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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1935
Page
2
The piece compares builders who in creak and plan shape society with wreckers who tear down. It urges self reflection on whether individuals, governments, and institutions act as constructive builders or destructive wreckers amid postwar chaos, and calls for patient effort to improve civilization.
A Dominion government representative will visit Denmark to study peat development plant operations using a formula pursued by a British firm seeking subsidies. The aim is to stay informed on any new fuel developments potentially useful to Canada and its economy.
The Nanaimo trial ended with Andrew Moses, an Indian from Port Alberni, acquitted of attempted murder tied to a dispute over his wife. His father Chief Moses told solicitor RL Maitland, KC, I don’t forget you, for saving his son, and Maitland later received two eight foot totem poles from the aid chief as a lasting reminder of gratitude.
A woman recalls breaking her leg after kicking stairs two years earlier and credits Kruschen Salts with eliminating rheumatism. She reports daily use, half a teaspoon in warm water each morning, and cites improved mobility. The ad also claims Kruschen stimulates liver and kidneys to expel uric acid, addressing rheumatic pains.
The Bank of Canada will pay its first dividend next July. Shareholders receive dividends based on payment timing, with $12.50 per share for the initial period between September 1, 1934, and January 2, 1935, and the full $50 per share thereafter. The maximum dividend rate cannot exceed 413 percent yearly.
North Battleford MP McIntosh urged the standing committee on railways to finish two branch lines in northern Saskatchewan. He cited a 90 mile North Battleford to St Walberg segment, leaving 100 miles to Beaver River Crossing unfinished, originally to connect with Edmonton, with an estimated cost not exceeding 350000 dollars. He also spoke of a second line from North Battleford to Edmonton via Spruce Lake.
Sir Guy Standing, famed painter and noted naval officer, rose from $40 pockets to a large personal fortune by buying and selling postwar war matériel. He formed Motor Organization Ltd to buy US and Britain surplus gear, supplying Europe’s rehabilitation and reinvesting profits into acting as a hobby. At sixty, he remains a Hollywood favorite.
Danish professors tested drivers given three highballs with special equipment to measure alertness. The highball group reacted 17 percent slower and showed reduced braking speed and grip strength on the steering wheel, indicating alcohol impairs driving ability.
Professor Josephine E. Tilden of the University of Minnesota, leading a marine algae expedition to Japan, Australia and New Zealand, announced in Minneapolis that marine algae contain all four of the important vitamins A, B, C and D.
Elizabeth narwoon of Cleveland visits a seeress who proclaims her husband will return when tired of a blond and that he is in trouble with the police. The fortuneteller also foresees bars and blue coats meaning jail, and the prophecy comes true as Miss Elizabeth Harwood, an unmarried policewoman, takes the seeress to jail.
The article explains that telescopes and spectroscopes show suns and planets are made of the same substances as Earth, merely in different proportions. Isaac Newton’s prism sparked the idea, with the spectroscope revealing that each material emits unique vibrations detectable beyond human sight.
National Research Council associate committees wrapped up their seventh annual convention in Winnipeg with Dr. H M Tory stating the work is worth tens of millions of dollars to farmers. Farewell was given to Dr. C B Aamodt as he prepares to join the University of Wisconsin.
The No 1 industrial sector, the motor car industry, is in high gear as demand swells. Production moves from factory to dealer to consumer with volumes not seen in the past five years. In 16 weeks of 1935 output matched all of 1932, and 1935 overall reached 1,431,494 cars and trucks.
Rev L D Stueland tours the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming with a domesticated wild finch he captured near Castle Rock Colorado seven years ago. The bird, injured birds earlier, is a household pet that returns to its cage each night despite free will to leave.
Japan expands to a major world power with six new luxury liners in service and a fleet of 50 freighters. The ships travel over 20 miles per hour, linking Tokyo to San Francisco in about 11 days with silk cargoes, promising time and dollar savings.
Shoe experts estimate the average woman buys twelve pairs of shoes each year. They break them down into one sports pair, four street pairs for all seasons, four formal daytime pumps, and three evening shoes for spring, summer, and fall-winter.
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