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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1927
Page
7
Helmi, seeking her bedridden mistress, visits a grim Shanghai Chop Suey House filled with eerie artifacts and danger. A raid unfolds as police arrest Henri, while the minister pleads at the magistrate for the Finnish girl’s fate. The case grows murky as officials weigh mercy against caution.
In Melfort Saskatchewan a woman narrates eight months of inward troubles headaches back and side pains leaving her unable to sit up. After two bottles of Lydia F Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she rose, gained weight from 78 pounds to nearly double, and continues to use the remedy for fatigue or male troubles as needed. She recommends the products to neighbors and offers to answer letters.
Neighbors mourn Miss Moore over Velmi the girl found in a Chinese den after posing as a pupil. Mrs St John and the minister condemn foreigners while Velmi’s deed exposes a web of deception and a protective care turned tragic.
The text notes Rutherford's lecture on radium and alpha particles revealing atomic structure and their immense speed. It also advertises Dr Thomas' Electric Oil as a cough treatment claiming to reduce inflammation of the mucous membranes and stop coughing.
The latest postage set includes five cent featuring SYArey McGee in purple, twelve cent with Sir John Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier in light green, and twenty cent carmine stamp showing Baldwin and Lafontaine. A six-stamp series ranges 1 to 20 cents, with the highest 20 cent stamp showing five mail stages and a special delivery stamp.
San Francisco’s population could ride together if each registered vehicle carried about six people. The city’s car registration stands at one car per 5.7 residents. Passenger liners sailing from Montreal to Liverpool are out of sight of land for four days.
A display in London showcases twenty nine micro books bound in leather with perfect detail visible without a magnifier. Highlights include a Galileo sheet half by a quarter inch, a handwritten Bagdad Koran octagonal manuscript, a Bible about one and a half inches square, and a New Testament near a fifth of a square inch.
Fly Killers sold at druggists grocers and general stores with packets priced 10 or 25 cents. Follow the directions for best results.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Interior Department in Ottawa publishes international highway maps useful for planning vacations or business trips in the United States and Canada. Four sheets Atlantic Great Lakes Middle West Pacific and a general border map are available at no charge to any U.S. or Canadian address.
Mrs Violet Clifton reports Mentawi tribe in North Sumatra expels death as a price of material success. A prosperous man may be seized and hanged and later offered as a ghost to pacify the new spirit. They also use a 19 letter alphabet and write books in a Sanskrit like language. They eat people to transfer traits of the dead. England honors Daylight Saving creator William Willett. Some Indian regions use sheep as beasts of burden. many US communities struggle to fund such public measures.
A Sunday School in the United Church celebrated Canada’s 60th Confederation anniversary and gave scholars patriotic buttons bearing the giver United Church name. Critics note a tiny inscription reading Made in Passat, asking if Canadian button makers could supply such items and whether an Independence Day button would say Made in Canada. The New York Times editorialized on a royal visit by Prince and Premier Baldwin, imagining how history might have shaped independence.
A Barred Plymouth Rock owned by the University of Saskatchewan laid her 360th egg in pullet year, setting a three province record with a month left in the year. No. 6 from Agassiz B C reportedly produced 51 eggs in 365 days, while John Krubsack carved a chair by training 32 box elder saplings into its shape.
Hartey Shaw president of the Independent Biscuit Co. Ltd states the Calgary plant will be operating in September with a payroll estimate from 13000 to 260000 dollars annually. A new San Francisco college will study crime offering the title Consulting Criminologist.
Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture Charles M Hamilton addressed the Canadian Club in Hamilton calling for East West cooperation. He urged development of Western agriculture beyond grain, and noted the need to make farming worthwhile for young people to stay rural rather than move to cities.
A short exhortation on kindness with quotes from Ephesians and poets. The piece presents moral instruction about performing kind acts as seeds that grow into lasting virtue, ending with reflections on joy found in kindness.
Mothers often give solid foods early and praise their babies for eating adult foods which risks indigestion and ill health. Harsh purgatives injure stomachs and cause fear of medicine. No meat before 18 months unless doctor approves. Baby's Own Tablets offered as safe relief for infants, sold by The Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville by mail 25 cents. A Scotsman faced a fat fiancée who could not remove the ring, forcing marriage.
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