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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 08, 1925
Page
6
A Canadian expedition to climb Mount Logan in Yukon will depart Vancouver soon. Led by A. H. McCarthy and Col. W. W. Foster, the party includes six other gentlemen and a representative of the English Alpine Club.
Captain Blood leads an audacious action against the Spanish Hidalgo and Milagrosa off Tortuga as Arabella Bishop and Lord Wade face capture. In a dramatic ramming and boarding, Blood’s tactics trap the Spanish ships and leave Don Miguel’s force overwhelmed. The encounter closes with a taunting Spanish adversary and a promise of further confrontation.
Misa Bishop and Lord Julian witness the English ship Arabella drawing near the red ship Cinco Lingas former Cadiz. Don Miguel basks in glee while Milagrosa’s gunners prepare as Admiral weighs risks and the English captain faces a perilous, gallant battle.
Letters from Mrs. Alvita M. Percy of Ingomar and Mrs. A Sie of Todmorden describe relief from nervous troubles and pains after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Readers are urged to try the medicine, with testimonials from Canadian and Ontario residents and an appeal to all women suffering from similar conditions.
British MPs with home telephones fear possible disqualification under a George III era act that bars government contractees from sitting. Captain T J OConnor, MP, will seek the attorney general’s view on legislation to protect members with Postmaster General telephone contracts.
Passengers collected five hundred parrots and love birds along with several monkeys a deer and a Mexican tiger cat. The assortment is bound for Canadian and U S cities after Montroyal completed its second West Indian cruise of the season in New York.
A vivid old time verse describes a reckless driver racing through town causing fear. It compares male and female drivers, claiming the female is more deadly and unsettling to onlookers with her fearsome display and danger to the public.
The former Princess Hermine to date often signs letters as Her Majesty the Kaiserin. The signature was first noticed on a condolence letter related to the Dortmund mine disaster that killed 137 people.
The fragment appears to advise not worrying about uncontrollable things and to act on controllable ones, conveying a motivational tone without any specific event or named entities. It lacks concrete persons places organizations or dates to form a proper news item.
The piece extols vacuum air tight tins from Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Limited as a major improvement for preserving tobacco. It notes better flavor, fragrance, and moisture in cut, plug smoking, and plug chewing tobaccos, promising consistent freshness year round. It traces tobacco's history and credits innovations for consumer enjoyment.
The piece contrasts expert dog show criteria with what the average owner values. It notes that judges assess head, neck, eyes, shoulders, forelegs, hindquarters, tail, frame, weight, color, and gait, while owners prize tail wagging for candy, paw over the nose when asleep, begging at table, licking hands, and tricks like offering the right paw, pretending to sleep, and bringing slippers. It cites the New York World.
The Ancient Society of College Youths rang a Cambridge Surprise Maximus peal on 12 bells at St Pauls Cathedral in 5,280 changes in 4 hours 14 minutes. It is the first time the effort reached this level of difficulty at the cathedral with Alfred B. Peck guiding the heaviest tenor bell weighing 62 cwt.
Lens of The New Statesman notes Sir Gowland Hopkins’s vitamins discovery of 1913 and argues nutrition is the era’s master medical word. The London congress saw few listeners, as vitamins rise from fashion to science with vast potential, per the Toronto Globe.
The total cost of the Turgeon commission is 169 707 dollars. It amounts to about one fifteenth of a cent per bushel on a 250 000 000 bushel crop. Benefits from the commission’s findings will last at least a decade, justifying the expense per the Regina Leader.
Dr. C. G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory led field tests to estimate diameters and temperatures for ten bright stars by splitting their heat into a spectrum. Among the stars observed was Beta Rigel with an estimated 16,000 C temperature, about three times that of the sun's 6,000 C.
English courts have lawsuits open against professional coin-matchers and race horse bettors to compel payment of income taxes.
Five business men from Hull in Yorkshire set out for Alaska aboard the steamship Montclare to seek silver. The expedition is led by John Riley a Hull commercial agent who claims to have found treasure during the Klondike rush twenty years ago while prospecting off the beaten track and says he can locate the silver seam blindfolded.
The ad touts Baby's Own Tablets as a gentle, effective cure for constipation and digestion in children. It claims the tablets relieve colds fevers and worms, ease teething, and contrast favorably with harsh castor oil. Sold by druggists or mail order for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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