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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 27, 1932
Page
4
A Sault Ste. Marie Star reminiscence from Dundalk quotes an Ontario farmer contrasting the 1890s lean years with recent prosperity. He recalls prices for eggs, potatoes, beef, hay, oats and flour, and notes shifts in rents and wages while describing barter and hardship on farms.
Sand glasses once in museums are now used in U.S. business houses to measure three minute intervals to avoid tax on longer telephone calls. The device helps determine if a call exceeds three minutes for tax purposes.
Colonel Harry Trihey of the Montreal Harbor Commission forecasts the Saint Lawrence waterway will boost Montreal by creating a linked system with Beauharnois and the international section. He notes ocean liners will not primarily use the route, but tramp boats and transshipment at Montreal will grow cargo traffic and spur regional employment. Improved highways around the waterway would attract more business to the city.
Hungarian dentist Charles Stengel reportedly invented a safe that uses a vacuum and compressed air to trigger a loud alert when tampered. A connected pipe and megaphone sound the alarm if drilling occurs, even on key access, after 12 years of work. Admiral Horty ordered one initial unit.
A Cost Nothing Abootblack jokes about his self made brand name Robinson Crusoe. He explains Old Crusoe was a castaway, prompting a patron to admit unfamiliar branding. The exchange ends with the punchline that he named them himself.
A Dominion Government return shows Canada held a leading position in British imports across multiple commodities in the first five months of 1932. Canada topped imports of hardwood patent leather canned salmon lobsters copper ore crude zinc and nickel and ranked high in many others. It also ranked second to Argentina in wheat and barley and to the United States in hams with bacon imports nearing parity with the Irish Free State due to a May surge.
Preliminary Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures show 1302 deaths from automobile accidents in Canada in 1931, up 12 from 1930 and more than double 1926. The rate is 12.6 per 100000 population with Ontario reporting 566 deaths and Quebec 355, while other provinces mostly declined.
The text explains how sound travels as waves in air, like ripples from a stone in water. It notes that wavelength equals crest-to-crest distance, and that shorter waves produce higher pitch, becoming inaudible below about a quarter of an inch.
A conversation recalls summer greetings and proximity hints about neighbors the Smiths near the lake. A memory resurfaces of a girl’s remark about someone “around the corner” from a hotel and a misjudged walk that proved eight miles long.
Winnipeg Free Press recounts two flying service episodes. Pilot Andy Cruikshanks and assistants Horace Torrie and Harry King died when their plane crashed near Great Bear Lake after their Arctic routing exploits. Lieutenant Alfred Williams of the US Navy kept a damaged plane aloft over Van Cortland Park to avoid danger to children, then landed safely after signaling the field clear.
The Hedgehog train, or Template Machine, measures tunnel heights from 13 ft to 13 ft 6 in and widths from 9 ft to 9 ft 8 in to ensure clearance. It uses a spike‑armed vehicle with electrical indicators to locate obstructions and maintain safe spacing from the track.
Canadians are fond of prepared cereals and consumed nearly 6 million dollars worth in 1920. Exports of Canadian manufactured cereals in 1930 reached about 2.5 million dollars while imports were around 250 thousand dollars.
Mr. Meyer faces eviction as the landlady demands rent payment or vacating the rooms. Hummell of Hamburg notes similar expectations from other landlords.
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