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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
2
A prairie writer urges farmers and small town workers to take a well earned holiday to restore nerves and health. Family travel can be inexpensive with car or wagon transport, camping gear, and local supplies. planning ahead reduces risk and boosts educational and personal gains from new experiences.
A middle aged spinster battles a hot cup of coffee as a train nears departure. A nearby cowboy steps forward to offer his already saucered cup, showing courtesy in the moment. A Tokyo forwarding agency touts sending luggage anywhere while a Seoul shop sign proclaims J. K. Blank Bread Baker The Best Loafer in Town.
A salvage scow overturned in Hecate Strait near Queen Charlotte City after heavy ice frustations and a northeast squall while towed by the Daly. It dumped about $3,600 worth of salvaged machinery from a disused sawmill. the scow had just been overhauled at cost hundreds of dollars. Newspaper correspondents note a curious historical aside about Ethiopia and World War prior coverage.
Dr. George W. Lewis of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics told a meeting at the New York Museum of Science and Industry that with current wing design airplanes top out near 575 miles per hour. He demonstrated that at that speed air over the wing top suddenly forms a shock wave, causing loss of lift.
A fragmented line from a page shows an exhortation to arouse the liver bile and spring from bed with energy. The readable text repeats the call and includes stray wording about timing and vigor, reflecting a period style that emphasizes awakening and vitality.
A foreign visitor to Queensland died after handling a live cone shell on the Barrier Reef coast. He scraped the shell with a knife, its venomous spike punctured his palm. He later suffered vision loss, lapsed into a coma, and died after being rushed to shore.
The Koh-i-Noor, famed worldwide, was brought from Buckingham Palace by a dapper man and two plainclothes officers. It was handed to a top diamond expert for cleaning on Commercial Road before returning to the Queen's bedroom safe later the same day.
Fishermen W Edwards and J Eeley of Goffs Harbor report a whale dragged their launch when the anchor fouled the creature. The whale sped about a mile a minute, endangering the boat until Edward cut the rope and freed the craft.
The Social Hygiene Council is reorganized into the Health League of Canada led by Dr Gordon Bates with Hon. Justice Riddell as president. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir urged public health cooperation as the new campaign to universally pasteurize milk is launched, aiming to educate and overcome prejudices and commercial opposition.
Mary Herritty, three feet tall yet fearless, led Tory Island off the Donegal coast where Gaelic and old customs persist. Her bidding once dictated by the island’s strongest men, she was a defining figure in a region where communities elect a woman as chief.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports the cost of living index fell from 80.7 in January to 80.4 in February, on a 1926 base of 100. Food prices eased while eggs butter lard and pork rose, offset by declines in other meats and potatoes. Coal coke and gasoline prices rose modestly.
A vessel departed Vancouver in a recent week bound for South Africa carrying a consignment of aspen logs. Logs cut at Lesser Slave Lake and Asia will be used in India to manufacture matches. Narwhal whales possess a single functional tooth used as a battering ram through ice.
Three animal samples from a northwest New Guinea island were shown to Professor Wood Jones of Melbourne University. Two are carcasses while the third live marsupial eats banana, passion fruit, biscuits, milk, honey, and occasional paw paw or carrot. The animal resembles a rare Australian marsupial. Meanwhile tuberculosis is being fought but remains Australia’s major public health problem. Tiny tobacco seeds produce enough plants for an acre.
The three story Cincinnati brick building once linked to the Underground Railroad is being razed for a gasoline station. Locals report hidden tunnels and a 20 by 10 foot rock-filled basement space, with historians unsure of its significance. Old residents hope demolition clears up the mystery.
Drain cherries and reserve juice then simmer with water sugar and Crown Brand Corn Syrup. Roll out tea biscuit batter, spread with cherries and cinnamon, butter, roll like a jelly roll, then bake in a hot oven using the cherry syrup.
Pilot Officer B. R. Ker of South Wood received an eight week suspension of his flying license, believed to be England’s first such case. Ker flew solo from Newcastle to Oslo and back in 11 hours 5 minutes, secrecy and customs skipped, prompting Air Ministry action but a mild penalty in view of the achievement.
Three young French scientists guided by a sextant and compass will cross Greenland's interior this summer to conduct scientific research. They depart Kristianshaab in April, mushing 530 miles to Angmagssalik behind a 29-foot sled with 12 dogs, planning to arrive with one sled and eight dogs.
A compact note traces how radio emerged as a term for wireless telegraphy by 1906 in Berlin and gained U S usage by 1912, while radiogram once meant an X ray photograph in 1896. A discarded Toronto Star anecdote about Madison Avenue fashion shows amid clashing colors closes the piece.
An old advertisement touts Wincarnis as a tonic to combat run-down feelings. It claims the beverage combines grape content with beef and malt extract to build red blood, nerves, and energy, promising better wakefulness, cheer, and heart vigor. The copy urges purchase from Head Prina Co.
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