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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1930
Page
7
A mixed excerpt combines the Castoria ad pitch urging mild medicine for infants with a dramatic backstage scene featuring Grace and Al preparing for a performance. Al battles nerves and a looming audience as Grace frets, while an ad copy promotes Persian Balm as a family remedy and beauty product.
Al Stone a singing waiter and composer is torn by loss as his son Junior dies after Molly’s Paris divorce. Grace Farrel consoles him as he rushes to perform in a Broadway revue, determined to appear despite heartbreak.
A Chicago Daily News article extols a rising new spirit of social and international values, stronger than prior hate and egoism. It notes notable recent victories and contrasts it with European dancing being rare in Japan and strict underage drinking and smoking laws.
Mrs J Cunningham of Sault Ste Marie Ontario describes a February influenza attack that left her with heart palpitations and fatigue. She began treatment and reports improvement.
A testimonial-style note praises the medicine for six boxes used with great help and gratitude. The price is 50 cents per box, available at all druggists and dealers or mailed by The T. Milburn Co. Limited of Toronto Ontario on receipt of price.
Ottawa deputy postmaster general issues a weekly bulletin detailing air mail rate changes. Commercial Airways assets new permission to carry non mail items on nonmail days with sender bearing all risk. Rates list 50 cents to 1.50 a pound across routes including Fort Chipewyan Fort Fitzgerald Fort Smith and Arctic regions. Rates subject to revision.
A. H. Miller of the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa reports measurements this year showing the polar diameter is about 25 miles shorter than the equatorial diameter. The pendulum experiment traveled to Berlin Greenwich Washington and Ottawa, revealing gravity differences that yield a precise ellipsoidal shape for the earth.
The census lists 1 station on the Canadian roster with 15 phantom stations. Changes include dropping CNRQ in Quebec and adding CNRD in Red Deer Alberta and CNRX in Toronto. Ownership spans newspapers grain brokers religious groups CN Railway radio societies universities manufacturers and private firms.
When a child shows early cold symptoms mothers should act quickly with a safe remedy. Baby's Own Tablets are touted as fast acting, non narcotic, tasteless, and easy to dose, with a testimonial from Mrs Jos Cadieux of Holyoke Massachusetts. Sold by medicine dealers or mailed for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
In the first ten months of this year 14 586 entries for 160 acre quarter sections were filed in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia an increase of 3065 from the same period last year. The total area tied to these entries is 2 293 760 acres.
A boy ignores his father’s warning and climbs a table. He falls, tears wiped, and he sobs blaming his father for not catching him. The father lifts him up and consoles him after the fall.
A traveller in Switzerland asks a hotel manager if his climbing guide is skilled. The manager boasts the guide has led two tourist parties down the mountainside with no injuries. The businessman quips about capitalization, noting a bank needs a large capital.
The article notes that Indian inhabitants used cotton cloth as wall hangings as early as the thirteenth century. It cites Minard's for the Ideal Rubdown.
The Swift Canadian Company plans an $85,000 packing plant at Brandon to handle poultry and dairy products. Construction is set to begin this spring.
An advertisement extols Minard's as a remedy for falling hair. The note mentions a Japanese gingko tree as a popular ornamental with no known disease or insect enemies.
A reflective excerpt celebrates happiness and resilience, urging readers to seize momentary joy and maintain buoyant spirit amid life’s storms. It contrasts despair with strength and calmness, echoing Celia Thaxter and Ann Gilchrist on pursuing happiness.
The article muses on a return of vintage styles such as dotted Swiss muslin dresses wide hats and parasols while acknowledging changes in modern dress and noting memories may distort the past. It preserves a playful tone about past fashions and their charm.
A remedy claims to remove corns by attacking the root to stop growth. Advertisements describe Holloway Corn Remover as effective without leaving residual growth.
Large quantities of frozen fish are being shipped from Westbourne Manitoba to all parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan by freight. The catch is reported to be the best in several years.
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