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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
13
The Banner highlights road problems affecting travelers and farmers facing grain losses from poor markets. It urges careful, mature planning for future improvements rather than hasty fixes, noting municipal councils lack full control over conditions and promising two communications to clarify the issue for readers.
A Brussels researcher reports mixing powdered gum arabic with butter to absorb water can preserve butter long term without rancidity. Salt helps retain aroma but the method requires large gum quantities, impure gum poses problems, and price and supply limit practicality.
The final draft of stations for the Birtle district adopted by the Methodist Conference was Birtle Abram B Osterhout.
A list shows multiple names including John W. Bell Sam P. Riddell Stephen W. L. Stewart W. W. Adamson J. W. Coone W. E. Egan John Hellyer L. D. Post H. W. Ferrier F. J. Price J. D. Dyer Geo H. Bennee Geo Steed M. M. Culp indicating they left and remaining stations to be supplied for places such as Hamiota Oak River Rossburn Shoal Lake Saltcoats Yorkton Sheho Willow Brook Beulah Newdale and Riversdale.
Feared to reveal Rhodes warned in his recollections that the Jameson raid aimed to thwart a South Africa united under a United States of South Africa and to protect British imperial interests. He claimed Outlanders would gain Transvaal control whileEngland would be sidelined, reshaping regional power. The statements, cited by Sidney Low, illuminate Rhodes motives and imperial strategy.
In Myrtle Avenue Court Brooklyn four Black defendants were brought before Magistrate Devoy after a gambling raid. A humorous exchange arose as the first prisoner claimed to be a locksmiff and the magistrate jested to jail him for misusing the term. A Georgia judge later faced a Black witness who struggled to name the time of a fight without a clock, relying on the sun to gauge the hour.
The May issue describes a milking apparatus with a can and air pump creating a vacuum. A flexible tube connects the can to four teat cups placed on the udder, drawing milk as suction pulls air through the can. Separately, Manitoba faces a grasshopper outbreak despite government poison supplies.
Farmers note that rain slows hopper feeding as wet conditions reduce their hunger while moisture boosts grain and weed growth. While the hoppers’ damage is less obvious in wet seasons, it is too early to estimate total losses.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for "change of life" and womanly ailments. It claims it prevents or cures pains during this period, with testimonials including Lizzie A. Bowman of New Matamoras Ohio. The ad urges keeping bowels healthy with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and warns against unknown substitutes.
The first general meeting of Binscarth Farmers Elevator Company shareholders will be held Saturday July 26 at 2 p.m. in the old Schoolhouse, Binscarth. The session aims to organize the company elect a board of directors and address other business. Biascarth June 23 1902 by K Hooch provisional secretary.
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