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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1936
Page
3
The Bank of Nova Scotia’s July review notes mining home to the era’s only fully recovered main industry. Gold led value, up from 40 to 116 million since 1929, while base metals fell in price yet rose in output, with copper lead and zinc resurgent. 83,000 workers employed in 1935, up from the low mood year but below 1929 peak.
The van der Merwes of Coligny South Africa picked a huge pomegranate weighing one and a quarter pounds. The family shared the fruit with Mr. and Mrs. van der Merwe and their three children. A second pomegranate is ripening and expected to reach five pounds.
A restaurant manager chides an orchestra conductor for music choices in a dispute over performing arrangements. The note mentions the National Association of Umbrella Manufacturers and a song titled It Aint Gonna Rain No More as part of the friction.
Heirs of Mrs Alexander Angus fund a yearly reward for two hotel waiters who feed birds in Victoria Embankment gardens London. The trust runs through August each season and honors Mrs Angus who loved birds and fed them from her hotel window in 1918.
Acorns from the Royal Oak in Christchurch Botanic Gardens, known as the Albert Edward Oak planted in 1863 for the Prince of Wales marriage, are sent to Australia. The tree stands about 75 feet high with a 96 foot branch spread. Seeds from royal visitors trees are also being collected for planting at Huntley’s Point Gladsville Domestic Science School.
A Washington zoo scene shows a delegation of deaf attendees reacting to a lion’s roar. Head Keeper William Blackburne observed them and noted they felt the tremor through the floor as the crowd backed away and fled toward the door.
The note recalls Sir Francis Younghusband turning 73 and opening the forbidden city of Lhass through British influence. His diplomacy calmed hostile lamas and granted access to facilities once used by Everest expeditions, leaving Tibetan authorities as firm friends.
London shown film from Bombay presidency depicts the Rajah his family and subjects performing Surya Namaskars to banish aging pain and disease. The 70 year old ruler claims long health. his 36 year old Ranee and a 40 year old mother of ten highlight the benefits. The sequence lasts five minutes with ten positions and three breaths. No equipment is needed.
Alster J. Clark serving life at Goulburn prison near Sydney for his wife’s murder composes opera in cell. He was taught music there, passed examinations, and studies from phonograph records using a dummy keyboard.
Rev. Herbert S. Cobb of Weyburn Saskatchewan spoke on westward problems to the Brantford Rotary Club. He urged Canadian cooperation to tackle climate and immigration issues and warned farmers to conserve fodder in good years for lean times. He criticized excessive government and taxes and called for reducing overhead and closer federal municipal links.
Dr. Philip Spence displayed a five toe division shoe in New York costing 50 dollars and enabling toe wiggle and graceful pirouettes. A Madrid radio station was recently fined 30 dollars for excessive advertising on its programs.
The notice describes a monogram transfer pattern 3.68 with three complete alphabets in sizes 2 inches 1 1/2 inches and 1 inch. It details stitches satin seed and cutwork and shows initials placement with illustrations. Send 20 cents to Hirceincia Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the pattern.
The article traces Canada as the Empire’s chief carbon black producer mainly for printers ink and rubber. It explains the Dominion Department of Agriculture Division of Bacteriology founded to study microbial problems in agriculture and aid farmers, detailing its research areas and sample analysis outcomes from over 1,600 tests.
A Virginia farm owned by J. W. Hughes becomes a model of rural electrification with appliances powering milking, cooking, and food prep. Electrodes and computers illuminate the stable with screened water fixtures for cows and hens, illustrating a future of widespread farm electricity.
A reflection on how people label others versus themselves when faced with similar actions. The piece contrasts obstinacy with firmness and prejudice with good judgment, noting how kindness, tact, and discrimination are judged differently depending on who performs them.
Six mysterious fires over five weeks on grazing lands in South Donegal baffle the Civic Guards. The sixth blaze spread seven miles and destroyed two miles of pasture. Cattle and sheep were driven to safety and investigators in Yetterkenny pursue possible incendiarism.
The first radiophone contact was heard when the Provost of Kirkwall Orkney telephoned a congratulatory message to Shetland from a radio station in Kirkwall. The transmission used a new beacon at Samburgh, Shetland.
A wry reflection contrasts birth in hospitals, weddings in churches, and deaths in cars with the elusive desire for homes, suggesting modern life seeks stability amid changing rituals and risks.
RMS Queen Mary officers disclaim a new record after a Cherbourg to Ambrose Light crossing of 3098 nautical miles in four days eight hours 37 minutes at 29.61 knots. The Normandie held the blue pennant with 8192 miles Southampton to Ambrose Light at 29.64 knots in four days 11 hours 42 minutes in June 1935. Sir Edgar Britten, Queen Marys commander, said they do not deserve the pennant yet as the liner nears the Hudson River pier.
King Edward VIII through Lord Wigram grants patronage to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr Warren Lyman, secretary of the college, announces the king’s patronage follows his father King George V who was patron at his death.
In earlier times a woman sought work because she could not find a husband. Now the husband is easier to obtain and she already has a job, changing the social dynamic described.
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