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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 28, 1934
Page
2
The speech urges youths to face a changing world with initiative and enterprise. It argues unemployment breeds unemployability, and advises setting an objective and taking any work to become self-directed, noting opportunities persist though paths are steeper. It questions whether today’s youth will rise with “guts” like past generations.
A December storm caused about 100000 dollars in Cordova damage while southern and interior Alaska posted record warm spells. A 55 mile gale hit Cordova and Seward for hours as 12.38 inches of rain fell in 60 hours. Fairbanks logged 58 degrees the warmest winter day in 30 years with snow gone at many locations. A thunder and lightning storm affected Cook Inlet.
Seventeen pound waxy lump found by Islesboro Maine boy Roderick Crandall is confirmed as ambergris worth 16000 dollars. The specimen, sent by his carpenter father to a chemist, is described as pure ambergris used in perfume making. Islesboro fisherman M L Decker awaits a chemist report on a 60 pound lump.
A Hollywood magnate tells an assistant that a writer is the only man for a film. The assistant questions fit and cost. The producer snaps that cost does not matter and commands to obtain the writer immediately.
A conference led by Dr. W Gallay of the National Research Council explored replacing imported corn with Canadian potatoes to absorb seven million bushels of surplus. Dr H M Tory chaired the meeting which examined uses such as confectioners glucose grape sugar syrup starch potato flour chips and a range of other products including laundry starch dextrine glue gum alcohol and foundry moulds.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s letters to Empress Marie Louise totaling 318 pieces sold in London for 75000 dollars in one block to the French government. The collection covers courtship marriage and Elba exile, with the final letter expressing longing for wife and son. An anonymous nobleman provided the letters. Bids rose quickly from 2500 dollars.
The municipal stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, cost more than 3 million dollars to construct.
Shareholders nominate Lorne Ardiel for Class C on the new Bank of Canada board. Ardiel, born 1890 in London Ontario, served with the Canadian Corps 1915 1919 and later built national auto industry groups. He founded The Lorne Ardiel Company and Press Agency Bureau Limited and established the World Institute of National Advertising Agencies.
The Melbourne Argus notes rapid growth in air travel. World route mileage grew from 3,200 in 1919 to 190,200 in 1932, with miles flown rising from 1,022,000 to 90,372,000. The United States carried most traffic, but Britain, France, Germany and many other nations are expanding air networks.
A new process to turn Southern pine forests into artificial yarn was unveiled in New York. Dr Charles H Herty of Savannah Georgia, honored at a dinner, demonstrated a shining white skein and touted vast forest supply meeting global clothing needs.
Villagers in Corinth, Greece, uncovered a solid stone surface that turns out to be an ancient reservoir. Decorated stairs lead down into the submerged chamber, suggesting historic water storage or ritual use.
A Winnipeg newspaper column discusses a 19 year old girl dating a 33 year old man and a reader asks about handwriting analysis. Advice warns jealousy as a major risk in marriage and suggests separating if jealousy cannot be cured, with an offer for readers to mail handwriting samples for analysis.
Percy Mitchell of Stratford Ontario probes aid cases and finds a relief recipient who owns a race horse. The man is grooming the horse for next year’s races while the relief committee weighs how to proceed with the unemployed owner.
A reader writes that after an appendix operation she gained fat, reached 196 pounds, then used Kruschen Salts and dropped to 178 pounds in nine months. She says she feels better and attributes the weight loss to the product’s mineral salt formula from European spas.
In Alaska near Anchorage a plane carrying Mrs Hazel McClung Pilot Oscar Winchell and two mine operators crashed in a blizzard. They survived nine days in a snowbound cabin by melting snow and rationing meager provisions, aided by a rescue plane after signaling for help.
A Belgrade dispatch reports a Yugoslavian gang of thieves operated with a leader employer. Members earned 1.25 dollars daily, often stole goods worth 500 dollars in one night, using a three man transfer plan with a hole in the store wall.
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