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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1939
Page
4
Old experiments on plant growth resurface as colchichine treatment scars seeds yet prompts doubled size and lasting vigor. Detroit botanist cites zinnias marigolds and alyssums as examples while noting risks of life-germ destruction and permanent seed enlargement.
Neal O Hara reports from the New York Post that Calv in Coolidge ordered a straw hat cleaned for reuse prompting a trade alert and a quick move to buy a new straw skimmer. Later the British royal princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose appeared without hats, prompting a drop in children hat sales in England and a palace intervention.
A Victoria Colonist report notes Imperial Airways claims pilots do not catch colds due to uncontaminated air. An official from Royal Dutch Airlines adds that daily sea flights from Croydon to Amsterdam keep travelers in good health with no colds or influenza and few days off.
A. W. Ellsworth of Hurd, North Dakota, uses eggs from his 200 plus chickens to supplement calf feed. He mixes four to five eggs daily with milk as part of the calves diet, noting eggs fetch only about 11 cents a dozen.
Avard Atkins, a Cape Sabie Island fisherman, adds to his coin collection after discovering buried wreck coins dated 1787 on the beach near his home. The exact location and details of the find are noted as a local collectible incident.
The finest turf is grown on Great Britain's coast and sold as Cumberland. It costs from 10 to 15 dollars per 100 pieces and is used for laying bowling greens.
William J. White, a University of Saskatchewan graduate and former Agricultural Supervisor at the Dominion Forage Crops Laboratory Saskatoon, has been named officer in charge succeeding Dr. T M Stevenson. White, born near Ruddell, Sask, studied at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota field crops work, with alfalfa breeding and wheat grass hybridization in Saskatoon as his focus.
The Halifax Herald reports a university professor argues war is not inevitable and that human choice can prevent it. He compares war to natural forces like wind and rain, noting that while they are inevitable, human action can mitigate or eliminate harm from these forces.
Italian scholars spent ten years deciphering a 1300 BC papyrus from a Libyan desert oasis. The inscription reveals a tax list for inhabitants, showing that even in ancient times governments levied duties.
A Fifth Avenue shop draws shoppers with a miniature gift program. Customers pick a certificate, set a price, and let the recipient choose a hat or jacket later. The idea started in the men’s hat department at Christmas. A UK incident notes a gold fish surviving after a fall from a fourth floor window in 1938.
The Athenaeum, founded in 1823 as the Temple of Athens, elected R B Bennett to membership. The club, on Pall Mall at Waterloo Place, features a Parthenon frieze and Decimus Burton design, housing a renowned library and daily lunches with many leading figures of Britain.
Minerals worth about 1 billion dollars have been mined in Northern and Southern Rhodesia since European occupation. Southern Rhodesia contributed 735 million dollars, with gold yielding over 560 million. Chrome output rose in recent years and reopens of gold mines resumed after the old standard. The Killarny group near Filabusi district will be reopened.
A New York Herald Tribune note reports Father Schoener in Santa Barbara pursuing hybridization of Spitzenbergs with Rosa pomifera scarlet seed to yield a rose flavored apple. The heirloom rose lineage and the scent of Schoener’s apples are described as a future fairy fruit with jelly notes reminiscent of roses.
Three year old Thomas Dennis O’Neill, son of Thomas O’Neill and Barbara Katharine Ross O’Neill, who grew up in Weyburn, wins the New York News annual Beautiful Child contest grand prize of $1,000.
A caution about free speech notes that protecting core rights also permits others to voice opposing opinions. The remark emphasizes the tension between freedom and exposure to dissenting ideas in public dialogue.
The article notes that in 1937 the sun reached its closest point to Earth on New Year's Day and its farthest distance on the Fourth of July.
The New York Herald Tribune lauds Bermuda for its automobile absence per its slower tempo. It notes motor trucks are allowed for highway and garbage services but warns even a single car would threaten Bermuda’s pace and soul, urging the Assembly to maintain its intransigence and keep the Governor away.
The Orient liner Ormonde arrived at Port Arthur with nearly 700 tourists marking the port as possibly the first overseas ship since convict transports left the harbor over a century ago. Visitors view the historic ruins recalling convict labor that built the Tasmanian settlement, a symbol of a grim yet storied past and tourist interest.
Proving A Liability argues Mussolini’s Ethiopian campaign drains Italian funds and troops with little prospect of complete conquest. The piece notes Ethiopia remains partly under Italian control, costs of campaigns, and potential strategic risks to France and Britain, framing the venture as a financial and military liability.
A Canadian doctor notes the influence of ancestors on lifespan. He explains adding the ages at death of a mouiher father two grandmothers and two grandfathers, dividing by six yields hereditary life expectancy, then urges discarding the figure after learning the lesson about heredity.
Senator Iva C. Fallis notes that five women have entries in Provincial Legislatures, two in the Senate and two in the House of Commons. She argues the total is insufficient and cites lack of active participation by women, despite holding 57 percent of the vote, as a key cause while many focus on household duties.
The item cites a 1930s New Statesman and Nation piece describing a math trick to derive a telephone number and age by a sequence of operations using one s birth year and current year. It also notes a Times of London remark about scarecrows thinning in English countryside. It ends with news that South West Africa’s government bought 1,760,000 acres for future settlement.
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