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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 25, 1913
Page
5
American paymaster Frank Blake flees Mexican rebels after escorting company funds. He surrenders to Rebecca, daughter of a rancher, at a hacienda where she suspects his allegiance. The ranchero welcomes Blake as a guest while Blake remains prisoner under Rebecca's watch.
A reflective piece on poets who died young and the tragedy of wasted lives. It discusses Christopher Marlowe, Peele, Greene, and the era’s contrasts, noting Marlowe’s genius and the enduring value of his works. It mentions Thomas Otway and Venice Preserved as late Restoration contributions and highlights Belvidera as a standout character.
In Middle ham a hamlet in Shady Valley near Lyn nouth North Devon the sun hides for three months each winter behind surrounding hills. The first sighting occurs February 14 dubbed their valentine with sun increasing daily until it hides again in November.
One of Fortune's favorites Lord Brackley has received the Mertoun House estate from his father the Earl of Ellesmere. Expected to inherit Bridgewater House in London and Worsley Hall near Manchester as wealth grows from the Bridgewater Trust. He was educated at Eton and gained fame as a cricketer and later served as aide-de-camp to General Sir W G Knox in the South African War. He is now forty.
A tale about Samuel Warren author of Ten Thousand a Year showing his vanity in early years. At a friend's dinner he was seated with a woman he had not met and asked if she had heard of him. She replied that her husband preferred Warren's plucking and they used it. The Westminster Gazette records the anecdote.
Wire originated from hammering by hand but modern production uses powerful machines. Heated metal is drawn through a sequence of progressively smaller holes. The first wire mill in England opened at Mortlake in 166%. Today vast quantities of wire in many grades and sizes are produced from thick stock to fine threads.
A London footnote describes the cav ity in the Cleopatra Obelisk at the Thames Embankment filled with varied items. The collection includes coins, a Bible set in multiple languages, portraits, engineering plans, a hydraulic jack, wire rope, maps, directories, almanacks, cigars, hairpins, and photographs of twelve Englishwomen.
The piece notes Boers in South Africa favor umbrellas for status though many are large alpaca models with faulty catches. Umbrellas appear in guest rooms when the head of household is home and are taken on trips to town Saturdays. They are rarely opened in public and sometimes used as a whip on horseback or in a spider carriage.
Stuart Oswald has developed a flanged wheel rim and skirt attachment to stop mud splashes from buses and other vehicles. Tested by Scotland Yard and an LGB inspector, the device fits existing wheels and held firm against strong kerb impacts.
A Sir Thomas Lawrence life size portrait of Mrs. Francis Robertson was found in the National Gallery cellars, covered in dirt and cracked like crocodile skin. Restorer Mr. Buttery cleaned and repaired it, and it has been hung in the vestibule as fresh as when first painted.
A shorthorn bull bred by A S Gibson sold for 1450 guineas at the Birmingham Shorthorn Show and sale, fetching about 7350 dollars. The animal is a grandson of King Christian, a famed sire once sought by Sir George Drummond for Huntleywood she herd. King Christian died last summer.
The Hon. Wn Ormsby Gore engages Lady Beatrice Cecil elder daughter of Lord and Lady Salisbury. He is Unionist MP for Denbigh Boroughs and heir to Lord and Lady Harlech, a young Unionist active in policy circles.
The Rt. Hon. James William Lowther gains historic notice after ruling on the French Bill in the British Commons. Born April 1, Lowther entered Parliament in 1886 as Conservative for Penrith, later appointed to post in 1905. His calm, impartial style earned praise from across parties despite sharp exchanges with suffragette critics.
Reported in Damaraland South Africa diamond finds are made by laborers crawling on hands and knees. In one site twenty workers gathered sixty thousand carats worth over two million dollars in three days under two overseers. Nearby, two white men collected eight thousand carats worth over three hundred thousand dollars in a single afternoon near Luderitzbucht.
The London Standard notes grand ceremonial mayors in English towns. Chichester’s chief magistrate wields a gold mounted malacca cane, Guildford’s mayor has a queen Elizabeth gift, York’s lord mayor and lady mayor bear silver mounted oak staves, and Ripon lists a municipal horn flower who sounds three blasts nightly at nine and at the cross.
In Pennant’s Tour of Scotland a highlander’s death is described with a body laid on a board and wrapped in coarse linen. Friends place a wooden plate on the chest and add salt as an emblem of the mortal body and mortal spirit, separated and unmixed.
Lieut.-Col. Arthur Percy Sherwood, former Ottawa police chief appointed 1879, rose to head the Dominion force and militia work. He earned honors including CMG in 1901 and MVO in 1902, served as honorary ADC, led the Forty-third Rifles and later the Eights Rifle Brigade, and aided King George during royal visits.
London’s fur market, among the world’s largest, sees yearly sales exceeding twenty million dollars. The piece traces ermine from royal trim to fashion fixation, noting price surges when demand spikes and declines as trends shift, with hunters supplying ten thousand skins in one spring before fashion moves on.
The piece notes that in judging dogs, especially foxhounds, a sound eye identifies strength and beauty. It cites a private example where a kennel master selected prize and pedigree dogs by instinct, praising the unity of vigor and appeal as valued in English practice.
In a country house visitors’ book Lord Beaconsfield wrote his profession as Patriotism. Gladstone signed next as his own profession, revealing a quiet clash between the two political titans during a shared stay.
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