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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
7
A garbled fragment recalls a child running fourteen miles in fifteen and a widow with six children. The text mentions directions East and West and choosing a loved one, forming a vignette of rural hardship and loss.
A narrator muses on beauty at home and abroad before introducing Rip Van Winkle and a stranger carrying a loaded keg. They climb a mountain ravine to a hollow amphitheater framed by cliffs as distant thunder echoes, and Rip grows wary of the mysterious companion and purpose of the liquor load.
A letter expresses affection for the prairies and gratitude toward readers. The author mentions enjoying the land and its compensations, signs of personal care, and invites letters addressed to Aunt Betty at Regina with a humorous request to make room for one more.
The passage notes Gulliver's reception with six hundred domestics and three hundred tailors to craft a local suit. It describes the land as a continued garden with vast beds of flowers and ice works laid out squarely, presenting a vivid view of the country.
Gulliver gains liberty to visit a walled capital famed for crowded garret views and five hundred thousand inhabitants. He arrives via two foot high walls and eight foot wide inner spaces, transporting two makeshift stools cut from royal trees to traverse roofs and courtyards and glimpse the emperor’s palace through careful staging.
A Prairie Woman column extols the home as civilization’s base and a woman’s rightful role as mistress. It urges wise motherhood, orderly households, gentle discipline, and interior harmony while inviting reader tips, patterns, and co operation to help prairie women.
The passage guides early Christmas pudding planning, advising to gather ingredients, clean currants, stone raisins, and chop suet on slack days. It notes that plain and rich plum puddings are made similarly and proposes sharing recipes first or detailing the making process.
Instructions for cleaning drying pudding basins and cloths, preparing suet and dried fruits, including currants sultanas raisins dates prunes and apples. Mix fruit by mincing one third, remove stones, prepare almonds and citrus peel, grate rind and juice, pack puddings in basins, tie cloths and boil eight hours.
Rich pudding recipe listing Selah quantities for suet sugar currants raisins sultanas flour apples peel almonds and lemon rind and juice with spice salt eggs and milk. Directions say to make as directed and reduce richness by using less flour and more milk.
Soviet officials estimate unemployment in the United States will reach five million by year end. They also report two representatives of the Third International have been sent to establish Soviets.
An old classified style notice promotes at home earnings by following provided instructions and an epcode. The message gives a single contact department address 268 College St Terente and a call to action to write or call.
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