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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
6
A period piece advises care in selecting dairy stock. Emphasizes choosing cows with strong conformation and an especially roomy udder, and inspecting calves for dam quality, growth potential, and digestive health. Recommends culling weak calves and keeping barns clean to improve milk output.
A New York dairy expert notes Brown Swiss cows are strong milkers and good beef cattle. The author bets crossbreeding with grade cows will improve milking and overall herd value. Milk tests run 3.8 to 4 percent by Babcock, and one cow produced over twenty three pounds of butter via official test. Winter feeding relies on silage and alfalfa.
A collection of dairy notes discusses economical corn silage storage, beets tainting milk if barns are not cleaned, and oat hay as a profitable feed yielding good milk and butter fat. It covers feeding adjustments, dairy cow intake, and cautions against milking with dusty or odorous feed to prevent milk contamination.
A survey of unusual burial requests from historical figures. Sir James Columhoun requested burial in full evening dress. Gherze Herring specified remains under a sundial in Maidenhead. Queen Victoria plotted her funeral. A Reigate bride died before her wedding and was interred in her wedding dress with bridesmaids. Major General Algernon Stewart’s Hascombe funeral featured a horse drawn coffin and mourners in antiquated smocks with text on collars. The same mourners wore their garb at the next church service.
Director asks how Shakespeare statue stands on pedestal marked Scott. Attendant explains base error likely.
At the Canadian Institute Thomas Southworth argued that establishing a College of Forestry alongside agricultural schools would educate on forest propagation, aid reforestation of denuded Ontario districts, and support timber resource preservation. Prof E J Zavity showcased waste land planting and successful forestry methods from Guelph and Ontario Agricultural College.
Prince Edward county resident John Pymer, born in Liverpool England on April 12 1804, marks his 103rd birthday at Bloomfield with his daughter Mrs Lovell. A veteran of the 1837 Windmill battle near Prescott he later farmed fifty years in Burr settlement and has abstained from liquor and tobacco his whole life.
A writer in London Opinion muses on a disciplined pre theatre ritual. He imagines walking ten miles smoking cigars and drinking soda to curb restless impulses before calmly occupying a stall. He vows to avoid disturbing others with impulsive theater behavior.
Dr Ro W. Bell reports a serious smallpox situation across Leeds and Grenville and nearby townships. Matilda Edwardsburg and Athens areas, Bastard, Mallorytown, and surrounding regions show neglect and lack of quarantine. Some cases are mild, but severe instances occur as vaccine and disinfection efforts lag.
A writer in The Youth's Companion reviews sailor superstitions seen as part of sea life and notes that mariners today share no more belief than their peers. The article traces customs from keel tokens and wine christenings to bells, whistles, rats, figure heads, and even Chinese junks with eye symbols.
A tale from Spurgeon history recounts Rev James Spurgeon praying at Honeywood Park, dreaming of Satan’s danger on an alternate path. He chose the perilous route, reached safety, then found a gold piece along the return path. He later used the coin to craft his wedding ring.
A Scotch surgeon notes a link between untreated decayed teeth and an eye disease. He details three cases with foul breath and spongy gums that bleed, showing pus at the gum margins. Restoring oral hygiene and dental health, plus tonics and eye care, led to full recovery.
A Bucharest despatch reports an Austrian inventor has developed a new method to produce paper from marsh reeds. The process reportedly yields paper superior to wood pulp or esparto and approaching the quality of traditional reed papers.
An elderly traveler recalls buying a straw bed for 75 cents twenty five years ago as railroad travel shifted. The Kansas City depot scene shows straw ticks once sold in mass, with L S Banks noting about 10 000 ticks sold from a Union avenue room.
A London Globe report details a South Kensington museum exhibit showing the cod’s omnivorous diet. It lists prey including herring larvae, dab, whiting, sand eel, shrimps, young lobsters, sea mouse, large whelks, and whelk shells with hermit crabs. The piece notes mollusk-eating may aid shell collectors and cites Woodward’s Manual of the Mollusca.
A newspaper note explains that florists suffer in long cloudy winters. With sun, heat maintains growth and blooms, even at zero outdoor temperatures, though coal costs rise. Prolonged cloudiness stops blooms, causing carnations callas and roses to spoil if sun does not arrive in days.
Hungarians display a passionate love for dance, dancing anywhere and in all weather. They dance on paddocks, village streets, stable yards, and wayside csardas. The pastime defies sun, dust, rain, or snow and is said to be in their blood.
The London Star notes Mr Brennan, born in Ireland, built a gyroscope train hailed as a near flying machine. He moved from repairing Melbourne clocks to torpedoes, selling the Brennan torpedo to the British Government for £120,000, then the Government closed the Gillingham factory last autumn.
Rev R J Campbell’s The New Theology provokes strong opposition from all sects and critics. The book, compiling recent sermons, has likely reached 20 000 copies in ten days, with editions selling out before and after publication.
The piece surveys mixed reactions to Campbell's book across papers. Urban outlets dismiss or mock while provincial and religious presses acknowledge its growing influence. Critics split on dogma, fall, atonement, and scriptural authority.
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