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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1924
Page
4
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind urges blindness prevention with practical steps. It warns many lose sight due to delays and outlines newborn care, child safety, disease impacts, and lighting habits to preserve vision.
Promoters of the Queen's Doll's House at Wembley doubted attracting power and insured against total takings up to £11,000 before opening. The exhibit has drawn over 560,000 viewers, and the Queen has allocated the initial £8,000 it raised to charities.
A Johannesburg factory begins producing concentrated cattle and poultry seeds from swarming locusts. In New South Wales a project aims to convert rabbits into food, fur, and fertilizer, treating the animal as fully as Chicago packers treat hogs.
A Dominion Experimental Farms circular explains simple fattening methods to boost weight and flesh quality in young turkeys. Six weeks of graded feed, grain mash, cooked potatoes and milk aid white flesh, with gravel and clean water. male birds fatten less easily but grow larger.
A coal mine siding worker ran wagons down an incline with a sleeper at the bottom. After two days, on the third, four wagons sped uncontrollably and plunged into a canal. The enraged boss confronted the worker, who replied that he had left.
A man who is clean inside and out who treats others with respect and fairness who does not boast or cheat who is brave enough to tell the truth and generous enough to share the world with others, valuing women children and the elderly.
An English tourist and guide reach a mountain summit and realize they forgot gas. They joke about sipping from a bottle while noting no one else is nearby.
The article recalls Mr. Dunning who arrived in Canada in 1902 at age 17, started with any available job in Saskatchewan, and rose to minister of the crown and head of the provincial government. He credits Canada as a land of opportunity and notes his philosophy that emigrants should take the first job available rather than seek ideal positions.
The Prince of Wales, invited to the Wembley post office by Postmaster H Wood, found his pocket empty when paying for the five millionth exhibition stamp. Mr Wood lent him the stamp. Lord Derby, present with the party, also lacked money but refused a free stamp.
The piece explains U S paper money lasts longer than coins since all US paper money is printed in Washington at the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It notes a secret formula for the paper made in a guarded New England mill and claims US notes endure longer than any other.
The Oxford Dictionary, after over forty years of work, is nearly finished with only sections on letters U and W remaining. W posed greatest challenge due to many onomatopoetic words like whiff and whush. The final work will include about 4250000 words and two million quotations.
Instructions from Ottawa describe preserving eggs in lime water or water glass. Fresh eggs are required, then submerged in lime water or sodium silicate solution, with surface covered to prevent evaporation. A crack or barrel is used, stirring, settling, and keeping eggs completely immersed.
A Wisconsin editor-reporter quips a editor must wield Herculean strength, vast intellect, saintly patience, bold courage, cunning, Edison perseverance, and Ford finance. The Oshawa Reformer cartoon or quote adds a shockingly racial street slur, prompting reader concern.
The medical field now dismisses the old belief that the spleen caused temper or laughter. Doctors attribute many ailments once blamed on the spleen to other causes and separate the organ from such emotions.
An observing doctor defends the crow as maligned and unduly blamed. He notes crows forage after plowing for white grubs and beetles, not in rising corn, and rarely eat eggs from other birds nests. He cites blue jays as nest robbers while crows help protect roots by removing pests. The feud with farmers is ancient and slowly softening.
The article discusses Gresham's Law as it applies to speech, arguing that bad language drives out good. It notes modern manners favor informality over formality, with fashion changing from frock coats to lounge suits. It urges effort to preserve English tongue in its honorable state.
Trinidad hosts the world’s richest asphaltic lake in a volcanic crater. Sir Horace Byatt has been named governor there. The lake, renewed from below, has yielded asphalt since 1883 with only a six foot drop. The Bermeudez lake in Venezuela is the only other major source.
London churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren facing demolition are the focus of a plan to remove and rebuild them in New York and other American cities, citing preservation in the face of decay.
Canada boasts major mines including amber mica nickel asbestos and others with wartime demand boosting molybdenite production. In 1918 Canada ranked as the world’s second largest molybdenite producer from the Quyon deposit near Ottawa. Postwar demand revived interests with inquiries from the US and Europe and new uses for molybdenum alloys.
The article clarifies tornado season peaks in March to May with April as the big month. It notes tornadoes are upright rotating clouds with speeds from 200 to 500 mph and funnel centers creating vacuums. The Mississippi Valley bears the heaviest impact while California and New England see rarer incidents.
A scientist states humans may not know why blood is red and could be other colors. The remark questions assumed color consistency in biology and highlights uncertainty in hemoglobin color origins.
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