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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1936
Page
7
Starr Ellison confronts a taunting man in a busy street with six months to live looming over her. The gray-eyed stranger, Michael Fairbourne, reveals a tempting offer to “play” as he chats with her and the crowd, while Starr wrestles with fate and desire.
A young woman wanders a street craving play and food, drawn to a restaurant window as she forgets her job hunt and doctor’s warning. The scene shifts to a Japanese chick sexer in Edmonton, capable of sorting 150,000 day old chicks per three months with 97 percent accuracy. He explains five years of study and the benefit to poultrymen who want only pullets.
Trained monkeys known as broks outperform men at coconut plantations in Kelantan British Malaya. A Malay keeper directs the animals up palm trunks with a rope waist tether. Monkeys are trained from ground shell collection and fed cheaply, making them valuable for copra estates on contract.
Mrs. Frank Gresham of Wales, a delegate to the Associated Country Women of the World in Washington, praised Canadian and American kitchens during a Montreal stop. She said English kitchens still rely on old pans and old methods and that kitchen planning remains only an idea. She urged openness to learning from other countries.
A fragmented dialogue asks how to serve eggs with jam on thick slice while noting that the French were the first to use airplanes extensively. The line ends with a numeral 2160, suggesting a stray data artifact.
Rt Rev John Lyons Ontario bishop unveils a tablet in St James Memorial hall Joyceville near Kingston. He laments the big silver nickel is widespread and as common as sin, noting churchgoers contribute adequately yet could give more to address church problems.
A native prairie tree, described as 18 feet tall in Manitoba hills, grows along streams from the Pembina Mountains to the Bow River in the Rocky Mountains. It is commonly armed with thorns and noted for its rustic, silvery appearance among surrounding scrub and berry clusters.
Old Arch the Arch of Triumph near Gorky street by the White Russian Railway Station will be razed to clear space for a new tram line. Built by Alexander L to celebrate Napoleon retreat from Moscow, the structure is more than a century old.
National Park Service announces a 2300 mile horseback Pacific coast trail from Canada to Mexico. The route will run along higher mountain trails, connect national parks, and be marked with metal signs for riders and hikers. Most construction will be carried out by the CCC and completion is expected this year.
Ontario-born residents number about 2,500,000 in Ontario with 3,500 in the maritimes and 257,000 in the Canadian West including British Columbia. Quebec has 55,000 Quebec-born in Ontario. The figures are census based and Ontario contributes roughly £5,000 to Quebec while about £2,500 Quebec-born residents live in Ontario.
Basil Keys a British Columbia horticulturist surrounds his home with about ten tropical bamboo varieties to prove bamboo can grow in Canada. The trees thrive, forming a developing tropical display around his residence.
A devotional fragment urges keeping the Holy Spirit within, seeking a constant divine dwelling, and avoiding overhasty pursuits that could divide spiritual focus. It contrasts inner calm with earthly hunger. The note closes with weather and sea life trivia about London sunshine loss and sea lions fed daily.
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