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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1935
Page
6
Ontario reports 201 fatal accidents in the first six months of 1935, the highest for a similar period since 1931. Other items note Hugh Walpole traveling to Hollywood for a Oliver Twist film, floods displacing 5 million in Shantung, and a London RAF plane order amid aviation news.
American explorer Gregory Mason asserts ancient Central American peoples used anaesthetics long before Columbus and had advanced math. He cites Toltec pyramids, Peruvian tapestries, Mayan zero ahead of Hindus, and superior Mayan calendars and astronomy versus European benchmarks.
Three young Montrealers Rodolphe Page pilot Emile Pelletier and Bill Ritchie landed in Quebec after a four hour flight from Montreal. They hoped the home made craft would show planes could be built cheaply and safely. The garage built plane is government inspected and licensed with wing tanks holding 30 gallons.
Pilot R C Bain, arriving in Winnipeg from the south, reports a flock of hoppers at 9 500 feet over Billings Montana. The incident highlights the unusual aerial challenge pilots face from insect swarms at altitude.
A writer says he coined a new term during a morning shave. He notes his razor resembles common models and concludes everyday grooming tools can spark linguistic creativity.
Dr Charlies Camsell deputy minister of mines departs Ottawa for a vast air traverse to map a 25 000 square mile blind spot along the Yukon Northwest Territory boundary. The team includes H Dickins pilot A D McLean and W H Sutherland photographer as they probe for tropical valleys and possible prehistoric life in northern British Columbia.
Dr. Marshall A. Howe newly elected director of the New York Botanical Garden notes Addis Ababa is a city of trees and gardens. He says the name means the new flower and discusses pronunciation and geographic board labeling.
Canada supplies 90 percent of Cuba's seed potato market. Cuban potatoes replanted domestically do not yield saleable crops, so all seed must be imported. Cuba harvests two potato crops annually.
Eleven foot king cobra in the Staten Island Club at 287 St. Mark's Place yielded two cubic centimeters of venom enough to kill 140 people. Four men led by Carol Stryker of the Staten Island Zoo logical Society extracted the venom with controlled tools and a shotgun nearby. Dr Samuel M Peck of Mount Sinai Hospital will use the venom to advance a serum aimed at replacing narcotics for pain relief, with about 1 500 treatments possible from the sample and three weeks needed to process the venom into usable serum.
In a House of Commons uproar a Manchester school inspector reproved Maud Mason a 12 year old girl who praised England as the finest country while an inspector chastised her teacher for teaching old fashioned imperialism. The incident centers on Maud's King George jubilee essay and the inspector's remark in front of the class.
In the Arctic, whales surface to breathe after about twelve minutes of submergence. Researchers note their blood becomes highly oxygenated allowing periods of sleep beneath the ice for several hours without rising to surface.
A vintage notice offers an embroidery transfer pattern showing a bowl of flowers including poppies and larkspur. It details a 8x14 inch pillow top with color markings, and asks readers to send 20 cents in stamps or coin to the Household Arts Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the pattern.
The lesson centers on Martha hosting Jesus in her home and the rebuke and praise she receives for choosing the "one thing needful." It contrasts Martha's worry with Mary's attentive listening and explores Martha's later encounter with Jesus before Lazarus's resurrection, highlighting belief, faith, and Jesus as the resurrection and the life.
New York City has built a standing guard of about 5000 men described as super efficient to protect Wall Street money vaults. They are armed with six shooters machine guns shotguns rifles tear gas bombs and other weapons used in a modern war against gangsters. The guards live in underground bivouacs with dining and sleeping quarters target ranges and drilling grounds. About 14000 people hold pistol permits in Wall Street while vault protection includes automatic flooding poison gas systems and hot steam deterrents. A 700 member dining staff is said to serve meals on the Queen Mary with up to 40000 meals per crossing.
The article explains neutralization reactions between acids and bases forming salts and water. It highlights common salt, rock salt deposits, Chile saltpetre, potassium nitrate for gunpowder, and calcareous minerals like limestone and lime in industry, noting salt uses and global geology.
The National History Museum trustees announce two tusks from an East Africa elephant, one weighing about 236 pounds and the other 226 pounds at death. Drying reduced weights by about 101 pounds. Each tusk exceeds ten feet in length, surpassing the next heaviest tusk at 198 pounds.
Swedish authorities scrutinize a religious sect whose leader A Korpela has set dates for the arrival of the flying ark. Members have been confined to asylums and police suspend meetings pending investigation into the group.
The export trade of Canadian eggs from Maritime ports to Bermuda and the West Indies has increased in recent weeks, creating a favorable influence.
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