflicting memoirs from witnesses and actors in the crime, leaving the true end uncertain.
A wealthy man, grieving his wife's recent death, entered the general office and asked to decorate the room with crepe. The manager pointed to a black cloth, only to reveal it was the office boy’s towel, leaving the scene awkward and humorous.
Officers and officials in the German colonies viewed themselves as superior to settlers. Young men in tropical postings wore uniforms with swords, impressing both native soldiers and police with shining buttons and attire.
An old advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as immediate cure for blood poisoning and disease producing matter. It claims thousands were despondent but cured, with a testimonial from C T Fear of Kingston praising renewed energy, sleep, and appetite after using the pills sold in 25 cent boxes.
A California observer recounts the grunyon, a rare fish, spawning on a sand pit at Newport Beach. Thousands of silvery fish surge ashore after flood tide, pause in tide-washed nests to deposit eggs, then leap back to the sea, drawn by sound and movement during the event.
The patriotic Food Show in Toronto, organized with the Canada food board and Ontario resources committee along with the Canadian national exhibition association, opens August 26. Similar demonstrations are planned for Sherbrooke Quebec City London and Ottawa to illustrate Canada’s actions and obligations on Allied food supplies.
An ambitious wife orders a seed list to her husband for bloom timing. He notices many seeds won t bloom until next summer. She explains she is using last year s catalogue so the flowers will arrive in time for future bloom.
Dr. James W. Robertson, special representative of the department of agriculture and Canada food board, on a mission to allied European nations, states that only a reasonable reserve remains and the ten most knowledgeable and responsible agree there should be no slowing in efforts to save and to produce.
A marketable exchange tally shows Corporal Wilkins arriving in France after England. He lists remaining funds in diverse currencies, including shillings, a pound, francs, sous, and dollars, highlighting the mix of money in wartime travel.
A conjurer in London seeks a boy from the audience to assist in a trick. The speaker tests the boy, insisting the boy has not seen him before. The scene appears in London Opinion.
Fragmentary text appears to mix names and phrases likely from a local page item. The readable parts reference people such as Mrs O Gr a and mention of cats or fashion terms, but no clear event or action emerges to summarize a coherent news item.
A wartime analysis explains how vast traffic on main roads forces rapid reinforcement, widening, and repair. It describes road types from chalk Normandy pave blocks to sandbed belts, the use of wooden drain boxes, and the heavy labor of prisoners and pioneers maintaining battle zones and long lines of supply amid autumn and winter offensives.
The piece compares national sports by skill and stamina, noting Americans favor baseball training, Canadians excel in lacrosse agility, and British cricket devotees endure long matches. It quotes the Buffalo Express describing the bowie as a butcher by trade with no spoiling blood.
In 1909 a herd of 750 buffalo grew under Canadian government oversight and now totals 3,500 in Wainwright park due to natural increase. Officials call the expansion good business and warn against extinction fears of the western plains monarch in Calgary.
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