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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1932
Page
4
Nicholas Murray Butler argues the United States should cancel intergovernmental war debts from World War I. He contends legal claims fail to justify continued payments as creditor nation status harms global economies and worsens the mood and business conditions.
In 1931 tea consumption in the United Kingdom remained high at about eight and a half cups per person daily, though total tea use fell by roughly three quarters of a billion cups from 1930 to 1931. Coffee use rose to 33,902,490 pounds, up about 1.5 million from 1930 but still far under a pound per person for the year.
An antique 1908 automobile sold for 75 dollars at a Toronto auction and was later moved from a garage after years of storage. A company representative bought the car to display it at exhibitions.
British editors from the Empire Press Union and Canadian newspapers toured Ford's Dagenham plant. The factory, built on a swampland near London, is highly self contained with its own power and by products works. It aims to produce up to 200000 cars yearly employing 15000, powered largely by electricity with rapid roof vent controls.
A Surrogate Court record in Osgoode Hall Toronto notes witty wills. Dr Dunlop of Goderich leaves shares to sisters, one for marrying a minister and another for being an old maid. A brother teased to abandon Whiggery and radicalism and a friend receives a silver teapot for comfort. A third sister gets a silver cup with a sovereign and grandma’s snuff box.
The Stratford Beacon Herald notes reparations estimates for Germany have fallen from 31,999,999,999 to 1,000,000,000. Experts say if trends continue, officials may convene to determine remaining payments by other nations.
A conversation reveals one partner's certainty and the other's doubt about proposing again. The outcome remains that there would have been no second proposal.
The Winnipeg Free Press reports Pan American Airways supports a future trans Atlantic air link. Expeditions led by H G Watkins and University of Michigan's Dr R L Belknap study Greenland weather to a full year. Base camps near the Arctic Circle and icecap research precede flight surveys.
The north magnetic pole lies on Boothia Peninsula along Canada's Arctic coast. The south magnetic pole is south of New Zealand in South Victoria Land.
Canadian honey was shipped to the United Kingdom Netherlands Germany France the United States and other markets during 1931 reflecting growing international trade in beekeeping products.
The article notes rapid railway timetable improvements in Britain with the Mancunian express retimed to 172 minutes for Wilmslow to London and 2,026 LMS trains accelerated daily. It also reports 1932 health year data from the United States and Canada, with low death rates in industrial policyholders, declines in tuberculosis and pneumonia, but rising cancer deaths.
A nationwide survey indicates that a $120,000,000 federal appropriation will create a quarter of a million men working 30 hours a week for 11 months. States welcome the highway construction program as a move to widen employment and extend relief work.
India is developing a motion picture industry and turning out home made films, signaling growing local production capacity and expanding cultural output.
Diver Tom Eadie explains bottom scenes differ by light and bottom type. On bright days over sandy or gravel bottoms at 120 feet, visibility is wide. Cloudy days over mud bottoms reduce sight to near zero, requiring trial and feel, with ocean floor resembling land with rises hollows and occasional rocks.
Friends from St John’s Mid say John White is the empire’s oldest golfer. He began swinging at Fifeshire, Scotland, 75 years ago and still plays at age 90. He uses a midiron bought 70 years ago.
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