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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
2
A column muses on the word whither used by Hon. Mackenzie King and asks readers to examine their life paths, education, careers, and civic duties. It compares personal direction to a sailor’s chart and urges deliberate choices to guide individuals and nations toward meaningful ends.
An 1882 oak ox-yoke made by George Cross of Inchkelth Sask is shown in Regina museum as a souvenir of early Saskatchewan days. Used in the 1885 Riel rebellion it withstood over 40 years of weather and remains well preserved. Presented by Mrs Cross to the Regina museum for exhibition.
The stump of a black walnut tree near Smithfield Virginia sold for 3800 dollars. Once abundant, black walnut is now America's most valuable wood with the butt and trunk valued as the handy main portions.
The English report says W H Fox Talbot took his first picture a century ago. The print, found by his granddaughter Miss M T Talbot, will be shown to the Royal Photographic Society at Lacock Abbey. She spent six hours daily for three months sorting her grandfather’s papers.
A science note explains that the sun is roughly 400 times wider than the moon and about 400 times farther away, producing an illusion of equal apparent size from Earth due to proportional distances and sizes.
A 1900s era description explains how a slow motion camera captures lightning as a bolt from a cloud to ground, showing electricity surging through ordinary light bulbs and powerful discharges. The piece notes voltages around five billion, the fiery arc spanning yards, and the dramatic, dangerous process of generating such power for study.
Irish Freemasons adopt Patrick Ruttledge suggestion to omit God Save the King at dinners. Cork lodge incident where men burst in and fired blank cartridges amid singing uproar spurred security talk. The plan is to toast the king in silence to avoid trouble while maintaining tradition.
Calgary inventor Ada Johnson unveils a home crafted burglar trap a rapid steel plate barrier activated by a small button. The device aims to block robber escape and is part of a 1922 project alongside semaphore signals for street intersections and a parachute plane system.
A Pan-Pacific Press Bureau bulletin notes tabu as a Hawaiian contribution to American folk words. It mentions ancient Polynesians forbidding women from eating in the presence of men or in the same house and from cooking under the same root as typical tabus.
A 15 year old student at a Moscow technical school built what is touted as the world’s smallest electric motor weighing 13 grams and capable of balancing on a finger tip. He is now developing a saw to cut matches. A London expert warns oak trees may be struck more often than other species since 1932.
Albert P. Reck4 ews editor of the Salt Lake City Desert News and Mahlon B. Kemmere,r a Princeton graduate mining engineer, piloted the Fairchild 71 monoplane named the Gray Ghost across the northwest continent. They reached Halifax after 4,600 miles of an 11,000 mile tour, dodging bad weather since Salt Lake City, overcoming a faulty landing gear weld in Pendleton, Oregon, and praising the craft’s reliability for this challenging voyage.
Madame Vera Lombardi, sister of Captain Esme Arkwright, exhibited plaster horse sculptures at Londonderry House in London. The one foot figures depicted numerous horse poses, created while she juggled an eight hour office job and no formal art training. Lombardi, discovered 18 months ago by painter Zuolaga, rose from war hospital nurse to Chanel manager guiding global collections and expanding Chanel sports workrooms.
A Woodley England groom declined church bells for his wedding saying they sounded mournful. Instead he used a gramophone record of a joyful peal as he and his bride left the church. He urged the need to have some aim in life beyond mere goodness.
A fashion notice describes a versatile dress suitable for women of all ages with an inverted front pleat and slimming back yoke. Necktie printed silk accents, maize and white checked silk gingham, short sleeves, and sizes 14 through 40 bust. Pattern No.21 requires 3 1/2 yards of 89 inch material. Patterns 15c, Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Pattern Book ad.
Crowds gathered nightly near a Shanghai school in the French concession after spotting a mysterious red glow in a window they believed to be a Chinese deity. The glow was later revealed to be reflections from an illuminated sign of a theater across the street.
Miss Frances B. Clapp reports from Kyoto that breakfasts in bed are an economy measure in Japan due to fuel shortages. She notes it costs roughly 50 cents to build a fire and about 90 cents to keep a bed warm. She mentions Antonio Stradivari, dead nearly 200 years, yet his varnish quality remains unmatched.
The Hwang Ho, China's northern river feared for floods, is gradually reclaiming its abandoned bed. Once a scourge blamed for destroying agriculture, dykes confine the river as silt shifts. Proposals to straighten the channel aim to use scour while自然 tendencies may prevail as before.
Garnet wheat will be marketed as two varieties No 1 Garnet and No 2 Garnet starting Aug 1 with price set by open market. Any not qualifying for No 2 goes to No 3 or lower grades, and $1.5 million was approved to recompense losses during the transition.
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