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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1937
Page
4
A Cape Town educationist predicts handwriting will be a vanished art in 50 years as typists’ legible, rapid scripts replace its copperplate. He notes illegibility rises with importance, while opinions differ on handwriting as a character guide, and laments the era of convenience over craft.
The Sark Channel Islands state prison opens to host Arthur Baker a postman charged with stabbing his wife as the third inmate in a century. The miniature fortress with a barrel roof has windows too small for bars and records mention a deserter as the first tenant and a later female prisoner who sobbed and sat on the doorstep while friends knitted nearby.
High priests at Sasa Buddhist Temple Tokio conducted solemn prayers for the souls of 100000 bullfrogs sacrificed for experimental purposes in the past year. The ceremonies reflect belief that all things possess souls or spiritual qualities.
A concise note states that snow blindness can affect both animals and people, highlighting the shared vulnerability to bright, reflective snow glare.
Hollywood crash expert Captain F. F. Frakes performs dramatic plane and car crashes across United States fair circuits. He pilots aging planes to 2000 feet then dives into a house, clips wings, and emerges as ground crews battle fires. Army tests use castor oil flares at Muroc Lake to brighten bombardment during night missions.
The Roman tribune Gaius Gracchus in 146 B.C. began farm relief by distributing grain to the poor. He supplied a bushel and a quarter per month at half price at government expense.
The global human population is rising at an approximate rate of 1 percent annually. This steady increase reflects ongoing demographic expansion and its potential implications for resources, development, and environment.
Miss E Cora Hind of Winnipeg Free Press says the drive to self sufficiency marked by a two year world tour to 27 countries will persist while war clouds hang over Europe. She notes evidence in Europe and South America.
In mid ocean, the moon's gravity lifts surface water by two to three feet, creating tides. This gravitational pull causes bulges on opposite sides of the planet, shaping daily sea levels and coastal tides.
A barber with prior convictions burglarized the Totteridge home of Lord Hewart the lord chief justice. He left fingerprints on a typewriter after using gloves, prompting Scotland Yard to identify him. He received an 18 month sentence in Hertfordshire.
The Osaka temple, vacant after the Hironomichi sect suppression, sold for 150000 dollars to a local scrap iron merchant. About 3000 iron dealers gathered and bid hoping to resell the massive framework to the navy for profit.
Sunbeams passing across a dusty circus ring pose hazards for acrobatic riders as horses often attempt to hurdle them.
Caledonia's first trans Atlantic experimental flight nears Botwood Newfoundland with vivid local place names. Route options include Bonavista Bay Notre Dame Bay and Fortune Harbor while a future base at Gander Lake sits 50 miles south of Botwood on the main railway line.
The London Morning Post argues that class remains entrenched in Soviet Russia with a new aristocracy within the Communist Party and a privileged elite, while France’s Revolution failed to create a classless society. It warns that efforts to abolish class could lead to chaos if attempted elsewhere.
English radio listeners were startled by a news bulletin declaring King William IV in ill health, with prime minister and Archbishop of Canterbury alerted. BBC later explained the overrun play London Calling 1837 caused the message, noting no royal death was imminent.
Captain Herbert Burns of Chicago commands 125 policemen to weed the station lawn daily. Sergeant Michael Noonan confirms the routine as officers prepare for duty with the requested weed in hand.
The tally of motor vehicles operating in China including Manchoukuo reaches nearly 58,000, reflecting growing vehicle use across the region. The figure combines counts from national and regional areas, illustrating expanding transportation activity amid the era.
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