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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1935
Page
2
An editorial reflection on what people truly need versus want during economic hardship. It argues that essentials like shelter, food, and clothing must be provided by the state when work fails, while stressing that many modern wants were luxuries in the past and should not overwhelm basic subsistence. It contrasts self-reliant pioneers with a passive group that relies on others for excessive demands.
A London paper admits delaying coverage of wedding presents and highlights a unique gift to the Duchess of Kent. The scarf from Shetland Islands was knitted by 80-year-old Mrs. Thomas Sutherland using seven miles of wool weighing two and a half ounces, plucked from lamb necks and spun by her 83-year-old sister.
In Oakville Ontario during fog, Miss Ruth Lightbourn heard orchestra music emanating from a kettle spout on the stove. The music played for about 20 minutes eight feet away, faded in lighter fog, with no radio or ground connection. Lightbourn cannot explain the phenomenon.
Signs a telegraph post for the telegraph office a baggage office trunk and a question mark for inquiries are in use at Parkeston Quay Harwich inviting foreign visitors to read them. Meat packers report record meat consumption in the United States during 1934. A Norwegian plant produces rust free and acid resisting steel with annual capacity of 40 000 to 50 000 metric tons.
Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways are developing a new heated car for fruit and vegetable transport. The transport committee of the Canadian horticultural council reports experiments by the railways include a charcoal heated model with water pipes like a home system or a gas burner heater with inside temperatures controlled by outside cold. Col RL Wheeler describes these trials as part of plans to secure federal funds for more fruit and vegetable carriers.
The Germans push to end mineral oil imports by expanding coal liquefaction and lignite use. They claim synthetic petroleum will meet a third of demand this year and aim to cover all needs by 1936. Finnish data show 19,271 married women in paid work across 13 towns, 189 percent of all married women. An air link is planned between Glasgow and the Isle of Man.
The wobble of Earth, a 26 000 year axial drift, alters which Greek named constellations rise above the horizon. Ancient observers marked stars that later disappeared from Greece’s night sky as the Earth’s bulging equator responds to solar and lunar gravity.
A newly invented European speed camera photographs moving machinery and a clock dial at up to 2500 frames per second to detect errors, showcasing high speed analysis and precise motion capture.
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