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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
5
The Yarme s Short Course and related home economics and agricultural conventions open at Manitoba Agricultural College starting Monday evening February 12. A broad program is being prepared and outlined for publication soon, with promises of a stronger, more profitable week for attending agricultural enthusiasts.
An advertisement promotes Miona Tablets as a perfect stomach tonic to cure indigestion within 24 hours. It claims to treat biliousness vomiting during pregnancy sea and car sickness and other disorders from indulgence. The drug is guaranteed by B K McNaugh and refundable if it fails. A box costs 5 shillings 0 pence from The RT Booth Co Ltd Fort Erie Ontario.
The Bergen to Christiania line in Norway, opened recently, faced 184 tunnels and 14 bridges, with 36 million cubic feet of earth and 28 million cubic feet of rock excavated. Costing about 15.6 million dollars, it cuts transit time from 54 to 14 hours while requiring continuous snow defenses and rotary plows for winter use.
A French physician proposes injecting paraffin wax under the skin to create a permanent membranous cyst that marks individuals with criminal records. The wax would not be visible but located at a defined spot to denote the record and hint at offense type. Cosmos notes the method would supplement Pertillon data and could be removable by surgery without a visible scar.
An article describes a new propeller with corrugations on the driving side that arrest water slip, increasing driving power without more revolutions or fuel. The corrugated bell enters the water smoothly, and sizes cover motorboats to ocean steamships.
The new library in Springfield Massachusetts used a sawdust concrete base for cork carpet. An experimental mix of one part cement two parts sand and three quarters part sawdust was used to create a nail hold. One inch thick layer covered five thousand square feet.
A cheap substitute for radium named mesothorium has been discovered. It is produced from thorium, a heavy iron-gray powder extracted from thorite, a mineral found mainly in Norway.
The mineral monazite is a principal source of the rare earth oxide theria used in mantle construction for ignition devices. Von Weisbach noted sparks from alloying elements with cerium and other constituents of monazite usable in practice. Monazite occurs as grains in granites and gneiss, mined from Brazilian beaches and U.S. placer deposits in North Carolina and South Carolina, with large Idaho deposits not yet exploited.
An invention by Dr Clifton Mlodge of Clark University proposes converting every garbage can into a fly trap. A loose lid admits flies to a trap chamber and exit at the top, leading them to death. the device is patented and may be adopted to reduce filth and improve community health.
An article notes a Danish Scientific American described barrier nets of electric lamps along a submerged cable between Fano Island and the mainland to deter eels from entering the Baltic. The method relies on eel migration timing and aims to create a wall of light to repel them.
Horticulturists condemn di tone t manipulation of flowers by chemical agents after surgery to create unnatural blue roses and other tinted blooms. They argue such petals mimic snakeskin and undermine natural harmony, risking buyer deception through chemically altered stones offered for sale.
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