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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1913
Page
4
Canada reports no fewer than twenty divorce applications entered this year, awaiting Senate consideration at the next session. Last year forty two cases were disposed of across four provinces with divorce courts Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Island and British Columbia.
The piece argues for easier divorce as a remedy to injustice in law while criticizing wealth-based bias. It condemns Russian anti Jewish persecution escalating to an international issue, denounces ritual murder libels, and reports a mass meeting condemning such claims as barbarous.
Fragmented telegraphic scraps report a German airship explosion with casualties aboard, British plans for a Canadian Royal Train mission, US debt surpassing one billion dollars, a Boisevain girl’s peanut allergy incident, and New York City playground spending reaching 15 million dollars by 1908. Also mentions Chicago’s solcanid system, legal swearing by Chinamen, violence in Vancouver, and political remarks about naval policy and law.
Financial stringency did not derail stamp sales this year. For the first five months, receipts reached 5 596 135, versus 522 78 in the prior year. August receipts were 410 134 84, and five month totals contrasted with the previous year.
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