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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
4
A Victorian tone reports on new scientific feats including methods to collect ultraviolet rays for night illumination and the notion of abolishing night with a balance device. It cites Poynting’s density finding for Earth and notes Arcturus as vastly brighter yet distant, with light from it arriving in 1947.
Santo Domingo Indians of New Mexico are famed for endurance as foot runners who chase wild horses across vast plain country until the animals tire and surrender. The tribe’s history as walkers and runners shapes their physique with strong chests and sinewy calves fit for long treks and endurance hunts.
In winter 1915 at a Queen's Park military camp in London Ontario a soldier seeks a perfect posed photograph on a charger. A bystander offers help and uses a Christy hat to cue the horse. the shutter clicks as Sir Adam Beck smiles and walks off.
Expert advice from the Dominion Experimental Station outlines how to cultivate flowering bulbs at home through winter. With a basement and ample light, indoor temperatures must stay near six degrees of frost, enabling bloom from December to spring. Roman hyacinths narcissus and freesias can color indoors until late January, then Dutch hyacinths and early narcissus varieties. The bulletin lists suitable bulb varieties and steps for planting, care, fertilizing, harvesting, curing and overwinter storage, and notes outdoor planting in cold districts.
The Los Angeles Times writes that East and West have much to learn from each other and much to teach. It envisions mutual exchange of philosophy, invention, and action, with a pledge of reciprocal generosity and lasting friendship.
Using a camera and an electric spark lasting one twenty fifth of a millionth of a second Professor Boys demonstrates photographs of life bullets in flight. Bullets travel at about twenty times the speed of an express train as captured by the device.
An antique threshing machine in Standon Dorchester County Quebec remains functional. Made largely of wood except for a few parts, its power comes from a large wooden wheel pulled around by two large red oxen. The wheel drives wooden rollers that activate the internal beater inside the barn.
A mock dialogue notes a caterpillar as the most voracious living thing. It claims the creature could eat about 600 times its weight in a month. The text appears in Pearson's Weekly, commenting on a professor and a deaf person.
Emmett Campbell Hall argues in the New York Evening Post that life spans in biblical times do not exceed three score and ten years when measured by lunar years. He explains that reckoning by moon cycles yields 75 percent of modern years for Adam and 78 percent for Methuselah, with David setting a practical cap at 70 years. The piece outlines historical shifts in year length from lunar to six month and twelve month systems, noting Egyptian calendar developments and the concept of alternating day and night lengths.
London Morning Post argues that no national action would more surely secure peace than a formal alliance among America France and England with others invited. The preliminary step is settling quarrels between nations, after which arms limitation would appear more hopeful.
A humorous exchange where a wife recalls her mother praising Joe for being a good boy while his talk turns to a schoolteacher patting him on the back, the husband remarking the pats were often in a comical low place.
Royal Commission hearing in London in July revealed the B-38 airship destruction over Hull and the vast material costs. The old construction used 825000 gold beaters skins per gas bag and three quarters of a million oxen, with Vickers Ltd claiming major savings after a new method cut skins to one layer.
The London Daily Telegraph notes Canada’s new flag as a modern emblem woven into national consciousness. It compares symbols like the maple leaf to the Southern Cross and discusses the eagle’s fading authority, asserting Canada’s flag will rank high in future honors.
The police boat John F. Hylan relayed New Yorks first wireless fire alarm near East 60th Street. Radio operator William Lee spotted a river blaze and notified Sergeant Pierce at Police Headquarters, prompting Fire Headquarters to dispatch two trucks three engines two fireboats and two battalion chiefs within minutes.
The musk ox, a Stone Age survivor, likely numbers 25 000 in the Canadian Far North. It grazes openly year round and defends itself against wolves using a hollow square formation.
A bus operator unexpectedly attracts attention as the omnibus driver draws the Mac at stage money. The incident highlights local theater funding and transit coordination amid community events.
Glasgow engineer Mr George Rennie has devised an aerial railway aimed at bridging trains and aircraft. The system uses a cantilever steel rail with a second parallel rail beneath the car and twin aeroplane propellers for propulsion. Proponents claim speeds from 100 to 200 mph and lower capital and maintenance costs.
The piece argues that advanced civilization dulls five senses and ease of life reduces keen perception. It notes many are half deaf and short sighted, lacking touch, and unable to scent or track as in primitive peoples who rely on scent and instinct.
California produces a seventh of U S honey with the 1921 crop needing fifty trains of fifty cars. Bee experts say this is only part of nectar gathered as raw honey is evaporated to 17 percent moisture. Bulletin from the San Francisco chamber notes no fewer than seven hundred thousand bee colonies in the state.
A young sailor recalls forty foot waves on his last voyage. An older sailor objects noting forty years at sea but agrees waves seem higher now. The exchange highlights growing concerns about changing ocean conditions.
A concise note reports that Chinese language newspapers are published in New York Chicago and San Francisco, highlighting the presence of Chinese media in major U.S. cities and suggesting an expanding ethnic press footprint.
The Aberdeen Angus breed dominates the Calgary Winter Fair winning best fat heifer and best fat steer. Alberta University claims steer championship on a Laddie with Miss Muriel Prichard taking the heifer crown and overall show championship. Meadowdale Toll s wins senior calf at Guelph Ontario, while Toronto Fat Stock Show sees Angus junior yearling steer by Geo Henderson & Son of Guelph as reserve champ, only surpassed by Hopper’s Hereford. The Doddie era continues with five of seven Toronto shows topping honors since 1919.
German aviator Herr Kiemperer launched from a 1000 foot hill in Germany and flew a Aachen glider for 21 minutes setting a motorless flight record. He rose above the start point and landed only 30 feet below the launch site. The world mark previously stood at 15 minutes. British interest in gliders follows the achievement as Germany plans more gliders and British pilots study the craft. The aim is an engine powered craft of about two and a half horsepower to popularize flying.
The piece praises high figures for obeying local law during visits to the United States. It cites Marshal Foch Diaz and Baron Admiral Kato as examples, noting their physicians and hosts reported they drank no alcohol while in the country. It argues respect for law is a sign of great leaders.
A system allows sending a message written with a lead pencil at one station and reproducing it remotely. A minute beam of light exposed photographic paper to imprint the writing. ten seconds later the receiving device develops the strip. Works over existing telephone or telegraph lines.
Two Seattle men on a streetcar scorn the citys bankers calling them rotten and ignorant. They joke that if bankers dug sewers and sewer diggers ran banks finance would be more competent but people would die of typhoid before sewers were finished. One man adds he could not borrow money.
A fragmentary note hints at a rattling skeleton from a family past escaping a closet. The odd image suggests a spooky, bygone household tale with eerie atmosphere and hints of hidden secrets.
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