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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 10, 1929
Page
4
A Canadian Bulletin from Toronto’s Public Health urges cautious sun exposure and basic first aid for vacationers. It prescribes modest sun time, preventive measures against bites and poison ivy, and a compact emergency medical kit with bandages gauze tincture iodine ammonia and other items. It advises mosquito repellents and netting, and emphasizes rest and shaded leisure to avoid burnout.
A root disease called Take-All damages cereal crops especially wheat and to lesser extents barley and rye. It forms large patches, blights young seedlings, and causes heading-stage symptoms of stunted bleached plants with brown lower leaves and shriveled kernels. Crop rotations are advised to avoid wheat after sensitive grasses and to use nonhost crops like oats in following year.
Prairie provinces of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta are famed for vast grain and farm crops. Their forest reserves hold about a quarter of national forest resources including one third of pulpwood. Eighty seven mills operate with over five million dollars annual gross output. A new Manitoba pulp and paper mill on federal lands employs 400 full time workers.
The manager of the Canada Colonization Association is appointed manager of the Colonization Finance Corporation of Canada Limited. This follows advice from the Dominion Mortgage and Investments Association on a new plan for settling privately owned lands in Western Canada. Mr Herzer serves in a joint role, bringing CCA settlement experience to the new corporation, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific's Department of Colonization and Development.
An account describes Arab hospitality where a murderer who flees to the victim’s father may be spared if offered coffee. In Cairo, a bereaved father refused vengeance after recognizing the killer hiding among relatives, saying the guest had been served coffee and must be treated as a guest.
A bulletin by Miss Isabella Preston from the Dominion Experimental Farms outlines propagating herbaceous perennials by seed as a thrifty method for next year's border. It advises a shady seed bed, fine surface soil, lightening heavy soil with sand, and four feet wide beds of any length. The guide, detailing suitable perennials for Canadian gardens, is available from Ottawa's Publications Branch.
The dentist will take only an impression for my new plates. You won’t have to come with me. I don’t need your help. Her husband insists he wants to see her with her mouth full of plaster in silence for ten minutes.
A writer questions why heads often calls when a coin is tossed at game start. An old experiment with four pennies tracked 3,000 tosses showing about 51 heads to 49 tails. The penny’s center of gravity favors the heads side, which may influence results.
The piece argues Canada cannot align with the Pan-American Union without risking clashes with British Commonwealth interests. It stresses Canada’s special nationality does not break historic ties, likening it to family members forming separate homes without severing bonds.
The New York Times reports that last year Fisher Body Corpora tion used lumber enough to construct a city of eight-room frame houses large enough for more than 250000 people, highlighting the scale of wartime materials use by the GM body maker.
An expedition aboard the steamer Winona sails to Hamilton Inlet Labrador to collect thirty million tons of lime shells for conversion into poultry feed. The vessel will return with 30,000 tons to Portsmouth New Hampshire for a local firm, backed by St John’s Newfoundland businessmen. Additional shipments are planned to Sorel Quebec.
The piece treats the horse as a vehicle with four legs acting as wheels and three forward speeds the walk trot and gallop. It notes the engine in the body center the hood seat for the driver and a rumble seat in rear. It humorously covers fuel water lubrication and common faults like stalled gears and dropped nails, ending with parking on an acre or two of land.
The text extols initiative as the main driver of enterprise, pairing it with judgment as a powerful force. It divides people into four classes from self-starters who act without prompting to those who wait for repeated orders, noting the latter's lack of value unless they come from wealthy lineage.
More than 2,000 people sang in the Royal York convention hall while hundreds watched from the lobby and 1,000 were turned away as Gideon officials formally presented 1,400 Bibles to hotel management for placement in guest rooms.
The article notes meerschaum emerges from the ground in a soft, soap like state before processing. It describes the initial texture and form of the mineral as it is first extracted.
Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, Pulitzer prize winner, extols fishing as a reprieve from work. The piece highlights Nova Scotia salmon, New Brunswick and British Columbia guides, Laurentian trout, Nipigon brook trout, Devils Gap Camp near Winnipeg, Banff fishing, and Lake Minnewanka whitefish, urging office boys to fish and prosper.
Six guiding traits for rising social standing include unselfishness and consideration for others, sincere friendliness to all ages, adaptability to diverse settings, an unassuming manner, a controlled tongue free of gossip, and trustworthiness to keep confidences. These thresholds encourage respectful, reliable interactions.
Town planners in Alberta expand feasibility to farm planning. Farmers may receive expert advice for house and barn plans and overall farm layout to improve efficiency and use of land.
The federal government has decided to use Tyndall stone for the Saskatoon building costing 250000 dollars and for the Calgary project valued at 500000 dollars. The announcements set a concrete material choice for the two federal structures.
Dialogue between two people about using a hot water bottle. One asks if the item heats with hot water, the other recalls filling it with water but it failed to warm. The exchange notes a failed heating attempt.
Ottawa reports award of a contract for Western Canada air mail and the move to inaugurate the air mail route. The change promises faster business mail, stronger east west links, and broader aviation opportunities for freight and passenger travel across the Dominion. Regina Leader.
The article notes how the term marshal rose from German roots meaning horse servant to a master of ceremonies and later commander of armies. It traces the word’s evolution through French usage from mareschal to marshal reflecting social ascent.
English born New Zealand farmer Mr James Lobb turns seventy while on his sixth world tour. He credits Canada with wheat gains over New Zealand but says butter wool and meat lag. He praises Britain’s living conditions and jokes about records and speech.
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