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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 25, 1923
Page
4
The Department of Agriculture distributes a pamphlet on detecting the western stem saw fly and protecting wheat and spring rye. Infested stalks show packed hollow stems with dust castings and a white larva. cut the crop before it ripens and plow infested stubble deep to protect yields.
Detective experiments with dust trace analysis led by M Locard of the Lyons Detective Bureau. Three prisoners were examined and, from dust in a paper bag, identified as a rason?, a carpenter, and a coal dealer.
The prospectus suggests passengers should be liberal in their thoughts if buses are crowded and uncomfortable. The London Punch notes that such appeal is unnecessary and mocks the idea, claiming London riders are already too liberal in their opinions.
A light exchange from the Boston Transcript notes a gardener’s joke about plants. The line contrasts promising green sprouts with troublesome weeds, illustrating humor in everyday gardening.
Markets Intelligence Division reports show top prices for cattle rising 75 cents to $1 over last year in Winnipeg for the last full week of June. Better grades of beef steers and heifers sold strongly, while plain and medium grades weakened. Yearling steers and heifers reached $9.25 per hundredweight. common steers $5.92 and common heifers $4.25. Calves mirrored gaps between best and ordinary in Toronto and Montreal trade. Demand varied with exporters and butcher buyers. overall, good quality stock sold well while mid quality dragged.
Earl Haig of Bemersyde marked his 62nd birthday born June 19 1561. The text recalls Douglas Haig’s long service from Aldershot through the Loudon Campaign Africa India and the 1915 as Commander in France. It notes his 1919 London drive his honors and the Haig marriage details with Lady Haig sister Violet Vivian serving as maids of honor to Queen Alexandra.
A discussion on whether the seventy-odd elements are truly elementary or built from simpler substances. Radium’s discovery inspires a theory that elements evolved from a less complex primordial substance in the universe as planets formed from a nebula. The decay of radioactivity is seen as analogous to elemental development.
Year to date sales at five principal markets show cattle 207,228 vs 256,671, calves 115,220 vs 126,493, hogs 502,429 vs 392,474, and sheep 7,725 vs 100,209. Cattle and hog sales rose while calves and sheep fell. hog prices declined accordingly. Total figures also show gains of cattle 63,153, calves -1,085,363, hogs 78,633, and sheep -17,645 with shifts in year over year totals.
A boss tells an applicant he is not qualified, claiming lack of business knowledge. The applicant retorts he is engaged to the boss’s stenographer, implying a personal tie. The exchange captures a sharp, tense interview moment.
Danish scientist Prof Porsiid at the Arctic Station near Golhayos reports Greenland’s climate defies cold expectations. Nine month winter followed by a blazing three month summer with almost continuous sun supports rapid plant growth and abundant wildflowers, including eighty species in bloom in June.
A Chicago packing house ordered 10,000,000 as an experiment and the seam invention proved so effective that the inventor earned a large fortune. The idea was a can with a seam just below the top that let the top come off with a strike.
A 600 foot concrete sightseeing tower will rise at Wembley near London with a searchlight bright enough to be seen from the coast of France. A spiraling cage will carry visitors to the top. The article also notes that good mothers do not learn child raising from books.
Twelve spring pigs divided into two groups received dry whole grain and ground grain by weight. Over 120 days the ground grain group consumed less feed per 100 pounds of gain, reducing feed cost by about $1.38 per hundredweight of pork produced.
The shop chief questions a boy found lounging in the packing room and awards him a week's pay for leaving. The boy quits with the money. A departmental manager reveals the boy had never been hired and had just delivered a note from another firm.
The text notes England's flora with gold and white flowers predominating, counting about 240 yellow, 150 red, 100 purple, and under 100 blue among 900 plants. It also cites a statistic that the average man speaks 11,000,000 words annually.
In a fanciful End-of-the-Earth scene Stella explains the pipe fish and sea horse, their eel like bodies long jaws forming a tube, their pouch bearing fathers, and how dreams and wishes intertwine with ambition as Pimzie and Snookums listen with wonder. The tale links dreamlike wishes to real world creatures and playful fantasy.
The Gadshill home of Charles Dickens on the Dover road near Cobham Kent, bought in 1856 and where he died, is described. He valued the Kent view from his studio, calling the red brick house pleasantly irregular, and he once walked from London to Gadshill at night.
The St. Catharines Standard urges sympathy for people who fear thunderstorms. It condemns mocking the dread and notes brave individuals may still fear lightning and thunder, advocating safe behavior and avoiding cruel taunting during storms.
The article explains full plate dentures replacing all teeth in a jaw using impressions and plaster models. It notes porcelain teeth, careful artistry, and the aim to mimic natural appearance and function, while stressing natural teeth are best and proper care is essential to avoid needing artificial replacements.
The Yorkshire Post notes two parts to reading character self knowledge and reading others. It argues self analysis reveals accuracy of our interpretations and links will to our loves and hates shaping future actions.
Eggs farmers in Williams County Ohio boosted annual egg production from 1.5 million to 2.1 million dozen a 40 percent rise attributed to farming methods advised by government agricultural extension workers. A light remark closes the note with a Judge’s quip about an organist who gave up music after the monkey died.
The article explores the mystery of wheel origins, noting no authentic record exists. It traces speculative theories from ancient cave dwellers dragging timber to shelter building and from a circular stone with a hole inspiring the concept of rotation and mobility.
A special survey by the United States Department of Agriculture shows more than half of the world’s workers are in agriculture. Among men and boys in 23 leading countries 514 percent follow farming, though Russia China Argentina Hungary and Serbia are not counted. Estimates suggest about ninety percent of Russia’s people and a very large rural population in China are engaged in agriculture.
Edward notes reveal a university charter instructing townspeople to judge fish freshness and, if found stale, to send it to the hospital for sick consumption. The archaic rule underscores historic hospital duties and public health practices related to food quality.
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