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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 18, 1931
Page
2
In hard times governments and individuals face revenue and spending pressures. People overlook that rising public costs follow private downturns, and that borrowing shifts future burdens. Provincial and Dominion deficits push for higher taxes or subsidies, making citizens the ultimate payers now or later. Individual effort remains essential for long term recovery.
A 1000 man column on a 150 mile march received all rations by air in a staged test. Each day 56 parachute loads of 120 pounds were dropped by four Wapiti planes onto a premarked ground circle. Day one saw 48 loads delivered within target. day two all loads were dropped as directed. English railways cut sleeping car rates.
In New York State two brothers hid money in a cotton sock and a woollen sock. A fire burned both, leaving $330 of $340 in the wool sock identifiable by Treasury experts. The cotton sock money was irrecoverable. The piece notes the bank as a superior savings option and mentions the revenue cutter service of the U.S. Coast Guard, organized in 1790.
Miss Theresa M Bavary of Gallingertown Ontario says she suffered nearly a year from heart and nerve trouble especially at night sleep was impossible. After a few weeks on Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills she slept well and rapidly regained her former health.
Edmonton�s John M. Imrie told the Empire Club in Toronto that a proposed marketing commission should be a funding and advisory body. It would coordinate production and marketing to keep more domestic farm goods home and study foreign markets with the Dominion Trade and Commerce Department and the Trade Commissioner service, amid a push for new markets across the Pacific.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reports 25 lynchings in the latest 12 months, up from 12 in 1929, a 100 percent increase. The piece notes that earlier decades saw as many as 255 lynchings in a single year, suggesting modest progress away from lawlessness.
An advertisement extols Persian Balm as a delicate fragrant lotion that cools and heals skin. It claims to remove roughness and chafing, soften and whiten hands, and promote youthful beauty, urging all women to use this peerless toilet requisite.
For the year ending September 30, 308 Britons left for British Columbia to settle or inspect with capital. Their capital totaled 686,610 pounds plus annual incomes of 42,438 pounds, as reported by retiring agent-general F A Pauline of Britain’s BC House in London.
Children show symptoms from worms as writhing and fretting signal infection. Expulsion clears the system and restores health. Miller's Worm Powders provide prompt and efficient aid to eradicate worms and boost run down children.
Twelve headmistresses from prominent English and Scottish schools will sail for Canada on March 27 to gain firsthand experience of Canadian universities and explore prospects for girls completing their education there after completing secondary schooling at home. Mrs. Maery leads the party and they will stay about five months.
Hon. Robert Weir, Manitoba Minister of Agriculture, announced in Winnipeg that Saving To Cattlemen Railways will reduce freight rates on cattle from ranches to feed farms by half. He said commissions and stockyard charges of 17 to 25 dollars per car would be saved, totaling about 50 dollars per carload. The plan aims to end six month layover limits by lowering transport costs after feeding.
A concise recipe card lists six egg yolks and six egg whites with two tablespoons sugar and orange juice. Beat yolks with sugar and juice, fold in stiff egg whites, cook in buttered pan until fluffy and golden. Spread marmalade on half, fold, and serve.
A recipe for spice cookies uses cup sugar and molasses with coffee and spices then a dough is dropped by the tablespoon. The second item promotes Dr. J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy claiming relief from night attacks and weakness through years of service.
The famous Tam O Shanter Inn in Ayr Scotland known for its thatched roof and a doorway painting of Tam O Shanter may be sold with the city considering acquisition as a public attraction. An ancient clock linked to a 13th century Saracen craftsman is also noted in the article.
The famous tunnel that played a key strategic role in the 1916 offensive has been officially classified as a historical monument by the government. Since the war it has been referred to as the Crown Prince Tunnel.
Records show Canadian grown wheat repeatedly winning the Wheat Kings crown at the International Grain Show in Chicago, with 16 of 20 years held by Canadians. The list names winners from 1911 to 1930, including Seager Wheeler, J. C. Mitchell, Herman Trelle, and C Edson Smith among others, with origins noted.
An Oxford University Field Museum expedition uncovers a city near Babylon with watermarks from the Biblical flood. A well preserved Sassanian palace sits atop layers of earlier civilizations. Shafts in the great hall reveal temples to a mother goddess and date back to the Sumerians, offering crucial insights into early history.
The net production of all gainfully employed persons in Canada in 1930 totaled 5,273,891,566 dollars, averaging 530 dollars per capita, as estimated by the Financial Post Business Year Book 1931.
Overgame, pleasant tasting and milky white Phillips' Milk of Magnesia. You'll be through with crude methods once you learn the perfect way. Doctors prescribe it for indigestion, nausea, heartburn, gas, sour stomach and headache. It has been standard with them for over 50 years. Insist on genuine Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, a less perfect product may not act the same. The genuine is always a liquid never in tablet form and the name Phillips' is always on bottle and wrapper.
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