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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1930
Page
2
A children's remedy marketed for use from infancy through adolescence is highlighted as safe and effective, with Castoria sold in drug stores and the genuine product bearing Chas. HF Fletcher's signature. The copy urges parents to keep this medicine in the family medicine cabinet for all ages.
A magazine column shares a short, inspiring piece on gratitude over grief. The tale of a widow who loses her husband shows how choosing a hopeful outlook can magnify life’s gifts. Life’s value depends on perspective, not circumstance.
The Lake Placid Club hosts illuminated ice skating with a 158-foot star formed by 150 bulbs and red green club initials at the center, frozen into the rink and visible through five inches of ice. An octagonal nine story tower in Nanking once featured porcelain facing. If the world is a stage most people are scene shifters.
Sir Alfred Yarrow recalls bringing the first U S typewriters to Britain in 1876 after a case fell into the dock. He and a friend bought the machines for a few shillings and hired a shorthand writer who could play the piano to use one, remaining in his employ until the man’s death.
The Southern railway has secured stock in and arranged with Imperial Airways to maintain an air service. The move aims to avoid wasteful competition between rail and air transport.
London officials prohibit flags and banners in public streets used for advertising. The measure aims to curb visual clutter and preserve city aesthetics while regulating outdoor promotions.
The piece surveys Canada leading with eight national parks spanning over 12 000 square miles in the Rockies. Jasper Park in Alberta is the largest at 4517 square miles. It highlights New Zealand with Tongariro and Fiordland as its two major parks, noting Fiordland's lakes sounds rivers and the World’s Wonder Walk from Lake Te Anau to Milford Sound.
Quebec City mother Mrs Leo Bedard credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength after childbirth. She was weak and dizzy but after using ten boxes she regained her health, urging others with poor blood or weak nerves to try the tonic. Pills sold by dealers or mailed from Brockville Ontario at 90 cents per box.
Sugar is distributed in Washington as liquid through gravity pipes from refinery tanks to tank cars or trucks for delivery to buyers. A newly developed high purification carbon enables white syrup produced directly from raw material, bypassing bag handling. Holloway's Corn Remover is claimed to relieve many by its own power.
Common laundry soap helps bureau drawers and windows glide smoothly. Rubbed on a nail it prevents wood splitting around the nail. Mixed with stove blocking it eases nail work and improves results. Rub under and around fingernails before handling blacking to keep nails clean.
Mrs Ricuano Cxaxuron of Birchtown Quebec says the change of life left her nervous and run down. She credits Pinkham medicines with improving her nerves appetite and energy and notes she has used the Blood Medicine and Liver Pills with help. She offers to answer letters from women about the remedies.
In the Vatican mosaic shop in Rome master craftsmen pass skills through generations. A finished piece like Murillo's Immaculate Conception, valued at 25, is signed to the Roman Catholic University in Washington. A mosaic may take two to ten years and uses as many as 27000 color shades with thousands of tiny heated pieces inserted meticulously.
Advert says Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil eases croup by reducing inflammation and loosening phlegm and provides relief for sore throat chest earache rheumatic pain cuts bruises and sprains. It is described as a reliable family medicine chest staple trusted by thousands.
The text touts a silk manufacture using Canadian spruce wood and linoleum materials to create a superior fiber. It also discusses Mil ler's Worm Powders as safe and pleasant, claiming they cleanse worms from the system with no harm, though they may cause vomiting in an unhealthy stomach.
Miss Yvonne Sutherland and Miss Margaret Sutherland donate a Mackenzie River Eskimo and Indian artifact collection to the Strathcona Ethnological Museum at McGill University. The 100 pre white contact items include hunting knives bone horn needles bows arrows harpoons bone fish hooks ivory canoes skin money and decorated costumes detailing northern native crafts and way of life. A willow root fish-net and three richly adorned native costumes are highlighted in the holdings.
On February 9 1930 Germany's women writers marked the 1000th anniversary of Hroeswitha the alleged first poetess of the Fatherland. She was born to a Saxon noble family and lived as a nun at Gandersheim convent near Hamelin, the Pied Piper city.
The water works department of Saskatoon reports a net surplus for 1929 of 31717.59 contrasting with 18561.54 in 1928. Revenue for the year totals 214241.16.
The 1929 fish harvest from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts totaled 1,024,221,000 pounds with a value of 26,170,350 dollars. This record reflects the broad scope of the industry and its peak production year across major U S waters.
A fragment shows a heated exchange with He declaring his candor and She urging silence, followed by a product claim of Minard’s kills dandruff. The brief hints at a social scene and a commercial ad within the page.
The London Daily Herald reports a new British Antarctic expedition under Commander Frank Worlsey, former Endurance skipper, aimed at a large scale with possible aeroplanes and a cost around £25000. It will pursue commercial and scientific aims. Persian Balm touted as a beauty product is also mentioned with brief description.
An unemployed miner from a victim’s pit attempted blackmail by carrier pigeon. A parcel containing a pigeon and a letter demanded a money payment within a set time under threat of death. An airplane and aerial photo traced the pigeon to the sender’s house, leading to his identification.
The Mayon volcano earns the nickname Fujiyama of the Philippines reflecting its tall conical summit and dramatic symmetry, as observers compare it to Japan’s Mount Fuji.
An advertisement touts Catarrhozene as soothing inhaled vapor that quickly clears bronchitis catarrh colds and irritated throat. It promises rapid distribution of healing bal sams through the breathing apparatus, with con gestion and illness fading after breathing the vapor.
Advertised tonic claims removal of nasal congestion headache and buzzing ears after two months of treatment. Price set at 1.00 for standard size and 0.50 for a smaller bottle, available through all dealers.
On January 18, 1930 the Panama Canal collected a record $86,665 in tolls from fourteen ships traveling Pacific to Atlantic. Lead vessel Virginia of Panama Pacific Line accounted for $15,210. The average toll was $6,190.35, surpassing the prior one-way record of $86,224.78 set December 8, 1928 from twenty-two ships Atlantic to Pacific.
Southern Alberta Beet Growers Association and Canadian Sugar Factories Limited expect 13 000 to 14 000 acres planted to sugar beets in Raymond this spring under an agreement. They hope to slice about 80 000 tons of beets this fall.
Diamond Dyes promise high quality anilines for bright new colors on dresses drapes and lingerie with no spotting or streaking. The copy emphasizes easy use uniform results that hold through wear and washing and advertises a price of 15 cents at drug stores.
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