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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 17, 1926
Page
8
Public notices show advertising rates and rules for the Miniota Herald. Details describe word limits per line, bold type for notices, and charge policies for mastings and admissions. The text outlines run of paper coverage and lack of special position guarantees.
H B Beaumont appointed assistant to the Steamship passenger traffic manager of the Canadian Pacific Steamships. Dominion Government figures show Canada's field crops valued at 946,166,000 dollars in the past year versus 196,673,000 in 1909.
Nova Scotia farm production in 1925 amounted to about 46.42 million dollars, up from 36.435 million the prior year. Major components include dairy 10.2 million, field crops 18.7 million, fruits and vegetables 8 million, livestock 2.2 million, poultry products 1.22 million.
A railway car built as a Canadian Pacific observation coach served as a chapelle ardente and funeral coach for the Queen Mother of Italy. It later saw hospital service in wartime and was sold, with other cars, to the Italian State Railways after the armistice.
In the Canadian west hoar frost and snow cloak trees and shrubs forming strange white shapes. Photographers recently captured numerous eerie figures resembling prehistoric animals in the Kicking Horse Pass region.
In Ottawa Her Excellency, Lady Byng, wife of the Governor General of Canada, described the scenic beauties of the Canadian Pacific Rockies and urged Canadians to explore their own country and learn about the lives of people in its regions.
Owing to cheap hydro power, American Cel lulose and Chemical plans a Drummondville facility to produce rayon and artificial silk. About 7 million dollars will fund buildings and equipment.
Local items report Mrs Yarwood traveling to visit her sister in Landis and a district Anglican service led by Rev. C Wood. Highlights include a large I0.C.F. attendance in Miniota, a Masquerade Ball with awards for costume categories, a week of curling with 23 rinks and final results, and several lodge and institute activities with Mrs Hawthorne and Mrs Spencer among active participants. A Miniota School Literary Society meeting featured Canadian theme items and a brief impressively varied program.
Isabelle Notes reports Wm Iverach leaving for Deloraine on Tuesday. R Warrer is ill with measles. Mrs Vey of Yorkton visits her daughter Mrs Marshall. Arthur Ross attended Brandon short course in engineering last week. Mrs Wright and Mrs Miller returned from Winnipeg. Crandall Hockey teams defeats local seniors 7 to 6. W E Iverach and Finkbeiner attended the Winnipeg Agricultural Societies convention.
A reader criticizes the recent School Money By-law vote in Miniota arguing continued need for new classroom space. The letter notes overcrowded rooms since district formation and urges voters to share reasons to foster consensus on school accommodation.
The passage argues that people often boast about themselves and their groups, with tradespeople and manufacturers defending their wares while individuals face disapproval. It suggests a double standard in praise and accuses business figures of self-promotion, warning that boasts will be exposed as fraud.
An excerpt riffs on prejudice and boasting in a town church scene. It notes how people accuse others of bias while narrating points of pride. The fable contrasts human vanity with a lion’s stoic view of prowess, warning against self-aggrandizement.
In a long train conversation a man extols his hometown, prompting a visitor to assess it. The piece weighs sentiment versus practicality, arguing that home towns foster civic pride, public spirit, and long term progress, while cities offer different advantages and challenges.
For sale two purebred White Wyandotte cockerels. Raised by Gilbert Rowan in Miniota. Price per bird one dollar fifty. Contact Gilbert Rowan in Miniota for purchase details.
A no reserve auction by Mr. Collingwood offers farmers a chance to buy horses and farming implements in good condition ready for spring work as he retires from farming.
The provided text is a philosophical reflection with generic statements about popularity time thinking speed limits and friendship, lacking concrete people places organizations dates or events. It reads like motivational prose rather than a news item or notice.
British Columbia shipped 1,571,000 salmon cases setting a multiple year high. The 1924 total reached 1,525,000 cases with prior years 929,000 in 1923, 794,000 in 1922, and 939,000 in 1921.
The sport known as the mountain glis sade was performed in Revelstoke British Columbia for the first time in Canada. On Friday January 29 hundreds of visitors watched the start of Revelstoke's twelfth winter carnival as participants flew down rough mountain sides on skis in a glissade display.
From August 1 1925 to January 31 1926 CPR shipped 8 182 198 bushels 1 1 percent of total grain by all rail routes. Vancouver port carried about 30 216 134 bushels about one eighth with Fort William handling the remaining 85 percent. Montreal students set to sing at the closing night of the National Council of Education conference in Montreal April 1 to 9 with Sir Walford Davies as speaker. A France tour for Canadian scholars is arranged under the French government and Philippe Roy with departure May 26 from Quebec aboard the Empress of Scotland.
Canada exported pulp and paper worth 154 555 951 dollars in 1925, up from 139 491 469 dollars the prior year. Newsprint output in 1925 was about 1 516 000 tons, vs 1 852 994 tons in 1924, roughly double the 1918 newsprint production.
A large crowd witnessed the tenth Banté Winter Carnival opening on February 3 with Queen Gabrielle entering in a frost crystal fairy ring. The event showcased shooting, skiing, skating, hockey and bikes as part of the winter sport tournament while nearby Chelsea Road in Hull Quebec reported two automobile gate crashes on January 6 and February 3 due to frozen windshields.
BE Beattie president of Canadian Pacific Railway told members at Montreal that the 1925 income tax could raise between 12 million and 45 million dollars. He argued a 25 percent cut in government expenses could reduce this burden by about 11 million. He noted CPR had cut expenses by more than double that amount in a single year.
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