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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1938
Page
2
The piece argues Western Canada should adopt a national program to rebalance the economy. It urges measures to boost domestic demand for farm products, diversify agriculture, develop by products and allied industries, and foster co ordinated public and private action to sustain a self reliant, prosperous rural and industrial mix.
Officials describe a rapid first week air war plan to ground bombers with a knockout blow. Smoke screens would be deployed from generators around the city to hinder low altitude raids as part of A RP camouflage efforts with the RAF.
A glass train shown in London uses glass passenger coaches with all walls ceilings floors and fittings made of glass. The exterior is covered by 100 000 tiny mar gers. The display weighs 42 pounds and highlights the world’s largest sapphire valued at 20000 dollars. It is a white sapphire. if blue its value would be incalculable.
Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Cut in shortening. Add milk to form a soft dough. Knead briefly and roll to 4 inch thickness. Bake at 450 F for 16 to 20 minutes. Split, spread with butter and raspberries, top with remaining berries and whipped cream. Serves 8 to 10. Strawberries may also be used.
Cream butter and sugar, add egg, beat. Alternate flour and milk until smooth. Bake in small muffin pans at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. Yield twelve muffins.
Golden Fleece Australia will erect a life size bronze Merino ram statue on Mount Panorama near Bathurst New South Wales. Designed by a Sydney Technical College official the project costs will be shared by the Grazier's Association and the Sheep Breeders' Association with wool exports in 1936 37 valued at £62 504 567 about 250 million dollars.
England reportedly sustains more than 35 000 dramatic societies, equating to about one society for every thousand residents, reflecting a rich, small-group theatre culture across the nation.
The Pacific division of the AAAS heard Prof. Fritz Zwicky describe a super nova found last August at Palomar Observatory. The star, 60 miles wide and 6,000,000 tons per cubic inch, shone up to 400,000,000 times brighter than the sun at peak and now remains a collapsed neutron star. Zwicky links it to tests of general relativity and notes surface temperatures possibly in the hundreds of thousands of degrees.
At the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove New York Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks wed in a plain Quaker rite before about 200 guests. The ceremony reflected traditional Quaker practice with a silent span and a spoken pledge followed by a signed wedding certificate.
In a northern town a protection league for hen pecked husbands forms and elects a man named George as president. During the first meeting a tall stern woman storms the hall, grabs George by the collar, and demands he go home declaring he is not henpecked.
An oil well near Bakersfield California reaches 15004 feet depth about three miles. Oil now flows from it at 2800 barrels per day 117600 gallons amid four days of operation marking it as the world's deepest well.
An article warns that diarrhoea and enteritis were leading causes of infant deaths in Canada from 1925 to 1929. It explains house flies carry germs and contaminate food. urges covering milk and bottles, cleaning refuse, and screening openings. It promotes Wilson's Fly Pads as a preventive measure against summer epidemics and irritation.
An international agreement governs exhibitions and restricts them to occur once every six years. The next international exhibition cannot occur until 1941 under this treaty.
France will publish all customs notices in Esperanto in addition to French. The change aims to help international traders read official notices more easily and standardize communication across borders. No dates or agencies are specified.
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