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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 24, 1934
Page
6
Advertisement touts Dr Werner's Powder as a solution for loose false teeth claiming it makes dentures fit snugly without slipping. It emphasizes daily use while noting it is prescribed by world dentists and available at drugstores.
Provisional leader Getulio Vargas wins election to become the first constitutional president of Brazil's second republic. Britain and the United States pause bilateral talks ahead of the 1935 naval conference for the summer. Global disarmament efforts plan a renewed push in September. A Dursley England firm offers a week’s full pay holiday to 2000 construction workers.
A Canadian Press letter to J L A McLaughlin, painter engineer satirist, says New York is a ghostly city of masks and shadows. Homesick, he returns from Tahiti after gathering material for a South Seas book and plans to sail his 40 ton ketch back to a place “where people are themselves.” He notes Tahiti natives and whites alike shed affectations, becoming natural or unnatural as you prefer.
A seventy year old woman in Crewe England has handmade two thousand garments for people without work. She started sewing before she began singing and shares the effort to aid others during difficult times.
Harrison P. Eddy of Boston, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, spoke at the opening session of the four day joint convention with the Engineering Institute of Canada in Vancouver. He praised the Institute and urged closer cooperation between the two bodies as civil engineers from across North America gathered.
A sewing pattern description promotes a youthful girdle with cap sleeves and jabot slip front openings to guide striped fabric in opposing directions. It suggests fabric options from multicolored seersucker to striped shirting cotton and linens with nautical color contrasts. Pattern No. 988 fits sizes 14 to 40 bust inches and costs 20 cents in stamps or coins.
The article explains how plants make essential compounds such as cellulose and starch in the green leaf through photosynthesis. It describes raw materials carbon dioxide water and minerals, chlorophyll and sunlight as energy, and notes the global dependence of life on this process from food to fuels.
Chocolate ice box cake recipe yields eight servings. Ingredients include unsweetened chocolate sugar salt hot water egg yolks vanilla egg whites whipped cream and lady fingers. Prepare chocolate custard fold into whites and cream then layer with lady fingers in mold and chill 12 to 24 hours. Optional walnuts can be added to the mixture.
A fruitade recipe uses crushed pineapple or juice, orange juice, water sugar and lemon juice served very cold. Also noted is a Dominion Agriculture branch warning that two Dutch pests the gold tailed moth and black vine weevil were kept from entering Canada this spring.
The lesson centers on Kings chapter 22 with the devotional reading from Psalm 119 verses 9 to 16. It emphasizes obedience to God and the principle of speaking what the Lord directs as seen in the kingly narrative.
In alliance with Jehoshaphat, Ahab seeks to reclaim Ramoth Gilead from Syria after a failed pledge of restoration. Four hundred prophets claim victory for Israel while Micaiah predicts doom, and Ahab is slain by a chance arrow as Ramoth Gilead falls.
An Irishman fled after breaking a house window and was caught by the proprietor who asks if he broke it. He replies he did and explains he was running home for money to pay. A separate note reports the rhododendron white fly found in nurseries near Vancouver and Victoria, B C, marking Canada’s first pest record with eradication efforts started.
An appeal for 20000 pounds seeks to build a Mesopotamian Memorial Church in Baghdad. Signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Francis Humphrys and others, the plan honors 41115 British wartime dead and would include a memorial shrine with a book bearing names. The current church, a former Turkish guardhouse since 1921, faces demolition due to town planning and a new steel bridge over the Tigris. The British community in Baghdad, about 400 strong, supports a permanent church on an acquired site.
A humorous dialogue snippet asks why a red headed girl always marries a quiet fellow and answers that she does not. the man simply grows quiet over time. The quip plays on quieting a lively partner rather than matchmaking.
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