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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 28, 1936
Page
4
The article notes high prices for Persian carpets and other art objects, citing the Emperors Carpet sold for 115000 dollars and the guarded secrets behind dyes and lacquering. It highlights how Eastern dyeing and lacquer methods remain mysterious to Western craftspeople and how investigators and traders profited through hidden knowledge.
BC fish meal plants produced 3 300 plus tons more fish and whale meal in 1935 than 1934 while total oil output fell in whales but rose overall to 2 630 400 gallons. Meal output reached 16 301 tons with fertilizer 354 tons as whale numbers declined from 350 to 202.
Spring planting begins on a Perry county farm known as No Man's Land where 127 acres are tilled entirely by four women of the Mechting family aged 41 to 95. They have sustained themselves from the soil for over thirteen years without aid from neighbors or hired help.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors examined editorial conduct around Lindbergh. Lee A. White of Detroit News urged balancing sympathy with publicity history while defending citizen privacy and free press against autocratic restraint. Nathaniel Howard praised U S news services and said AP drives global reporting under police pressures.
The King commands the Royal Marines as colonel in chief, with royal guards at Buckingham Palace St James and Hyde Park magazine. Peers plan to spend 860000 on coronation robes. 1600 robes at 425 each plus coronets 90, robe cloth of crimson velvet takes six months to make in northern England. The Bay of Fundy has 72 titles.
An official statement details Japan's Manchuria campaign toll from 1931 to 1935. It cites 4 200 deaths including 2 884 killed in action and 1 316 from disease, plus 11 310 wounded and 2 588 frostbite cases.
John Van Guilder urges amateurs to improve photography through careful composition and viewpoint changes. He stresses relying on light and shadow to guide focus, avoid clutter, and place the main subject off center for stronger images.
English author published in 1662 in London argues population size can be inferred from death rates and notes higher birth rates for boys compared with girls.
A three deck motor bus in Rome offers a smoking compartment and special accommodations for dogs. The vehicle carries 88 persons and highlights unusual transit features in the urban fleet.
Public health notice urges community action to curb the house fly menace described as a global threat. It details breeding in filth, spread of diseases, and steps like covering garbage, burning or burying refuse, screening windows, using fly swatters and sprays, and safe use of a formalin milk mixture in exposed areas.
The British Museum undertakes a massive project to catalogue roughly 4,000,000 volumes. Twenty four volumes cover subjects starting Earth and the index could reach 230 volumes or more. An extra twenty staff, including women, works on the task which may take about 25 years. Books arrive at 30,000 monthly as shelves grow about a mile yearly.
A London artist creates personalized face masks by pressing a sitter’s face into an elastic material he calls magic pulp. The mold captures a perfect impression, then masks are cast in porcelain or bronze for gifting and display.
A father explains to his son that a demagogue is a person who can rock the boat and persuade others there is a terrible storm at sea. The dialogue frames demagoguery as agitation and fear driven leadership.
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