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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 18, 1936
Page
6
A train shipment brings five buffalo to Prince Albert National Park from Elk Island Alberta. A pad dock is prepared for the animals as part of conservation efforts and park developments.
Two actresses report a paranormal sequence after a performance. They say a fakir beckoned them upstairs where he vanished and two cats with glowing eyes appeared. A man on the roof shouted he was being murdered and then leapt away, vanishing before help could arrive. Policemen were alerted to investigate the alleged haunting.
E A Cook a janitor at the British Columbia museum found a purse kept it aside without opening it until a claimant arrived an hour later. A woman rushed in searched cases and identified the recovered item producing $915 cash as the purse’s contents and thanked him.
An editorial in the London Daily Mail praises Sir Edward Beatty, head of Canadian Pacific Railway, for organizing British lines to meet American competition in the Pacific. It urges a substantial government subsidy to strengthen British services as subsidies to U S vessels grow and reserve funds dwindle.
A colossal seaside resort for the working class is planned on Ruegen island between Binz and Sassnitz. Twenty thousand workers and families will live in 3,350 sea‑facing rooms with 10 day stays for each group. Daily flow of 3,000 in and out, five month capacity for 300,000, bakery, laundry, 10 food houses, five miles of beach with promenades, and a 2,250 foot pier.
The piece notes King Edward's Vimy pilgrims address as impromptu yet model for its mood and simple diction. It contrasts monarchs and rulers with common orators and warns against copying Burke.
A 12 ton magnet acts as a traffic cop for cosmic rays at the University of Chicago laboratory of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. The device creates huge magnetic attraction to slow near light speed rays and pull them from their path for fingerprinting as they race through the lab.
A young girl watching a church wedding asks her mother if the bride changed her mind. The child notes the bride walked up the aisle with one man and returned with another, prompting a moment of stunned silence.
In early Japan the samurai class drew yearly pay in rice with high rank warriors earning up to 250 tons of rice annually. The Sa murai, the lesser noble soldiers, received fixed stipends in grain as part of feudal compensation.
The Acts accounts show Cornelius and household receiving the Gospel and baptism. Peter explains his actions to Jerusalem, recounting a vision in which God declares what he has cleansed. The episode reveals God’s impartiality and the widening inclusion of Gentiles into the church. Tractor trains, 75 feet long, are being tried in South Africa.
Feathery cosmos motif offered as transfer pattern 15 by 20 inches with color chart key and stitch illustrations. Requires material details and a 20 cent stamp payment, sent to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
The article surveys famed individuals from queens to boxers and actors, noting Scotland visits shaped Queen Victoria’s fears of Friday journeys and table sittings. It highlights aviators, boxers like Max Baer, and actors such as Martin Harvey and Sarah Bernhardt, each with personal mascots or rites.
Public sewer tours from Place de la Concorde to Madeleine attract 1 107 visitors in 1935. Boats travel underground passages once weekly in summer, costing 3 francs per person. Last year income reached about 245 dollars. Paris sewers span 600 to 700 miles, but only a quarter mile is open to visitors.
A woman sought a seat at a lecture and General Garfield provided one. She exclaimed you are a jewel, to which Garfield replied I am a jeweler I’ve just set the jewel.
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