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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1933
Page
7
A Victorian style feature extols spider silk and web engineering. It highlights garden and house spiders, migrating aerial spiders, and the diving bell analogy using the water spider. It explains how nests trap air and how females lay eggs in submerged belts.
Alberta develops a new agriculture policy to boost overseas bacon sales. A joint campaign with the Federal Agriculture Department and field staff will focus on hog quality. A boar bonusing scheme will pay small bonuses to buyers of approved boars. Minister George Hoadley announces the plan with railway, packing firms, and stockyards backing the effort.
Swedish geologist Dr Carl Caldenius is commissioned for a research expedition to Australia and New Zealand. He will apply the De Geer method to New Zealand and Australian formations, studying a notable sedimentary sequence near Christchurch with about 13 000 year strata observable there.
Firefighters freed a tiny scared dog trapped in a crevice between two buildings in Lynbrook New York after three hours of effort. No owner claimed the dog, so the crew unnamed adopted him and gave him the name Squeeze.
Grimakaw Alberta residents report an unusually early and severe winter with geese gathering in flocks and flying south two months earlier than last year. A local farmer notes squirrels on the farm have begun storing winter supplies early.
A compact proverb reflecting that kindness earns allies who remain the same people you encounter on the way down, suggesting consistency in character regardless of status or ascent. It emphasizes social reciprocity and humility amid rising success.
Authorities advise newborn calves receive whole milk or fresh milk until two to four weeks old and skim milk from about two to four weeks to three months. If skim milk is scarce, skim milk powder can be mixed with warm water and fed with a grain ration and legume hay. buttermilk powder is a substitute with slower adaptation.
In Saskatchewan the August creamery butter production reached 2,627,738 pounds, up 742,030 pounds or 39.3 percent from August 1932. This marks the highest August total in province history. For January to August 1933, 15,117,202 pounds were manufactured, a 12.3 percent rise from 13,463,412 pounds in the same period in 1932.
Seven English residents seek to contest the will of Henry Sirrell of Del Bonita Alberta. They aim to have the $30 000 estate heard at the Alberta supreme court List sitting in Lethbridge in 1934 under an order granted by Justice T Tweedie. The case follows the last two fiscal years. Czecho Slovakia exports have fallen to historic lows. Nemesis is identified as the Greek goddess of retribution.
Sir George Newman chief medical officer reports Britain healthier now than in its history. Unemployment has not raised airline deaths and areas hit by low mood show lower death rates. Birth rate in 1932 was the lowest ever but newborn care saves about 40 000 infant lives annually. He warns against indiscriminate vitamin dosing.
The Pit Cairn Island community in the Southern Pacific Ocean, 198 descendants of mutineers from HMSS Bounty and Tahitian women, are not planting coconuts or storing provisions this year. The excerpt notes they foresee no measures for the future.
A woman accuses a traveling man of rude behavior describing him in detail from red hair to a gray felt hat and brown suit. He acknowledges being a traveler and challenges her to test his manners.
Saskatchewan Deputy Minister F Hedley Ault says the three prairie provinces and northern states will act together to curb a potential 1934 grasshopper outbreak. He warns weather could foster widespread infestation across Saskatchewan unless conditions worsen. Critics argue department science lacks practical results and farmers tire of campaigns after crop failures.
Census report notes Bigge Island between Yell and the mainland has one inhabitant. The man lives in a two room house with two windows. The island was uninhabited at the last census twelve years ago. France passes a new insurance law.
Simon Lake plans a Bay sub expedition from Bridgeport to Atlantic waters and the Caribbean using the Explorer and Normans. The trek seeks sponge fishing first at the Bahamas and Tarpon Springs then bullion salvage from sunken ships before attempting to recover an alleged 4 million dollars from the Lusitania treasure chamber off Ireland.
Chinese authorities order an investigation into a war chest raised two years ago to fund Manchuria defense against Japan. General Ma Chan-shan returns to China amid scandal over nearly 20 million silver dollars raised by voluntary subscription, with only about 1.7 million reaching allies while Mo resigns from the National Military Council.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports creamery butter output at 27,670,954 pounds in August up from 25,822,890 a year earlier. Quebec tops with 8,390,437 pounds, Ontario 8,623,129, Alberta 2,407,000, followed by Manitoba 2,072,816 and Saskatchewan 1,885,708. other provinces list smaller totals.
Canada set records in 1932 for wheat exports to the British Isles at 46,874,000 ewts, tobacco at 10,844,000 pounds, and plums at 20,000 cwts. The wheat total surpassed all years except 1916 and 1917, with 1932 overall volume second only to wartime peaks.
Ontario plans may yield a coast to coast motor highway within a year using lake steamers to bridge a 300 mile gap. Motorists could travel from Halifax to Vancouver without leaving Canada, though the full highway may not yet be an actual fact. Italy welcomed more tourists but they spent less than visitors from other seas.
A Toronto Telegram piece extols the Empire State Building as the safest New York thunderstorm shelter. It cites its steel frame as a lightning cage that dissipates high voltage to ground, noting past incidents and comparisons to ships and Faraday experiments.
The article explains the ancient belief that numbers have traits with seven symbolizing good fortune. It cites three and four as foundational, linking three to life and four to Jupiter and effort rewarded. It notes seven combines these traits and claims many seventh children are especially blessed. It mentions Scripture references to the number appearing over 300 times.
Advocates push for a orange white blue Dutch flag replacing the long standing red white and blue. They cite Prince William of Orange and the tercentenary of the dynasty as reasons for the shift.
In Paris a colorimetric saliva test gauges disease resistance. A small saliva sample mixed with reagents yields colors from clear to violet. clear or pale rose signals health while orange or lemon shades indicate illness.
The New York Times notes Princeton University plans a new theatre so every seat has equal sight and sound. Yet the policy allows late seating by entering around audience members to avoid disrupting the historic layout.
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