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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1929
Page
6
The article praises Baby's Own Soap for babies highlighting its soft soothing oils and delicate fragrance likened to roses of France. It emphasizes the soap's suitability for tender infant skin and its appeal to both baby and caregiver.
A Toronto bank official's wife Mrs 3S HO Logan was killed in an auto crash near Brantford. Canada reports a drop in Canadian liquor exports to the U S via Windsor in the prior month compared with June 1928.
A gathering of scholars from the British Empire the United States and Germany marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford. The Prince of Wales and Stanley Baldwin attended a dinner where Baldwin announced that German scholars would be admitted again with two annual German scholarships tenable for two years, subject to university consent.
The text notes many fine bananas with tender skins cannot be exported including the three inch long lady finger banana of the Canary Islands. It also highlights Phoenicians as great navigators whose ships carried Mediterranean treasures to distant lands including the British Isles in search of tin.
A New York clothier predicts radical changes in men's attire a century hence. He envisions bare legs to the knee wide shorts instead of trousers open neck jackets replaced by a combined jacket and shirt bright sandals. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes fashions may swing back to earlier looks and even 1776 styles could return.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison announced a weed that yields a latex usable for a rubber substitute after testing 15 000 varieties. The plant can be mowed like wheat and is perennial, avoiding yearly replanting though Edison’s machine to separate the substitute from the fluid remains undeveloped.
A cut one piece dress with neck to hem tucks and brief kimono sleeves requires about four seams. Pattern No. 553 in sizes 2, 4, 6 years uses 1 1/2 yards of 39 inch fabric for four year size. Various fabrics and collars offered with a 25 cent pattern price. include 10 cents for Fashion Magazine.
The piece argues the Colour Bar Act makes skilled work off limits to natives and assigns unskilled roles to them. It contends whites lose entry to skilled trades, creating “poor whites” and social parasites. It blames slavery for social stagnation and notes white resistance to labor hinders industrial progress.
Summer heat brings diarrhoea dysentery and cholera infantum as major risks for babies. The ad promotes Baby's Own Tablets from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont, 25c per box, claimed to regulate bowels and prevent or banish summer illness.
A vintage recipe for lemon crumb pudding using milk bread crumbs salt sugar egg lemon rind and juice then baked slowly. A creamy pudding sauce with powdered sugar cream and orange and lemon juice accompanies the dessert served ice cold.
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water then add cold water and chili sauce with salt. Fold in salmon or tuna, cold rice, green pepper, onion, and olives. Turn into a leaf pan and chill until firm. Unmold and slice. Serve with tart sauce. Serves 8.
In some British villages ministers still read each hymn verse aloud before the congregation sings. This tradition dates from when most worshippers could not read and persists despite widespread compulsory education.
The island of Puka in the South Seas lies 800 miles from its nearest neighbor. Its population totals 300 natives and a lone white man, marking a remote settlement with a singular European presence.
Notes recall five intervening persons at Queen Victoria’s birth. Archaeological finds suggest harp presence in prehistoric times, indicating early stringed instruments in human culture.
Wealthy Cambridge landowner John Stevens is jailed in Bedford by an Ely ecclesiastical court for allegedly failing to repair the church on his property. Lawyers seek his release as the case tests a William IV era power allowing church courts to hold civil prisoners. Stevens’s relatives repaired the church, but release hinges on a church court petition.
The Victoria Times argues a reciprocal approach to trade with Australia, noting Canada’s dollar advantage and urging Australia and Canada to swap more goods. The piece suggests increased purchases from Australia could boost mutual exchange with the Anti podes. Edwin boasts of his father’s work, while Ruth points out a book borrowed six months ago has not been returned.
J E McFadyen cites Ezekiel 47 1 12 to show how the river issuing from the sanctuary nourishes the desert with life. The devotional urges the church to carry the water of life to the world, with trees bearing twelve months of fruit and healing for hungry souls.
Premier De Rivera ordered Spanish Cross of Merit awards for the British aircraft carrier Eagle officers who rescued Commander Ramon Franco and his three companions in the mid Atlantic. Madrid hosted the ceremony. more crew may receive medals when British Admiralty provides the full list. The Eagle itself will receive the aerial medal at Algeciras or Gibraltar once the ship can be sent there.
A lone officer stops traffic to manage a busy intersection, directing pedestrians and vehicles with calm authority as the scene unfolds amid city bustle. The moment captures the public’s trust in daily policing and the quiet efficiency of routine enforcement.
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