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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1927
Page
4
The Windsor outbreak of 1824 with 63 cases and 32 deaths underscored vaccination’s protective value. Unvaccinated individuals suffered severe illness and death, while those vaccinated decades earlier often survived. Health officers vaccinated about 90 percent of the population in ten days, stamping out the epidemic.
A bookseller buying old volumes found two parchment documents inside a family missal. One is the General's will bequeathing goods to the Church, the other a diagram showing two heavy chests buried with gold and jewels. Excavations are underway amid local excitement.
A man who has never carried a watch or owned a clock explains he relies on others to manage time. He is fabulously rich, young, and has never worked, using a valet or secretary to handle appointments while his many watches sit unused in a drawer.
Seamen in small boats during thick weather use an oar glued to its handle to set bearings by listening for the submarine bell on the lightship several miles away, a novel navigational aid reported along Long Island Sound.
W. S. Hughes proposes paying jailed prisoners wages to support dependents at home. He argues the innocent at home suffer while prisoners are fed, and suggests letting prisoners work for fair pay with funds sent to families. The idea could be trialed as a fairer system.
A satirical reader letter from a Vancouver correspondent mocks the notion of why men talk so little at home. It parodies requests for experts to answer the “burning question” and jokes about spousal communications and mind reading in marriage.
Seals are plentiful and favored by Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic. Walrus, white whale, and narwhal are less concerned for. however, the latter can yield large meat supplies for winter. White whale and narwhal skins are a delicacy and prized in Eskimo hospitality.
A young man declares I am a misogynist and a playful response from a woman acknowledges the remark. He adds I have a brother studying medicine, signaling a social buzz or crowd reaction in a casual dialogue snippet.
In a survey of hospitality in London, hotel managers say British properties offer superior personal attention and up to date furnishings compared with American rivals. They cite features like onyx wash basins, electric bed lights, in-room phones, luxury bedspreads, and large spending on fittings, with some services like oxygen enriched air and chauffeur wings highlighted.
Emma Goldman argued at Toronto that a single code of laws applies differently to the rich and the poor. She noted that the same offense by two men from distinct social groups receives divergent treatment from press and courts.
The Madoc District in Ontario hosts the largest talc deposits in Canada and the only known Canadian talc of its kind, yielding a fine white foliated product used widely in the paper textile and toilet powder trades. Leaves of houseplants should be washed regularly to remove smoke and dust from fires that can kill plants.
Ed Anderson faced four enormous grizzlies at Khutze Inlet while trapping with George Corbett. He fired five rounds from a Winchester, killing three bears with the first three shots and the largest after a final fifth shot. H. J. Loughran relayed the tale from Anderson and local trappers.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture promotes certified seed potatoes as superior to common stock. A new Ottawa pamphlet outlines production and inspection rules for Canadian Certified Seed Potatoes. Using certified seed can double yields and improve disease control and market potential for both seed and table stock.
Dispatches from England report 1 023 787 homes built since the Armistice. Despite postwar debt and heavy taxation and widespread unrest including the era’s severe strike, England has funded this vast housing program while reestablishing business and social life.
A London Graphic contributor argues manners vary in quality like eggs graded into three classes. Class A wood manners and Class C bed manners resist time, while Class B fitful manners fluctuate due to digestion and individual factors. Good manners are natural and constant across eras.
The text surveys how speech masks bad news with gentle phrases. It notes officials who die might be said to “draw no salary” and ordinary people “become an ancient.” Objects gain fanciful names like mushrooms as “fairy umbrellas” and oranges as “golden balls.”
Canada’s Canadian National Telegraphs inaugurates the carrier current system from Montreal to Toronto and extends toward Vancouver. The Toronto Montreal link began April 26, with seven repeater stations and ten two way channels plus four direct circuits. The system promises rapid expansion to Winnipeg Saskatoon and Vancouver enabling direct terminal links for executive railway business.
A prosecutor presses a witness during testimony asking if he knows any jurors. The witness admits familiarity with more than half the panel and finally declares he could know more than all of them put together.
In a playful exchange Bill asks how to address the most beautiful girl. Phil replies to check his memory notes and hints the second page contains her name and street number.
The London pathologist and Rockefeller Institute commissioner who died of yellow fever in Nigeria left much of his fortune, and his tie, to research. His will now published details a $29,000 bequest to Dr. Geoffrey Kale of Guy's Hospital to aid ongoing work.
A Chicago opera singer advises brides to be to test suitors with music buying. If the fiancé spends on phonograph records and brings back romance songs, marry him. if he buys suggestive tunes, end the engagement. The quip appears in St Paul Pioneer Press.
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