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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
5
Enquiries on treating alkali soils note no royal road to success. Best results come from tile drainage with heavy manure, plow down, and summer fallow. If alkali persists, plant a crop like sugar beets next year. Manitoba Agricultural College findings endorse tile drainage as the reliable method.
Farmers consider granary building with guidance from Agricultural College. Concrete floor methods are outlined, then wartime and political updates follow, including war in Europe, loans, prohibition in Alberta, mine strikes, and transport news. Saskatchewan and Manitoba ties appear amid broad Canadian wartime context.
Northwestern University medical professor Dr Charles B Reed argues poisons and intoxicants sharpen mental focus during stress and can elevate literary achievement. He cites Milton De Maupassant Poe Burns and Shakespearean-like effects, claiming emotions act as mental systematizers increasing inspiration during war grief or love.
Summer fairs scheduled in multiple towns with dates scattered across August. Russell hosts events on August 4, Shellmouth on August 0, Binscarth on July 29, Shoal Lake August 3 and 4, Birtle August 6, Roolch August 12, Diuphin August 2 and 3, Gilbert Plains August 5 and 6.
Mr Cunningham Craig told Institute of Petroleum Technology in Great Britain that drilling in Western Canada remains speculative with high risks of failure in any one district yet there is confidence a paying oilfield lies somewhere between the far north and the international boundary. He expects petroleum to be discovered and produced profitably in the near future despite anticipated disappointments.
A fragment discusses the four letter name of the God across languages, notingLatin Deus Greek Zeus Hebrew Ad ad Arab ian Asia Persian Syra Tartarian Idya Egyptian Aumn Zeus East Indian Esgi Zent Japanese Zain Turkish Addi Odin Doga Dalmatian Rogt Tyrrhenian Eber lEtrurian Chur Margarian O¢cese Gott Dieu Dios Lian and mentions Anglo Saxon three letter form meaning good with four.
In Romanshorn Switzerland a discharged soldier Hermann Schwarz carried a rifle and fired on passers by from evening into night. Seven men were killed and eight others wounded before police captured him after a dramatic pursuit involving over 100 people. Schwarz mortally wounded a pursuing officer before his arrest.
An odd and first of its kind okapi skin arrived in New York in the baggage of James P. Chapin on his return from a six year Congo expedition. The animal is described as a cross between a zebra, horse and antelope with a tortoise face a cow tail and a murmur when in love resembling a bull fiddle.
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