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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1923
Page
4
The article argues Western Canada’s agricultural problem is solved by mixed farming and smaller units. It criticizes absentee farming and large single farms, noting labor, transport, and management challenges. Emphasizes the need for capable tenants and practical, detail-focused operation to sustain growth and population.
Hedge options for town to farm settings cover trim formal borders and windbreaks. California Privet and Regel’s Privet offer quick growth and ease of shaping, while hardy Cotoneaster and Japanese Barberry resist extreme weather. Rugosa roses form dense hedges. lilac provides screen bloom, with diverse plants noted in the 1920 Dominion Horticulturist report.
The Daily Colonist notes that oases in the Sahara are extensive regions with many date palms. In Oned Ruhr district there are 50 oases with about 1.5 million palm trees supplying sustenance and trade. The railway ships 12,000 tons of dates to lands without date palms. France is developing artificial oases by sinking wells, hoping to expand food production if needed.
A stamps feature depicting Columbus with a spy glass mocks the idea of early telescope use, noting Columbus died over 160 years before the telescope’s invention. The piece comments on the hazy early history of telescope development and credits Zachariah Haussen with the invention, highlighting ongoing confusion.
A curious feature notes sea otters avoid big parties and prefer living in pairs. The behavior highlights their social structure and nesting habits observed in coastal habitats.
A curious pair of sentences discuss language size and social sentiment. The first claims under 19 000 live English words. The second uses a foxlike paradox where a wiser person is loved by neighbors as mice adore a cat.
A profile of Professor A M Low described as a leading young inventor with about 130 patents. It highlights wireless controlled aircraft and torpedo, synchronized slow motion camera, audiometer, sound proof Tube trains, reader aid for the blind, and a wireless vision concept. It notes his humor and a magnetic billiards prank with a hidden electric magnet and doctored ball.
Superintendent at Kentville Nova Scotia Experimental Station says now is the time to secure seed stock as fields are mosaic and leaf roll free and healthy. Prompt action could lift yields by 25 to 56 percent. Tests show healthy hills yield 228 bushels per acre, diseased mosaicked hills 126. leaf roll free 347 bushels while diseased 194.
A regiment marches to a church with one wing under repair leaving space for only about half. The captain orders those who do not wish to attend to fall out and dismisses the rest to march in. The Continent Chicago reports the event.
A youth sits in the dentist chair wearing a striped shirt and checked suit. The dentist fears using gas because he cannot tell when the patient will lose consciousness, prompting a tense exchange with the assistant about anesthesia safety.
The statement notes that paying debts on time is a chief virtue many men lack, implying financial integrity as essential character quality. It highlights the moral expectation of prompt obligation settlement.
Circassian community recruited by the British for police duty is linked to the old practice of marriage by capture. A male Circassian abducted a wealthy widow from Damascus to Kerak, proposing marriage without consent. King Abdullah ordered arrest of the would‑be groom and banned the custom.
Mrs Alice Foote Macdougall, a New York businesswoman, predicts women will dominate business within a century. She outlines rules to speed progress, including discussing abstract questions, sticking to agreements, and saying no at the right time without weeping or losing charm.
The piece uses playful critique of chewing gum habit as a misuse of mouth energy. It notes widespread gum use wastes energy and salivation, damages surfaces, and cheekily urges society to redirect chewing gum energy to useful ends while advising readers to leave gum at home to dentists.
The article argues forest preservation serves the nation beyond timber owners interests. It warns that wiping out forests would devastate employment, reduce public revenue, impair transportation traffic, and threaten agriculture as forests are essential to national stability.
James Slevin promotes two new Chinese air enterprises to link major centers across China. The first route will run from Tianjin to Urga this summer with regular mail and express service. The project operates under arrangements with China's Commercial Aeronautical Department.
The new Provincial Government plant in Lethbridge began operations on June 1 and has already handled about 25 000 dozen eggs. The facility is drawing extensive patronage from producers and buyers.
The will of Lord Carnarvon bequeathed two items to museums, one to the British Museum and one to the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The British Museum received a wood portrait figure of a high Egyptian official from the pyramid era, about 3500 BC, while the New York piece is reportedly a fragment of an excellent glass vessel from the eighteenth dynasty around 1500 BC. The portrait piece was said to have faced opposition from collectors when Carnarvon acquired it.
A Canadian business leader touring an interior town urged firms to unite for public works and common good. He emphasized that cooperation strengthens all industries and that practice is finally catching up with principle, a message echoed by Ashcroft Journal.
One of three expeditions that sailed from Vancouver to raid Queen Charlotte Islands rookeries returned with two thousand pup skins. The young hides are valued at 19000 dollars while adults are often spoiled by scars. The other outfits still hunt on the grounds.
A London discussion praises electric Broadway signs as Yankee brag about a Wrigley gym display running a block with 259000 bulbs. The astonished Londoner asks how many, and the Yankee replies 250000, prompting a remark on conspicuousness.
More motor tourists passed through the Okanagan this year than in any prior summer. All towns report camping sites attracting motorists from across the Northwest.
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