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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 23, 1935
Page
4
A long field trial across three dry years examined seeding dates for three wheat varieties. Early sowings after weedings produced longer straw and stronger growth, while later dates yielded lighter grain yet benefited from cooler filing weather. Rust appeared mainly on late sowings in some years.
Scientists report progress in cancer study by tracing its origin from the unicellular state. Experiments show malignant growth can be started in a laboratory mouse with a tiny dose of a chemical compound. Researchers note the chemical is highly potent and treated animals are destroyed after experiments.
Scientists warn that alcohol slows decision making in drivers. The text notes an average man with several drinks travels up to eight feet closer to danger before acting, increasing crash risk. The Atlantic Monthly discusses how even small impairment greatly widens the driving margin under danger.
The Dominion Entomologist warns clothing moth damage in Canada is costly and prevention requires care and vigilance. Store articles in trunks with tight lids or bags, brush thoroughly in sunlight, wrap garments, and use naphthalene flakes or similar chemicals in bags or trunks. For severe infestations, superheating or fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas under expert supervision is advised.
A Chicago newspaper notes a revived habit of nicknaming railroads by their initials. Examples include the Peoria Pekin & Jacksonville as the Push Pull & Jerk and the Toledo Peoria & Western as the Tired Poor & Weary, with the Cincinnati Portsmouth & Virginia once called Coal Pants & West.
Dr. W Morrish chairman of the Edmonton school board told 800 teachers at the first general session of the Alberta Educational Federation held at Edmonton that education cannot advance while politics influence the system and urged complete jurisdiction under a single governing body.
Fragmentary notice discusses using Canadian grown apples juice to aid jelly textures in jams and marmalades. It mentions no waste and a method to reuse core material in processing. The text is unclear about full details or sources.
The article explains how air masses pick up moisture from large water bodies and lose it as rain over mountains. It describes dry and moist winds on different slopes and elevations, noting stronger winds along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the Great Lakes shores, and the prairies.
The world’s youngest monarch, King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, uses royal prerogative to exit a school exam and is automatically promoted to the classical college in Switzerland. An expert mathematics compares enormous figures like 4.88 billion to everyday time units to illustrate scale.
A miscellany notes men keeping hats in Sydney elevators to ease congestion, a playful Canadian land value table by province with 1934 figures, and Jack Miner’s spring sanctuary closure for birds at Kingsville Ontario.
Dr W F G Swann, director of the Bartel Philosophical Society, outlines a photon based view of cosmic origin. He suggests radiant energy can transform into matter, forming particles and potentially a new creation from a photon fog, akin to a nebular hypothesis with gravitation assembling particles into stars and planets.
Secretary Harold Tekes called freedom of the press free speech and assembly the three musketeers of constitutional forces at the Associated Press luncheon in New York. He warned against closing doors to rights while preserving press freedom and stressed essential protections. Frank B. Noyes lauded 27 surviving charter members and noted 35 years under a single standard at the AP.
Australian experiments show three crops annually by lengthening daylight for wheat Planta using electric illumination. Results achieved with Australian bread wheats. English wheats regressed to grasslike tufts.
The article notes Canada’s cheese exports peaked in 1904 at 233 980 716 pounds and butter in 1903 at 24 128 944 pounds, then fell as urban demand grew. It cites the shift toward home consumption, new dairy products like condensed and evaporated milk, and the 1883 revival of Truro’s milk condensing plant, with several Canadian plants producing concentrated milk by 1998 valued at 6 8224¢.
A new school plan shortens the day to begin at 40 bm with three seventy minute classes before lunch and two after. The day ends at 4 20 pm and a shortened lunch leaves more total school time. Proponents claim homework fear is eliminated, failures drop, and both students and parents feel relieved.
Palm Beach buyer Valuab le Dotario Publisher suspects a painting in his collection may be an original work by Jean Baptiste Greuze. His brother H B Southam, chair of the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, found Greuze marked on the back along with £130 000. Artist Ossip L Linde vouched the work as genuine not a copy. Recent Greuze pieces have sold for as much as £130 000.
The Loston transcript reports the New York Public Library economic division houses 375000 books while the science of economics remains muddled. A stray line mentions Joseph stabilizing agriculture with no economics books cited.
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