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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 02, 1902
Page
8
Interest grows as daily curling matches fill evenings for various trophies. Last week the Gardiner trophy went to the Grand Central rink. This week the Bent trophy began with the following games played.
The article recalls the wolf spider tarantulas and the medieval belief in tarantism driving dances of hysteria across Southern Europe. It notes dances so frenzied villagers wore themselves out, compares other European outbreaks, then shifts to a moral reflection on sin as a venomous bite and the redemptive power of faith.
Nor West Farmer argues that high import duties on American and Canadian goods raise costs. He claims duties push up prices for coal oil and farm implements, urging a revenue rate of 12 1-2 percent and a 12 1-4 percent duty on agricultural implements. He demands duty free coal oil and lower or targeted tariffs.
Boissevain farmers dismissed the grain situation and passed a resolution favoring the extension of the Canadian Northern to Boissevain. A new Presbyterian church in Strathclair Manitoba was opened by Rev Prof Baird of Manitoba College. Christmas across Canada brought unusual rejoicing as trade favored the Dominion.
Three new beet factories will be built this season with Berlin to bear a $300 cost. A Buffalo despatch reports Canada seeks a session of the high commission in Ottawa, denied there. The text then shifts into garbled lines about Pain Killer and Admiral Sampson with damaged wording and unclear context.
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