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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
6
An early, garbled promotional snippet touts Saskasal as a health tonic to boost vigor and ease rheumatic troubles. It promotes purchase at local drug stores and hints at broad health benefits amid unclear wording.
Emperor Haile Selassie orders a Jijiga region chieftain flogged for cowardice in battle and divests his troops and property to another Ethiopian commander. A 50 percent cut in long distance telephone rates announced for Manitoba. effective December 1 across the province. Rear Admiral Carey T Grayson head of the Red Cross says Japan sent sufficient surgical materials to the International Red Cross for 19 000 Ethiopian wounded. Britain faces a drastic overhaul of shipping regulations as inquiries reveal ship losses and rising unease. The 200 inch mirror of the world’s largest telescope completes successful finish at Corning glass works, poured December 2 1934 and cooling since. Calgary Board of Trade urges elimination of Alberta debt adjustment legislation bringing the matter under Dominion law. Irish Transatlantic Corporation seeks select Commons committee to probe alleged monopoly on the north Atlantic air route benefiting certain interests over others.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police expands training with five members enrolled in law school. H Perlson attends University of Alberta lectures as a drill instructor, while Lance Corporal James MacBrien, son of Commissioner Sir James MacBrien, also joins. Mounties reportedly study at Dalhousie Halifax University of New Brunswick Saint John McGill Saskatoon and Alberta locations to heighten efficiency and ensure they can “get their man.”
In Mount Auburn cemetery Stickney Chicago diggers exhumed 400 Orientals under the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. The group pledged to ensure final interment in China for a fee. The article notes a pouch of a full grown pelican holds seven quarts of water.
Ottawa curator P A Traverner at the American Ornithologists Union convention describes multiple avian killings. He cites a long-bill gull scene near Lake Winnipeg and other killings where hawks, ravens and gulls murder within flocks, including clashes at Point Pelee and the St Lawrence gallery.
William Buchan Reid of Buffalo visited Canada to greet John Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir and governor-general, for the first time in 40 years. The cousins, once schoolmates in Scotland, last met in Aberdeenshire four decades ago. Reid notes Buchan was a bookworm and politician, later rising to the House of Commons.
A historic recipe outlines making crisp cookies at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes. ingredients include two squares unsweetened chocolate and shortening, sugar, corn syrup, eggs, flour, Benson's Corn Starch, vanilla, and nuts. The method melts chocolate, blends ingredients, oils sheets, bakes hot, then cuts while warm.
The New York Herald Tribune reports mines in Illinois and Indiana use compressed air blasts to dislodge coal. Heavy steel cylinders hold up to 15,000 psi, released remotely to push coal from seams in larger shanks, claimed safer for miners. American buyers are said to purchase fraudulently sold mocks worth 90 million dollars weekly.
An astronomical star census presented to the National Academy of Sciences in Charlottesville Virginia expands estimates of sun sized stars and the potential for Earth like planets. By P Van de Kamp and A N Vyssotsky at the Leander McCormick Observatory University of Virginia the study counts wart and giant stars, increasing the number of candidates for planetary systems.
British National Debt Commissioners announce nearly 20 million dollars in unclaimed government securities and dividends. One holding in Consols totals about 1 million dollars with no claimant found. An English woman in Marseilles unknowingly held 280 thousand dollars with 100 thousand in dividends, living by borrowing. An official notes many fortunes are overlooked and hard to explain.
The Canadian Legion marked its 10th birthday with 1,200 veterans and spouses at a banquet. Brig-General Ross of Yorkton chaired as Dominion president honorably remembered Admiral Jellicoe. The minister noted 40,000 unemployed veterans, 12,000 with small war disability pensions, many deemed no longer employable.
Frank T. Sharpe, secretary of the Big Brother Movement, was buried in Toronto after dying recently. The funeral included Rabbi Sachs, Father Michael McGraw, Rev. Gilbert Agar, a juvenile court judge, and a domestic relations court judge. Judge Hawley Mott praised Sharpe’s work with Toronto youth. Hosking read the Scripture. A ferret killed 497 chickens in Mansfield before recapture. Sawfish snouts are used to spear bead models by savage tribes.
Pattern 5484 offers a dressy sweater blouse with fanlike pleated decoration and a self pattern in the body. It guides knitting an icrt knit simple outfit, includes blouse and plain skirt sizes 16 18 and 38 40 with illustrations and material details. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Univ for pattern 5484.
The St Catharines Standard notes drivers often forget courtesy behind the wheel. It urges motorists to examine their own behavior, dim headlights when asked, and pledge a Canadian wide safety movement built on genuine neighbourly conduct.
John Nelson McKim, 74, a prominent figure in Canadian advertising, died at his Montreal home after a brief illness. Born in Napanee, Ontario, he joined his brother in A. McKim and Company, later became secretary treasurer of A. McKim, Limited, and was named president in 1917 after his brother’s death. He retired in 1922.
A Denver judge suspended a five dollar reckless driving fine for Cora Huddierson after she claimed she used ether in a bottle to melt sleet on a windshield and fell asleep. The garbled tale followed by a sergeant’s order and a recruit’s horse driving past underscores the days of military drill and comic discipline.
The article outlines mandarin rank symbolism with stones for each rank from red ruby to white crystal. It also asserts Chicago, not New York, as the original home of the skyscraper.
Alan Priest, curator at the Metropolitan Museum, will be buried in a Buddhist monastery near Peiping. His tomb stands in a Ming dynasty graveyard inside the monastery of Chief Tai Ssu, 25 miles from Peiping. Priest, a Harvard graduate and sinologist, befriended the abbott to gain this honor.
A richly ornamented London cabinet on view at Selfridge’s links to Lucrezia Borgia and Caesar in Renaissance lore. The piece features secret drawers and a poison needle in the handle, with a history tracing to Cardinal de Medici, Czar Alexander I, and Rasputin before entering Baron van vandauer’s collection. It is now for sale at £3000.
Captain Gustaf Erikson of Mariehamn Finland, a former sea captain and owner of the largest windjammer fleet, plans to dispatch five of his biggest vessels to Australia to load grain and other merchandise for Britain. His fleet totals 26 vessels with a gross tonnage of 68 670.
Coming into manhood Polynesian youths endure a grueling series of tests. Upon completion their backs are tattooed with sharks teeth marks as a rite of passage. A single muscle twitch during the procedure risks banishment from the tribe.
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