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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 21, 1921
Page
4
Agricultural representatives praise school fairs for improving farm production and farm life. Fairs organize prize lists and programmes, attract youths from 4 course clubs and nonmembers, and encourage agriculture teaching in public schools. A sports program often accompanies events.
Manitoba proposes higher teaching qualifications with Grade 12 as minimum for second class teachers and longer normal training. A delegation urged extending professional training for teachers to improve education. Dr. Thornton, the education minister, promised to consider the request as Grade 11 is current minimum and normal training lasts nine months.
Lieut R H Unwin formerly of the Royal Field Artillery led examinations at McGill School of Agriculture. The English native earned first class honors in 17 of 22 subjects and second class in the rest. He served in France Belgium and Germany and after demobilization joined the Soldier Settlement Board in Canada. He plans to farm this summer and buy a farm next year under the board.
The University of Chicago Oriental Institute will excavate the Armageddon site with a $60 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. Thothines II of Egypt allegedly clashed with Palestine and Syria around 1479 B.C. Dr. James Henry Breasted will oversee the expedition.
Prairie dealers estimate fifty five million pounds of binder twine will be needed this harvest season, more than double 1920 usage. United Grain Growers reports sales of three and a half million pounds already and orders piling up as the main season nears. Last year the organization moved ten million pounds.
Oil interests surge in Northern Manitoba with R C Wallace predicting promising development. A Dominion Geological Survey party operates in the region, Norton McMillan Syndicate drills the district, and Pas Development and Exploration Company with 2 million dollars capital seeks 3200 acre leases to drill.
Plans advance for the erection of a large wireless receiving station in Montreal owned and operated by the Marconi Wireless Company of Canada.
A Winnipeg hemp demonstration by Col. William Grassie proves hemp can be grown in Western Canada and a new machine converts stalks into marketable fibre. Grown at Manitoba Agricultural College, the hemp lay under snow all winter and can be made into rope or linen.
Vital Statistics Canada reports 1920 birth rate 27.47 per thousand, death rate 13.31, and marriage rate 894 per thousand. Quebec records the highest birth and death rates, followed by New Brunswick. B C and the Prairies have the lowest. Dominion totals: 247,219 births, 80,472 marriages, 119,827 deaths.
Two powerful colored stevedores at a St Louis dock quarrel over unloading a vessel. They exchange threats and jests about murder and violence as they pass with their trucks. One man asks if the dead can speak, framing the row as a strange challenge to science.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegram item recalls a church scene where a man refuses to donate to missions. A collector pressures him to take money from the bag, insisting the funds serve the heathen, prompting a tense moral moment.
A small article is cut down to fit and then welded onto base metal to imitate gold. The practice called new German industry misleads buyers and damages the market for true gold goods.
Vancouver Island hosts superb fishing and hunting with Cowichan River and Campbell River drawing royalty and anglers alike. The Campbell River boasts August king salmon runs to sixty pounds, thunderous rapids, and dramatic falls, while authorities tackle commercial gear threats to BC’s fisheries. N. de Bertrand Seguin notes the need for preservation and sober regulation.
Vincent A Danielski of Chicago, rep of Union Liberty Company a $7,000,000 group guiding Polish welfare in the United States, plans to move about 20,000 Poles to Manitoba and settle them on 30,000 acres for farming. The effort may extend into Ontario Saskatchewan and Alberta and is expected to be extensive.
The Census Bureau reports 13,224 Canadians in Seattle and 73,875 foreign born whites in the city. Spokane has 3,692 Canadians and Providence, Rhode Island lists 7,019.
Directors of the Quebec Breeding and Racing Association vote to deduct one percent of all purses run at association tracks for horse breed improvement in the province. The funds are to be remitted to the National Bureau of Breeding in Montreal.
Population of Toronto excluding suburbs is 535,600 and the city assessment reaches 800,000,000 dollars based on cobtras made to date by the civic assessors.
A shipment of twenty three Alberta horses, bought near Calgary under instructions from Duncan Marshall, Minister of Agriculture, heads to Trinidad for driving work. A second lot will bring the total to fifty head in the next days, with potential demand up to two thousand horses pending satisfactory results. An official from the provincial agriculture department travels with the group to study Trinidad and West Indies markets.
Hyde Park orator stirs crowd with fiery patriotism as he calls a dark foreigner to proclaim freedom. The man coolly replies that he came to sell cheap ready made clothing in this country, challenging the speaker’s rhetoric.
Pictures printed in dots on the Braille system represent a new aid for the blind. The technology aims to translate images into tactile dot patterns, expanding accessibility and understanding of visual content for visually impaired users.
The article notes that Spitsbergen experiences only four months of continuous daylight each year, with extended polar night dominating the remaining period. It highlights how locals adapt to long periods of darkness and rely on winter activities and energy planning during the sunless months.
George H. Hutton, Superintendent of Agriculture for the Canadian Pacific Railway, praised Marquis Wheat noting Alberta earned an extra 20 to 30 million dollars last year compared with growing the old Red Fife variety.
Two Kamloops hunters return from the Big Bend country of the Columbia River with ten bears six grizzlies two cinnamon bears and two black bears as bag limits. Each hunter claimed a limit with many skins over eight feet long and described as fine specimens.
The patriotic man favors his country and community by buying Canadian made goods and standing by his local dealer. He shows loyalty through consistent preference for domestic products and local businesses.
The German potash syndicate has petitioned the government for authority to raise domestic prices by fifty percent. The move aims to adjust costs amid economic pressures and could impact suppliers and consumers nationwide.
The newborn child of a German workman opened its eyes to find a line of female ancestors including its mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother.
A Turkish Parliament proposal would require men over 25 to marry, introducing an anti bachelor measure for public debate. The bill targets social norms and prompts scrutiny from lawmakers and critics alike.
The sense of smelt deer enables them to detect humans or wolves from about two miles away, suggesting keen olfactory awareness and predator-detection ability in arctic habitats.
John Glambeck of Queens town Alberta writes to the Farmer's Advocate about starting a tree belt from 1911 to 1913 and expanding yearly. He praises Manitoba maple green ash and Russian poplar as dependable and notes willows sometimes fail. He tends a shelter belt with lilacs an orchard of plums cherries and apples and grows berries for family use and preserves.
Airplanes were used in the latter part of last season to patrol Dominion forest reserves in the west and the experiment will continue this season. Patrols will also use horses canoes launches and rail velocipedes and on foot. Hundreds of miles of telephone lines connect lookout stations and headquarters for rapid warning. Lookout men on peaks and towers scan for smoke and dispatch firefighters immediately. Where lines are absent flag-light signalling heliographs by day lanterns by night are used. Fortunes permit the most modern methods to protect Dominion forests.
Bella Pontiac owned by T. A. Barron of Brantford Ontario has set a world record in milk production for the year ending June 18. The Holstein Freisan test reports 27,017 pounds of milk, 1,259 pounds of fat, and 1,573.75 pounds of butter, earning the cow the title of world’s record cow.
A man with a speech impediment visits a used car lot and asks the price of a car. The dealer invites offers. The stuttering customer offers four hundred, then corrects to five hundred after a stumble, and the dealer accepts.
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