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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1936
Page
2
A Canadian editorial urges public action against reckless motorists. It cites 75 to 80 mph speeds, dangerous passing, and calls for reporting violators to police, suspending licenses, and supporting the Dominion Automobile Safety Council to reduce the road toll.
Two Victoria horticulturists Ed Maund and Joseph Aghbrunners undertake a 3000 mile expedition to the Arctic Yukon and Alaska in search of unusual flora. They expect dwarf willows and other tiny plants under fifteen inches tall during a summer journey described as a historic attempt.
Henry Gingerich of Baden Ontario concludes his 28 mile daily rural mail route after 16 years of continuous service. He missed only two rounds due to storms, marking a long disciplined tenure behind a slow horse. In contrast Anna Sewell earned $1002 for Black Beauty with royalties potentially reaching over $300,000.
London reports Britain now boasts the world’s densest vehicular traffic with 178000 miles of roads and 2.58 million vehicles, including 10000000 cyclists. Transport Minister Hore-Belisha says 23 vehicles per square mile, plans for 450 million dollars on roads and 230 miles of cycle tracks and 750 miles of dual carriageways in five years. Cyclists resist limits on ordinary arteries as engineers push for safer flow.
Japanese sponsors pursue a trans Pacific dirigible network with routes Tokyo to Haingking Manchukuo Tokyo to Singapore via Shanghai and Hong Kong and Tokyo to San Francisco via Honolulu. Plans call for purchasing two or more German Zeppelins though German experts are not readily available and lending terms are limited.
Flood waters flood March Memorial Church in Usk wrecking interior. The Bible on a small table survives undamaged while the organ topples and chairs scatter. Report also notes three hens nesting in a tree with four eggs found after water receded.
George M. Lamsa of Washington argues in Gospel Light that the three day Jonah tale stems from a mistaken translation. He explains that in East interpreted dreams fish or whale signals trouble and the story uses hyperbole to describe a troublesome person.
The Finance Minister warns the current year faces a deficit near 160 million dollars. Past totals show 36 million in 1896, 46 million in 1901, and 112 million in 1913. The piece questions if only taxation can address deficits and calls for economies and closure of waste loopholes.
A recipe for Bran Drop Cookies using shortening sugar eggs sour milk nuts and spice with Quaker bran and flour. Mix cream butter add sugar eggs dissolving soda with milled dry ingredients then fold in nuts. Drop teaspoon portions on buttered sheets bake at 350 degrees. Farther text notes Gulf Stream width and flight plans from the Irish Free State.
The report details word counts from the recent parliament session. House of Commons members spoke about 3 249 000 words while senators totaled over 500 000 words. Special committees used over 3 000 pages of Hansard with about 2 230 000 words of evidence. Radio hearings yielded about 500 000 words. The Canadian Press dispatched over 600 000 words by automatic printers. Telegraph correspondents added well over 1 000 000 words. The House sat 80 days.
Jerusalem Lady Tweedsmuir is appointed a dame of grace of the Order Of St John of Jerusalem as announced by the Westminster Gazette. The order, revived in 1888 by royal charter, promotes ambulance hospital and charitable work under the sovereign headship of the King.
A Vancouver convention of state and provincial health authorities used an automatic Hebta style system with green yellow and red lights at speakers’ tables. Five minutes before the limit a green light, then a yellow with one minute left, and a red when time ended. The signaling kept the program on schedule.
Antarctic flyer Herbert Hollick Kenyon restates he will not quit flying to farm. He left for a holiday with family at Ewing's Landing, B C, then returned to Winnipeg for his pilot's job with Canadian Airways. The piece notes possible cotton use in road building offering a market for 2 to 3 million bales yearly.
An ancient star exploded long before modern times and its light only now reaches Earth. Amateur astronomer L C Peltier observed a new bright star in Delphos Ohio on June 28, marking the event on Cepheus La Certa border. Dr Otto Struve at Yerkes notes the star has appeared on maps since 1893 and showed no brighter photo by 1930.
Official orders call for sinking the royal racing cutter Britannia in the English Channel. Built in 1893 for Prince Edward VII later King George, the yacht earned 231 first prizes and 129 other awards across 625 races in 423 years of racing.
The aged superstition that a spring fed pool at North Tawton would fill with water when a royal died came true with King George V. The pool rose just before the death of Albert, consort to Victoria, and Victoria herself and the Duke of Clarence. Three days after George V. died the water receded and cattle returned to grazing there.
Rafael Ruesga the Mexican consul in Tampa says a Mexican road runer bird foretells rain by crying before storms. He plans to get rid of the bird which disturbs his sleep as damp weather makes its bones ache and trigger sharp cries.
A memorial statue honoring King George V is planned near Westminster Abbey. It is expected to depict the late king in the admiral of the fleet uniform.
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