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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
3
A household improvises meals amid a gas and coal shortage. The narrator, wife, and Captain Wantlin clash over theft, policing, and a dogged constable as coal scuttles vanish and reappear, ending with a wary mercy and a lampoon of wartime scarcity.
The Dunmow Flitch is set for revival after years of lapse. Excitement runs high as Dunmow prepares a pageant to celebrate the ancient prize where couples swear a year and a day of happy marriage to win two flitches of bacon.
A canal plan to give the Rhine an outlet to the North Sea at Emden moves forward with practical steps. The route would start at Wesel, head toward the Dutch border, curve at Leer, and reach the Ems River. Estimated cost is 58.5 million dollars. Benefits include drainage and cultivation of vast moorlands such as the Bourtanger, aiding habitation and development beyond shipping gains.
The article argues advertising benefits the public but needs regulation, notes price effects of wide ads, and surveys high explosives history. It traces nitroglycerin handling, absorbents, guncotton gelatin dynamites, nitrate of ammonia mixes, and the Red Cross low-freezing powders as modern developments for safer, more powerful blasting.
A Linderman wood working machine shown in Newark England converts waste wood strips into boards of various widths. It uses two endless beds feeding toward the center where dovetailed glued joints form and discharge automatically. It can produce coffin boards door panels and tabletops from narrow lengths with adjustable timings and no glue on outer faces. Rate of feed ranges from 35 to 70 feet per minute depending on timber.
In a Leipzig area village a rich widow spurns suitors yet marries a clever young man who later squanders her wealth. She feigns illness, then scares him by striking her own head, prompting his violent reaction as the tale ends with his temper boiling over.
A harsh husband beats his wife to force her to submit then, unashamed, urges her to sit and drink with him. He boasts he would strike again if the head complains. The scene depicts domestic aggression framed in a disturbing mirthful voice.
The Prince of Wales will matriculate as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, next Michaelmas. His future path after the Oxford course remains undecided, with prior mentions of a cavalry regiment and university training. Magdalen’s history includes associations with Wolsey and Cromwell era events.
Madame Oct Dufault of 84 Victoria Street St Boniface Manitoba says three years of diabetes sciatica backache neuralgia and head pains ended after using thirteen boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills She notes dark circles puffiness heart flutter and constant fatigue all traced to diseased kidneys and credits the remedy with a complete recovery
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