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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 10, 1935
Page
5
Jack and Nancy flee a dust storm across a desolate prairie chasing a schoolhouse as a blizzard erupts. Snow intensifies and wind drives tumbleweeds while they race to reach shelter before the bus blocks their road ahead.
In a small Western town Nancy Nelson arrives with cousin Columbine and Jack Nelson. Matthew Adam and Luke Adam help as Nancy plans a public library, gathering books from family and neighbors while adapting to a debut in a new setting. A blizzard follows a prairie visit.
Chapter XVII describes the Nelson family's warm reception at Prairie Ranch. Jack insists on returning home soon to help their father, while Uncle Tom and Aunt Emily support the decision and encourage Mark to visit when he feels better.
Nancy and Jack escape a crash and find a stranded bus full of children after a sudden storm. While awaiting help near Bartletts ranch, Nancy organizes warmth and games to ease ten terrified youngsters as eleven year old Tom Osgood explains Clem Johnson’s missing rescue effort and the sick driver.
Toughhouse a boy's elbow breaks a pane as a blizzard hits. Tom Osgood improvises a stove from a milk can and canned food stored under the seat. The group searches for supplies forgotten by Joe and Clem as wind rattles the bus and children endure the cold.
Industrial Britain notes Birmingham as the sole world center for Jews harps with massive orders from America and elsewhere. Delays stem from scarce skilled tongue setters needed to tune the vibrating metal strip. One Birmingham firm ships 100,000 harps weekly and holds three months of orders, after a U S trip linked to a 150,000 instrument order.
The London Sunday Express notes a rising faction in Iceland seeking admission to the British Empire within five years while current association with Denmark is slated for review. The piece suggests such a move is unlikely but highlights growing Eurosceptic sentiment.
A proposal outlines a Copenhagen office block with walls nearly all glass to create a light, transparent facade. The plan, dated 2117, emphasizes modern design and openness for business tenants.
A Vancouver Province clipping notes a London ad offering Napier's Bones for sale. The small rods inscribed with figures were devised by John Napier of Edinburgh in 1617 to perform multiplication and division, though few complete sets are known to exist.
G F C Pousette of the Winnipeg Tourist and Convention Bureau proposed joining northwestern Ontario Manitoba eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota into a single tourist promotion group. A civic envoy meeting at Detroit Lakes Minnesota appointed a committee to study forming a circle tour route from Winnipeg to Kenora Fort Frances Detroit Lakes Alexandria the Twin Cities Fargo Grand Forks Crookston and back to Winnipeg.
A compiled quip about shoe repairers holding picnics and their merriment, with multiple Canadian newspaper quotes. It notes they enjoy themselves if they are on their uppers and respond with a muted sew sew if pressed for enthusiasm.
New York statute books list several unusual prohibitions including riding a bicycle with hands off the handlebars flying kites in city streets and firing cannons in the city without the mayoral permission. The rules specify a cannon no larger than four pounds.
The recent Formosa earthquakes are described as the most disastrous since the 1808 quake which killed about fifteen hundred people. Relief efforts and casualty estimates are underway as authorities assess the damage.
A devotional piece reflects on forgiveness and love, citing Mark 11 25 24 and urging readers to forgive others and show kindness. It emphasizes loving adversaries, contemplating others' virtues, pity for faults, and forbearance to bring light to dark places.
A Canadian school in Ontario faced rugby ball shortages as the board refused new purchases from public funds. Fifteen year old lads sought relief from retired funds to secure a ball, highlighting youth views on the Dominion’s big business and athletics funding.
W H Hitchman of the National Aeronautics Association says the Federation of Aeronautique Internationale in Paris will be asked to credit Howard Hughes with two world speed records for land planes at 347 miles an hour. Hughes achieved the speed during tests near Santa Ana California in a .14 cylinder 1 000 hp monoplane. The prior record of 314.319 miles an hour was set by Raymond Delmotte of France in 1984.
The Statistical Institute of the Leagues of Nations estimates global population at two billion. In the west, mountain sheep face near extinction in Washington and Oregon due to pressures on habitat and hunting.
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