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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1923
Page
4
The Saskatchewan dairy industry in the west shows rapid growth since 1922 driven by diversified farming and growing livestock. Creamery butter output rose from 8,901,165 pounds in 1922 to 1,009,604 pounds in 1932, aided by pasteurization adoption and government grading to stabilize quality and payments.
The Belle Isle country house of the late Sarah Bernhardt, with farm and fort, sold soon after her death for 360000 francs about $20000. The buyer plans a summer hotel with a jazz band and dancing this season. Palais mayor hoped the property would become a Bernhardt museum but sale proceeded.
German cost operators in the Ruhr reach an understanding with Franco-Belgian authorities to cease opposing coal shipments to Italy for reparations on lines run by the Allies. French officials view this as a sign of passive resistance weakening under Allied action in the Ruhr. The text ends with an unrelated school joke exchange about a million dollars.
A dialogue mocks a plan to use a lawn mower on a plane as a daughter practices this afternoon. The fragment mentions a powder for small arms and artillery, claimed to have driving power and moisture resistance, with a garbled phrase about an empire and land.
In London a hospital dying patient prompted authorities to broadcast a plea via wireless to locate his mother living in Putwick, Bedfordshire. A Bedford man heard the call and drove her to Luton, then train to London, enabling her to reach the hospital in time. Thirty motor cars were offered to assist the mother.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service reports 4,366,790 fur bearing animals were taken in Canada during 1921-22. Manitoba led with 1,101,556 pelts, Saskatchewan 798,066, Alberta 682,266, muskrat numbers dominating at 3,060,526 nationally with Saskatchewan showing 1,906,197. Muskrat prolific breeding suggests low depletion risk except where wetlands dry up.
The Charleston News-Courier asserts that life insurance premiums fund a huge national business. It states life policies support wealth investment across the United States and enable millions to access benefits, driving thrift, enterprise, and stable government through broad economic influence.
The world's most dexterous barber retires after thirty seven years at the same shop in St Pancras London. He once shaved seventy eight men in an hour and on many occasions worked three hours with a new man shaved every minute.
English press jokes aside on wartime measures to protect stocks. To offset halting catches from mine damaged grounds, plan to ship 0 million plaice from continental fisheries. A protected Dogger Bank belt 300 miles off the Dutch and Danish coasts would ban steam trawlers and motor vessels over 50 horsepower within the area.
The Otira Tunnel, the largest in the British Empire, links the east and west coasts of South Island Arthur's Pass. It cuts five and one third miles through the Southern Alps and replaces the dangerous coach route. An electric railway connects the coastal heads. Premier Massey praised British-made machinery as the project was completed.
A peasant found two large brass vases filled with gold pieces believed dated 300 to 400 B C. By government order they were removed from Ognina near Mount Etna to Rome after discovery in a ground fissure beneath an old wall following a minor earthquake. The find only came to light when the deaf peasant offered the vases for sale.
A man named No Escaping Them Pal stood in the road when a motor car approached. The vehicle skimmed by, then turned into a side street. The car skidded as the driver moved the wheel, hitting Pat and knocking him down. he got up, warned about standing in front, and lamented that drivers turn and kick those who step aside.
Government experts traced a $12,500 loss to a single barberry bush. Stem rust began there and spread at least one mile, hitting eighteen farms. A tense exchange then shifts from domestic search to a remark about long marriage.
The piece links immigration to Canada’s economic salvation, stressing the need for British settlers and strong ties to Britain. It notes Morocco’s Sheikh meeting photographers in New York, Canada’s vast unpopulated lands, and Beatty’s comments on emigration and development. A magistrate hears a cruelty case from a colored woman remarking on fatherhood of a troublesome boy.
Tourists flock to the Banff Windermere highway with no recorded accidents so far. The Dominion Parks Branch notes US and Canadian visitors already praising the new mountain route. A clay base with hard packed gravel offers long straight stretches and chalets along the way provide gasoline meals and sleeping accommodations.
Oscar Belall, age 22, dubbed world’s champion stowaway, completed his sixteenth trip to the United States aboard the President Filmore docking at New York on August 6. He was found two days out from Bremen and jailed in the brig after refusing to work more than eight hours daily. Belair has sought entry to the US for two and a half years, claiming his parents are in the country, and was taken to Ellis Island for deportation for the sixteenth time.
A fragment quotes a Scots exchange asking if Rastus is married and the reply that he earns his own living. It mentions Scottish lochs being astonishingly deep with Loch Maree depth claimed to exceed 1,000 feet.
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