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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 17, 1901
Page
8
A reflective poem recalling a youth in Canadi el, describing a beloved landscape, hunting and family scenes, and the gradual erasure of familiar places. The speaker laments vanished streams, bare hills, departed friends, and a transformed sacred grave site, urged by a whispering breeze about time and memory.
Manitoba earns gold for grains and grasses under provincial government Winnipeg and north west agriculture. silver for Ontario Dairy Association butter and cheese. John Labatt receives gold for ale and stout. United States leads with 601 gold trophies, 663 silver, 562 bronze and 470 honorable mentions. Mexico follows with 78 gold medals.
Raymond Ball notes in Harper's Weekly how the boundary between the United States and Canada is marked from Lake of the Woods westward. Iron pillars cast hollow eight feet tall stand one mile apart with cedar infill and raised inscriptions. beyond Red River earth mounds and stone cairns mark the line. wooden posts are painted red and a cleared one rod-wide path shows the course through forests.
Advertisement notes all sizes of men’s heavy all Scotch wool underwear at $1.50 to $1.90 per suit. Also lists Meun’s and Boys heavy fleeced lined underwear in cotton or wool from 75¢ to $1.80 per suit with small to very large sizes.
The Montreal Star reports a man aged 188 attempted suicide by jumping from a suspension bridge in Budapest. He cited inability to care for his elderly parents aged 115 and 116, a claim police confirmed as true.
A four-year-old steer turning at four thousand pounds from Andrew Waechter’s Bruce County farm is hailed by authorities as the finest Durham on the continent. It appeared at the Toroine and London exhibitions and is shown at Lucknow’s annual fair.
On October 2 1901 a ten dollar bill and two five dollar bills totaling twenty dollars were lost on the Russell show grounds. Finder will be rewarded if money is left at the Banner Office.
A partial text fragment advertises business opportunities and financial status with mentions of salary and weekly Wednesday flows. It references a county or region and seeks directions from readers, though details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
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