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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 14, 1931
Page
6
A sensational health ad promises acne relief and clearer complexions by flushing toxins with Kruschen Salts. It claims minerals restore the body and improve appearance, urging readers to take the product every morning in hot water.
The winter cruise of H.M.C.S. Vancouver began January 26 visiting Pacific ports. RCA predicts television as a commercial proposition within five years. Canada to exhibit art at Buenos Aires British Empire Trade Exposition in March and April 1931. Deer pests in parts of New Zealand prompt extermination debate and remedies. Mansion House in London vacant since 1753 for modernization. A transcontinental highway route from Alaska to Argentina is being protected by governments and clubs. Saskatchewan fish catch estimated at 10,000,000 pounds annually with about 1,400 workers employed. Elk reintroduction planned for Queen Charlotte Islands wild lands. Kenora Fire Department named best in Ontario for towns under 25,000. Galt and Sturgeon Falls noted in rankings.
Flowerpot Island in Georgian Bay has been turned over to Canada’s national parks branch. Located at the north end of the Bruce Peninsula the site is named for two rock formations resembling flowerpots carved by sea erosion. Parks staff will reinforce the structures as their bases erode from wave action.
Professor W. F. Hess of Vienna reports discovering a ray from Milky Way stars that pierces eighty inches of lead with only half its strength lost, claiming it is ten times as penetrative as the strongest radium ray.
A Montreal scientist claims global noise is excessive but omits the loudest sound of all. The ticking clock in a store that does not advertise is noted as an unseen ambient fixture.
Saskatchewan government calculations show the Crows Nest rates to Churchill on the Hudson Bay Railway cut wheat shipping costs by about 12.24 cents per bushel from Saskatchewan. Savings vary by city, from Regina to Alsask, with reductions around 19 to 21 cents per 100 pounds. The province plans to file the tariff with Ottawa after schedules are compiled.
A Readlyn farm owned by Thomas Powley yields oil with water, a greasy phase that ignites when separated, and fossil leaves embedded in sandstone. P Bridger notes near perfect leaves. valley ancient forest suggested. Mud geysers occur at eight or nine spots near the CPR line. drilling requests to Readlyn townsite await permission.
The Swedish state railways planted more than 5,000 fruit bearing trees and bushes last year and nearly 200,000 in total, making the government railroad board the largest gardening establishment in Sweden. Trees are tended by railroad employees.
The Regina Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition board authorizes the building committee to proceed with plans for the new grain exhibition building for the World Grain Exhibition and Conference scheduled in 1932. A mosquito in northern Montana is noted for fat storage habits. History notes 1831 chloral discovery by Leibig and Soubeiran. Ancient amethyst color linked to manganese. A London show rabbit valued at $5,000.
Devotional lesson on John the Baptist preaching baptism for repentance in the wilderness. Focuses on purification through baptism, contrasts John’s preaching with church practice, and outlines fruits worthy of repentance. Includes John’s harsh rebuke to Pharisees and the message of judgment and renewal.
An initiative seeks a long lease of a small lake from the Provincial Government to stock with commercial fish such as whitefish and lake trout. The aim is to supply the general market with fresh water fish ready three to four years after stocking.
Five miles from Juiz de Fora, Brazil, a new automatic hydroelectric plant began operation after a Brazilian official closed a substation switch. Turbines have run without on site attendants since opening. A letter from the supplier questions unpaid funds, and the client replies that money has not been dispatched from their end.
The 1929 fisheries product value reached 53,518,521 dollars, reflecting the year’s total production. This figure highlights the sector’s economic scale in Canada during that period.
Victor Hills of Thornton Heath writes a tribute praising Carter's Little Liver Pills for constipation and related ailments. He states the treatment improved his health and life quality, and notes the product is sold by all druggists.
A Cranbrook syndicate develops a granite quarry four miles west of Cranbrook along the Canadian Pacific right of way. A summer trial shipment impressed buyers, prompting plans for more. Six grades exist with blacks and greens in strongest demand. the stone polishes well and resembles imported Scandinavian stone used for tombstones, tabletops, fireplaces, veneer and building uses.
Bulmans Limited reports strong demand for five pound tins of dehydrated apples shipped to Batavia Java. An order for three times the original quantity has been booked amid high satisfaction. Soviet Russia population estimated at 150060000.
Scientists Waclaw Szymanowski and Robert Hicks report that potent diphtheria toxin loses strength when exposed to specific short electric wavelengths 1.9 and 3.76 meters at 158 million and 80 million cycles per second. The finding, shared with the Society of American Bacteriologists, links radio waves to toxin reduction. England’s 1801 census noted 8,893,000 population.
The Industrial Development Board of Manitoba reports a special committee finding two new local industries. Manitoba will manufacture frames for hives and also comb foundations and honey extractors, reducing reliance on eastern imports. The note adds manganese’s historic use as a coloring matter.
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