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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1929
Page
2
A health journal article argues that speeding human adjustment to the machine age is essential to reduce rising accident deaths. It notes automobiles are blamed, but other hazards claim more lives, especially children, with calls for education, not just laws, and for better roads.
The Ministry of Industry Commerce and Labor announces that foreign accountants may not practice in China outside foreign concessions. No documents or accounts signed by alien accountants will be recognized in Chinese courts, affecting their ability to appear in legal cases.
Advertising by provincial governments and boards of trade in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta aligns with Canadian National Exhibition plans. Within a year or two western provinces may build their own pavilions in Toronto, while Alberta considers a duplicate of the E. P. Ranch House at Exhibition Park.
A dialogue shows a couple debating marriage and whether it would gain them grocery credit, with she noting she knows the milkmen. The exchange hints at domestic concerns and small economic bargaining in a light tone.
B D Ramsey chair of the Board of Grain Commissioners says revisions to the Canada grain act are underway in Ottawa with Col O M Biggar drafting. Meetings will follow in Montreal Toronto and prairie centers to gather suggestions for a bill ready for Parliament. Almost 90 percent of wheat stays in statutory grades and 80 percent grades number one or two.
The article promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for rheumatism by building up thin blood and driving out poisons. It cites Thomas Martin of Novar Ontario whose rheumatism vanished after using the pills, available for 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
Tay Pay O Connor in his 81st year sits in a London apartment and notes there is humbug in politics, often altered by more jobs. The philosopher regards politics as unchanged, its practitioners similar, with tragedy when innocence suffers. Wise mothers value Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for its proven effectiveness.
More than 23,000 persons were reported missing to the New York police department last year and 97 percent were located.
Mrs J Cunningham of Sault Ste Marie Ontario reports a severe influenza attack last February followed by heart palpitations and fatigue. She began to take remedies and seeks advice on relief.
A customer thanks for the medicine and notes use of about six boxes. the product is advertised at 50 cents per box and available at druggists or by mail from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
The piece argues women may prove equal to men as pilots, noting best progress in skyriding and training but highlighting Amelia Earhart and the slower entry into log ship and large carrier roles. It cites growing female air mindedness, civil schools embracing women, and a separate category for women at an international airsports body.
A museum exclusively for children opens as a branch of Yale University’s Peabody Museum in New Haven Connecticut. Educators praise the project and its child oriented collection of objects.
Explorers surveyors and hunters are urged to use Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil in camp. It claims to warm wet cold feet and legs and prevent muscle pains. As a dressing it is touted as effective for cuts contusions and sprains.
The French Academy of Sciences hears of a plan using radio towers on European and American coasts to guide ships and planes across the Atlantic. Operators would interpret signals, charts and compasses possibly replaced, routes adjusted by land pilots, with four towers planned within two years. Similar tests already aided aircraft direction. The idea challenges traditional navigation and marks a landmark from the vacuum tube era.
Saskatchewan remains a major mixed farming province supplying butter for bread and a large share of Canada's wheat. October butter production reached 1,191,895 pounds, up 400,928 pounds or 50.7 percent from a year earlier. The province also leads in eggs and poultry, with most marketed by the Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool whose directors are mostly farming wives.
On the British liner Aquitania a full West End store has been installed for travelers to outfit for Europe or replenish wardrobes. The Southampton mayor first customer bought two neckties and sent one to New York with a gift message.
This week’s fruit salad mixes diced pineapple grapefruit apple and orange segments with confectioners sugar and orange ice. Chill thoroughly and serve in individual dishes with a ball of orange ice on top.
A vintage dessert recipe for plum pudding using raisins dates and figs simmered with water and sugar then flavored with lemon and spices. Milk warmed with chocolate junket dissolves in then poured over fruit and left to set in a warm place before chilling and serving with whipped cream and a cherry.
Charles Seible of Amsterdam N Y advocates finger of an old kid glove as effective bass bait Twenty three black bass averaging two and a half pounds and over eleven inches long were landed in a day from Schoharie Creek at a local sports store Scandalized Judge orders contempt fine while an enraged attorney responds with a twenty dollar bill
French engineer M William Loth unveils a radio weather control method to the French Academy of Science. He asserts two land stations can direct planes and ships to avoid bad weather, enabling Paris to New York flights and navigatorless sea travel.
The Department of Agriculture notes wide use of combines in 1928 across Western Canada for harvesting wheat oats barley spring and fall rye flax sweet clover and brome from Winnipeg to the Rockies and boundary to Peace River District. A large increase in numbers is reported for 1929 reflecting rapid adoption. The fjords of Norway offer exceptionally clear water allowing visibility of objects 1.5 inches in diameter at 150 feet depth.
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