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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 18, 1925
Page
4
The 1923 dairy trial tested sunflower silage with oat straw and bran meal for pregnant cows at five months gestation. Results show mixed outcomes across groups, with goitre varying by diet. Sup tendent notes 1923 not conclusive but suggests alfalfa hay improves the ration while potassium iodide did not consistently correct deficiencies.
A departmental committee of the Ministry of Health reports that 40.5 million tons of coal burned for domestic use in Britain produce vast smoke and soot, with about 2.2 million tons going up the chimney as soot, enough to heat London for a year.
Billy Bissonnette of Port Arthur Ontario can name 56 car makes from a partial picture after a single glance. The three year old also recalls items seen on a table after a brief look in another room. His father Ray, an auto dealer, says Billy has identified cars since age two and a half.
Canal traffic for 1924 exceeded 1923 totals by over a million tons, according to a Bureau of Statistics summary. Except for a 624,398 ton drop at Sault Ste Marie and a small decline at Ottawa and Murray Locks, overall throughput on Canadian canals increased during the navigation season.
Millions in China face famine as crops are ruined by floods sweeping across nine provinces from Pekin to Can Tom. Estimates put those starving at ten to twelve million.
In a hazy bar scene, two men trade a cryptic chatter about waiting their turn. The quicker man jokes that only a few ahead of him—“three hairbobs and a complex fom pack”—stand between them.
Bassett Digby FRCS explains that most British farmyard animals are foreign in origin. He traces pigs ducks Highland cattle and horses to foreign lineages via ancient routes from Asia Minor Greece Rome Egypt and Africa with only a few species like British pigs or certain horses tracing to native stock.
The public safety committee and chamber of commerce push changing rear end warning lights from red to a different color to increase caution and protect lives and property. Supporters include automobile clubs across the Dominio, arguing familiarity with red dulls danger response and urging citizens to Stop and heed lights after nightfall.
In a London speech Premier Stanley Baldwin argues England’s strife is between men striving to reach common ideals. He says Labour MPs face harsher realities but seem distant from real problems and urges domestic brotherhood before pursuing broader international ideals.
Twenty Paris department stores promised Police Prefect Morain to install Tri-color counters selling simple durable warm clothing at rock bottom prices. They aim to expand to sixty shops, keep upkeep costs off the price, and pay sales staff same percentage as for costlier stocks. Some critics say duties are hard to fulfill without controversy.
The United States holds 4 percent of world passenger cars, 74 percent of trucks, and 11 percent of motorcycles. Global motor vehicle spending reached 2.36 billion dollars in 1924. on January 1, 1925, world totals were 15,615,000 passenger cars, 2,892,900 trucks, and 1,262,000 motorcycles.
Irrigated cropland on the Canadian Pacific Railway irrigation block near Lethbridge, Alberta, produced a gross return of 26.03 per acre in 1924, up from 18.81 in 1923. The 52,521 acres generated a total gross of 1,451,544, excluding separate gains from range, poultry and dairying.
Free grant homestead entries in Manitoba Sas Katchewan Alberta and British Columbia reached 2 540 by end of November last year covering 566 400 acres. This compares with 3 354 entries in the previous period.
An urn containing human bones and pottery, both aged at least 1,900 years, was uncovered in a cemetery at Caversham near Reading in England.
More than 20,000 acres in California are devoted to seed production for a variety of vegetables. The expansive farming shows a shift toward controlled breeding and large scale cultivation to supply nurseries and markets nationwide.
Rumors ripple through the town drawing attention from residents and officials. Local chatter centers on unverified claims about events or people, prompting quiet scrutiny and requests for facts to settle the idle talk.
A British Museum and University of Pennsylvania joint expedition uncovers clay tablets at Ur in Mesopotamia. The tablets document investigations and excavations by Chaldean archaeologists and reveal debris from civilizations up to 760 years before Christ.
A playful line questions a shop's stock of shot silk socks with spots and mentions Robert Rowley rolling a round roll. It also repeats a tongue twister about Topsy Topple tiptoeing over a topsy turvy table.
A quip reflects on the mismatch between the body's capacity and a person's appetite, suggesting humor about human limits and desire.
A historical note recalls Canada’s first electric railway at St Catharines Ontario opened in autumn 1887. The line stretched seven miles with six motor cars operating on a double trolley wire system and an overrunning trolley. Earlier trials occurred at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition in autumn 1943 using a short test track and a car powered by electricity.
Statistics from Chicago show over 8.5 million women employed nationwide, 21.1 percent of females. One in four workers is a woman, with 2,186,924 women in domestic or maid service.
In Japan a limited annual issuance of new telephones drives a growing market where subscribers may resell their sets. The practice has given rise to a recognized trade in larger cities with individuals working as telephone brokers.
Researchers report developing edible products and textile fibers from common swamp cattails. The breakthrough could provide sustainable sources for food and fabric using plant materials traditionally considered weedy.
Canada’s National Railways announces a June 22 start for a weekly steamship service between Prince Rupert and Alaska. The Prince George and Prince Rupert will carry tourists via Ketchikan Wrangell Juneau Skagway to Vancouver, part of the Triangle Tour amid views of Taku Glacier and Juneau sights.
The Prairie Farmer's Vegetable Garden bulletin from Ottawa stresses strong vigorous seed potatoes and good soil. It advises early May planting, soil preparation, light preparation in a frost-free room, packing or harrowing after planting, and winter sorting to remove rotten tubers. Large seed pieces yield better than small, and cut sets should have three or four eyes and be planted the same day.
Sir Ernest Petter, president of the British Engineers Association, after returning from Canada, urged Britons to holiday in Canada instead of Switzerland or the Riviera and to invest in Canadian companies. He praised Canadian hospitality and urged English businessmen to engage the market with enterprise.
December creamery butter production in Saskatchewan jumped about 84 percent from 1923 to 1924, totaling an estimated 650000 pounds versus 297047 pounds a year earlier. The 1924 calendar year total reached 13434170 pounds, up from 10472769 pounds in 1923.
In 1922 there were 235 fur goods establishments producing valued output of 11 861 774 dollars, down slightly from 1921. Provincial distribution for 1923 shows Nova Scotia two, New Brunswick two, Quebec sixty three, Ontario one hundred twenty nine, Manitoba eighteen, Saskatchewan five, Alberta seven, and British Columbia nine.
A humorous exchange shows a retired sea captain greeting a parson and noting the parish clergyman married three couples in fifteen minutes. The captain quips about the pace as "twelve knots an hour" in jest.
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