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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 18, 1931
Page
4
The article argues rural areas suffer higher typhoid death rates than cities due to poor water and milk safety. It urges full time rural health units and health departments like Quebec, explains water well contamination, and notes deep wells outperform springs and shallow wells. It warns milk contamination can occur at many stages from cow to consumer.
British radio and allied manufacturers join the case for daily papers as the best advertising medium. A $5,000,000 investment in 1930 yielded $80,000,000 in retail returns, with radio dealers finding newspaper ads generate higher returns than other channels. Readers seek both news and advertised offers in their newspapers.
Yale studies show 23 percent of students win special honors for scholarship and 46 percent of self supporting students make the honor roll. Fifteen of twenty first honors in the last class were self supported. The piece contrasts cost with grit amid Yale Harvard game spending.
In a Seattle paper contest the first prize went to a set of resolutions urging self improvement and practical action. The winning item proposes boosting production and cooperation while reducing beefing stalling and crabbing and aims at concrete gains. The second prize advocates constructive criticism and personal virtues like cheerfulness calmness courtesy tolerance and daily profitability through deeds or thoughts.
The province will celebrate its diamond jubilee at the provincial capital on July 20. The date marks sixty years since the Crown Colony of British Columbia was formally included in Confederation.
An interview in the Daily Princetonian quotes Sir Henry Thornton of Canadian National Railways arguing that men in the middle third of college classes have better later life prospects if they engage in activities beyond academics. He stresses mixing with peers in athletics and other pursuits to advance.
Old-timers say this winter is the mildest in fifty years. Robert Wiegland recalls 1877 when Thunder Bay stayed open all winter and a Duluth boat arrived March 1. He notes ice was under four inches thick that year.
The world’s oldest seaside resort at Nice, founded by Phoenicians in 350 B C, showcases a 25 century history. Its climate drew Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and later European nations through medieval and modern eras.
The Bordeaux Court ruled that a husband may read in his presence the letters his wife receives, provoking debate in France where a wife has limited rights yet may control family finances. The piece notes stricter limits on wives and passport access, contrasted with a husband’s enforcement of honor under the Code Napoleon.
John M. Imrie of Edmonton, chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce mission, told the Empire Club in Toronto that exports to China and Japan will grow but reaching 100 million bushels is absurd. He warned that optimistic estimates arouse false hopes while noting gradual growth to Japan, China and Hong Kong as the delegation observed.
The article discusses the origins of engraving tracing the first authenticated work to St Christopher in 1423. It notes claims by Baron de Reiffenberg of an earlier 1418 engraving and a manuscript suggesting 1306 in England, but warns debates limit acceptance of pre Saint Christopher examples.
A boy asks how wars start and overhears his parents arguing over hypothetical quarrels between England and France. The child concludes with a simple, playful insight into the idea of war arising from dispute.
The Geographic Board of Canada under the Director General of Surveys decides all questions related to geographic names in the Dominion arising in public service departments.
A chemical factory in Czecho Slovakia employed three hundred workers for eight years to produce radium and yielded exactly one ounce. The ounce is valued at about twenty million dollars making it one of the most valuable substances produced by human effort.
A museum exhibit on color explains how color is perceived and produced. It covers definitional theories from physics chemistry and psychology, notes color blindness statistics, and describes how light, pigments and feather coatings affect perceived hues.
Grain expert Herman Trelle of Wembley Peace River district asserts that condition governs germination more than age. He notes Egyptian tomb stories of ancient grain sprouting may be plausible and describes his Mediterranean cruise aboard the Empress of France with his wife, leaving New York February 3.
Government formally approves schemes to employ the jobless with an estimated spend of £1,852,000. Total road and bridge projects now approved reach £28,000,000 with a further £26,000,000 approved in principle. Paris hosts nearly 350 fountains donated by an English philanthropist.
In Oslo a cartoon caption advances the notion that no one is perfect. The remark reflects a light civic wit attributed to a local caricaturist and frames a broader acceptance of human flaws.
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