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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1933
Page
4
The National Research Council studies two methods to prevent vapour condensates on chilled poultry. One keeps a low dew point room for warming on landing, the other warms the product on shipboard before landing. Both options aim for economical, effective control without heavy expense.
Miss Wiolet Piercy, a young London woman, ran from Windsor to Shepherds Bush totaling 26 miles 385 yards in four hours 25 minutes despite heavy rain and traffic. She aims to beat her 1926 time of three hours 40 minutes, noting the men's marathon record is two hours 35 minutes. Piercy promotes running as a slimming method while describing herself as nearly the sole female long distance runner in the country.
The Canada Gazette lists a regular tariff of port dues at Churchill with survey and inspection charges for inward shipments from 8 dollars per 1000 tons to 30 dollars for 3500 tons plus. Outward cargo includes special rates for lumber and grain, with survey fees of 8 dollars for 500000 board feet up to 30 dollars for 3 000 000 plus and 10 dollars for 1600 tons up to 50 dollars for 5000 tons.
London obituary notes the death of Anthony Hope Hawkins known as Anthony Hope. The author of The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau was born February 9 1863 in London and educated at Oxford before being knighted in 1918.
A trial at the Leipzig Fair tested radio slot vendors enabling 15 minute listens per coin. Leipzig’s central European location allowed reception from nearly twenty countries in various languages. India exported goatskins worth about 2 million dollars to the United States in the first half of 1932.
Maurice Deccbre a famed French writer suggests lips reveal nationality, praising lip-reading as practical. He describes American, Parisian, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Viennese, Hungarian, German, Brazilian lips with specific shapes and traits.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture and provincial governments run two large scale camps to suppress warble flies, one on Manitoulin Island Ontario, the other Calumet Island Quebec. Warble flies, widespread pests of cattle and occasionally humans, affect stock across Canada. The article notes prior UK migrant bird fatalities from beacon lights and describes bate perches around lighthouses to aid birds, saved by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
In London, Mr I J Simons recalled a tale from the Philatelic Congress about soldiers stranded in Archangel after the war. They sent one simple army postcard home saying they were there, addressed to The Muddlers London. The post office replied Try the War Office.
Mrs A N Dunlop wife of a Shanghai doctor studied over 300 Chinese instruments and argues the ancient sheng predates the pipe organ. She notes the sheng is built with small pipes on a gourd and wind comes through the nose. Many old instruments were labeled chin denoting music’s power to restrain passions used in religious rites.
A scheme to convert ten six wheeled railway carriages into camper accommodation was ordered by the Lon don and North Eastern alway Com pany. On July 1 the coaches were placed near wayside stations on ten branch lines. The weekly rate is about 12 50 during summer and 10 at season start and end, with full equipment provided.
A code drawn up by Premier Mussolini prohibits high hatting and silk accessories for Fascist officials. Circulated with Il Duce’s signed photo, the rules urge officials to avoid deluxe restaurants and theatres, walk when possible, and use inexpensive transport when needed.
A Canadian Co-Operative Poultry Pool shipment to the United Kingdom last winter fetched three to four cents per pound above domestic Winnipeg and Montreal prices. The movement sought to stabilize costs despite market fluctuations.
W. W. Thompson reports July 4 London wool sales up 20 percent from May, boosting Saskatchewan producers. Grading of Regina shipments 19 759 pounds to Weston Ontario shows 11 358 pounds range type bright first class, 5 429 pounds domestic type bright, 2 815 pounds domestic type semi bright with only 157 rejected. Wool this season cleaner and of excellent quality.
John Sembay, held for a year in the Halifax immigration detention shed after being arrested in Edmonton with nine others for Communistic activities, used a Gandhi like hunger strike to secure the return of his guard. He was born in western Ukraine, once part of Czarist Russia, and faced entry denial to Poland before his solitary confinement.
Joe Wright's bid to break the world motor cycle speed record at Southport halted after three runs. A man and two boys crossed the sands while he approached 125 mph, prompting whistles from stewards and a near tragedy before crowd of about 10 000. Wright abandoned the attempt as the crew surged onto the course.
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