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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1933
Page
4
Premier Mussolini instituted an order restricting feminine workers to five percent of total payrolls in state provincial and communal offices and in state financial concerns. Female telephone operators may reach twenty percent. The move pushes women toward domestic roles, though employment in schools and hospitals remains unchanged.
Buchans Mines in Newfoundland is a young closed town of about 1800 residents where outsiders need company permission to live. It has no cemetery as deaths are shipped home for burial and a central heating system pipes steam beneath most homes. The town relies on Buchans Mining Co and provides modern conveniences despite its infancy.
James F. Burke, a convict at Folsom Prison California, claims a depolarizing solution speeds water decomposition into hydrogen and oxygen using four salad dressing jars a dry cell and other home made gear. Engineers who saw the demo say the method could revolutionize the hydrogen industry by cutting costs to about one forty fifth of current production.
Weslean University scientists in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada conclude that exposure requires tangible plant contact. Folklore of windborne poisoning is not supported by the study, which identifies a carrier substance as necessary for effect.
The text argues that men possess an inward force enabling them to govern influences rather than be passively shaped by them. It compares men to not being like leaves or clay, capable of resisting, shaping, and assimilating impressions into their own character.
Western Canadians collected many prizes in seed exhibits at the Royal Winter Fair. In the registered seed section Andrew Giffen of Okotoks Alberta won first in two row barley with Handhen Charlotte town 80 Duckhill and Canadian Thorpe. James Rugg Elstow Saskatchewan took second. Other results include Sweet clover Alsike alfalfa and western rye with multiple winners noted from Alberta Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Championship beans were awarded to A Griffin Brooks Alberta.
Saskatoon Public Library plans to place 5000 second hand books in rural Saskatchewan to ease winter monotony. Angus Mowat conceived the project with backing from George H. Locke and support from Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railway to transport books free from eastern Canada to the prairies.
The Baptist World Alliance announced its 1934 gathering will be held in Berlin, Germany from August 4 to 10. The convention, held every five years, had considered moving to Switzerland due to upheaval, but the executive committee resolved to proceed with the Berlin meeting as planned.
L. F. Burrows of the Canadian Horticultural Council told Toronto conference that British marketing acts should guide Canada’s farm produce standardization. He emphasized national legislation and noted producers bear the main risk, urging widespread producer cooperation for a scheme that requires a two third vote to become law.
In 1893 Mary White wore a self made dress to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1933 she returned to Chicago for A Century of Progress in the same dress. Both dress area and age had grown yet both completed a full day at the fair.
British Columbia pilchard, a close relative of the European sardine, belongs to the clupeidae family. The BC fish, known scientifically as clupanodon caeruleus, relates to clupanodon pilchardus found in European waters. Most BC catch goes to fish meal and oil, with a small portion sold fresh or canned.
Thousands of Young Communists, many girls, labor with pick and drill beneath Moscow to construct Russia’s first subway. The campaign began to overcome slow construction due to labor shortages and initially faced reluctance from workers leaving office jobs for underground toil.
The Forest Service reports poplar, Canada’s abundant hardwood, has wide uses from containers and excelsior to matches, soda pulp, veneer and core stock for plywood. Strong in flooring and interior trim, poplar dries with precautions to avoid rot, with research pursuing new applications to boost value.
Robert Mendel Kohan, new British consul-general in New Orleans formerly in Zanzibar, says lion hunting with cameras is more exciting and dangerous than using guns. He notes hunters have abandoned rifles except for defense and that he enjoys tracking game though not a hunter himself. Kohan spent five years in Africa and twenty five total in British diplomacy.
Lloyds reports a marked rise in aircraft inspections for renewal of airworthiness and for damage and condition. By end of June last, 453 aircraft examined for renewals and 183 for damage, up 70 and 55 units respectively from the prior twelve months, reflecting aviation’s growing registry and underwriting interest.
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