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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
4
In a gasoline age farmers still rely on horse and buggy methods and seek higher net profits rather than more bushels. Wheat is used as a key symbol of farm products while modern conveniences raise living costs, urging smarter, higher quality production and selective livestock and crop choices for better returns.
The Bluenose, famed North Atlantic fishing schooner, returns to the Banks with engines as Captain Angus Walters defends plans to modernize her. He says power is essential in modern fishing, signaling the decline of tall sparred sailing vessels that once made Lunenburg famous. The ship has dominated U S contenders for over a decade.
Grattan OLeary of The Ottawa Journal told over 500 attendees that Canadian parliamentary history rivals Britain in oratory and intellect. He said Canadians err in underrating their parliament and praised Canadian politicians as dedicated to the common good, aligning with historic British influence.
Amedee Choquette, 73, spends much of the year dusting every one of the Ottawa Parliament Library’s 400,000 volumes. For 20 years he has climbed 40 foot shelves with ladder and cloth, aided by his son, keeping the vast collection orderly after a 1916 fire and years of diligent care.
A Canadian Locomotive Company device claims to extract oil from Alberta tar sands using hot water washing. Tests reportedly successful, with sands rich in gasoline and kerosene. The unit will be sent to Fort McMurray. Separately, 2,600 acres in Bengal have been planted to cinchona for quinine production.
W C Grant of Ashtabula Ohio created the first church bulletin boards used outside Trinity Church. He originally planned signs for stores railroads theatres and other commerce but found churches provided his greatest business. A stray note mentions a horse uneasy riding in a truck.
At the Pacific Advertising Clubs Association convention in Seattle, Leste M. Barton of New York City forecast a major rise in national newspaper advertising over the next six months as businesses redirect funds from government taxes. He noted advertising, especially in the building sector, would surpass prior levels. Gasia remains in 11,000,000 English homes.
Roosevelt praised Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park as proof of harmony between the United States and Canada. He spoke at the park’s opening, calling the shared space a pledge for lasting goodwill across the border. A separate anecdote recalls a mother and a nurse with a racist remark about a baby’s nurse, ending with a joke about shoe polish.
A pompous inspector tests students with a 100 yard by 20 yard road riddle. Johnny answers forty four, claiming his brother is twenty two and half daft. The scene riffs on wit and misdirection as a street orator laments being branded a turncoat after years of shifting loyalties.
New Zealand faces a Primary Products Marketing Act bill granting the Crown ownership or control of dairy and other primary products. The move seeks adequate producer remuneration while enabling government purchase and price setting, starting with dairy. A State Department would oversee marketing, with senior experts directing implementation. Export contracts would require ministerial approval.
The weathered Pitt House in Hampstead England linked to William Pitt and the era of the War of Independence is set for demolition to make way for a modern building. The estate on Hampstead Heath sits high above the area and is owned by the Earl of Clarendon.
A prominent Annapolis Valley horseman asked Ottawa for permission to move about 250 ponies from Sable Island to mainland Nova Scotia. The origin of the hardy herd remains debated, with theories from wrecks to Spanish cattle, and the island is famed as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
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