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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1925
Page
7
Baree the wolf dog wanders from his dam to a harsh wilderness where he hunts, starves, and grows into a survivalist. Pierrot and Nepeese, trapped by fate after the Red Death, plot to shoot the young whelp as he nears their trap in the Gray Loon country.
In the forest tale Baree is near death when Sekoosew the ermine stalks a spruce hen. The stealthy predator closes from fifty feet to three, leaping for Napanao the wood partridge and sinking tooth and claw into its flesh as the hunt unfolds.
A Toronto woman, Mrs Harry WesTwoon, writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased her aches and pains before and after confinement and that Liver Pills helped constipation. She urges others to try the remedies and offers permission to use her letter.
In a forest scene the Willow fires her rifle as Baree is struck by a fatal shot. The impact lifts him and he writhes in pain while Pierref and Nepeese watch with pride at the shot’s precision. The brutal moment ends with Baree’s distress and a promise of more.
A survey of global coffee practices highlights country specific methods from France and Turkey to Italy and Brazil. It notes Turkish grounds in small cups, Austrian milk topped with whipped cream, and Cuban practice of pouring cold water over ground coffee in a flannel bag for cafe beverages.
A campus monument honors Hanson a student who died in France after showing the same tenacity on the football field as he did for the university. He played scrubs to aid the varsity, volunteered for a dangerous scouting mission, and never returned.
Industry gathers and cleans seaweed from October to March to supply trimming strands for hats. Workers sort by quality, are paid by quantity and cleanliness, and glycerine treatment helps fronds stand out. Rain ruins the dyed fronds, which are rinsed in artesian well water before sale.
The passage asserts 13 million deaths annually in China with five million from preventable diseases. It claims surgeons are unknown to Chinese doctors, wounds and broken limbs go untreated, and half of children die before age ten. It also notes pink eye blindness and disease spread by pests. It ends with a note on New York pools and Minard's Liniment for Burns.
A Montresier report on Balkan hospitality notes Serbian inns generous hosts and describes a hotel hors d oeuvres offering at 40 cents with four tongue pieces, ham, sausage, sardine, veal, salmon items, egg, beef, croquette, potato salad, radishes and butter served per guest.
Sir Thomas Lipton says success comes from filling a customer's order exactly. He illustrates with a tale of a suitor who asked two dozen red roses and had an extra half-dozen added, leading to a broken engagement. The florist had good intentions but erred.
Michael Faraday valued simple gear and proudly used minimal setups. His first galvanic battery used seven half pennies seven identical zinc pieces and seven soaked papers. At the Royal Institution he built his first frictional electric machine from a ginger beer bottle, a lesson for youth to value basics over costly gear.
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil offers healing for cuts bruises burns scalds rheumatism and sciatic pains as well as sore throat and chest. Horses suffer similar ailments and respond to this venerable remedy trusted for fifty years by thousands of users and owners alike.
Archaeologists deem a peat buried woollen cloak at Gerum Fen near Skara one of Europe’s oldest finds. Found just feet below peat surface, fen water preserved it for about 3000 years. The British Museum holds earlier cloth fragments.
An 19th century note promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a simple earache remedy. A few drops applied to lint or medicated cotton placed in the ear are said to relieve pain and spare the patient from doctor visits.
A young Parisian surgeon has devised the epis cope apparatus. It uses lights and mirrors to project a enlarged view of an operation to an adjoining room, while a loud speaker carries the surgeon’s commentary.
The American Automobile Association in Washington plans a nationwide canvass of motoring safety groups to develop a code of motoring ethics. The code would establish an honor system on the roads, letting drivers assess their own responsibility alongside other road users.
Mothers keeping a box of Baby's Own Tablets may feel their children stay safer in hot weather. The tablets ease stomach troubles cholera infantum and diarrhoea and can prevent sickness when used promptly. Guaranteed harmless even to newborns they regulate bowels and keep the stomach pure. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
X rays examine unopened oysters to locate pearls and separate those without pearls. This economical method allows removing nonpearl bearing oysters back to beds in hopes of future pearl production.
In Reykjavik Iceland geysers a mile from the city have long provided laundry water for residents. Now enterprising townspeople intend to pipe the hot water into homes and heat the entire town in the name of efficiency and nature's cost.
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