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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 25, 1928
Page
6
The University of Manitoba Winnipeg outlines paused courses across faculties including Arts and Nence, Agriculture, Home Economics, and Law. It lists degree paths such as BE, MEMN, LLB and mentions admission terms, reese details, and application information for prospective students.
Canadian National Railways through its land settlement association placed 1555 farming families on 243272 acres along the lines between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Coast. Settlers are mainly British American and Northern European stock. Capital brought in this year is about a million dollars. Settlement focuses on northern Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. More than 2,000,000 acres were sown to field crops this year due to new lands and settlement efforts.
Sir Harold Macintosh of London was elected president of the Worlds Sunday School Association at Los Angeles. Einar Paul Lundberg, who rescued General Umberto Nobile, is awarded a medal and promoted to Captain in the Royal Swedish Flying Corps. Australia seeks a 35 million dollar loan in London to settle British migrants. A new weather bureau will be set up on the Quebec citadel. Captain Herman Koebl receives the Austrian golden cross for piloting the Bremen trans Atlantic monoplane. The first English water concert broadcast dates to 1907. Illinois workers own 18 percent of state corporate stock per James Cunningham. Belgium proposes Charles Evans Hughes for the Hague Court vacancy. Peking rickshaw coolies form a union against motor bus service. Air pilot Duke Schiller’s license suspended for six months after a St Hubert accident.
The Amputations Association of the Great War urges a special Armistice Day observance this year marking the tenth anniversary. A resolution asks provincial and municipal bodies to request citizens to keep the day sacred and honor the fallen in a united, reverent tribute.
The Canadian National Live Stock Records Association issued 107,605 pedigrees in 1927. The organization has 15,211 breeder members across Canada. The text also notes the heiress ought to make a capital wife.
Winnipeg Pattern order guide lists Pattern No Name Size Town with address at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. It outlines how to request patterns and where to send payment or inquiries.
Sir Harold Mackintosh of the coffee firm told the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers that a business is known by its advertising and urged earnestness in ads. He said humor is essential only if the public laughs with you not at you and praised the press as the best publicity.
A Canadian farmers party toured Denmark with Danish officials visiting the Royal Box during Faust at the Royal Opera House. They met King Christian and Baron van der Neergaard, visited Kolle Kolle and Danish Landrace farms, and discussed training unemployed Britons for Canadian farming. They returned to London with a royal reception at Buckingham Palace and a tour of Danish agricultural centers.
The London Hunt and Country Club is famed for its afternoon teas. For years it has used Red Rose Orange Pekoe, a full bodied blend praised for flavor, sold in bright aluminum packages.
The Canada Colonization Association plans to settle 3000 families on privately owned Canadian farms this year, now within about 300 of the target. Since its start on January 1, 1925, it has placed 2679 families on 650,357 acres. Through May 31, 1925, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia show 335 new families on 61,114 acres, with Ontario included in the program.
May sees 906 homestead entries across Manitoba 44 Saskatchewan 266 Alberta 517 British Columbia 79 vs 640 last May. Five month totals 3 885 vs 2 158 with Manitoba 207 Saskatchewan 1 221 Alberta 2 249 and British Columbia 20% vs 37.
A reflective note argues that appearances deceive when they oppose him and true lawfulness comes from self mastery and listening to one's inner voice. It also asserts Scotland will adopt a modern dialect dictionary to aid this transformation.
John Melling of Fenner Alberta, a returned soldier, says after chronic dysentery from overseas he was advised to try Milburn medicine. A bottle gave relief, he bought two more and has not suffered since 1925. The product is by The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
Sunday School lesson centers on Matthew 28 19 20 the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations and baptize in the Father Son and Holy Spirit. It ties to Acts 13 1 52 and devotional reading in Psalm 67 emphasizing praise and God’s kingdom reach.
The Antioch church named five Grecian Jewish leaders Barnabas Symeon Lucius Manaen and Paul of Tarsus as teachers and prophets. The group’s prominence supported the church while planning a mission into the Roman Empire under God’s guidance. They likely carried John Mark with them from Jerusalem.
The Post Office Department contemplates extending the air mail service from the east to the west. Flyers are surveying routes between Montreal and Winnipeg to determine the best mode, whether aeroplanes or hydroplanes, for the service. Contracts to Winnipeg are planned for next year with future prairie extension under consideration.
A Budapest monument will honor Hungary’s war dead from 1914 to 1918 with a single carved stone bearing 655,000 and the years 1914 1918. It will express hope for a future reunification and stand before the Millennium monument.
The British scientist forecasts future fashion and living as cotton fabrics dominate clothing enhanced by chemicals and artificial silk, while linen fades. He predicts nitrate paint replaces linseed oil, waterproof paper costumes for sports, wireless in homes, and glass houses with daylight illumination. The servant role ends as automation grows and gardening becomes widely advanced.
Mrs. E. Q. Chase of Edmonton maintains a varied collection of coins and rare books. Her holdings include two Roman coppers from Augustus era, a 1843 New Brunswick halfpenny, US copper from 1842, and George IV coinage. She owns a London Times from 1805 with Trafalgar and Nelson’s death news, a tiny England history from William the Conqueror to Edward VII, and Dickens’s The Chimes in a one by one and a half inch book with a frontispiece of the House of Parliament.
Family health note warns against over handling infants as toys. Cautions parents to limit handling to brief periods and suggests Castoria as a safe, drug free remedy for common baby ailments. Mentions Castoria popularity and authentic Char Fletcher signature.
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