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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 16, 1936
Page
2
A young woman in a Paris style tailleur watches a Fifth Avenue shop window display of waxen brides and bridal party figures. The scene fuses city noise with her inner pain and the distant wedding march, hinting at a life of weariness and unspoken longing.
Starr Ellison, a young woman doomed by a modern commandment Thou Shalt Not Love, roams New York seeking life before a terminal illness ends her days. Haunted by dreams of romance she confronts her fate, yearning for freedom and a once-in-a-lifetime love before time runs out.
The Kuban Cossacks, once powerful along the Don and Terek, faced near wipeout in the 1932 33 famine. Imperial self governance gave way to Soviet collectivization resistance, with famine used against them. Their continued defiance threatened state plans, as they held large southern Russian lands.
A plant bud must prevent evaporation and keep out moisture. It senses surrounding air temperature and, if moisture enters, freezing temperatures can cause cell damage as ice expands.
A concise maxim states the successful man gains results by directing others to carry out his plans. It emphasizes leadership through actions of subordinates and the ability to marshal people toward objectives.
The Besancon cathedral houses the 30 000-part clock built for Cardinal Mathieu in 1857 at 375 000. Standing 19 feet high and 8 feet wide, it features 27 dials including world time, ecclesiastical cycles, planetary movements, and a moving Apostles display with archangels striking bells on the hour and quarter hour.
Kazuo Takahashi general manager in San Francisco for Nippon Yusen Kaisha owns five albums of Japanese stamps valued at about 100000 dollars. His prized piece is a unique 6 yen brown uncancelled 1875 stamp. A former child admirer of stamps, he learned to tell genuine from forgeries and studies retouching marks and secret dots on issues. Japan recently curbed counterfeit production, but Takahashi still regards stamp collecting as a personal hobby and declined an invitation to exhibit internationally in New York.
Sir Lionel Phillips bart mining magnate and associate of Cecil Rhodes died in Capetown South Africa at eighty. He went to Johannesburg in 1889 and during the Jameson raid was one of four Uhlanders condemned to death by Transvaal Judge Gregorowski. His sentence was reduced to a fine of £25 000.
A quirky note covers a lucky man with wife and a cigarette fighter, both employed. It mentions a 1936 Welsh Eisteddfod whistling prize won by a girl and notes that many cigarette factories in Egypt are Greek owned.
A devotional exhortation urges renewed vows to God and daily focus on chief duties. It advises planning the day with one key task, offering thoughts and actions to God, and seeking guidance to handle occasions likely to bring trial, through brief morning reflection.
Italian druggists agreed to melt bronze mortars once meant for munitions to war materials, but they will be turned into bells for Addis Ababa. Dr Granelli said bells from old bronzes will be placed in the planned Litoria tower in the Negus era capital. Thousands answered the government summons, but most mortars arrived too late to aid the war.
A reader claims since 1918 King Edward has made over seven thousand public appearances in service of the Empire. Predictions say trains may rival airplanes in speed while autoists race crossing. Florida's ninety-two year old E H Bailey leads the University of Tampa band in original compositions.
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