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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 15, 1936
Page
6
A report credits Indian boy scouts with greatly lowering eclipse crowd casualties at Kuruk-Wertre. Their teams ran one way traffic at bathing tanks, manned life-saving brigades, cholera and health mobile units, and an information bureau.
The American Automobile Association says the best test of a man's character is his driving during a traffic jam. Bur ton Marsh notes a half mile ride with honks brakes and police reveals temper nerves fatigue timidity manners and sportsmanship. Polite calm behavior at home may give way to a bully under pressure and driving can reveal show-off and daredevil traits.
Disney reports Mickey Mouse has earned 21 medals and attracts letters from 80 countries as fans celebrate his eighth birthday. The character’s origin story unfolds in a Kansas City studio where Disney recalls keeping a tame mouse named Mortimer, later shortened to Mickey.
The phrase Contraband of War originated in the 1625 treaty between England and Spain It described arms munitions and materials used to make them carried by neutral vessels to belligerents in war Sharply defined to exclude neutral traffic and protect noncombatant cargoes.
Dr Ross Jamieson, Toronto heart specialist, warns in Health the main public health fight is preventing heart disease and treating underlying causes. He stresses rest adapted to each patient, moderate exercise without breathless strain, careful dieting, and physician supervised cardiac drugs to avoid self medication.
The article notes that early steamers to Port Arthur and trains were not built to carry cars, predicting redesigned gangways and deck space for autos on lake vessels and future trains. It cites US rail trials led by Illinois Central to Florida, carrying 99 cars in year one, 275 in year two, and 555 last year, as a growing but still infancy business.
The wife of the ship's commander, Lady Britten, will not sail in the Queen Mary while her husband remains in charge. The owning company enforces a rule prohibiting officials from taking their wives aboard. Their daughter, Mery Britten, may sail with her father someday.
World sugar consumption reaches a record 27,188,000 tons in 1935, signaling rising demand and economic factors influencing global markets.
The United States Biological Survey debunks the owl as wise. Colonel H. P. Sheldon says the owl is dumb and cannot see at night, noting it lacks useful knowledge and overstates its intelligence. He argues the bird does not deserve the glare of heroic myth.
Gold leaf is about 1200 times thinner than paper and disintegrates with rough handling. Placed on exterior structures like the State Capitol dome it can endure for years rather than disintegrate.
Dr. A Eugene Austin personal physician to John D. Rockefeller Sr. says the financier could reach 100. At 87 Rockefeller is alert active and keenly interested in affairs and is 20 years younger than his age. Germany sharply increases imports of American cotton.
Dr. Joseph B. Altruda of New York and Paris discussed the origins of plastic surgery in Montreal as he told the eastern Canada hairdressers' convention. He cited India in antiquity where nose reconstruction began by borrowing skin from the forehead to repair mutilations.
Since May 1935 the Royal Air Force plans 39 new aerodromes with seven ready. Seventeen lie east, nine in the Midlands near London, eight in the west, three in the north, and two in the south. Some premises were civil fields needing new buildings or enlargements. Thirteen R A I volunteer reserve training centres will form by year end, mainly at existing aerodromes.
Mont Blanc marked its 150th ascent anniversary with military Alpine guides parade and high altitude life saving displays in Chamonix. France honored guides who boosted tourism. Benoit Couttet received the Legion of Honor. The 1786 first ascent by Jacques Balmat and Gabriel Poccart founded Chamonix.
In a local exchange, Jim dismisses party lines while a supporter cites a $20 gift rumor. The conversation shifts as another figure questions the legitimacy, noting a $1067 sum.
Princess Elizabeth of York will not attend school but receive private instruction arranged at Balmoral Castle. The plan, approved by the cabinet, aims to avoid jealousy over peers and tailor studies to her unique schooling, with Miss Crawford in charge and specialists in French music to follow.
Twenty one recommendations from a New York meeting of motoring students aim to cut auto accidents. They stress proper vehicle condition, obeying laws and signals, consideration for others, cautious alert driving, adapting speed to conditions, training, avoiding drinking before driving, personal responsibility, no reliance on others, and yielding right of way.
Eastern Canada Airlines orders five British freighter aircraft built by General Aircraft. Named Moncton Halifax Saint John Sydney and Charlottetown these planes will operate between the five cities as Canada’s first complete British aircraft fleet.
A Gloucestershire diviner demonstrated water finding with a leafy divining rod to about 100 attendees at a Society of Dowsers event in England. W. Fletcher Cooper, a sceptic, witnessed multiple tests showing the twig twisting where water was deepest, challenging disbelief in the psychic gift.
British specialist Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, who turns 80 this year, urges keeping slim and treating the body like a car. He says there is no earthly reason people cannot reach 100 and beyond, and notes he once gave up lucrative practice to prevent illness rather than cure it.
Spaniards brought grapefruit to Florida in the 16th century. The Bahama Islands got 300000 dollars for sponges it shipped out last year.
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