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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
16
A line from Arthur Stringer in Smart Set recalls boy laborers at dawn plowing fields. The verse fades with time as tar and mould cover the soil and the memory of those workers lingers over grey bones and singing grass.
In Dundas County a storekeeper nicknamed Pat jokes about paint being applied inside out after a customer complains the paint won’t stick to the floor. The second tale features a respected lawyer who refuses a congressional bid to avoid exposing a long forgotten poetry book.
Inspector Hughes leads a kindness quiz in a Toronto school recounting how a cheerful lesson unfolds. A boy finally speaks up with a striking anecdote about his father nearly giving him a cent each morning, ending a lively classroom exercise.
The article notes a remarkable spring display of icebergs along Newfoundland’s East Coast with heavy field ice delaying navigation. Icebergs drift south by the Labrador Current to the Gulf Stream, melt in warmer waters, and feed fish and whale populations while hindering local agriculture and shipping. A Hudson's Bay Company post on Lost Lake near Lake Superior becomes a Grand Trunk Pacific station, signaling rapid settlement and pioneer movement in the wilderness.
In 1896 Canada lacked the Northern railway but now has 7000 miles in operation or planned. The Penadien Northern stands out as shares held by only two leaders, William Mackenzie and Donald D. Mann, shaping a possible ocean to ocean transcontinental route.
The estate of August Wilhelm of Toronto who died in Bavaria last month totals 15130 dollars. Executor is Arthur C. Mc Master, barrister. The widow inherits the entire estate, largely in mortgages. A railway charter note shows 206 charters in 20 years. 28 contributed to construction, 86 lapsed, rest extended.
The 15 percent tariff on Canadian plows entering the United States faces Cockshutt Plow Co of Brantford securing 75 car loads for Western States. If a tariff at 15 dollars per hundred exists, how much could be done under reciprocal free trade? The Ameri can tariff offers free exchange for plows and other agricultural implements, a matter Grain Growers Associations should raise with the Government for their broader benefit.
James Hill urges diverting 5 to 6 million dollars yearly from naval to agricultural reform. He would fund 1 000 model farms nationwide with 5 000 a year each to teach modern farming, crop rotation, and market methods, linking education to national wealth and food security.
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