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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1923
Page
2
excerpt from a reminiscence detailing college days and social life before World War I, focusing on friendships among women and the role of mothers as chaperones, with reflections on independence, love, and marriage.
The narrator recalls a lively clash over a hopeful suitor named Benjamin Franklin Jones, Maudie Jones’ uncle, whose arrival unsettles Mother despite her popular instinct to adopt and mold promising young men. The scene traces the narrator’s ambivalence about serious romance versus youthful escapades in a wartime social setting.
The narrator recalls BF a well dressed, routine minded manager who charmed but never truly connected with her mother and him. Mother’s sympathy grows as BF’s advances shift to proposing marriage while the narrator struggles with a mixture of affection and aversion amid workplace bonds and social temptations. In fall 1913 she meets Murray Aylwin, new head of the Savings Bank Department, poised to stir lingering feelings among the stenographers.
The Department of the Interior in Ottawa reports Western Canada's alkali lake deposits contain sodium sulphate, sodium carbonate, and magnesium sulphone. Mines Branch studies their distribution and quantities as Canada imports about 34,000 tons yearly of sodium sulphate for paper and glass. Knowledge of resources aids administration and may boost future western paper and related industries.
A reflection on changing meal sizes from heavy historic diets to modern portions. It cites Louis XIV’s breakfast of four chicken cutlets, several eggs, and ham, and Henry VII’s dinner where guests reportedly ate about seven pounds each. The fish course reportedly included eels salmon pike barbel mullet and sturgeon.
A politician offered Judge Hen B. Lindsey a "heating drink" coffee and ginger ale on a sweltering day. The judge replied with a sharp quip about having tried several fellows who did.
A clipped item notes a Kansas City Journal reference to an old claim that Egyptians had an organized system of charity around 2540 years before Christ. The snippet contrasts opinions about Pelegalot and a remark that a man once was.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service under the Interior Department notes growing demand from business and foreign manufacturers for information on forests minerals and water powers. It offers resource maps and literature to assist readers and commercial interests in developing raw materials and power supplies.
The Radio Corporation of America has erected a six and a half mile long antenna at Koko Head to shield messages from interference and keep them in absolute secrecy. The line runs toward the company station near San Francisco and is tuned to a 12 000 meter wavelength. It is believed to be among the world’s largest systems.
A banquet in Africa linked to the inauguration of the port’s new coaling plants featured coal lumps varnished to protect linen, each with holes filled with water to hold root flower sprays. The piece notes Paris laborers earn about 30 francs a day.
The report discusses insect smell guiding bee colony cohesion and queen odor signaling. It notes bees rely on scent, not taste, for food discrimination, and details odor organs. Also covered are prickly pear invasion in Australia, sewer infection risk doubts, life tenacity of a marked American eel, detoxified vaccines, tuberculosis mortality by nationality, and ragweed pollen spread.
A comic exchange shows a shopper insisting the two eggs are bad and the grocer promising to return them to the hen to see what she will do. The snippet also jokes that a cheap watch makes time feel inaccurate, reflecting light humor from the era.
A Nova Scotia reader recounts decades of fatigue pain and poor work, then credits Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Anuric Tablets with dramatic improvement after trying doctors and various medicines. He urges others to try the remedies and offers to answer inquiries.
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