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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1939
Page
3
The piece argues mass production, especially in the auto industry, creates employment by expanding markets and lowering prices. It notes a handmade Ford car would cost about 18 thousand dollars, limiting demand, while mass production supports huge wage payments across related sectors and more overall jobs.
Mary Ramsay Wright, born inside Fort Garry, recalls early Winnipeg history from steamboats to the first public school. She notes grasshoppers wrecking crops, her 1869 marriage to Archibald Wright, and Fort Garry’s capture by rebels in 1869. Her Assiniboine Park farm spanned 2000 acres.
A London Daily Mail report details 145 Piccadilly once home to the Duke and Duchess of York. The property features 20 bedrooms nine reception rooms twelve kitchens and a chef’s room with a glass cupola while rent asks £2500 yearly. The lease restricts business use and rebuilding. the mansion faces Constitution Hill Park Lane and was nicknamed Four Winds by the Queen.
Boston jeweler Frank Gardner Hale discusses gems in Kansas City lectures noting flaws in almost all stones. He argues emeralds outrank rubies, many so called diamonds are flawed or synthetic, and uncut stones do not exist, with a final science aside about hydrogen and helium explosiveness.
The Earl of Egmont gains confirmation of his title by the Crown and secures a seat in the peerage through the barony of Lovel and Holland. The Irish earldom does not grant Lords participation, but the British barony does. Contender Robert Pownall, an elderly pensioner, died in 1937 after the claim was rejected in 1930.
The New York Daily News explained it omitted a comma in an interview with Clara Booth author of The Women and Kiss the Boys Goodbye. The paper cited Booth clarifications and her line about loving real cats but not some lady cats.
Observation notes that from outer planets Earth would exhibit phases from a thin crescent to a full disc, mirroring the Moon's appearance as seen from Earth. The phenomenon underscores Earth’s changing illumination and our view of it from distant worlds.
The piece notes Canada’s radio fee is reasonable among publicly owned systems. Britain charges the same, while Germany is $9, Denmark $3.40, Italy $6.50, New Zealand $7.50, South Africa $5–$6, Norway $5, Australia $3.75–$8.75. It asserts Canadian broadcasting programs are superior to most listed countries.
About a quarter of Britain's million regular golfers are women, reflecting growing participation in the sport. The figure underscores rising gender balance in organized golf and recreational play nationwide.
In Margate England 1830 residents rose in arms against an inventor proposing steam navigation to the town. Meanwhile New York sees the introduction of dog pyjamas.
Furniture makers announce a revival of the rocking chair. The new designs emphasize calm, sturdy comfort with compact rockers, while hoping to preserve the familiar gentle squeak and soothing effect for nerves and babies.
A Glasgow teacher told a class of eleven year olds about the title Poet Laureate. A pupil quipped Sir Walter Disney as the holder, prompting a long silence. The piece ends with a note on a heron’s diet and a claim about planets Jupiter and Venus.
Bruno the one year old Newfoundland earned a medal from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for aiding his Chinese master Si mon Yuen in a dramatic rescue on the Riviere des Prairies last August. Young Yuen dived to save Ernest Jackson of Montreal as the dog towed Mrs. Sandwith to safety.
A six year old boy in Pensacola Florida is found repeatedly removing tank caps to inhale gasoline fumes Officer Drew Coleman says the child places his nose to the tank inhaling until dizzy He may also drink gasoline when he finds it.
Laura Pepper notes Canada produces millions of gallons of milk yet per capita consumption remains low. The League of Nations Technical Commission recommends 750 grams daily for 1 2 year olds and 1000 grams for those up to 14. A pint and a half to a quart daily supports growth and health for children and adults, with milk as a premier protective food. The Dominion bulletin explains diet roles, forms, and storage from producer to consumer and offers recipes and tips.
Amid a coffee shortage German drinkers faced dwindling supplies and adulterated brews such as barley coffee. Crowds formed outside shops, police broke up queues, and a cartoonish joke circulated about a store offering a free pound of coffee with butter and eggs.
Coffeepots are placed on the gra of Arabian chiefs in Palestine and Syria to indicate the hospitable role of the departed chief. The display signals legacy of generous hosting and respect within tribal leadership circles.
The sentence describes an automobile traveling at 60 miles per hour with pistons B moving 50 times in 4 seconds and 3.1 times per minute. The fragment is unclear and lacks verifiable facts for a full news summary.
A compact item notes that about 1.12 billion passengers travel on British rail annually and hints at New Year customs with fruit cake lingering until the last slice. A curious aside mentions 50 miles of silk in stockings.
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