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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 20, 1933
Page
2
A reflective piece compares jig-saw puzzles to life as readers consider whether such leisure deepens patience and resilience. It cites an authoress who found a tiny missing piece reveals a coherent picture, suggesting the key piece lies close at hand and guides life’s bigger design. A recovering student asks what readers are making of their own lives.
The note surveys literary output on Abraham Lincoln noting that more books exist about him than any other figure, with Napoleon previously holding the peak before 1870. It also lists disparate items including the Maria fish in lakes, Winnebago, Churchill harbor depth, and a garbled camel fact about giraffes.
An experimental synthetic diet fed to goats at Cornell University appears to cause heart disease. The sixth goat named low mood died from degenerated heart muscle in the ventricle after months on the diet replacing hay with cellulose, starch, casein, milk solids, minerals, yeast, and cod liver oil. Researchers L A Maynard and C M McCay oversee animal nutrition studies to identify food factors for animals. It is uncertain if humans could be affected. Heart disease causes more US deaths than any other condition, prompting scientific interest in these findings.
Mrs G C of Levis Quebec explains how she hemmed and dyed an old short skirt to meet new length trends. She bleached the fabric, redyed with Diamond Dyes, praising the product for smooth even color that lasts through washing and makes garments look nearly new.
The Pas motorists crave a 100 mile link to Hudson Bay Junction Saskatchewan to escape the limited 17 mile drive to Clearwater Lake. A rough road exists but is unpassable. grading and clearance work hoped for this summer as a relief project. Current traffic comprises 80 cars and 35 trucks with jams from narrow routes. Four highways serve the area, the longest to Clearwater Lake being the most used.
Heavy shipments of potatoes from Prince Edward Island are arriving at Halifax under the Canadian National Railways. About 300 carloads have been booked for export, with steamers chartered to load full cargoes for southern ports, signaling a strong revival in the export business from Nova Scotia.
Allan C. Fraser of Calgary is appointed secretary treasurer of the National Dairy Council of Canada succeeding W. F. Stephen of Ottawa. The annual meeting in Toronto saw constitutional amendments for equal executive representation for producers and manufacturers, reducing voting delegates from 33 to 18. Producers on the new executive include P. C. Colquhoun Norman Clarke R. A. Hurford Hector Cutten and W. L. Carr. manufacturers include Col. C. B. Price W. H. Forster Robert Barbour J. M. Carruthers and W. G. Marritt. Fraser’s appointment takes effect on May 28, Stephen’s 70th birthday.
Dominion botanist Dr H T Gussow told a Winnipeg conference that achieving the same wheat quantity on half the land would cut production costs. While not yet achieved, he said progress is within measurable distance after years of plant breeding, pathology, and cereal chemistry work across Canada. He travels the west to inspect results from various points with assistants nationwide.
Rev. Frank H. Bushfield, once of Winnipeg, oversees congregations in Stewart British Columbia and Ryder Alaska. One worships in the United Church of Canada and the other in the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States. He belongs to Prince Rupert Presbytery and is a Victoria College graduate who has served in Alberta and Vancouver.
The Christian Science Monitor reports the United States will create about 250000 jobs of a brand new kind for the unemployed. Congress finalizes the first unemployment measures and Labor Department agencies will enroll willing workers for reforestation soil erosion and conservation work. Life in forest camps replaces pavement pounding as the new role.
Reports indicate rising trade activity between Russia and China with increases in both imports and exports. Analysts note shifts in energy, manufacturing, and technology flows, highlighting broader regional economic alignment and potential policy impacts.
The University of Alberta and University of Manitoba representatives debated by radio in Edmonton Winnipeg and Saskatoon in a first for local history. The broadcast ran smoothly with live links via telephone wires and four 30 second repeater reversals. Saskatoon aired music as judges prepared, signaling radio's serious potential beyond stunts.
Mrs Alice Mary Herbert Russell Brown announces in the London Gazette her intention to adopt her husband Sydney George Brown as her forename partner. She is noted for advancing his electrical and gyroscopic inventions which earned him many distinctions. His devices include wireless message transmission to airships and aircraft and a gyroscopic compass praised as a premier marine innovation.
William Willis of Oakland California, a 66 year old motorman, has spent 44 years on a five mile Berkeley to ferry wharf route. Though he has covered only 10 miles of the earth, his back and forth travels exceed 2,059,200 miles, tallying over 200 thousand trips on the same path.
Rugs for floor covering rise in popularity as skins slump in price at The Pas. Bear rugs of white fur fetch as little as ten dollars, with black varieties cheaper. A large polar bear rug can reach seventy five dollars while black timber wolves sell for about twenty dollars.
A New Rochelle hen laid three eggs in a row including two colored shells battleship grey and jet black and a white egg with a double yolk. The colored eggs remained unbroken leaving interior quality unknown. The report notes no single food surpasses another for brain value while mentioning fish as brain food and sour milk removing rust from white goods.
Major W. E. Gladstone Murray of the British Broadcasting Commission told Montreal's Canadian Club that public service broadcasting offers advantages over advertiser funded programs. He argued the American system lacks reliable revenue and freedom from commercial interests, favoring British public service priorities and interEmpire programme exchanges.
The Ottawa Journal notes the government's deficit stemmed from unavoidable costs. It cites 125 million dollars in interest on the national debt, 50 million for veterans' pensions, and over 50 million for railway deficits. These expenditures were fixed and unavoidable, absolving blame.
With radio equipment pilots can take off through fog and storms climb to altitude, travel hundreds of miles without ground contact, and land safely at their destination, marking a new era in blind navigation and air travel safety.
A playful line swap features a postmistress who favors a classic gangster movie vibe. The comic misquote shifts tone from a plain instruction to a theatrical taunt, with a wink to old film tropes.
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