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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1922
Page
3
Advertisement for a new lamp by TV Johnson of Winnipeg claims 94 percent air burn, cleaner than gas or electricity with no odor or smoke. It promises $4 per cent air and 5 per cent kerosene reach, $9 trial, free lamp to locals, and potential earnings of 250 to 500 dollars monthly with agency opportunities.
Alderman Joseph Hawkin died in Vancouver. About 250 Friends of Soviet Russia demonstrated in Winnipeg in a street parody. A World's Dairy Congress will be held in Philadelphia in October next year to teach milk value. Seven workmen were killed and 100 injured at Gravesend when a train crashed into their work train. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney designed a heroic equestrian statue of W. F. Cody. Canada to receive 1,000,000 Kamloops trout eggs and fry in BC waters. War trophies of Major-General Sir David Watson presented to Royal Airs of Canada. Submarine H 24 escorted by Vindictive damaged in the Mediterranean. Father Adelard Delorme case awaiting authorities. British Columbia House in London reports daylight jewellery robbery. Electrification of the Winnipeg Grand Beach line under study with Manitoba Power Co. offering low power rates to aid feasibility.
The United States liner President Talia sighted a Portuguese barque in distress mid ocean near New York. The liner’s crew launched a relief boat with a doctor and supplies. A Portuguese crew member asked to deliver two letters to relatives in New York.
An old advertisement style feature urges women to keep blood rich and pure for health, touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as best for restoring vigor and nerves, with a testimonial from Mrs. Cora Conrad of Broad Cove Nova Scotia, and mentions price and mail order from Brockville Ontario. It also includes jokes and brief notes on asthma remedy and Indian officers settling in British Columbia aboard the Empress of Russia.
An advertisement touts Nerviline as a remedy for sour stomach gas bloating nausea and upset stomach. It claims twenty drops in sweetened water relieve vomiting and lists 35 cent bottles sold by dealers.
The article describes ancient trial by ordeal in West and Central Africa, citing Dugald Campbell. It notes water crocodile immersion tests and a Central Africa pipe smoking challenge with tobacco and red peppers, where success yields innocence. It also mentions factory cauterization using carbolic acid and promotes Dr. Thomas Flectric Oil for wounds.
In the week ending August, at least ten cars of nickel matte were shipped from the International Nickel Company plant at Copper Olive near Sudbury. Anticipated renewed demand may lead to at least two furnaces being blown in within the next weeks.
Clara argues with Ethel over driving style while a quarrel emerges about who handles the wheel. The exchange hints at domestic friction and a moment of tension between the two acquaintances.
A train of 36 cars carried livestock from the Peace River to Edmonton along the Edmonton Drive Ban and British Columbia Railway in 30 hours, marking a new record for the run. It was the heaviest cattle shipment yet from the north country and occurred while Minard's Liniment remained in household use.
An advertisement touts Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor as a painless, magical remedy that lifts corn from skin with root and branch. It claims 25 cents everywhere and promises smooth skin. The notice then shifts to mining news in Kenora District Ontario, noting active gold and silver prospecting with 76 licenses issued and multiple claims being stripped, trenched, and sampled by engineers and financiers in Toronto and Montreal.
An advertisement states catarrhal deafness results from inflamed mucous in the Eustachian tube and that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine relieves symptoms by acting on mucous surfaces. It claims the remedy aids natural restoration and offers circulars and wholesale details. Also mentions a worm exterminator and a motorist joke snippet.
Saskatchewan farmers must post a card detailing The Noxious Weeds Act provisions on threshing machines while in operation. The Threshers Lien Act amendment removes a clause about compliance, but the act remains enforceable. Obtain the card from the Field Crops Branch in Regina and affix it to the machine.
Queen Mary purchased a four panel screen from ex Sergeant Ellis of Fulham, a former Cardiff Corinthians rugby centre, who survived major battles including Marne and Ypres but was felled by exposure just before the armistice. Now paralyzed from the waist down, his tale contrasts with the screen’s display of taste and devotion.
The Saskatchewan homestead entries reached 2 729 in 1921, up from 1 726 in 1920, per a Provincial Government report. Nationalities filed included Americans 567, English 272, Norwegians 74, Italians 7, Russians 77, Swedes 78, Greeks 1, Syrians 1, among others.
Ontario gold mines produced about 1 775 000 dollars in July, a new high in the province’s mining history. The figure surpasses June by 10 000 dollars, with all mills except Kirkland Lake Proprietary running at full capacity and processing roughly 175 000 tons of ore.
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