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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
4
A mis read health pitch about kidney cures opens with Diogenes style language on Dr Hamilton's pills. In a moorland scene Mavis resists Jasper Morgan's coercive attempt as Reverend Clegg and Tom Burbury approach to intervene in a tense stand off.
An Australia tale notes a curious link between death adders and bush rats. Despite being deemed highly dangerous, the snake is described as amiable and inert unless its tail tip is trodden. A colonial incident records rats and adders migrating in tandem, then the snakes vanish. A settler’s daughter is bitten when a rat is disturbed near a garden, the child recovers and the adder dies, illustrating a puzzling association between adder and rat.
In a tense scene, Mavis resists Professor Zimbalist as Jasper Morgan unveils a marriage proposal aimed at saving her father's finances. He pitches a strategic alliance to clear mortgages, insisting he would make her a good wife, while she weighs the cold, calculated offer against her fear and duty.
A terse exchange echoes a drill scene as a colonel orders bayonets fixed while a private responds with resolve that the bayonet is fine, underscoring discipline and military routine. The fragment reflects wartime training language and wartime newspaper tone.
A Toronto Globe opinion piece reflects on a prairie sunrise as incomparable, linking it to myth, art, and the blessed Isles. It recalls homes near Toronto, wartime sacrifice, and the idea that beauty and civic effort can outlast profit as Canada builds for peace and posterity.
With oats and hay scarce in Germany the empire directs gathering leaves from oak maple linden poplar chestnut and elm to supply army horses. Soft twigs will be ground and mixed with foliage. Farmers urged to conserve oats and feed horses and cattle on foliage where possible. Government experts found foliage offers useful though inferior nutrition as a substitute.
Smugglers have long trafficked gold coins into Germany with buyers in Amsterdam Rotterdam and The Hague paying premiums up to seventy percent above face value, while Germany resells for double. Thousands have faced court actions in the past four years and seven thousand await trial.
Toronto Globe reports Rev Dr J H Jowett, back in England after seven years in New York, on the growing allied unity in World War I and the need for patience and tolerance to bridge differences. He cites climate-influenced temperaments, noting American briskness and British reserve as key contrasts that must be understood for lasting friendship.
The report notes that insulation resistance of telephone cables increases as cables age while buried underground due to moisture loss. This finding highlights a counterintuitive aging effect on underground cable performance and suggests maintenance implications for aging networks.
Winnipeg Free Press warns against the Kaiserite creature spreading Germanic propaganda in the United States. The piece urges Americans to report disloyal individuals to the justice department, describes alleged lies about Red Cross supplies and POWs, and promotes a pamphlet exposing German methods. It questions if a similar organization exists in the Dominion and seeks its address.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote shows Pa explaining echoes as the last word of a woman and as a clever quip about a man who cites patent medicine almanacs. Willie absorbs the dialogue while the Ma watches.
Two clerks are surprised by their boss arriving unexpectedly to find them at poker. The enraged manager questions their work ethic as the younger clerk retorts that his rubber heels are why they aren’t always working.
The piece notes wartime pressures altering British conservatism as American soldiers arrive. It cites baseball expanding to Hyde Park, Sunday baseball in England, and American cultural influences. Britons, once Uhltra conservative, welcome shifts, seeing themselves awakened by foreign visitors and new entertainments.
Public eating places may now serve pork at any time under Canada food board license as hog production and conservation efforts succeed. New exports of pork from the Dominion rise by 125 million pounds annually, a 571 percent increase over the five year pre war average.
Detroit imposes a ban on brown sugar sales by retailers and wholesalers until further notice. The order aims to reduce stockpiles that linger despite a prior campaign to clear inventories before August and seeks to level the market for all dealers.
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