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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 13, 1932
Page
4
Scientists describe ultimate radio power transmission via extremely short wave beams. Micro waves and concentrated beams could power air carriers, ships, trains, and vehicles from central plants to retransmitters in cities. Beams might direct vessels and store surplus energy for storms or outages.
The text argues that if Germany defaults on debts, Britain will follow and reparations may fail. It warns continuing the illusion of international debt risks social upheaval and the loss of reparations and debts beyond repair.
The New Britain Herald notes growing scarcity of Irish harps and reports several instruments recently selling for $500 each. A playful quip about language of flowers contrasts with an old gardener’s nicknames, reflecting local humor.
American physicians at the twelfth annual meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease say no cure exists for infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum, popular last summer, shows no proven efficacy yet. many experts still administer it, hoping for potential benefit.
Fashionable pattern No. 865 offers a sheer woollen dress with slender shoulder narrows and wrap over bodice. It features nickel buttons and belt buckle, requires a few yards of material and a sewing machine, priced 25 cents.
Dalhousie University president Carleton W. Stanley warns of a decline in Canadian educational standards over recent years. He attributes this to swelling enrollments at universities and high schools, understaffing, and rising costs for buildings and facilities.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports the international wheat and flour movement from Aug 1 to Dec 17 as satisfactory. World shipments in the first 20 weeks of the cereal year totaled 309 million bushels versus 311 million the previous year, with tariffs quotas and other barriers in Europe noted but movement remains encouraging amid ample domestic supplies and rapidly moving surplus stocks.
Pattern order notice from Winnipeg newspaper lists address 175 McDermot Ave and requests pattern number and size. The fragment notes patterns available and how to specify order details.
Plans by Manitoba Premier Bracken and prairie governments seek to flood a vast northwest basin to store moisture. A proposed Great Lakes sized barren lands lake would divert Mackenzie and Coppermine flows into Saskatch ewan and Manitoba lakes, with a canal to speed Dauphin River water to Lake Winnipeg. Government inquiries and a 12000 dollar appropriation mark early study, while the plan faces no firm cost estimates yet.
Ottawa acts to shield bacon from many empire regions with a protective tariff aimed at boosting empire trade. Experts doubt Ireland can become a market for Canadian bacon. Ireland remains a top bacon producer, while Canadian bacon prices have fallen from 40–50 cents to about 10 cents per pound as exports rise.
Regulations for control and prevention of trachoma in Saskatchewan are expected to be inaugurated soon after approval at a provincial public health council meeting in Regina. The move forms part of broader changes to communicable disease controls. current rules last revised in 1923.
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