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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1938
Page
7
In a tense scene Kay erupts at Jack and Jeanne as accusations fly about affairs and a hidden informant. Kay blames Jeanne and a cook for alleged truth about Bruce Kenning and property, while Jack prepares to confront Bruce Kenning alone at McKenzie Joe's test shaft.
The Ramsay Company a registered patent attorney firm offers free information to inventors listing inventions and full details sent at no cost. Based in Ottawa at 273 Bank Street.
McKenzie Joe exposes the alibi unraveling Kay's claim through salted gravel points to Bruce Kenning's scheme. Lew Snade confesses limited work for Kenning while Hammond confronts him and searches Kenning's cabin and the Whoopee settlement in a tense pursuit. The episode ends with Kenning missing and Hammond moving toward the hill.
The narrator reveals Bruce Kenning maneuvering to take control after manipulating Joe and McKenzie. Kenning persisted in digging where McKenzie Joe had mined and, after discovering the river bed, moved screened gravel to a beach test pit. Jack Hammond signed over the discovery, with the transfer already recorded, as Hammond sensed proximity to McKenzie Joe.
An old legend tells how a weary monk named St Feufre during William the Conqueror's era plucked wool from a flock to place in his shoes. He prayed for a miracle and upon reaching his destination found the wool had matting into a new material called felt, proving divine approval.
The article notes a remarkable leaning tower at Caerphilly Castle, about nine miles north of Cardiff in Great Britain. It stands roughly 75 feet tall and leans about 11 feet from vertical.
A 1920s chance experiment in Cornwall ignited a thriving anemone industry. Seed from Du Caen grown near Penzance spread to 1000 growers, expanding the harvest from 50 to 400 acres. This year traffic soared with six tons, 600000 blooms, shipped to Covent Garden, a 40 percent rise from last year.
Ruth Davidow and Evelyn Rahman, New York volunteers in the medical bureau, aided Spanish democracy for nearly 19 months. Evelyn drove a three ton truck across shell torn roads delivering food fuel and medical supplies to a hospital base while Ruth operated anaesthesia in a hospital on wheels at Cordoba and later at the Ebro front. They recall being too busy to fear as firing echoed around their tents and a hospital building was destroyed.
Since June 1937, at least 41 U S daily papers have suspended publication or gone weekly as costs rise. The Niagara Falls Review notes the same cause across the industry and compares today’s costs and offerings with those of 10 to 20 years ago.
A 1897 will stolen from Charles Alexander Dubuc’s deathbed in 1938 links to a vanished fleet, the French White Fleet, once docked on the St Lawrence. Paul Dubuc asks Brock Shipping of Montreal to locate records of ships traded to the government for land and waterfront rights. The search in Montreal yields no known trace of the fleet.
In Otterville Ontario Mrs Ruth Elliott aged 81 recently celebrated her 81st birthday and marked decades of bell ringing. She began as a teen and has ringed the Otterville bell with the Hillier family for most of her life, only resting five bells a day now. A fire alarm rope and routine shifts are part of her daily craft.
Dr. M. B. Bates, an American educator with the University of Nanking, reports to the New York press that 50,000 people in Nanking, about one eighth of the population, are slowly poisoned by heroin from Japanese controlled rings. He cites monthly narcotics revenue of Chinese dollars 5,000,000 in the Nanking area and says the strongest trafficking network is run by the Japanese Army’s special service section with significant opium imports via Dairen and Shanghai.
The Chatham News notes Mussolini imposes 7.5 percent tax on capital and real estate to fund Ethiopia, with a previous 10 percent tax last year. Italy’s investments in Ethiopia total about 17.5 percent of capital stock plus campaign costs and incidental money, a massive sum for uncertain returns.
Western Union in Chicago reports receipt of a conscience letter from a boy who enclosed 15 cents to compensate for an insulator he broke on a telegraph line. The firm says it is the first such payment for damages among 20,000,000 destroyed over the last 60 years.
Following the closing of the 1939 San Francisco World Fair, the fairground land will be repurposed as an airport. The project signals a major shift for the site and plans to transform the former exhibition space into aviation infrastructure.
A barrel cactus contains more than 90 percent water by composition, making it a highly water dense plant. The drought resistant species stores moisture in its thick flesh to survive arid environments.
A vintage style advertisement urges women to be lively and cheerful to attract men at dances and parties. It asserts three generations of women shared tips for “smiling through” with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and claims it helps Nature tone up the system and relieve discomforts from functional disorders.
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