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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 21, 1936
Page
5
A bulletin from Ontario superintendent Hartley D. McNairn warns that farm fires cause greater losses than insurance claims, urging fire-resistive roofs spark arresters and proper heating, chimneys, threshing safety, and water supplies to reduce risk across rural homes and barns.
A Montreal group reviews a nationwide plan led by Charles Stewart and Mervin Brown to boost building activity and employment under the Dominion Housing Act. The Prosperity Housing Association aims to organize committees, recruit builders, set construction standards, and coordinate financing and administration for new homes.
Professor T. J. Starker of Oregon State College names the tallest tree as a 364 foot redwood on North Dyerville Flat in Humboldt state park California. He also cites the General Sherman tree in California as the largest living thing by wood volume at 600 120 board feet capable of building over one hundred five room cottages.
A fashion writer notes women in Paris are adopting coats made from banana skins with bananas cited as a parallel trend. The quirky observation highlights sustainable or novelty fashion ideas circulating in the city.
Karl B McEachron a veteran high voltage experimenter in Denver explains that lightning can strike the same place multiple times even up to forty times though it appears as a single stroke. He offers practical safety tips during storms advising against standing under trees sitting on radiators bathing or using phones in country areas and avoiding electrical appliances or fireplaces.
Britain's famed Nautical House in Limehouse ends a 125 year run. Seafarers knew the shop for sextants and marine gear. Dickens reportedly sat there in 1846 to research pawnshop material, as tales from London’s Chinatown shade the shuttered doors.
Nevada now has an automobile for every 2.9 inhabitants, marking a rise in the importance of fathers in car statistics as they figure prominently in ownership trends.
Searle Grain Co. Bulletin notes the 2000th anniversary of Horace and credits Virgil Varro and Ovid with agrarian works. It highlights Roman practical farming ideas from 99 B.C. to 1 A.D., including seed quality, breeds, plowing, weed control, farm management, and the value of farming as honorable work.
An account recalls a royal tea method during a Sandringham shoot. The King disputes a guest’s cold tea method and declares his cold tea recipe uses cold water and twelve hours steeping, then milk and sugar to taste, to yield tea fit for a king. He keeps a ready tea setup in his dressing room.
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