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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1934
Page
2
An address urges stimulating objective thinking through classroom discussions at Queen's University. It defends academic freedom against charges of nurturing anarchy and emphasizes that professors must guide inquiry with self restraint, wisdom, and patience.
C. C. Dill of Denver says his 1908 roadster has logged about 400000 miles since purchase in 1910 after 2000 miles were driven. The speedometer failed in 1915 at 240000 miles, yet he has continued driving coast to coast from the Great Lakes to Alabama with no accidents or legal trouble.
An American archaeologist reports that ancient China used rhinoceros hide to torture political prisoners by wrapping them in the skin as it dried and contracted. The skins also covered funeral cars and formed armor for bronze-age warriors.
The movement of sheep and lambs from farms to livestock yards and packers in Canada showed a substantial increase during 1933, remaining well above the five year average from 1929 to 1933.
Stalin orders secondary schools in the Soviet Union to restore European standards and methods. The Glasgow Herald notes this as a hopeful turn in a longstanding, hard to realize reform, describing it as part of a failed experiment that looked good on paper but faltered in practice.
The 19 galleons of the Franco Spanish fleet sunk in Vigo Bay in September 1702 will be searched for this summer, according to Madrid’s El Debate. Previous salvage attempts from the West Indies fleet have failed to recover the gold.
The article notes that cigarettes in their modern form appeared in America and Europe about 65 years ago and mentions an estimate of ten million bicycles in Great Britain.
The London gold tide grows stronger with weekly inflows of 45 million dollars, drawn from South Africa, Canada and other producers. Foreign buyers store the metal in London vaults, while exports fall short of one billion and a quarter in nine months. Bankers cannot use the gold to stimulate industry and wages have fallen by 310 million since 1931.
Dr Gordon B New and Dr Frederick A Figi of Rochester Minnesota described facial renovation operations to the American Medical Association in Cleveland. They explained that artificial plates are inserted in cheek and jaw bones and nasal structures and skin and bone grafts are used to rebuild faces after disease or tumor removal.
The British monarch transfers the great seal and royal signet to Charles te Water, making South Africa the sole Dominion with its own great seal. The seal, struck at the royal mint, features the king’s head and the South African coat of arms on the reverse. Canadian timothy seed production falls short of domestic needs by more than half, while exports of alsike clover and blue grass are typically ample. The Christian Science publishing house in Boston cost 4 million dollars in cash during a period of low morale, with no garden party or church supper hosted.
The growth of field corn for grain in Canada is almost entirely confined to Ontario, indicating regional concentration in production. Ontario leads national output with limited or no substantial planting in other provinces.
Agricultural Notes discuss seed certification in Canada with brome and western rye grass free of couch grass seeds. Reports on grain market telegraph links, cattle lice control with fluoride, wheat surplus factors, German toothpaste style cream tubes, and the rise of economic entomology. Dairy regulation on cheese dating, beef trade factors, and general global natural product marketing laws. Annual pasture crops and using cereals as forage to cover dry spells in Canada.
A new commission has been formed to inquire into Alberta's claims for further compensation related to the administration and control of natural resources. Hon. Andrew K. Dysart chairs. Hon. Thomas M. Tweedie and George C. Macdonald join. The body mirrors a Saskatchewan inquiry and will report to the federal government with joint recommendations after Alberta's review.
Glass and steel furnishings surge in England this season with glass what-nots glass beds and chromium tubed easy chairs. Steel drawing rooms and glass bedrooms are highlighted as the latest in human habitation.
A concise observation notes that bureaucratic delays hinder commerce more than traffic controls. The statement contrasts regulatory friction with city traffic signals, highlighting the impact on business operations and efficiency.
In London Sessions Court John C. O Connor faces trial for breaking into Lady Margaret Day Nursery. A thumb print on a clock is offered as evidence though he claims only handling the piece in 1932. Detective-Sergeant Jack Livings from New Scotland Yard asserts the print matches O Connor and explains powder adheres to fresh prints but not old ones.
The principal European countries especially France Italy and Germany have restricted dairy product imports through tariffs quotas and other means. As a result butter and cheese exports to the United Kingdom have risen steadily in recent years.
The article notes a long term downward trend in both oats production and consumption in Canada beginning in 1920, highlighting sustained reductions across the agricultural sector and domestic markets.
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