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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1938
Page
6
City council grants final approval to a compulsory pension plan covering Edmonton's 1 017 civic employees. The report notes support from local officials and outlines implications for municipal labor benefits and budgeting.
An order in council renews eligibility for the King s Police Medal to Canadian police and fire brigades. Awards hinge on acts of conspicuous courage or devotion to duty, with annual ministerial recommendations and an October submission. Canada receives twelve medals per year, with bars and a silver rose added for subsequent gallantry.
In a Birmingham office, Brewster Gallup, a draftsman from Oklahoma City, sought two tablets during a staff meeting. An efficient secretary brought two aspirin and water. Gallup swallowed them, then recalled he meant writing tablets.
A Jewish banker smuggled gold out of Italy by shaping it into mudguards for his car and painting the metal to fool frontier police. The ruse succeeded temporarily before exposure.
Youthful at home dress by Anne Adams features slenderizing panels puffed sleeves scalloped neckline pockets ruffles and buttons. Pattern 4920 offers sizes 36 to 50 with fabric and ruffling requirements. twenty cents required to order from the Winnipeg Pattern Dept.
The Earl of Clarendon Lord Chamberlain announced the King and Queen will hold two courts in March 1939 as they plan a visit to Canada in May. Two additional courts will be held after they return in June.
A new English law prohibits transporting ice cream home in cardboard containers on Sundays. It allows edible containers or cones for takeaways, drawing attention to packaging rules and Sunday trade restrictions.
The soybean has long been a principal Orient crop, likely cultivated for fifteen centuries. This note sketches its enduring role in Asian agriculture and trade, highlighting its deep roots and sustained importance through history.
A reflective essay on Christmas as inner peace and memory. The narrator imagines a levee of departed Christmas nights from Alexander Smith’s Dreamthorp, recalls ghosts of festive scenes, old friends, and the stillness of a solitary Christmas in 1862, ending with peaceful winter imagery and the year’s passage.
Ammonia is obtained on a commercial scale as a by product when coal gas is made. In South America there are tiny oppossums which grow no larger than mice.
A vivid description compares an African gun to a composite animal figure, noting a ox-like head, a horse body and flowing tail, and antelope limbs, conveying a hybrid image rather than a factual item.
Paleontologists report sea creature skeletons preserved in distinct Himalayan rock layers. Researchers note these fossils indicate ancient coastal ecosystems far from present oceans and date to early geological periods.
Golden text from John 3 16 states God loved the world and gave his only begotten Son so that believers may have eternal life. The devotional reading cites Matthew 2 1 12 and Romans 8 35fe as referenced materials for this lesson.
The article recounts Herod the Great in Jerusalem fearing a new King as Wise-men from the East seek the birthplace of Jesus. It notes Herod’s private interview, the murder of rivals, and his trick to lure the Wise-men to Bethlehem. The star leads the Magi to Jesus, where they worship and present gifts before a dream bans their return to Herod.
The largest shark ever captured alive is placed in Marine Land Florida’s oceanarium. It weighs about 600 pounds and measures 11 feet 6 inches, caught by a drug delivered with a specialized harpoon. A second ground shark, 8 feet 8 inches long and about 400 pounds, was also added.
In historic fashion, handkerchiefs appeared as fox tail accessories used as combined handkerchiefs and fans long before lace versions in ladies wardrobes. Later dentistry era introduced lace handkerchiefs to conceal decayed teeth when smiling.
The sentence notes that a day and a month on the Moon share the same duration, each lasting two Earth weeks. This highlights a curious symmetry in lunar timekeeping where the lengths align with approximately fourteen Earth days.
A study of 100 patients with rheumatic heart disease at Ly manhurst Health Centre Minneapolis shows 84 percent had a history of major rheumatic infection. The remaining 16 percent had long lasting rheumatic infection signs without a major attack. Follow up with 200 more children over three years found nocturnal leg pain without rheumatic infection and no rheumatic heart disease. The article suggests growing pains reflect normal growth rather than rheumatism.
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCulloughs cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ont.
Airdrie in Lanark shire holds a locked eight room villa once occupied by Miss Louise Young and her sister who vanished forty years ago after leaving breakfast with remains on the table. The house has stayed empty and the sisters have never been seen since. A firm of lawyers continues paying £141 yearly to Airdrie Town Council for rent and rates. Neighbors recall the sisters as very reserved and the house is said to be haunted though the exact reason remains unknown. No one has entered the house since they left and the dusty curtains and untouched windows underscore the mystery.
A Kansas City resident of moderate means advertised for a housekeeper. The first applicant asked in a letter if the advertiser had a modern home a private room a private bath a telephone and extension line a nurse a chauffeur and a secretary. If you have such the writer said you might send your chauffeur by and I'll come look the place over. The newspaper still carries the ad.
Indigenous peoples of British Columbia hold that the raven is the source of light and life, and that the Killer whale can transform into a man.
The record states total world highway miles at 9,278,398 with North and South America holding 3,889,623 miles and Europe next with 3,287,964 miles. This summary highlights the continental distribution of road networks.
A report notes loons can remain underwater for extended periods, with one case observed at eight minutes, underscoring their diving endurance and remarkable breath control.
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