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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 15, 1935
Page
4
Prices of farm products rose about 15 percent in 1934 versus 1933 with 1934 showing swings around 40 percent below 1926 averages. Potatoes fell 17 percent while a farm purchase price index rose about 5 percent, boosting purchasing power though not fully offsetting higher living costs.
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings reports several mills preserved in Britain this year. Charley Mill in Sussex is restored and used as a dwelling linked to a cripple home. Outwood Mill in Surrey gains sails from a demolished Norfolk mill. Old Moreton Mill in Essex is watertight and repainted. A newly found 1571 dated Sark tower mill challenges Bours Mill as the oldest in the British Isles.
The Redipuglia cemetery in Italy holds 30,000 fallen from World War I, with 24,000 unidentified graves. The site lacks traditional monuments, using aeroplane propellors, trench mortars, sick kitchens, artillery pieces, rifles with fixed bayonets, tin helmets, and an anti aircraft searchlight as markers.
The Toronto meteorological bureau states it will not predict exact weather ranges for 1935. John Patterson explains forecasts are reliable only 24 hours ahead and 48 hours ahead cannot always be trusted. He notes old predictions based on tree bark or animal hair are of interest but not definitive. Ground conditions in February offer little clue to winter’s end.
A Dutch headmaster uses an air liner to teach geography. Pupils sit with maps and earphones while the geography master narrates features of the countryside below from the cockpit. Each flight covers a pre arranged Netherland section and students learn with heightened enthusiasm.
A huge map of the United States is being manufactured in Wellesley Massachusetts. Experts have completed about one third of the project and it will measure 63 feet long and 46 feet wide when finished. It will depict every valley and mountain to scale and show the Earth's curvature.
A vast desert in Chinese Turkestan covers 300 008 square miles and is so arid that no humans birds animals or plants can survive within its borders.
Lord Dorchester of England praised Toronto's Royal Winter Fair as a vast project with unmatched housing and diverse exhibits. He noted the flower show rivaled Chelsea and the education and exchanges among breeders and agriculturists spanned from ministers to bootblacks, stating he learned much from the experience.
After years of slow work the Groosgrockner Highway in the Austrian Alps is being rushed to finish by fall next year. It will cross the Groosglockner range and peak at Edelweiss mountain with an 8,000 foot high observation parking area near the Firschertoerl summit section.
Boards of review appointed under the Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act for the prairie provinces will first exhaust all efforts at conciliation before formulating mandatory proposals. A Regina conference produced a statement stressing fair re‑adjustment to keep farmers on land, with special consideration for essential debts and life necessities, and voluntary reductions in interest rates.
The piece advises on gifting cameras for birthdays and graduations, urging simplicity for youngsters with inexpensive box models and recommending pricier precision cameras for enthusiasts. It notes prices from one to five dollars up to and beyond fifty, with modern small-film cameras aimed at keeping records and enabling enlargements.
A Birmingham umbrella frame company reported a trading loss of nearly 55 dollars at its annual meeting. A stockholder lamented the trade is dead as umbrellas and parasols were unused during last summer's drought. The chairman called the session stormy yet pledged continued production of rain deflectors.
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