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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
2
Victor Durnovo and Jack Meredith lead a four man party through Africa in search of simiacine. The ascent ends with Durnovo discovering the plant, collapsing in triumph as the journal hints at a drastic turn in the perilous expedition.
The London Outlook recalls how Victorian rural life valued nature and creatures with lively names such as hens called Dame Partiet. The author notes this language faded as modern life changed, contrasting spoken rural speech with classical references like Chaucer’s Pertolette.
A traveler explains a Tibetan praying wheel: an eight inch barrel holds 1,400 thin leaves with prayers printed on both sides, about 25,000 prayers per wheel. Each finger touch that causes one revolution credits the worshiper with those prayers in the world to come.
A London based owner Mrs Wadham Petre describes her horse Birthday as exceptionally smart. The fifteen hand bay hanter learns from care and petting and can open two doors with a nose and respond to a speaking tube from the bedroom. Birthday distinguishes visitors by footsteps and can make about thirty different calls at night.
French army officers publish Dog as an Aid to the Sanitary Corps arguing dogs should reinforce hospital and ambulance services. They cite Boer War and 1870 battles where dogs located wounded, urging France to adopt canine aid for field rescue and nursing support.
A fog blanket causes confusion for animals and a blind man who daily travelled from a suburb got lost in a district of London. He said the ground sounded different in fog and mist, explaining his misdirection.
The article notes Afghanistan may become a major global mining district with rubies, topaz, lapis lazuli, marble, iron, copper, antimony, coal and other ores. It highlights extensive coal near the iron mines and mentions various salts and minerals.
A survey of submerged towns and legends, tracing Staveren at the Zuyder Zee entrance believed sunk by divine anger and sand. It notes Thuringia village Tiefengruben drowned by a lake, marsh gas will o the wisps, legends of giant devilfish, and Old Hans’s toll on 144 settlements since the eleventh century.
George Harvey quotes in the North American Review discuss Gibbon and Deyverdun as bachelors who would seek a wife to shoulder domestic burdens. The piece notes Gibbon’s past love for Susanne Curchod, thwarted by his father, and argues men over forty often demand too much, projecting idealized roles onto a single woman.
San Marino in central Italy has been independent since the fifth century and Andorra in the Pyrenees gained independence around 778 under Charlemagne, making them the two smallest republics in the world.
A dispatch reports that Oregon's timber, if consumed at the present rate without new growth, could sustain use for about 150 years. It is also claimed there is enough timber to build a solid board fence fifty feet high around the entire United States.
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