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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
4
Patrons responded by mail and letters in an overwhelming majority voting no to cocktails aboard flights. American Airlines kept its liquor policy. the count showed about 2,000 in favor and 15,000 against. Officials noted many feared difficulty preventing intoxication and preferred no liquor for air travel.
Bermuda struggles with silver and copper coin theft as souvenirs tempt US and other visitors. Government buildings display English money only while shops accept foreign currency at face value. Half a million dollars in coins have vanished, prompting talk of new banknotes though coins remain preferred for keepsakes.
A compact Calgary police facility doubles as a laboratory for making revolver ammunition. In a small storeroom at headquaters, machines including a gas furnace and bullet casters were installed to produce cartridges. With tight budgets, 3350 was allotted for ammo and practice, prompting self sufficiency. China once grew cotton as decoration, used in Buddhist ceremonial drapings.
A fragmented report notes postwar advertising and fashion promotion across Britain France Italy and the United States. It cites hat production entry into campaigns with mentions of 200000 hats and a range of mechanical adverts and retail firms employing workers while noting wage relief and employee rights tensions in Australia.
Dr R C S Reed of University of Illinois College of Medicine described high dose vitamin D treatment for arthritis. Up to 3 000 000 units daily given safely with gratifying results, including a 47 year old woman who after three weeks of 200 000 units daily could remove a ring after seven years without relief.
A retired colonel jokes with his doctor that avoiding whisky lengthens his life. The doctor warned alcohol shortens life, and the colonel recalls a 24 hour period without a drink six months earlier, claiming it felt like a long day.
A monument to Auguste Escoffer, famed chef, will be erected at Villeneuve-Loubet France. The base will bear his invented dishes with Peach Melba leading the list, while Mozart supposedly conceived the score for the Magic Flute in his sleep.
Pollock have returned to Passamaquoddy Bay revitalizing Wilson's Beach, the chief line fishing port in Charlotte County near President Roosevelt's summer retreat. The two mile waterfront is lined with drying flakes and sun dried fish. The village population of 800 remains busy as women help spread and gather the fish for curing, with prices expected to exceed normal averages.
The Dionne quintuplets negatives are valued at more than 2 million dollars in insurance policies. They are kept in a steel lined vault in Hollywood and insured against earthquake fire theft hurricane scratches and any mishap that could hinder development. In 1929 Edwin Dickinson’s painting The Fossil Hunters won a 500 prize at the National Academy New York City despite being hung wrong side up.
Berwick area reports strong apple prices as H E Watts of South Waterville tops sales with 35 Bramley Seedling barrels sent to London. The firm paid £4598 44 including mostly No 2 and better grades, averaging $6.42 per barrel. The broker says it is the finest NS account since the war.
A blaze threatening Bela Bulgaria was halted by villagers breaking wine vats and dousing flames with wine due to the town’s water scarcity. Bela, famed for vineyards, sits on a hill with no local water supply, forcing water to be fetched from a distant brook. The conflagration had already destroyed several houses before residents flooded the burning buildings with wine. Catholic and Protestant schools in Manchuria now educate about 4,500 pupils.
A collection of minute books in a leather case, bound by a famous London binder, was acquired recently by J. B. Snasdell of Montreal. The items measure about 20 inches high and three quarters of an inch thick, with microscopic type. The set includes works titled Auster, Oden Thoughts, and Merry Thought, dating to earlier centuries, with plans to place the volumes at Tecun University for study.
A search for gold led to coal finds in the Lethbridge mining area where 16 men died in a colliery explosion. Pioneer Nicholas Sheran, who sought precious metals, instead uncovered coal that spurred a major industry and jobs for hundreds. The Coalhurst mine lies eight miles from the original discovery. British and Canadian capital financed development as Sheran drew Sir Alexander Galt into the venture. Sherman later inspired the Fort Whoop-Up mine in Alberta’s early mining boom in Lethbridge, then a town of 13,000 celebrating its golden jubilee.
Ernest Hemingway asserts that civilizations degrade land when natives and foreigners alike extract resources without reinvesting soil, water, and animal inputs. He argues machines cannot replace natural fertility and warns of ecological ruin when humans abandon beasts and exploit the earth.
Dr William Allen of the University of Saskatchewan reports extensive replacements or new machinery will be necessary on prairie farms in the coming years. The conclusion rests on an exhaustive survey conducted across multiple districts.
The article emphasizes sight as the primary source of knowledge and pleasure, noting 87 percent of knowledge comes through vision and urging proper lighting to protect eyes. It warns about eye strain from low lighting and describes developmental and age related vision issues, advising examination by an oculist and adequate 275 candlepower study lighting for children.
In Moscow's Tiflis Park of Culture and Rest 500 children will construct a railway tunnel 3000 feet long and a station as part of an extension to the Children's Railway. The existing park line, run by children, has two stations and 1200 feet of track, opened three months ago with 65,000 passengers. engineers from the Transcaucasian Railway supervise the project.
Ethel Wah eldest child of Mr and Mrs Jim Wah Swift Current pioneers has come back to the city after 17 years with relatives in Canton China She spent about two years in a local public school but lost most of her English in the Orient and now begins to learn the language anew.
Dominion topographical service completed a survey costing one million dollars to locate wells and springs across more than 100000 square miles of the Prairies. The study identifies sources of water supply and their sites for future development and planning.
Berlin police report a method to capture fingerprints even when gloves are worn, revealing new forensic technique. In a separate note, Honduras shipped nearly 1.5 million banana bunches in a single month, signaling strong agricultural export activity.
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