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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
12
A fragment from The Banner shows a Thursday publication note with an address on Main Street Hassell Manitobe Cre and a year price in advance. It includes a printed name Mointyre and a publication line.
An editorial argues against pensions for all living veterans of the 1870 Red River Rebellion noting no disability from service and warning such grants would strain public funds. It questions lasting patriotism and warns of constitutional and imperial implications for Canada and its ships. Parliament should leave the proposal in abeyance.
Hon. Mr. Brodeur explains Canada’s naval policy aiming for a national armament built in country and controlled by the government. He suggests ships could be placed at the Imperial Admiralty in war, while standards question peacetime control and countries’ arrangements.
The article describes a Friday magnetic storm disrupting telegraph and cable systems from Chicago to the British Isles. Experts link the aurora to electrical currents from equatorial regions reaching polar skies, causing high voltages and widespread line failures.
Partridge in the Manitoba Grai Growers Guide proposes a Western farmers platform calling for public ownership of storage facilities at shipment points and three provincial stockyards and abattoirs in Manitoba. It also wants public packing plants in Alberta and public mining in Saskatchewan plus federal goals including terminal elevators Hudsons Bay line and a Western grain outlet with tariff reform. A Battle Creek man ends a 51 day fast, possibly due to breakfast food proximity.
The Manitoba and North Western Railway Company seeks Parliament approval to build lines from Birtle to Hamiota and from near Russell northward about 155 miles in Manitoba. The notice names H C Oswald as secretary and Andrew T Thompson as Ottawa agent, dated Montreal September 36, 1909.
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