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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1923
Page
4
A report outlines Canada’s role linking France and Britain in potential world peace efforts. It notes discussions between Canadian officials and French and British representatives, with emphasis on unity, railway topics, and French influence in Canada. The piece mentions key figures and ongoing diplomatic exchanges.
The Toronto Star notes Canada’s railway and telegraph wire totals place it second only to the United States in railway cargo and mileage. It states Canada has 262 045 miles of telegraph wire and 2 596 805 miles of telephone wire, enough to girdle the earth multiple times, with a population under one million.
A London Times quote argues self-realization cannot be achieved without self-sacrifice. It warns against excessive self-focus and notes social obligations to others are essential to moral power.
The man who opened the Kimberley diamond fields in South Africa sold them for £2500 believing them exhausted after removing several thousand stones. The fields yielded diamonds thereafter, and Edwin William Streeter who died in London at 189 would have been one of the richest men if he had retained his property.
The Saskatchewan Co operative Elevator Company reports about one and a half million more bushels of wheat handled this season up to November 1 than the prior year, and about eight million more than the same period in 1921. Total handled up to November 1 is roughly twenty five million bushels.
The Pie Bridge of Peter the Great over the Neva in Petrograd is renamed Vorosky Bridge by the Petrograd Soviet in honor of the Soviet envoy. The change reflects wartime measures and shifting loyalties amid hardship.
Miss Agnes McPhail, progressive member of the party, denounces the current system of history teaching in Ontario. She argues there are children left ignorant of Canada’s past such as Seven Years War events and explains aims to broaden civic education and voting rights across rural and farm communities.
A Winniper conference urged federal action to criminalize shipping horned cattle after June 1 1925 to reduce bruising in transit. Recommendations also support separate or secured car compartments for horned cattle and prohibit mixing horned with dehorned or polled stock in the same car.
The text notes a legend that a lightning strike over a century ago revealed coal in the Mississippi valley. Father Louis Hennepin’s records, kept by the Springfield Historical Society, describe monks in Madison County in 1807 discovering a coal vein beneath the surface after a tree struck by lightning caught fire.
William Alan Pinkerton head of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency spent over fifty years tracking criminals. He helped reform felons and advocated humane treatment for offenders while earning fame as a foremost American criminologist and crime fighter.
The text argues no single resource dominates value for the nation. It stresses soil fertility as essential for sustenance, compares forests coal and water, and ties soil productivity to water use and conservation. It warns that disturbing nature's balance risks endangering global natural resources.
A French navy lieutenant Alfred Baule introduces the Nantograph, a course tracer claimed to instantly show a ship’s position on charts with error not exceeding one fifteen hundredth of a degree. Rubber nipple-like devices are also described for nails in shoes, and a moral query about religious prayer and neighborly relations ends the fragment.
A collection of health claims from various figures on winter wellbeing. Advice ranges from fruit juices building white cells to cold baths and daily walks. One expert warns thoughts on life do not cure ailments while others tie cold avoidance to house temperature and regular exercise.
The Minister of Marine and Fisheries may authorize licenses for United States fishing vessels on the Pacific coast of Canada for a year. Licenses cover buying bait ice nets and provisions repairing gear shipping crews landing catches in bond or paid duties and selling in bond or for Canadian use. A license fee of 1 per vessel applies. The rest of the text gives sewing patching instructions for garments.
Mr White Rabbit and his family bring Teddy back from a dangerous hilltop scare assisted by the Good Deed Brownies. Teddy is thanked for his manners while the tiny helpers explain their role and the rescue, and the White Rabbits set off for home with Teddy and the babies.
Alberta University President Tory receives a letter from Jy Simon Plexner director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announcing a special cash gift of 5.04 from John D Rockefeller Jr. to extend insulin use at the University of Alberta hospital. Diabetic department led by Dr Heber Jamieson and Dr J B Colpitt notable codiscoverer of insulin. Maturing vegetables by electricity reports progress in speeding blooming and ripening by irradiation.
An England exhibition at the International Center challenges the belief that ancient dentition care was primitive. Celsus described instruments for cleaning and extracting teeth and remedies for toothache, while ancient Egyptian physicians treated tooth diseases well before modern science.
Government estimates show 996 320 automobiles entered Canada in 1922 for pleasure or business. Ontario received 32 000s, Quebec 63 851, British Columbia 35 226, Manitoba 16 676, New Brunswick 2 391, Saskatchewan 497, Alberta 462, Nova Scotia 291. Healing water via any faucet appliance noted.
Additional discoveries within the great shrine of Tutankhamen reveal a wealth of gilded artifacts. Among the highlights are mace-like scepters, gilded wands, and inscribed brushes bearing cartouches. A golden curtain and embroidered cloths decorated the second shrine, sparkling with the ankh and other life symbols.
The piece reflects on a centenarian born in Napoleonic times and contrasts past hardships with modern progress. It praises British character, endurance, and faith to face a new era, noting vast changes from lack of railways to present revival.
Credit and character in banking discussed with examples from Morgan and a Kansas City banker. A local Made in Edmonton exhibit showcased butter cheese candy vinegar soap and clothing among thirty manufacturers. Canada’s largest farm near Houghton Saskatchewan runs 14 cultivated and 11 uncultivated sections operated by Scottish Wholesale Octet Limited with about 32 866 bushels of wheat output at 40 bushels per acre.
Professor Jaratski a Petrograd native and ul traviola rays expert has built a 66 kilowatt Jammy claiming it will cure cancer tuberculosis and other diseases He plans to travel to New York to demonstrate the device at the Rocheviller Institute He warns a bachelor friend to marry but suggests the man is seeking revenge.
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