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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 15, 1933
Page
4
A New York Sun view argues punishment must fit each child it targets and be understood by the child. It warns against harsh or arbitrary penalties and notes some children cannot endure certain punishments.
Dr. Klein and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology propose a 1,000 mile per hour aircraft usable at 15 to 25 miles altitude in rarefied air. The design uses long open tubes along the fuselage with burning gasoline jets to heat and expel air, creating thrust sufficient to exceed propeller-driven speeds.
A noted English inn renamed the Castle of Smithfield hides a double persona. After two drinks, visitors learn the innkeeper is also a pawnbroker, with a large clock and the three balls symbolizing his trade displayed discreetly.
The English poet John Masefield, a former bar boy, visited New York and looked over the former saloon location at the corner of Christopher and Washington Streets in Greenwich Village, recalling his early job years ago.
Ghost towns dot Minnesota Northland as Craigville, once the last outpost near the Canadian border, loses its 60 mile rail line. The aging shacks, frontier lore, and mixed past of French Canadian trappers, axmen, gamblers, and bartenders fade as Main Street lies quiet with snow and wildlife.
A canine is described as the absolute, steadfast friend in prosperity and poverty, health and sickness. The essay extols a dog’s unwavering loyalty, comforting a master through misfortune, guarding sleep, and remaining faithful unto death by the graveside. Senator West, U.S.A.
Engineers test bending stress by mapping a soap film over a cross section model. A glass top depth gauge records film level as water under pressure raises the film, producing a contour map to locate stress points for design.
University of California geologist Professor W J Miller argues the earth’s core is a solid mass, not molten as widely thought. He explains previous molten-centre ideas by crustal breaks melting rock and ejecting lava, a theory that could provoke debate among geologists.
Brigadier General William Mitchell describes future wars featuring twenty to thirty radio controlled airplanes loaded with explosives. He envisions planes 35,000 feet high, guided by radio beams and robot pilots, armed with gyroscopic bombs and automatic range finding. Mitchell argues a single national defense department could prepare and advocates civilian aeronautics oversight.
Report states some typists in a Chicago office are part of a feverish productivity scheme using covert cameras to capture moving images of workers. The aim is to detect slackness when the footage is slowed, with cameras so hidden that no typist can tell if the experiment is proceeding.
The Woodstock Sentinel Review notes that despite lower labor costs and ongoing farmer aid, experts push for more farm mechanization. New devices include a beet topper that uproots and transports beets, a light yet powerful tractor, a potato grading brush, a closed milking system, and balloon tires boosting plow speed. All-steel barns and fuel savings claims are cited, but no machine yet solves marketing or mortgage woes.
Auguste Piccard Amelia Earhart Putnam and Charles Lindbergh discuss future explorations to dive ocean depths from a glass gondola and an oil balloon. They outline ballast methods to sink and release to rise, uniting height depth and distance ideas once theoretical.
Photographs show a 100 ton British locomotive being loaded onto a ship at Manchester docks as part of eight Britain built engines bound for China. The piece notes a Turkish concession enabling a ferry for freight passenger cars and autos across the Bosphorus linking Asian and European markets. Arthur Brisbane comments on American business complacency.
Fire loss in Rosetown, located 50 miles southwest of Saskatoon, reached 6125 in 1932 as reported by Fire Chief John McDougald at the council's final meeting. Inspection work continued through the year and residents were instructed in fire prevention measures.
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