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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
3
A Washington dispatch reports the Public Works Administration will require 150 foot wide right of way for federally funded roads. Trees and natural screening will be planted and maintained, with planted shade on both sides for footpaths and erosion protection. The Helena Independent notes these reforms as highly satisfactory.
The throne speech by Hon. H. G. Carroll outlines a program of social and labor legislation for the third session of the 18th Quebec legislature. It promises no new taxes and highlights municipalizing electrical systems, starting farms for ex-prisoners, milk price controls to aid farmers, an insurance law to end conflicts, jurisdiction issues between Dominion and Province, woodmen protection, and controls on electric and truck transportation rates.
Northern Alberta pioneers and Old Timers Association prepare to compile a regional history of Edmonton from fur trading fort to town. The plan starts with identifying the oldest residents in districts like Clover Bar and Sturgeon, gathering material for a published book.
Feed and fodder relief plans in Saskatchewan report 1,500,000 bushels of oats and 4,500,000 bushels of barley plus 150,000 bushels of wheat and 3,000 tons of fodder. General manager C B Daniel notes local transfers continue and a spring supply will aid operations. No unusual horse deaths reported.
The piece notes editors often regret rejecting manuscripts, citing Dickens as a polite example. It recalls fifty three poems sent for Hyde Park Great Exhibition, all unreadable to the editor who chose to decline without printing any. The Times-Journal sternly quips Dickens would likely say discard the trash.
Turkeys should be wintered where they are expected to lay in spring. Winter housing in straw barns gives a fine place for tests in concealed spots due to wild instinct. If not offset, eggs may be lost to predators. As wet mash begins at noon, nests can be built from one inch boards eight to twelve inches wide and three feet long, forming square frames.
A tire with a camel foot tread and nine inch width operates at 12 pounds air pressure. It distributes weight evenly on sand and enables cars to travel up to thirty five miles per hour. Tests near the desert park allowed a vehicle to overtake five men smuggling drugs to camels. London society bans midnight movie shows for charity.
Alberta dairy industry reports a 1933 record with 23,750,000 pounds of creamery butter from about 96 creameries. Valued at $12,725,000, up $600,000 in butter alone, aided by a price rise and higher output, much of the product reaching British Columbia markets.
The Alberta Department of Agriculture holds Canada s sole carload of Garnet wheat from field inspected crops at the government elevator in Edmonton. It is possibly the only registered Garnet seed wheat car in the world, awaiting government decision on its disposal or distribution method.
The Port Arthur population in 1933 was 19,459, down from 20,073 in 1932, though many men were in the bush cutting sap peeled pulpwood when the count was taken last year, so the change was negligible. Twenty six nationalities are represented in addition to unknowns.
A recent interior department tally reports 1340 buffalo 473 elk 396 moose and 209 mule deer within El Island National Park in Alberta.
Miss C J Mackenzie, principal of Montreal's girls high school, spoke to Christ Church Cathedral's women's guild about fallacies surrounding high school education. She warned against pursuing office work as superior social status and urged valuing practical skills and the fit between education and occupation.
A timid wild partridge in the Charlesbourg zoo near Quebec has become a voluntary prisoner after discovering easy food, an exceptional note from the Canadian National Railways fish and game department says.
A man offers a taxi driver five dollars to meet his mother in law at the train station. The driver agrees but asks what happens if the mother in law misses the meeting. The man doubles the offer to ten dollars if the encounter fails.
Historic Radford's Sugar Shoppe, a Fleet Street landmark dating to 1667, faces shutters and sale. Once famed as Ye Most Ancient Segar Shoppe, it housed snuff and tobaccon, attracting Johnson, Jerrold, Dickens, Burke, and Sala. Competition and dwindling trade seal the store's closing fate.
Marion Long discusses portrait techniques highlighting personality as the key. She explains color symbolism for different ages, the need to capture a sitter’s self-consciousness, and how conversation helps shape poses and expressions during painting.
Col Wilfrid Bovey president of the Canadian handicrafts guild spoke at the Royal Empire Society in Montreal. He said Canadian farmers produce some of the finest tweeds and potected by promoting these crafts rural areas can regain contented permanent life. He urged urban buyers to purchase Canadian tweeds in rural districts and noted Indians and new Canadians boost handicraft revival.
A tortoise linked to Captain Cook remains alive and well on Tonga, where it enjoys ceremonial status as a chief. In Canada during the first ten months of this year, beef sales reached 25,554,627 pounds, up 7,758,439 pounds from the previous period, a 12.0% rise.
Sir KE John Russell of Rothamsted explains at Ottawa that farming life forces tough choices. He notes quotas tariffs and science aid help, but the farmer must pick between unwelcome options. A West Country parable illustrates the dilemma of choosing between two undesirable paths.
Lord Dawson favors morphia if only one drug could be checked and opium by another doctor for a similar effect. With three drugs, he would choose quinine second and hesitate between mercury, digitalis, and arsenic for the third in a World War I era remark cited by London Spectator.
Herman Trelle known as The Wizard of Wembley told youthful agriculturists at a Grande Prairie Board of Trade banquet in Peach River that he would provide samples of wheat and oats to every member who writes for them. He noted his continued heart is in improving strains despite possible debarment from Chicago competition.
A Toronto resident living near a market garden dries and packs small parcels of savory herbs for northern home makers who cannot obtain fresh home grown flavors. She aims to preserve the taste of marjoram sage and savory, seen as a pioneer effort to share herbs that are otherwise a luxury.
A garbled excerpt shows a magistrate speaking about penalties for knocking down persons and a girl replying with dignity. It mentions Craiginch andAberdeen figures, a governor, and a Scotland locale. The text then drifts to Perus cotton trade in 1933 and a confusing note about marriage and ownership.
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