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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1923
Page
5
Practical guidance on handling clover and alfalfa hay to prevent leaf loss and ensure quality. Emphasizes coil drying, timely raking, and small coils for better airflow, plus notes on mixing with grasses like western rye for easier storage and higher quality hay.
The text recounts diverse beliefs about celestial events and spirits such as the sun walking across the sky wearing sandals, a dragon playing with pears during rain, lightning guiding thunder, an eclipse caused by a dragon swallowing the sun, and a rainbow that may eat children. It also notes that flowers are homes of wicked spirits and that the South Sea Islands rely on timber from Brick Columbis mills for trading posts and quarters as ships arrive in knocked-down form.
During April 1923 Saskatchewan construction began with a total value of 500081 dollars. Brick buildings accounted for 26000 dollars, residential 21200 dollars, commercial 56000 dollars and the remaining balance was industrial.
Sir Arthur Holbrook told the Royal Society in London that coal smoke harms health, economy, and aesthetics. He urged limiting houses to one smoke producing fire and enacting effective laws to end the nuisance. He noted historical indignation and blamed sulphurous acids from coal for building damage. He forecast gas or electric fuel could banish smoke from districts.
A rough man shouts at a man about being raised in a barn. The accused apologizes and recalls his own upbringing, ending with the distressed reply that being raised in a barn makes him homesick every time an ass brays.
The Ottawa report lists 1922 milk butter creamer output by province, comparing to 1821 figures. Ontario leads with 4 050 941 Ibs, Manitoba 1 861 297 Ibs, Alberta 2 126 867 Ibs, and British Columbia 99 115 Ibs, with other provinces Nova Scotia 165 076 Ibs, New Brunswick 201 798 Ibs, Quebec 66 801 Ibs, Prince Edward Island 165 076 Ibs.
A Boston Transcript quotation highlights a biting retort about cheerful workers and the value of singing at work. The remark reveals humor around labor and social expectations, touching on feminine resilience in a public dialogue.
A voyage across the Pacific crosses the 180th meridian causing a day to be lost westward and added eastward. The piece recounts a Seattle reporter’s mistaken claim of a new record, notes the Fortitude of Russia’s continued record, and explains mean solar time and sidereal time. Commander A J Hosken receives French medals for rescuing the Hsin Tien crew in 1921.
A historical sketch traces early attempts to conquer the air from birds to balloons, noting crude experiments and balloon progress leading to modern airships inspired by Zeppelins and the initial success of helicopters.
Word from China says the Northern Construction Company of Vancouver and Winnipeg has secured a contract to build 1,200 miles of railway from Canton to Chengtu. Vice President C. V. Cumming, who just returned, will not confirm or deny. If Sun Yat Sen Government arranges financing, the project is believed to proceed.
The House of Commons debated Hon W. R. Motherwell's resolution to amend the Primary Act to allow importation manufacture and sale of renovated butter in Canada. Opposition argued it would create a new industry while supporters saw it as a cheap bread spread bridging creamery butter and oleomargarín.
The Hamilton Spectator reports Thomson, once head of Scotland Yard, comparing English car taxes to U S conditions. England imposes a $5 per horsepower annual tax, making a Ford about 110 dollars yearly, plus gasoline at 50 to 60 cents a gallon, pricing cars out of reach for the poor and forcing chauffeurs for city parking.
Manitoba road spending this year will total 556000. Hon. Wick Clubb announces provincial 273000, Dominion 60000, and municipalities 223500. No major highway projects planned. funds earmarked for linking short segments and repairing bad spots. In France a baby may not receive solid food before age one unless a doctor prescribes.
The heirs of many prominent English estates travel to Oxford University for a special agricultural course. Leaders and beneficiaries seek practical farming instruction and land management knowledge to sustain ancestral holdings.
A Palestine report notes stalled talks between Jaffa authorities and Mr Rutenberg over a Palestine electric power concession. Tel Aviv works progress is blocked by local opposition seen as political. In Canada, prairie proponents push a Hudson Bay route via Sindsems, arguing vast pre-committed funds and land sales support the project while noting navigational feasibility and cost reductions.
Immigration data show 39,417 entrants to Canada in the first five months of 1922 ending May, a 41 percent increase from the same period of the previous war. British entrants up 10 percent from last year, U S arrivals grow monthly with 2,079 in May vs 642 in January, though US totals still lag 1922 figures. When the worst comes to the worst it is up to us to make the best of it.
Revelers in the Yukon gathered outdoors at midnight to greet the sun as daylight lasted around the clock. An estimated 15 000 to 26 600 tourists traveled from coast cities and beyond to witness the phenomenon of the land of the midnight sun.
The Canadian Co operative Wool Growers Ltd reports contracts received from Saskatchewan and Manitoba breeders totaling about 170000 pounds of wool. More than 21609 sheep are covered, with roughly 325 contracts on record by June 1, 1922, exceeding prior filled amounts.
In a witty Petrolia Adver tiser Topic item the note questions why the Prince of Wales remains unmarried, suggesting his fondness for steeplechasing outpaces interest in pursuing a wife.
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