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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1939
Page
6
A passerby in hotel area encounters Sarah Lynn and Sadry Ann with a brindle greyhound named Lightning. The dog bounds ahead as they discuss sociable greyhounds, Parisian figurines, and the dog’s temperament. The scene contrasts modern elegance with kennel ideas and social routines.
Sally Ann remembers her cousin Adelaide Mrs Edwina Dana whose buoyant sweetness always irritated her.
A man describes years of rheumatic pain including tooth loss and a 14 week hospital stay before finding relief with Kruschen Salts. He claims his condition improved after starting the treatment and attributes his recovery to the salts dissolving uric acid crystals and easing pain.
Sally Ann assesses Keaton and Ardine as Ed Dana updates her on the Danavale clan. Ardine, modern and spirited, runs a roadhouse restaurant called The Stewed Prune with friends, while Keaton’s married life and Sarah Lynn’s future are noted as the younger generation arrives.
Two hundred fifty Sudeten German refugees depart Czecho Slovakia for England, mostly former German Social Democratic members opposed to Konrad Henlein. Emigrants will be quartered in Scotland before moving to an English colony. Eighty go to Sweden and nineteen to Finland. The planets Jupiter and Venus appear with no stars due to their opaque atmospheres.
The earliest patent activity surrounding neon advertising rights dates to 1916, marking the initial formal recognition of protection for illuminated signage ideas. This year lays groundwork for subsequent developments in signage patents and marketing display innovations.
A Kittiwake Gull killed near Little Fogo Island Newfoundland on September 20 1937 carried a Moscow band 51412 from Kharlov Island in the Barents Sea. The find confirms long distance bird migration and adds to Canada and North America bird-banding records coordinated by Newfoundland and Ottawa authorities.
A gift to the Science Museum includes a micro-engraving of the Lord's Prayer on a scale of 13 Bibles per square inch. The claim notes the Bible could be written 13 times in one square inch, with a record of 22 Bibles per square inch using Peter William's machine in 1854.
For 24 years C B Gabb has logged daily death notices in the London Times. From his figures 9 871 people aged 90 or above died, most were married women. In 1938, 489 nonagenarians died: 154 men and 335 women, 213 of them married.
Mrs. Fred Guth of Evansville Indiana died December 21 1937. Her will was believed destroyed but a burglar who broke into attorney H L Taylor's office scattered papers revealing the missing will copy. The incident exposed a long missing testament and left the legal matter unsettled.
Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson praised Chinese leadership and morale in New York, saying China shows no hysteria or panic and will press the war against Japan to a successful conclusion. He noted China’s manpower reserve and determined mood, based on decades in U.S. diplomacy and firsthand view of Chinese resolve.
Professor J W G MacEwan of the University of Saskatchewan Animal Husbandry Department says diversification is expanding in western Canada with the home farm concept meeting living needs of farm families. He notes the trend predates Gardiner's recent Commons address and benefits the region.
Gargantua a 500 pound gorilla billed as a terrifying Brute performs in England in a $20 000 air conditioned cage owned by Ringling circus interests. It marks his first season on the road as a circus attraction with Bertram Mills Olympia circus after tours with Al G Barnes Sells Floto. He is seven years old and travels in a steel and glass cage with new trucks and larger wheels.
A playful set of curiosities. The text presents quirky phrases like a Kaiser as a stream of hot water disturbing the earth and a riddle about Napoleon escaping from Melba, alongside a definition of an anachronism as a thing a man inserts in writing in the past before the future.
A teacher asks what the Pilgrims did after a year of settlement. Gertrude answers with a humorous aim to buy a car, turning a historical tale into a playful punchline.
The Newcastle Women's Flying Club plans an all female directed aerial pageant with pilots and ground crews. Twenty of its forty members are training for the event. In the United States Superior National Forest lake names feature household terms such as Blueberry Carrot Cranberry Frying Pan Knife Lunch Onion Parsnip Plum Potato and Prune.
Some historians argue that many Roman palaces and temples long thought to be destroyed by barbarians between the fifth and ninth centuries were actually toppled or damaged by earthquakes rather than human force.
A clergyman tries to honor a rich elderly parishioner by presenting her to the bishop and calls her one of his oldest sheep. The phrasing draws amusement for its awkward metaphor and unintended humor.
A fashion note weighs options between plum evening coats and twilight blue opera capes with scarlet satin lining versus safer attire like old carpet slippers. The tone nudges bold style choices for the season.
Manitoba led Canada in honey production in 1937, surpassing Ontario which had traditionally been the top honey source. The shift highlights Manitoba’s growing apiary activity and production capacity during that year.
Dominion of Canada produced 127,350,000 pounds of factory cheese in 1937, reflecting output scale across facilities and regional production capacity.
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes there is no true lie detector. The article argues the device is highly complex and only trained experts can interpret it, while many users in police and private sectors misuse it as a psychological third degree.
One thousand London tradesmen serving Buckingham Palace face a year of review to determine if the King and Queen are satisfied with their work and whether they may display the royal arms with the underline By Appointment to His Majesty. The insignia carries prestige and boosts business opportunities.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth MacQueen of First Avenue Toronto, who has just turned 93, recalls caring for Kaiser Wilhelm II's laundry during his Southampton yacht visit. The widow of a master mariner is one of 21 children and cherishes a black cape once owned by Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent.
Officials report Britain has erected more than 1.5 million homes over about six years, reflecting rapid housing expansion and government housing policy impact.
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