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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 11, 1923
Page
2
An archival line notes the office of Periiention and a 16 year advance term priced at 2.40 dollars yearly outside Canada. The item is attributed to SOCEPH McINTYRE, Publicher, with a publication date of Thursday January 11, 1922.
Prom Barron reports on long term war losses noting that by September a year after the armistice 9 362 and 244 514 men or officers were counted as captured. Four years on 4 147 officers and 95 724 men remain missing and are removed from national records.
The Canadian Gazette outlines stamp tax regulations on receipts from $10 and up effective January 1. Counter sales slips and cash register tickets are exempt if they bear no acknowledgment of payment. Receipts for wages and legacies may be taxable. Government receipts from Dominion or provincial governments are exempt.
The text states that letters forwarded by wall, cards at pay, and similar items are not taxable. Insurance policies and certain receipts drawn upon banks are exempt. Counterfeit remittance as part of a taxable express money order is not taxable as a receipt. Penalties for violations can reach up to $100.
The Dallas Rotary Club issue defines a failure by lack of confidence and character, valuing wealth over health, neglecting humanity, and prioritizing personal plans over others. It lists traits such as arrogance, taking shortcuts, harming others for advancement, and ignoring rest and happiness.
The fragment hints at inner conflict where envy toward others intersects with a lack of concern for outcomes. It suggests a meditation on personal motives and emotional detachment within a literary or philosophical note.
Rare modern roofing material is described, made by pressing asphalt into long fibre cloth created from thousands of tons of woolen and low quality rags. After collection and sorting, the rags are pulped and formed into a durable waterproof roofing sheet covered on both sides with asphalt and crushed slate.
An English electrical engineer invents a fire damp detector that rings automatically as air becomes gaseous. The device sounds continuously while air remains impure and can trigger at a set gas percentage, giving miners time to escape. A box shaped unit has a sensitive plate. whiskey vapor successfully tests its alarm.
The article explains capillary attraction as the rise of water in absorbent materials and its wide utility. It notes its unclear fundamental nature yet stresses its practical role in ink and fountain pens, candle wicks, laundering, lubricators, sponges, soil moisture retention, and the historical allure of perpetual motion ideas.
Officials of the dead letter branch search for owners of hundreds of parcels with insufficient addresses from the holiday rush. Last December and January 59 000 parcels had no identifiable recipients, though this year may be lower. Postal leaders push clearer names and addresses to cut undeliverable mail. Auctions from last season yielded about 5 000 dollars. Over 100 letters daily reach the dead letter department.
Rev Peter Bryce urges practical steps for young men to provide for future dependents. He cites cases of unemployed fathers and families harmed by lack of resources, advocating early financial foundations, life insurance, and housing plans to shield widows and children from hardship. He warns against relying on faith alone and encourages responsible preparation.
The letter describes speculators purchasing old cattle from farms for eight to nineteen dollars and claiming a test will condemn infected stock. If infection is found, animals are condemned and the speculator is paid forty dollars. The practice, centered around Winnipeg, shifts cattle to commission men who inspect only after sale, letting buyers profit from testing outcomes. The Banner advertises 1924 calendars and invites merchants to view samples before ordering.
A proposal calls for amending compensation regulations to stop re actions. Advocates say updating rules would curb ongoing payouts and prevent misuse of the system.
The Banner Bookstore lists a selection of titles with prices including The Ragged Edge, The Breath of Scandal, Pawned, A Gamble with Love, Glimpses of the Moon, At Sight of Gold, The Honey Combers, To Tell You The Truth, Fair Harbour, The Tale of Triona, The Angel of Terror, The House of Peril, Souls for Sale, The Voice of the Pack, Who Cares, The Sheer d of the Hills, The Night Operator, Burning Sands, The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, A Lot of Courage, Big Timber, A Daughter of the Land and others, with prices ranging around 1.00 to 2.90.
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