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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 28, 1927
Page
2
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Officials warn of deadly risks in blizzards and extreme cold. A seven year old’s death after venturing out highlights need for keeping children home during storms. Saskatchewan Education urges parents and teachers to coordinate via rural phones to safely delay or escort children home. Fire dangers from indoor heating also rise, with gas buildup from tightly checked stoves.
Poster Adams, president of the National Aeronautics Association, proposed the Grand Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale for Charles A Lindbergh. The medal would be the highest air achievement, to be awarded at the federation’s Paris meeting soon, Adams wrote to secretary general Paul Tissandier.
He lauds the Empire Parliamentary Association at its 14th UK meeting in Westminster Hall. He calls for frequent visits between Dominion and home branches to foster understanding and clear Empire policy. He recalls Canada travels last summer and supports a UK branch delegation to Canada next September led by the Speaker of the House.
Canada has 57 radio stations, second to the United States 685. Cuba 47, Sweden 30, Australia and Germany 24 each, Argentina 22, United Kingdom 20, France and Spain 18. Nearly 1,400,000 cable feet of logs were rafted from Russia to Estonia this year. Beware of the man who apologizes when he does you a favor.
Dr Louis Sambon, a leading cancer expert, will conduct an islandwide study on the Isle of Man once health ministry sanction is obtained. He will examine flora and fauna, study cancer death records from the past fifty years, and probe suspected clusters to test his theory on cancer origin with help from the British School of Tropical Medicine.
The Imperial Government invites the British Dominions and India to name representatives for a London conference on cable and wireless communications. Postmaster-General Sir Williams Mitchell Thompson announced in the House of Commons that the conference will be called as soon as practicable.
Mrs. David Logan of Thetford Mines Quebec extols Dr Williams Pink Pills for family health gains. She cites recovery of typhoid weakness, daughter’s return to work, son’s adenoid surgery recovery, and overall improved vitality. Pills aid digestion and blood quality and are sold for 50 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario by mail.
A Turkish reform bans turbaned ecclesiastics from riding about towns on donkeys amid efforts to secularize. Priests in robes are deemed undignified astride a donkey and are also restricted from playing cards in coffee houses.
The Dominion meteorological headquaters discuss creating an advisory weather service for aviation with a network of observatories from Newfoundland to British Columbia. It aims to aid air mail routes via the Gulf of St Lawrence and guide the 4 100 dirigible in a trans Atlantic cruise to Montreal next summer. Worms, however, are mentioned as health hazards in digestion with a product promotion for Miller's Worm Powders.
News item states eastern capitalists purchased 980 acres of swamp land at Oak Lake Manitoba for a muskrat farm. The cash value is not disclosed but fencing costs are rumored at 20000 dollars.
F. H. Gamble of Winnipeg, manager of the overseas settlement board, states that a thousand men have been placed on western farms this year by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Sir Alfred Mond calls for a self-sustaining British Empire with internal trade and tariffs among the Empire’s parts. He argues the Empire is most self-contained in natural resources, surpassing the United States, and urges development, growth, and population through intra imperial commerce.
Baron Hisaya Iwasaki heads Japan's wealth list with 2.154 million dollars income and 621 thousand tax. Baron Mitsui follows at 1.666 million income and 469 thousand tax. The ten richest include two Iwasakis seven Mitsuis and Baron Obara. The wealthiest company president is M Hattori of Tokio Watch and Clock. In Tokyo and Yokohama 738 people report incomes over 25 thousand dollars.
Professor R H A Plimmer of the University of London, at the New Health Society meeting in St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, argued that toast is worse for fattening than bread. He warned that toasting concentrates bread’s calories and that eating two slices of toasted bread is more fattening than a single slice of ordinary bread.
E M Moody aged eighty eight retires as Moodyville Kansas postmaster ending the town office. He was the first postmaster and government plans to discontinue the office on his departure. Moody cites eye sight preservation for old age.
The article outlines French savings bank regulations including a 12 000 franc limit for individuals and 0 000 francs for mutual societies or unions, withdrawal limits, and the requirement that deposits stay within the Republic. It notes penalties for infringements, restrictions on married women, minors, and conditional accounts, with a 50 franc fortnight withdrawal cap.
Peel and slice oranges and apples into alternating wedges on lettuce plates. Prepare grapefruit salad by forming a circle of orange segments with grapefruit in the center. Clean 3 pound mushrooms, remove stems, cut, then cook in butter with salt and pepper, dredge with flour, add cream, simmer five minutes, finish with nutmeg and serve on buttered toast with parsley.
A rural recipe explains making a firm cranberry jelly served half full in glasses topped with plain junket and whipped cream. Also notes the Western Canada Dairy Association convention in Regina from February 7 to 14 with dairy authorities and Eastern reps attending. A buyer returns a defective cheap car for inspection, with the owner saying every part makes noise except the horn.
Western Canada reports a record hay harvest with 2,544,000 tons of hay and clover, up from 7,984,000 tons in 1926, and 235,700 tons of alfalfa versus 220,4 tons previously, per preliminary Federal estimates.
Saskatchewan accounts for more than half of Canada's wheat crop, with 58 million acres of arable land and 26.26 million acres under cultivation in 1926. Wheat area reached 13.50 million acres, about half of cultivated land, as Minard's liniment promotion appears in the text.
Dr H M Ami president of the Canadian School of Prehistory in France says prehistoric man was an intelligent creature for 450 000 years and not always a fighter. He cites 5 000 specimens from Moustierian deposits near Bordeaux showing industrious behavior in early tools and plans to publish a complete story on the evolution of implements.
June figures show infant mortality at 77.2 per 1000 births, down from 89.5 in June 1926. Quebec tops with 106.1, Manitoba lows at 49.0. Quebec marks the greatest yearly improvement though its June 1926 rate was 123.8. Dominion birth rate is 25.1, death rate 10.16. Also includes ad for Dr Thomas electric oil for catarrh.
A quirky historical snippet discusses gender roles with humor about boys and girls, includes a worm medicine promotion, a note on a worm exterminator, and mentions Racine Wisconsin as home to the first rubber pavement on a railroad crossing. It closes with a social aphorism about wealth and poverty.
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