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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
3
A historic overview notes how treaties between the Canadian government and Indigenous peoples were framed to be generous yet left disputes over promised payments and goods. It recounts interpreter controversies, 1886 agency policies, and a testy incident over turnips used to illustrate grievances and the push for worker obligation.
A dispute over repayment terms on Star Blanket’s reserve ends with wiser counsel prevailing and a two hundred person caravan heading to a hay meadow. Stern Child halts the team by raising his hands, and a plan to use force is discussed but not executed as the aggressor disappears.
J. G. Robertson commissioner of livestock for Saskatchewan has acquired pure bred Oxford Shropshire and Leicester ewes and rams from the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The Saskatchewan Sheep Breeders Association sale will be held in Regina on November 9 and in Saskatoon on November 19.
Eight divorce cases were heard by Mr. Justice Curran in Winnipeg recently. Six decrees were granted while decisions on the remaining two applications were not rendered.
Fred Mitre, serving a theft sentence at Port Arthur district jail, faced trial on a charge of making wooden keys to help other prisoners escape.
Alex Syroishka once of Wakaw now in Winnipeg in the elevator business was sentenced by Judge Macdonald to twelve months in jail for false pretences. He sold a farm owned by A Westerall of Calgary to Wakaw farmer Yocka Trach, buying land at $16 an acre and falsely claiming he paid $19.75 an acre and charged the complainant $600. The judge called the crime despicable as an educated man exploited an illiterate foreigner.
Officials of the Bell Telephone Company compare per capita telephone use in Canada with international figures. Canada ranks second to the United States with 10.8 telephones per hundred people, followed by Sweden 6.4 Norway 4.4 Germany 2.2 France 1.0 and Italy 0.3.
The old cruiser Rainbow along with other Canadian navy units was sold to Neider & Marcus of Seattle after bids were invited for the vessels.
The bee’s humming comes from its wings as it flies not from a voice box. Wings move quickly enough to produce audible air vibrations within human hearing. Some waves are too slow or too fast to hear or see, so many sounds and colors remain inaudible and unseen.
A noise is an irregular air wave with weight and power. If strong enough it shakes the window until the force exceeds its strength and it breaks. Air outside moves in waves through the window, transferring the impact inside as well.
The passage explains that animals act by instinct, such as birds nesting and spiders weaving, while humans learn and adapt. Instinct allows perfect execution without learning but cannot exceed its built in limits, unlike human intelligence. No one knows the source of instinct.
A recipe describes making a brown sugar milk sauce by simmering two cups sugar and half cup milk for about ten minutes until a drop forms in cold water. It advises constant stirring to prevent scorching then adds butter and English walnuts to create a creamy, slightly grainy mixture before cooling and shaping.
Retold reminiscence recalls Jack Symonds a frontier sergeant in Strathcona's Horse and a storyteller. In Calgary he meets John Hawkes provincial librarian and shares a Boer War incident. Hawkes later spots Symonds in Fort McLeod where the mock reunion with Captain Kettle occurs.
Edmonton veteran editor and politician Frank Oliver allegedly traveled with his wife before railways, using an ox cart. When his wagon stuck he cursed the oxen, then his wife retorted with a stronger tirade learned from him. The tale, often told by Edmonton’s old-timers, may be true or folklore.
The article recalls Premier David Lloyd George visiting Western Canada about two decades ago as a young MP. He toured amid protests over the Boer War and discussed Welsh settlement schemes with Dominion Colonization Agent W. Speers, revealing his early anti aristocracy stance.
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