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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
4
Government to replace steam locomotives with piggyback automobile buses on rural lines. Paris style buses will run on rails with flanged wheels, currently testing a method carrying 15 to 20 passengers and two freight cars at 10 mph. More power will raise speed, cutting transit costs and potentially lowering farm prices.
A writer questions how Montenegro sustains itself as men appear unwilling to labor. Locals counter that soldiers and forthright workers exist, while foreigners imagine tasks. Women bear burdens and men march with rifles as cafes echo with songs and rakija.
The Pacific Cable Board reports the Ham field to Fanning Island and Fanning Island to Fiji lines have gone nineteen years without interruptions from natural or accidental causes. Only wartime cuts by the German cruiser Nurnberg caused outages. The board says duplicating the Pacific cable is now urgent.
Three things to wish for health, friends and a cheerful spirit. Three to delight it frank ness freedom and beauty. Three to admire power gracefulness and dignity. Three to avoid idleness lo quacity and flippant jesting. Three to govern temper tongue conduct. Three to hate cruelty arrogance and affectation. Three to love purity truth fulness and honor. Three to be brave gentle and kind.
The Youth’s Companion notes China maintains an active army of 1,370,000 troops, split between the Imperial North and the Republican South, with no reduction in its potential for destruction. The item frames this as a cautionary view on war as a means to resolve disputes.
Provincial government prepares relief for Southwestern Manitoba farmers by distributing food and seed. A conference with railway officials will negotiate concessions on shipments into the region to ease shortages.
Several farms in Northern Indiana to begin silver fox breeding experiments. One farm reports stocking ten pairs of breeders purchased for 25 009 dollars from the Hudson Bay Company.
Madge Macbeth profiles Kazubazua in the Gatineau district describing its river name meaning hidden river and famed hunting base. Noted hunter Rex Beach and guide Conn Teeple are highlighted for their exploits and knowhow, while local life centers on Kazubazua’s blueberry patches and rural character with mills, a main street, and a hearse that serves the station run.
A dangerous rock islet Rockall lies 260 miles north of Ireland and 290 miles from Scotland. Granite cone rising from the sea, it has magnetic properties that disrupt ships compasses. No rescue possible if struck. waves sweep the summit and landing is impossible. Fragments studied by Professor Lacroix of Paris to determine its geology.
George Bernard Shaw provoked laughter by recounting a tale of a tourist asking a rustic if he was on the right road to Stratford-on-Avon. The yokel finally answers, “Be you he?” prompting a witty exchange about Shakespeare’s identity.
A Boston Transcript item portrays a landlord accusing a tenant of unpaid rent while the tenant disputes the terms. The exchange centers on a supposed requirement to pay in advance or risk eviction, highlighting a dispute over rental obligations.
A groom journeyd to Oxford aboard a nonstop by mistake. He was dropped at Pardington then rode to the bride’s home, learned she had gone to the church, and rushed there. In his excitement he forgot his hat until halfway down the aisle.
The crown Karl tried to recover is among the oldest artifacts. It comprises two diadems. the first was given to Duke Stephen by the Pope in 1000, the second to Duke Geisa by Emperor Michael Ducas in 172. Geisa united both diadems into one crown.
In a light Boston Transcript tone the note remarks on a wife who married her dressmaker to the barber, joking that the phrase true as the needle to the pole signals a likely successful union.
Eighty two percent of Maltese families choose English as the language for their children to learn, while eighteen percent prefer Italian. The text notes whales’ fat layer as insulation and touches on hereditary tendencies in eyesight.
A coal washery near the pit mouth removes dirt and stones from coal, improving fuel value and export quality. War demand left coal unwashed, causing complaints about slate in homes. Now Britain aims to recapture foreign markets by washing smaller coals like nuts and peas.
A wife asks her husband to scold John the next morning for beating the carpets. The husband argues he is already satisfied with John, but the wife notes John strikes harder when in a bad temper.
A Buffalo concern has invented an electric fish scaler claimed to let operators scale two or three fish in the time currently needed to scale one. The device is presented as a labor saving improvement for fish processing.
Missouri Beekeeping has become a significant local industry with about 3 million dollars worth of honey marketed annually by the state's beekeepers.
The text argues that wealth should be measured by its social use rather than net worth. It urges rich individuals to aid hospitals and benevolent institutions, noting that helping others elevates life more than accumulating assets or collecting dividends.
A close friend describes Queen Alexandra, aged seventy seven, living quietly at Marlborough House and in the country. Her bond with the Prince of Wales is highlighted as a central, beautiful part of English social life. Her increasing deafness is noted, with her granddaughter Princess Mary also developing the condition but hopes exist for mitigation.
Argentina asserts its citizen created a full cold-work scrap iron locomotive set using compressed air after eleven years. The six foot long, 170 pound model includes a coal tender and passenger coach with over 2000 rivets and 1390 screws. It mirrors British railroad equipment in detail.
John Kipling son of Rudyard Kipling has been listed among soldiers who vanished in war without clues to fate. Charlies M. Dickenson announced the finding after years of Near East search. He was eighteen when he joined the army and last heard wounded and missing in Northern France in 1915.
Swiss experts pursue experimental extraction of sugar on a commercial scale from a sweet plant abundant in Paraguay. The effort aims to turn the plant into a viable sugar source and may impact future trade and agriculture.
Building contracts issued in Western Canada during October totalled 4 092 200 dollars. British Columbia 2 154 100 Alberta 879 100 Saskatchewan 471 200 Manitoba 586 800. This month shows a strong rise from 1920 2 967 400 and 1919 2 667 300.
Famous astronomer Emile Belot posits riding a light ray traveling 186600 miles per second would reach the moon in about one second. He estimates Mars in four minutes twenty seconds, Jupiter in thirty five minutes, Saturn in seventy minutes, and Uranus and Neptune in roughly two and a half and four hours respectively.
Switzerland will dam the Bachilis Glacier to store meltwater and feed two new power stations. The project aims to generate about 210,000 horsepower from a reservoir feeding Lake Grimes, as coal transport remains difficult and water power is scarce in the region.
In India a British army officer mocked native workers by claiming one Finglish carpenter could make more packing cases daily than ten locals. A trial was set with a skilled carpenter from the Artillery and by the day's end the Englishman was three cases ahead of the natives.
The article states about 590 million people worldwide are meat eaters, roughly one third of the global population. It notes the number grows with better living standards, contrasting with an estimated 310 million meat eaters sixty years earlier, about one quarter of the population. It suggests an annual addition around four percent of the world’s population to the meat eating group.
An automatic pumping engine in the Fokker monoplane feeds petrol from the reservoir to the engine tanks from main power. The device eliminates the risk of petrol spills when filling tanks from drums, enhancing flight safety.
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