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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1936
Page
2
Starr Ellison agrees to a provocative role as a public darling under Michael Fairbourne the press agent. He promises wealth and headlines while framing her as a glamorous fictional creation. The arrangement hinges on stay-as-playgirl until market fades.
In a serialized fiction excerpt, Starr Ellison agrees to a crafted background created by Michael. He envisions Cairo based intrigue and a mysterious lineage, hinting at an American soldier's daughter with Egyptian ancestry. The plot promises drama as Starr embraces the disguise and exotic backstory.
The London Sunday Express recalls Canadians arriving in France in khaki and speaking French phrases, sparking French admiration. It notes the Canadians beneath the Vimy Ridge memorial feeling a new bond, a Canada forever united with France by blood and courage.
A reader shares that she discusses finances with her husband weekly while he pays his bills monthly. The note also references unusual topics about tribesmen in Ceylon, toe archery, and a statistic about women workers in India's mines.
A devotional reflection urges timely obedience to God’s commands and resisting idle thoughts. It emphasizes daily duty, the need for a focused spirit, and the contrast between inward disorder and the steadfast heavens. It cites Psalm 119 60 and the idea that God’s faithful creation never fails.
Ed and Joe Lohbrunner, Victoria naturalists, collected twenty thousand rare Alpine plants on a 3000 mile Arctic fringe trek. In the Ogilvie range they spotted probable new fern species amid vast Rhododendron fields near Alaska and the Yukon border. After Valdez bookings filled, they stowed away on a returning vessel. The trip was financed by noted British and American naturalists.
A tropical giant arum lily eight feet tall and three and a half feet wide attracts visitors to Wageningen Agricultural High School in Holland. Growing from a bulb of six stone four pounds, the rare bloom lasts two days and has blossomed only once before in July 1932, remaining Europe’s sole specimen.
Dr Nandor Fodor and British physicist Mr B J Hopper report after testing mice birds frogs and cockroaches that there is no evidence animals possess souls or survive death Their tests contradict Dr R A Watters Reno claim of photographing animal souls and show no corroboration from thorough examinations in London and Reno alike.
The project funds a $75 million extension of the Central London Underground from Liverpool Street to Stratford Leystone and Newbury plus $1.25 million to straighten and widen the existing line. Surveyors map routes at night using theodolites, shafts are sunk, and a circular shield tunnels through with iron ring casing. Where rivers threaten, compressed air keeps water at bay.
Canada received praise at the Fourth International Conference on Anti Locust Research in Cairo. Delegates noted that the Canadian Committee on Grasshopper Research and its close ties with U S workers exemplified the type of organization needed. Canada’s work was shown to be closer to solving the grasshopper problem than any of the other 24 countries represented.
The will of Benjamin Nathan senior partner in a Melbourne furniture firm was proved. The six-line document leaves the $5,440,000 fortune to his two married daughters.
Hurricanes blowing at eighty miles per hour apply about thirty two pounds of pressure per square foot.
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