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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1935
Page
2
A Regina riot over relief camp leaders left one dead and about a hundred injured as police moved to arrest them. The piece urges strict driver discipline, law obedience, and safety focus to cut highway deaths amid widespread auto accidents in Ontario and across Canada.
Toronto youth John Darch, 17, forms visible welts on his skin when a stick is drawn across his body. The marks appear like writing on a blackboard and fade with pressure and time.
A historical note mocks a line about asking a policeman for knowledge, contrasting with modern curious questions. It describes tasks given to Metropolitan recruits to answer in one hour, listing a range from hire purchase and ship buoyancy to fire speed, plumbing, and cricket terms.
Regina optometrist and amateur astronomer H. S. McClung and visitors viewed sun spots on a clear day. The sun’s disk measures about 850000 miles, with three or four spots near one edge and a large one on the opposite side as cyclonic disturbances resemble earthly whirlwinds. The activity started two years ago and is expected to last about nine more years, with some linking sun spots to weather and northern lights displays.
The Geological Survey funds a drought section study with 80 senior engineering students from Saskatchewan University in 16 modern motor trucks. Twenty sub parties led by a graduate engineer will survey about 100000 square miles in southern Saskatchewan and southeast Alberta under Dr. B R Mackay.
Advertises D D D Prescription as a fast acting antiseptic for eczema pimples bites and rashes. Claims forty years of worldwide success with gentle oils that soothe inflamed skin and dry clear non greasy quickly. Teases trial at any store with a money back tease attributed to the Italian Bala owners.
Fashion feature highlights a sleeveless dress with a raglan sleeved jacket in sky blue shantung and navy dotted shantung. Also shown in prints and linens, with sizes 14 to 40 bust. pattern 15c, mail orders to Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for a Summer Fashion Book at 15 cents.
A trailer carrying three lions broke from a circus truck in Dallas Texas. It crashed into a ditch and jolted the cage door open. Police found the three lions calmly seated inside the cage with the door ajar.
A Birmingham report notes that seventy of every hundred unemployed men in 1931 found jobs, signaling a significant improvement in the city’s labor market with further recovery expected.
The Fairey Fantome, described as the heaviest armed air fighter, will be shown at Hendon for the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. It mounts four machine guns on the lower wings and fuselage, plus a 20 millimeter quick firing gun with a 60 shell magazine aimed through the propeller hub. The craft, expected to reach 250 mph, was built in Britain to compete in the Belgian international fighting plane competition in July.
Hon. R. B. Hanson announced funds for an essay competition in Australia among secondary school pupils to promote learning about Canada. The winner will receive a trip to Canada, following a prior successful Australian run. The winning pupil is now on a trip to Canada.
Researchers report seaweed can form an effective insulation when tightly packed. A half inch seaweed mat outperforms a twelve inch brick wall in blocking cold and sound while weighing only a quarter as much. Sylvania lies about 100 miles southeast of Prince Albert.
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