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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
2
In Stephanie Dale's mansion Starr Killigan confronts Michael Hassan in a midnight boudoir confrontation. He declares a play marriage, forcing Starr toward a dangerous, irreversible choice while her conscience and desire collide amid looming exposure.
An ad claims Phillips Milk of Magnesia swiftly alkalizes the stomach to ease acid indigestion. It suggests two teaspoons after meals or two tablets for fast relief from hyperacidity and associated nausea, promising a quick improvement and a return to normal appetite. The product is offered at 25 cents for a large box.
Banff naturalist Dan McCowan warned Montreal Women's Club that Rocky Mountain glaciers are melting, shrinking prairie reservoirs. He said climate shifts will nearly empty Saskatchewan rivers within 50 years unless trees are planted to conserve moisture.
The piece notes fans crafted from peacock feathers originated in China around 3000 B.C. with a 4000-year-old example in the Cairo Museum. Portuguese traders brought the craft to Europe in the 1600s, Paris long a center of fan making, and Louis XIV expelled Protestants in 1685, some transferring the art to England. The Fanmakers' Company of London dates from 1709.
In a remote Luzon mountain area a mass of hundreds of mummified corpses sits in the open, clothed and arranged as if at picnics. The bodies, left to mummify by hot, dry conditions, have remained undisturbed for years.
T O M Sopwith, likely Britain's challenger, will sail from Gosport to New York in May with Endeavour I, the former challenger, as possible competitor. Weather and prior trials hindered direct comparison, and both boats remain in England before departure. Sopwith hopes six weeks of practice on this side precede the July 31 match. Endeavour I’s cost is borne by a British syndicate of yachtsmen.
J M Ewing of Kenya created a diminutive steam engine under half an inch tall, about the size of a threepenny bit, with a three cylinder double acting piston valve reversing gear. It features a bore of 64th inch and a 1/16 inch stroke, and roughly 200 parts, but officials refused to display it at the Empire exhibition for fear of theft.
Smithsonian notes 300 dialects in their stock Indian languages. The statement links Finnish air insignia history to broader linguistic diversity in India.
H E Seely of Ottawa, head of the forestry survey branch, told the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers that aerial photographs can determine tree heights from shadows. Tables for location, season, time, and diameter breast height were developed. Ground surveys matched aerial averages, with individual trees varying up to ten feet, while the average error was under one foot.
The Hamilton Spectator argues that speed limits remain essential for safety. Experts agree that driving above 50 miles per hour invites danger, and even with improvements and safeguards, removing the limit would yield to reckless and selfish drivers and endanger others.
Speaks many languages almost none will be disposed to quiet in the appointment. A Toronto interpreter able to converse in Russian German Ukrainian Serbian Macedonian Czecho Slovak Bulgarian Jewish Lithuanian Polish and English described as a veritable babel in himself. MacTight asks if he will pull through and Dr MacFee warns Sandy to take at most half a bottle of medicine.
A report cites tea as the world’s most popular beverage, highlighting its global reach and cultural prominence across diverse regions. The article notes broad consumption patterns and enduring appeal spanning centuries.
A faithful meditation notes that God began a good work in believers and will complete it. It argues perseverance fails not from lack of strength but from a will not fully aligned with God's will, urging total unity with the Divine for lasting peace and benediction.
The Jonker diamond, once 725 carats rough, produced 12 stones totaling 875 carats after months of study and cutting by Harry Winston in a Fifth Avenue office. The process left Vanished into air 350 carats, while the remaining stones shone on the velvet board.
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