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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
5
The article urges Canadian parents to use the two summer months to benefit children through outdoor time, swimming, and nature, emphasizing health, character, and practical skills. It advocates simple camping, limited expenses, and shared camp duties, plus walking tours and closer parent–child interaction to guide future development.
A quirky note on Martian weather describing near hourly extremes and improbably snow out of season, alongside stray lines about school kids in China ordered to military training, a farmer’s wife butter weighing dispute, and a remark that most military terms are French.
The Canadian Legion announced Lloyds of London have insured the Viey Pilgrimage planned for July next year against abandonment due to war or financial panic. Early bookings are urged to secure ships, billets, and transport to France with cooperation from French, Belgian, and English authorities.
Work to replace a huge electric sign at the Canadian National station in Winnipeg was halted to avoid disturbing a mother robin nesting on the letter p. Electricians prepared to remove the sign, but officials, urged by office workers who saw the four eggs, chose not to disturb the bird. Efforts continue to design a sign that preserves the existing letter R position.
An inventive life-saving device from a Cardiff firm uses tubular cork bags sewn into a rope-tethered net that can unroll down a ship’s side as a ladder or float beside distressed vessels. It aims to reduce sea perils, with orders from liner and tramp firms and prospects of a new industry.
Ruth Mix daughter of Tom Mix eloped with Harry Knight, Canadian bronco buster, and married in Reno Nevada. A telegram to Tex Austin in Hollywood confirmed the knot with the message We tied the knot today. Miss Mix had a prior marriage to actor Douglas Gilmore annulled in Middleton New York in July 1932. Knight's home is Banff Alberta.
A. W. Youngblut of Oxford County Ontario found a large potato that began to sprout in his cellar. The sprout curled around and re entered the potato near the surface, emerging from the other end and extending about two inches.
A constitutional writer questions the functions of a lieutena nt governor. The Winnipeg Tribune notes duties begin around 8 am including Sundays and extend late into the night. The piece observes numerous organizations eyeing the governor as a prospective guest at events across Manitoba.
Walter Dannatt, 73, a retired London businessman, plans a thousand mile journey up the Amegon to pursue his butterfly and moth collection. His trove exceeds 18 000 specimens and he hopes to add many more. He notes he keeps it by cycling and has ridden 150 000 miles on his current machine. He recalls owning the first safety bicycle in the country and mentions specimens from as far as the Solomon Islands.
General Patterson announced the Ashworth is the first chartered vessel for the 1935 season by the On-to-the-Bay Association. More ships will visit Churchill Manitoba this season, forecasting a record grain export year. The Ashworth sails from England to open the Hudson Straits docking at Churchill after its August 10 arrival from Newcastle Antwerp and Liverpool.
Corporal Ian Mondelet Drum of Victoria B C graduates with honors from the Royal Military College. Western cadets named include Gordon Dale MacAllister Regina Edward Maurice Hodson Rosthern C S M John Alexander Hornibrook Calgary John Despard Victoria Murray Duncan Lister Calgary Ronald Edward Wilkins Penticton George Ross Davidson Caster Alta Robert Summers Stronach Calgary John Henry Desmond Barrett Victoria. Diplomas will be awarded after supplementary exams to Thomas Alfred McPherson Victoria and Corporal William Carroll Patterson Calgary.
More than 8000 former British Empire residents gathered at Lincoln Park Los Angeles to picnic for the King George silver jubilee. British consul Francis E. Evans urged closer Anglo American ties and international amity among former British subjects, with John Tappan of the Sons of St. George as a guest of honor.
Pierre Martin started a tiny plantation on Belle Isle near Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia 302 years ago he brought the first Normandy trees to the new world. From that modest effort the Annapolis Valley apple industry grew into a noted regional production.
Alice Brooks offers a home pattern service featuring hats purses gloves two piece knitted suits and quilts with Spring Fancy Cleopatra's Fan Rainbow Square and more all designed for easy follow along with color guidance finishing tips and stylish home crafts patterns cost twenty cents each and can be ordered directly from home.
In Shanghai a young woman refused to panic when a thief snatched a pearl earring worth $1,000 from her ear. She countered with a daring ruse, offering the stolen item back and revealing she paid only $2.50 for it. The thief fled, hurling insults at women with imitation jewelry.
Receipts from the Christmas seal sale of the Canadian Tuberculosis Association climbed 12 percent in 1934 over 1933, with notable increases reported in Toronto Saskatchewan New Brunswick Montreal and Hamilton. Research awards to junior staff in sanatoria and clinics for 1934 include Dr. C. F. Bennett Fort San Sask and Dr. A. R Boyd Vancouver.
Gordon Gueat discusses bromine from discovery by the French to modern extraction methods. Sea water brines and Stassfurt deposits yield bromides, with bromine used for ethylene bromide, dyes, sedatives, and photographic silver bromide. A ship experiment and Atlantic canal plant aim to scale bromine from the ocean.
The Toronto Star Weekly notes a Clanny Court song in Cobourg Ontario with Magistrate W A Campbell on the bench. The accused is Thomas Campbell and the police officer citing the charge is D Campbell of Campbellford.
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