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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
1
A study of British Columbia Indian crafts suggests a Pacific school of art predating later Chinese pieces. Totem poles and canoes echo New Zealand and South Seas motifs while ivory carvings hint at ties to early Chinese jades. Basket weaving dominates due to lack of pottery.
Manitoba contemplates celebrating its diamond jubilee on July 15 1930 announced at Winnipeg by Premier John Bracken. The report lists other world briefs including moves on entry refusals, naval visits, a German sailor’s voyage, a Manitoba political figure’s death, early TV tests, disarmament talks, French social insurance, RCMP leadership changes, Arctic administration, and federal provincial financial talks.
A German ship building firm Deschimag unveils a new vessel concept featuring a bow and stern shaped to press water downward and shorten flow from bow to stern. Early trials report 25 percent fuel savings, reduced rolling and pitching, and improved steering.
Pattern No. 464 offers a easy to copy blouse in sizes 16 through 42 bust with a blue crepe fabric option and shirring at shoulders. It pairs with a black skirt or jacket and features summary prints in lime and red fabrics with a 25 cent price plus optional Spring Fashion Magazine for 10 cents.
The Jungfraujoch hotel rises high in the Bernese Alps above Interlaken in Switzerland. Built into the rock of the mountain, it offers hospitality amid eternal snow and fierce winter blizzards. Staff are seasoned mountaineers, and accessibility depends on the funicular, with ski routes used when roads are cut by snow.
A Boston steamed brown bread recipe lists graham flour corn meal flour and salt with soda and baking powder plus sorghum or molasses and soured milk. Mix dry ingredients with milk and molasses heat in buttered molds steam three hours then finish in a moderate oven for 15 minutes and serve hot or cold.
Creamy custard folded with peeled sliced oranges and vanilla topped with meringue. Egg yolks beaten with sugar and flour thickens over a double boiler then cooled and combined with oranges. Egg whites whisked with sugar form a light top layer and serve.
J H Woods of the Calgary Herald sails to London to confer with the Empire Press Union council about Canada's contingent for the Imperial Press Conference next year. Canada will send 20 delegates from 60 union members, the largest Empire representation. The conference meets in London in June next year.
Addressed to pattern buyers in Winnipeg at MG McDermott Avenue the notice states order procedures patterns by name town and pattern number. The message asserts that prosperity comes from doing work right and well rather than luck.
The passage notes that Europe derives from Europa, a mythic woman carried by Zeus in white bull form to Crete. It claims the Greek word Europe and Asia derive from Semitic roots meaning darkness for creb and go forth or rise of the sun for acu, suggesting diverse linguistic origins.
Trail riding in the Rockies is a favorite national pastime for visitors in Canada. Guided trips cover ten, twenty five, or fifty miles on well trained horses to view major points of interest safely.
Le Devoir of Montreal hails the Hudson Bay Railway completion as a valuable addition to Canada’s transport system. It sees the route as a development road and export link through rich mining, pulp and paper, and metallurgical districts. The paper notes government data collection on navigability and predicts the line will not rival the St Lawrence but will grow in usefulness as seafarers learn navigation conditions.
Walter W. Lang of Milwaukee returns from Mount Robson region in British Columbia with one grizzly hide and two brown bears. It marks his fourth year in the spring hunt in the Canoe Hiver country, accompanied by Richard Lace of Milwaukee.
Royal Canadian Air Force crews photographed thirty three thousand eight hundred square miles in 1928 for the Topographical Survey of the Department of the Interior. The effort targeted Canadian interior regions using oblique aerial photography to aid mapping.
A Sunday school text offers Jeremiah 31 3 as the golden verse and reflects on sanctification and devotion. It cites voices from J Stuart Holden the Jewish Chronicl Daniel March Whitler Carlyle Maclaren Shakespeare to illustrate humility service and gratitude in faith.
The Canadian National Railway bill for a new Montreal terminal to rival New York Central has Senate approval. Costing 59 million dollars, the project will sit below St. Catherine Street and connect by underground and overhead viaducts, easing freight and passenger flows. The terminal, largely below ground, will include 17 miles of new lines cutting freight distance from 108 to about 20 miles and open new urban districts. Sir Henry Thornton notes joint operation possible with CPR.
The article traces the origin of artificial silk to England with Dr. Robert Hook’s 1664 Micrographia suggestion. It notes Louis Schwabe’s 1840 Manchester machine and patent, his subsequent suicide, and states the spinnerette’s current prominence with England’s industry investment totaling about 135 million pounds.
The University of Alberta celebrated its twenty first birthday with dignitaries in attendance. First president Dr H M Tory, new president of the National Research Council of Canada, and first premier of the province Hon A C Rutherford participated in the anniversary ceremonies.
A statistician cites prolonged working lives as a cause of unemployment in Europe. He notes a shift from the old belief that forty was too old to work, arguing people now remain active into sixty or sixty five.
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