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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1935
Page
5
An essay extols the value of clubs and leagues across Canada that promote wild life research and conservation. It urges Canadians to support Fish and Game organizations for laws, water supply, and habitat protection to ensure abundant wildlife and a prosperous land.
Manchuria faces a grain shortfall for its 30 million people as drought harms millet and kaoliang crops. The government plans to import 50,000 tons of rice from Saigon Rangoon and Bangkok with larger purchases expected. Rice is not a staple for northern Manchurians who rely on millet and maize.
The British army will recruit shorter men with a new minimum infantry height of five feet two inches, two inches below prior. Cavalry, tank corps, Royal Engineers, and ordnance corps may take recruits one inch below the old minimum if fit. War Office aims to reach full establishment amid recruit shortfall. The last sentence about birds life span is unrelated trivia.
A new technique developed by the New York police detects prints on fabric by chemical processing. It preserves original prints after discovery and can reveal prints aged years. The method, refined after the Lindbergh case, surpasses powder dusting by fixing prints in waxy fibers.
At the 14th annual national inventors congress in Chicago viewers saw a curious array of gadgets. Among offerings were a lullaby bassinet a pneumatic ladder and a hen nest that separates layers from bars. Albert G Burns president of the congress called many inventors nuts yet says nuts generate ideas. The lullaby bassinet offers remote rocking for babies.
The House of Commons tabled supplementary estimates totaling 16,362,978 with 1,500,000 for indemnifying grain elevators over Garnet wheat grading. The change, effective August 1, 1935, comes via an amendment to the Canada Grain Act passed last year. Defence totals exceed 3,000,000 alongside public works allocations.
Lawrence T Griswold a noted anthropologist who has led expeditions for the Smithsonian and National Zoological Park arrived at Victoria with a king cobra over ten feet long. He recalls a near fatal encounter in the Philippine Islands when a blanket diverted the giant snake's strike before it was killed by his party. Cummings museum London features an extensive witches display.
Croydon Aerodrome undergoes major alterations and extensions costing thousands of dollars to handle a 300 percent rise in passenger and goods traffic. The 1928 main airport of London, once $1.5 million, now enlarges lay out to speed baggage and passport checks. Passengers from Paris previously faced delays. after two months, passports will be checked during baggage unloading with improved loading from motor coaches.
A transportation exposition in Saint John N B showcased land sea and air travel from ancient crude vehicles to modern machines. The indoor displays included a miniature Saint John river harbor with tiny ships and 74 pictures of famous early sailing vessels. Union station featured the latest steam locomotives in pristine condition and Saint John airport displayed Canada's speediest aero planes.
The South Pole region near Erebus and Terror is imagined as Australia’s future winter sports playground. Mawson proposes Antarctic development including a polar trade seal, penguin egg canning, and a winter sports ground 3100 miles from Melbourne with safe long distance air travel in mind.
Amey Gravelle of Nashin sing claims the Ontario government should pay for radiator shell and a headlight rim damaged when a bull moose charged their car in Glendale Crown game reserve north of Sault Ste Marie. He filed a formal claim with the department of game and fisheries.
Readers are reminded that Henry Croker's 1573 probate requires annual readings at St. Magnus the Martyr Lower Thames Street. The Worshipful Company of Coopers and the Master and Wardens must attend each reading when a descendant seeks to dispose of inherited property.
In Dunstable during mail week wireless signals were received by a glider for the first time in England. The experiment was conducted by Mr G E Collins holder of the British distance gliding record and he described the test as highly satisfactory.
In a terse scene, Mr. Isaaca informs Solomon of an life insurance decision. Solomon protests with a plea, calling the plan a burden and expressing distress at the change. The dialogue hints at family tension and the weight of financial choices.
An optical firm in Germany says it has perfected a new aerial camera to revolutionize serial photography. The device carries eight lenses and can photograph 220 square miles from 15,000 feet, potentially covering all compass directions.
President Roosevelt first designated the executive residence as the White House on his official stationery. He noted that nearly every state had an executive mansion and urged a more distinctive name for the President's home.
An Egyptologist notes that the lunar year of 354 days has no natural counterpart yet has been used for 1,313 years or, in Mohammedan counting, 1,354 years. The remark highlights the calendar’s long, non natural history and its persistence across eras.
R D Kirkham of Saltcoats Saskatchewan and W D Lang of Cawston British Columbia were named honorary life members of the Canadian Seed Growers Association at the Edmonton convention. They were also made Robertson associates, honoring James W Robertson. Lang has 19 years and Kirkham 20 years of service, with Kirkham noted for Marquis wheat purification. Bronze medals to be presented later.
Canadian railways announce that patrons of sleeping car compartments may take dogs, cats or small birds if not vicious and kept in suitable containers. The policy does not extend to passengers in the main body of the car and pets must stay in their rooms.
A barrister, recalling the prisoner’s character as a consummate and impudent scoundrel, defends him before the bar. A whispered reminder that the man is his client prompts the lawyer to ask what great man has not been calumniated by contemporaries.
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