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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
2
A Toronto editor urges a return to old moral standards to sustain democracy. He argues self governance, thrift, respect for law, and simple pleasures strengthen a nation. The piece cites Roman era virtues and notes current budget balancing as a sign of public mood shifting back.
Premier Angus L. MacDonald names nine leading Nova Scotians to a new economic council including Dr A Stanley MacKenzie as chairman. Members cover mining, lumbering, fishing, agriculture, manufacturing, education and labor with duties to appoint a permanent secretary and meet early in the new year.
Junkers JU 52 freighter, brought to Canada in 1932 by Canadian Airways, to fly again after a Rolls Royce motor upgrade. Previously stored after licensing and motor failures, the giant plane will undergo prairie tests before resuming northern freighter service.
Tomas L. Church will present a resolution in the coming session seeking a comprehensive national housing building reconstruction and land settlement policy. It calls for low interest loans, slum clearance, reforestation, youth education and industry links, plus protection for urban industrial workers and a lower rate mortgage structure.
Researchers report discovery of a seven leaf clover and note a separate claim about a 12 letter lawallan alphabet. No dates or organizations are provided in the fragment.
Settlers near Diver station eighty miles north of North Bay report frequent earthquake shocks along the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway. Spokesman F. E. Saims calls for federal inquiry after tremors since last May, including a major quake on November 1 that produced 15 to 20 shocks per day and left cabins rattling as if sitting on hollow ground.
Sir Robert Falconer president of the League of Nations Society in Canada urged supportive backing for the British Commonwealth and the League of Nations. He spoke before the Border Cities branch in Windsor Ontario stressing the country’s advantage in united global cooperation.
Brig Gen E de Panet, president of the Montreal unemployed relief commission, urged the adoption of national ID cards. He told the City Improvement League such cards would help register the unemployed, prevent impersonation at polling booths, and act as a prospect across the country.
A newly married couple barely month after marriage faced a kitchen fright when a scream revealed a caterpillar in the salad preparation area. Herbert rushed to the scene as his wife cried for help and joked about being alone. A car line note and a seven leaf clover discovery are also mentioned in passing.
Royal Air Force engineers announce a chemical method to prevent ice on aeroplane wings. Sir Philip Sassoon, under secretary to the air ministry, says the discovery aims to improve safety in all flying weather and being developed after the Belgian airliner disaster near Tatsfield, Kent.
Ottawa board of control reviewed a National Construction Council Canada sub committee report proposing at least 2008 new dwellings to house low wage earners and relief tenants. It warns 576 existing units may be demolished for better housing while 1369 homes should be rehabilitated to relieve a crowding issue affecting 5625 families in 3529 accommodations.
A Toronto Star note claims eight diphtheria victims last year, only one was toxiced, amid over 100000 immunized since 1929. It questions how a simple preventive yields a near certainty against fatal attack and contrasts with 80 percent adult immunity to infantile paralysis.
The world’s oldest man Trajko Smilj kovitch dies at 131 near Mala Krona Belgrade Yugoslavia after 80 years of marriage and a long life of health. His wife survives as neighbors mourn his tales and memory. In Durban Natal, 108 year old Kranmschund an Indian market gardener who came to Durban in 1874 dies, ending a long life.
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