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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 25, 1913
Page
11
Frank Blake, paymaster for the Laguna Mines, flees insurrection with his papers. He rests by a stream after a two day trek, encounters a vigilant ranch girl, and contemplates safety as hostile forces loom near a vast cattle range.
Blake aids a frightened girl at a hacienda after sleeping rough with straw. His disguise and patience lead to an uneasy romance as the ranchero and daughter Rebecca confront his true identity. A postscript discusses poets who died young, highlighting Marlowe and Otway.
In Middleham tucked in Shady Valley near Lymouth North Devon a hamlet sits in deep shade for three months each winter. From November to February the sun never rises high enough to clear the surrounding hills. The sun first appears on February 14 and villagers mark this as their valentine. If fog blocks the sun there is disappointment. After February 14 the sun stays visible longer each day until it fades again in November leaving three months of darkness.
Lord Brackley, son of the Earl of Ellesmere, has inherited Mertoun House Roxburghe and is expected to soon possess Bridgewater House in London. He also owns Worsley Hall near Manchester. An Eton-educated cricketer, he led a West Indies tour with the Royal Scots and served as aide-de-camp to General Sir W G Knox during the South African War. He is now forty.
The vanity of Samuel Warren author of Ten Thousand a Year is recalled from a tale at a friend's house. At dinner he allegedly asked a first time acquaintance if she knew Sam agei Warren, receiving the reply that her husband preferred Warrens plucking.
The piece traces wire making from hand hammering to machine drawing. It notes the first English wire mill at Mortlake in 1643 and explains how heated metal is drawn through progressively smaller holes to create various wire grades and thicknesses.
A list of items placed inside Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment includes a bronze model, vellum Engineering prints, obelisk fragments, Doulton ware jars, British coinage, a 1 000th inch gauge, a Bible collection in multiple languages, portraits, almanacks, maps, newspapers, a two foot rule, a London directory, and photographs of twelve Englishwomen. The assortment reflects a curious cross section of the era's artifacts and curiosities.
The piece notes that Boers favor umbrellas across seasons, a sign of status, though public use is rare. It recalls bulky alpaca umbrellas with faulty catches, popular in guest rooms and on weekends. Boers rarely open them outdoors, and they even use umbrellas as whips when riding or driving in a spider.
Stuart Oswald unveiled a wheel with a flanged rim and skirt attachment to curb mud splashes from buses. Scotland Yard and a Local Government Board inspector tested the device, showing the skirt withstood kerb impacts without damage.
A Sir Thomas Lawrence life size portrait of Mrs. Francis Robertson, gifted in 1837, was dirt encrusted in the National Gallery cellars for decades. Sir Charles Holroyd found it, expert restorer Mr Buttery revived it, and it now hangs in the vestibule as fresh as new.
A shorthorn bull bred by A. B. Gibson fetched 14530 guineas about $7350 at the Birmingham Shorthorn Show and sale in England this year. The animal is a grandson of the famed King Christian, whose sale at any price to Sir George Drummond’s Huntleywood herd was declined. King Christian died last summer.
The engagement of the Hon William Ormsby Gore to Lady Beatrice Cecil elder daughter of Lord and Lady Salisbury creates social and political interest. Ormsby Gore, Unionist MP for Denbigh Boroughs, is son of Lord and Lady Harlech and a prominent young Unionist.
An historic ruling by Rt Hon James William Lowther as Speaker of the British Commons fuels debate over the Franchise Bill. Born April 1, 1850s, Lowther’s lengthy career began in 1886 as Conservative MP for Penrith and he became Speaker in 1905. His impartial humor and restraint earn broad respect amid suffrage tensions and parliamentary jests.
Lieut. Col. Arthur Percy Sherwood, ex Ottawa police chief, heads the Dominion police and secret service in Canada. Since 1906 he commanded the Eights Rifle Brigade and 1898 the Forty-third Rifles. honored with CMG 1901 and MVO 1902, he aided Behring Sea arbitration and King George’s Canadian visits. He led Bisley team 1903 and held many royal and civic roles.
The report describes diamond hunting in Damaraland where labor crews work under white overseers to crawl the sands and recover carats worth millions. At a spot near Luderitzbucht, workers reportedly gathered thousands of carats in a single afternoon, while shifting dunes and mobile sands define the coast, with values exceeding two million dollars in days.
The London Standard notes that English city mayors display varied insignia of office. Chichester uses a gold mounted malacca cane, Guildford a queenly bestowed stick, York bears silver mounted oak staves, and Ripon for its mayor includes a municipal horn flower who signals with three nightly blasts.
The essay describes a Highland death rite where the corpse lies on a board wrapped in coarse linen. Friends place a wooden plate on the breast holding salt and earth separate and unmixed. The salt symbolizes the mortal spirit, the earth the corruptible body.
London remains a premier fur market with annual sales rivaling twenty million dollars. Ermine, once royal trim, fell from favor as white skins flooded markets, then surged again after a mysterious fashion cue. Chinese hunters shipped ten thousand ermine skins in one spring before fashion shifted once more.
A London Outlook reflection notes foxhound judges rely on common sense to pick premier animals. An artist from a major kennel demonstrated this by selecting prize and pedigree dogs purely by perceived strength and beauty, apart from a bulldog’s noted exception.
Gladstone stayed with the Earl of Beaconsfield at a country house where guests recorded name and profession in a visitors’ book. Beaconsfield signed in his usual bold manner while Gladstone, unaware of the prior entry, wrote his own profession.
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