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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
2
In a small frontier town, Bob Hanks opens a store and bids for a free delivery venture while Lib Hanks and Hillyer weigh risks. Hanks pressures rivals, and Bob asserts independence, choosing self-reliance over loaned funds as Lib and Hillyer watch closely.
Parliament resumes as Big Ben bell rings on the hour. The famous bell weighs about 1312 pounds, measures nearly eight feet high, and was recast after early flaws. The hammer and clockwork drive the striking mechanism, with a history of repairs and alterations to improve tone and resonance.
A quirky dialogue features a talking dog and a boarding house scene. One speaker boasts talent while another recalls a proverb about opportunities knocking, the boarder humorously quipping that it never knocks on his door as he hides in an attic.
An exploration of beaver behavior and myths surrounding their dam and lodge construction. Notes that beavers fell trees to build dams, may use their tails as trowels, and slap water as alarms. Describes historical spread from Mexico to the Pacific and how beaver activity shaped broad meadow landscapes over centuries.
Science faces apparent contradictions as nature seems to agree with itself at core. Perplexing heat and alloy cases suggest deeper laws, with future research solving anomalies. Halley’s Comet, a seventy year visitor, is due early 1910, predicted for perihelion with growing precision and naked-eye visibility by March.
The United States holds a very small coin collection with not more than 30 000 pieces and spends only 300 dollars annually on additions. Paris Bibliotheque Nationale shows 350 000 coins, Berlin Royal Cabinet contains 770 000, Bettiah museum 250 000, Munich Wamiamatic Cabinet 180 000, Madrid Archaeological Museum 120 000. Thirteen other European government collections total around 30 000 to 85 000 coins.
A report from Devonport describes the collier J D encan bringing three Andalusia survivors from the Bay of Biscay. Captain McCarthy, Miller, and Francis Camelle, two seamen, recount a perilous rescue, ship listing, and a man dying in a fireman’s arms as the ship sank.
A plucky native in Banda district tracked a wounded panther to a riverbank hole. He fired, wounded the beast in the jaw, and after repeated clashes dragged it from retreat toward the ground. The exhausted panther was killed by a hatchet blow, then brought to a hospital.
One of the Six Hundred is buried at Abney Park Cemetery London amid Rural tributes on the coffin. The 75 year old veteran, revered in the North of London Meat Market, was praised for his steadfastness after the Crimean ordeal. A sergeant and captains are named among the mourners, with a stained glass piece honoring Thothmes III in a British museum.
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