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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1933
Page
4
The Ottawa Journal urges sensible swimming and warns that many drownings arise from carelessness. It cites expert advice from Johnny Weissmuller and stresses staying near shore, avoiding deep waters, and teaching safe, cautious swimming to prevent tragedies.
The Dominion Live Stock Branch notes monthly 8,000,000 pounds of branded beef sold and says steady graded beef sales will aid farming prosperity. It warns against buying low quality beef, which hurts enterprising livestock operators and city merchants, and urges demand for officially graded beef to support profitable farming.
Manitoba women revive wool crafts by dyeing raw wool with garden vegetables. At the Manitoba Handicrafts Guild exhibition tapestries and rugs show colors from chickweed spinach and golden rods. Vegetable dyes mix freely without clashing, yielding violet blue yellow green red fawn gray and brown from various plants and tree barks.
Free lessons in Looporoo rope spinning are offered daily in London sports department stores. Each shop with over a dozen aisles has a trained demonstrator to show the public how simple and fascinating rope spinning can be. Thousands have mastered the white rope with the Stule swivel.
Canada’s tea imports dropped from 53.5 million pounds in fiscal 1931 to 38.5 million pounds in 1933 signaling reduced tea drinking. Meanwhile coffee and cocoa imports remain strong with green coffee at 33.5 million pounds and cocoa beans over 17 million pounds in the latest year.
A Winnipeg Free Press report discusses a new glass cement road mix tried in Czecho Slovakia. Ground glass powder blended with cement is laid on a rough bed and sealed with a flint spray, producing a hard smooth surface. The article cautions extreme Canadian frosts may challenge the method.
The Moscow central executive committee decreed broad amnesty for many prisoners who worked on the White Sea Baltic Canal project. Over 59,000 sentences were reduced, 12,000 released unconditionally, and 500 restored to civil rights as a reward for outstanding work. The canal spans 14 miles and shortens the Leningrad Archangel route by 10 days.
The article notes the deep influence of Chinese culture on Japan, especially in writing. It highlights that early records the Kejiki and Nihon Shoki, completed in 712 and 720, were written entirely in Chinese. A syllabary for Japanese emerged in the ninth century, but scholars did not widely embrace writing in Japanese immediately.
The International Boundary Commission administers the Canada United States boundary, with two commissioners representing each nation. It enforces provisions of five treaties and maintains effective demarcation. The Canadian section operates under the Department of the Interior.
Two officers lured five youths from the Truro Training School by standing silently in the woods. One by one the runaways approached, drawn by curiosity and captured without force.
At a West Point dinner General F D Grant praised Washington for flawless campaigns and warned that one small error can cost a battle or campaign. He recalled Tom White who failed in business after a stenographer’s misprint misaddressed a letter to a deaf millionaire, triggering a foreclosure.
An office boy greets a caller with the line All three answered. The boss is in a business conference and out of town, but the visitor is invited to step in and see him.
Salt in flower water helps keep blooms fresh and slows opening. A furniture polish can be made by combining vinegar with methylated spirits. Sprinkling a pinch of salt on coffee before pouring boiling water enhances flavor extraction.
Seismological work at Ottawa shows 392 quakes recorded in 1932 with distance data for 32 events. Global stations map major seismic zones around the Pacific coast, East Indies, Himalayas to Alps, and northern South America, while polar activity remains limited and gradual mountain growth causes surface adjustments.
The Empire Marketing Board notes UK flax mainly comes from Northern Ireland acreage, with seed grown in Quebec for Northern Ireland. Russia and Poland raise seed flax for oil, often lower fibre quality, while doigunetz fibre flax is grown in Russia. Best fibre comes where fibre is primary and retting waters are optimal, with Russia yielding 142 cwts per acre versus 8 cwts in France and Belgium. World flax area in 1931 was 6,643,000 acres.
A. A. Berle, Roosevelt Brain Trust member and Columbia Law professor, states that English bankers cannot amass fortunes. He argues bankers risk losing their jobs for stock market gambling or outside ties, noting they are paid well and may even receive a peerage, but should not seek personal fortune.
The engineer of the Royal Scot notes the Twentieth Century Limited in the United States uses more coal relative to the engine’s needs. He admits no locomotive can match the Royal Scot’s economy.
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