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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
13
Publication office notes The Banner press details and address line show Maawil McIntyre as publisher with office location Main 41 and a dated reference. The brief reads as a masthead style notice indicating publication responsibility.
The letter denounces big city papers for praising the rich and sensational society pages. It condemns daily glossy reports on wealth, dress, and luxury as servile snobbery that corrupts virtue and stirs conflict among ordinary people.
The article describes Thomas Edison’s plan to build reinforced concrete houses for $1,200 measuring 25 by 30 feet with a full cellar and eight foot porch, using only doors and windows as wood. It claims fire risk drops as all framing is non combustible and mentions possible annual costs and forest conservation benefits.
A Census Bureau bulletin analyzes twenty year divorce trends from 1886 to 1906, showing 73 divorces per 1000 and total 945,025. two thirds of divorces in the period were initiated by wives, cruelty leading ground, desertion 30 percent with half by husbands, and infidelity cited in 28.8 percent of husband cases.
The article notes rising divorce rates in the United States with most dissolutions among short marriages and few involving children. It laments frivolity and urges restraint, better home focus, and careful consideration before marrying. It also mentions wheat harvest in Seattle, gold dust at a Seattle exhibit, and ongoing CP Railway telephone line construction.
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