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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
8
A New York World excerpt argues that muscular strength does not guarantee disease resistance. It praises women's superior vitality, noting they endure cold, starvation, and blood loss better, and recover from poisoning more readily. The piece contrasts strong men fainting from pain with frail women bearing hardships.
A Wide World Magazine piece describes Mongolian women's ornate headdresses. Hair is parted and drenched with a glue and grease mixture, shaped into large forms resembling ears, with upper sections spread to about six inches wide. Clips and ornaments, often silver or gold and set with stones, secure the style. The plaited tail ends with a decorative piece. Making the hair takes a full day and is done weekly to yearly, varying by social status.
A Grenoble factory feeds a turbine with water from a mountain reservoir via a vertical under inch diameter pipe. Tests show even the best tempered swords cannot cut the jet, which can break a blade without deflecting a drop. Calculations suggest a jet a tiny fraction of an inch thick, moving fast enough, could not be cut by a rifle bullet.
A London Tatler anecdote recalls Scones at Oxford famed for slovenliness and one enemy soap. Bolua confronted him in his rooms calling the untidy state too bad. The only clean item noted was his towel, earning the nickname Dirty Scones.
The Laovisville Courier Journal notes Hamlet Fatt acts timorous about appearing in town. Stage fright at his age puzzles locals, though he has long been on the boards. The piece hints at a dramatic performance featuring Fatt, marking a notable double stay in the same town.
A playful exchange from the Boston Transcript refers to a parcel of land for sale and a mortgage, with characters suggesting the parcel is "fed up" and prompting questions about the term explanation. The dialogue riffs on property terms and financial obligations in a light, humorous context.
A brief, quip filled exchange from the New Orleans Times Democrat features Minnie answering a question with mum and a terse remark about workload. The dialogue hints at a light domestic moment captured in a historic newspaper snippet.
A historical overview recounts famous deaths linked to lifework on stage and in writing. Geoffrey Chaucer Dickens Herder Mozart and others died amid creation, while physicians and actors faced dramatic fates in harness. Notable last words and onstage moments illustrate life ending at work.
An Irishman taunts George Gould by the wheels of a private car on a Missouri Pacific siding. Gould asserts his father once led the road and the old line predicts he will again. the exchange ends with a boast about the road’s future. Advertisers are urged to place a one cent a word notice in The Banner.
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