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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
7
A description of a boy acting as an orator in a staged deception. The performer wears a dark coat, white shirt, stove pipe hat, and gloves. a second person helps disguise the tall arms and hidden face. The audience is admitted as a curtain rises and the orator interacts with a prop audience.
A wanted craft activity describes building a small steam boat from a tin can and wood. It instructs placing water in the can, sealing with cloth, resting in a wooden cradle, wiring cross supports, aligning centered can, and using candles to heat water to create steam propulsion.
Instructions describe building a floating wheel using four light sticks, sealing wax, paper, toothpicks, waxed thread, and straws. An axle fits through uprights with a central frame, allowing the wheel to spin when a candle is lit beneath it.
A compact description guides readers through a leather puzzle trick using a seven by two inch strip with a tapered end. Instructions specify slits, a square cut from the wider end, and two small leather pieces with holes to assemble a simple illusion.
A puzzling instruction describes threading a linen cord under a three inch leather strip and through holes in small leather pieces, tying ends, then asks who can remove the cord from a feather without cutting or untying. The scene centers on a curious mechanical riddle from a feather craft.
The catbird is a graceful saucy singer and a skilled mimic, able to imitate a Yankee Doodle strain. It builds near doors, feeds on insects and fruit, and nests in briars with mud and roots. Madame Catbird lays four to six greenish blue eggs and raises two broods.
A young girl Bessie offers breadcrumbs to birds gathered on the lawn. She shares warmth and shoes with the birds and learns that kindness comes from love of all creatures, as explained by her mother about a loving Heavenly Father. The tale ends with Bessie understanding compassion.
A public school lesson titled Birds and Their Ways prompts pupils to name birds that lay eggs. A girl, after several eager moments, proudly announces her father lays bricks, revealing humorous mishearing of the lesson.
A cabin boy recounts Berings expedition to find Asia America boundaries with Peter the Great era. The voyage from Kamchatka to Petropavlovski, eight year buildup, storms and scurvy, and Berings death at Okhotsk amid sea life and a grave on Serli Island. John Pettingitt reflects on the heroism and the grave of the explorer Ber ing.
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