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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
2
A Regina printers strike is reported against a 44 hour work week while preserving the old 48 hour pay. The piece argues union rules create wasteful double setting costs and hinder wealth creation, urging productivity to sustain high wages and general prosperity.
The Canadian House of Commons adopted amendments to the Soldier Settlement Act clarifying that nurses who resided in Canada before the war and served overseas shall be eligible for land settlement.
A Vancouver Province item notes life in Mexico dull since General Villa's retirement. It reports the long extinct Colin volcano resuming activity with smoke and ashes. The piece suggests a public slogan to boost local prosperity: Buy at Home and keep money circulating locally.
The Tor nico ranch in Creston Valley will be leased for one year at 1000 dollars for ten acres. The deal excludes house use. The property is planted entirely to trees and small fruits.
The article notes children afflicted by worms show visible distress until expelled. Miller's Worm Powders are claimed to be prompt and efficient for eradicating worms and to support health restoration in run down children.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture offers four prizes at the Canadian National Exhibition worth 600 dollars to show pure bred sires' superiority. In dairy cattle the best calf yearling and two year old sired by a pure bred bull compete, cows may be grade or scrub. Similar awards are offered in the beef class.
A concise aphorism notes poverty enters an Eskimo house while love cannot exit through windows, because the house has none. The quip relies on a paradox about absence of windows and emotional flows.
The quote warns that a person who fails to see the world’s greatness or his own smallness may turn cynical. It suggests introspection and humility as antidotes to cynicism.
Community campaign encourages residents to keep purchases local, supporting town merchants and economic vitality. The message promotes choosing area businesses for everyday needs to strengthen the local economy.
The article describes a plot test to gauge soil acidity by sowing alfalfa across three plots with 0, 1, and 2 tons of lime per acre. Results determine whether lime is unnecessary, needed, or required in heavy amounts. It notes common lime forms such as finely ground limestone and marl.
The ad promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a mild laxative that settles bowels and stomachs, relieves constipation indigestion colds and fevers, and keeps babies happy. It urges mothers to use the remedy for cross or fussy babies and notes sales by medicine dealers or mail order from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 25 cents a box.
Fifteen men have been engaged by the Dominion Trading and Transportation Company and will depart for the company's gold claims on the Upper Peace River immediately. Machinery ordered in San Francisco has arrived in Edmonton and is being assembled before shipment north on a company barge. The inventory includes scrapers hoisting engine steam engine centrifugal pump two power boilers and three thousand feet of steel cable.
An advertisement touts Nerviline Liniment as a powerful remedy for passive inflammation causing deep, dragging pain in the loins. It claims five times stronger penetration than rivals and rapid relief, urging readers to keep the 35 cent bottle on hand and buy it widely.
The Federal Chief Justice announces no American spellings in official papers and orders "program" to be written "programme" and "center" as "centre." He states English spelling is sufficient for the court.
A French electrician asserts he invented a wrist and instep battery device that emits a current to relax nerves and induce sleep. The claim notes rapid slumber even for chronic insomnia sufferers. Also mentioned is Mother Graves Worm Eliminator as a vermifuge safe for delicate children.
A guide to reinventing yesterday's roast with camouflage tactics. Reheat and repurpose roast beef lamb veal pork and ham leftovers into stews cutlets soups and hash with sauces and crusts, preserving flavor and presenting fresh dishes for the family.
Advertisement claims catarrh is influenced by constitutional conditions and that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cleanses the blood and builds up the system to restore normal conditions. Circulation of free circulars. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Canadian Western Fuel Company which operates the coal mines at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island has been reorganized as a 5 900 000 dollar corporation and will be known as the Western Fuel Corporation of Canada Limited.
During the first half of May, about 1,800,000 pounds of halibut were caught on the British Columbia fishing banks. Nearly all the catch, except 200,000 pounds, was landed at Prince Rupert.
D B Macmillan, chief lieutenant of the Peary North Pole expedition, plans to sail a 115 ton egg shaped craft around Baffin land from New York. The design relies on ice pressure to lift the vessel and move it with the pack. It will burn whale oil as supplementary fuel.
Margaret Bever of 305 Hughson St North Hamilton credits Tanlac for reversing long standing illness symptoms. She says severe gas, dizziness and poor appetite vanished after starting Tanlac, leaving her able to go out again and recommend the remedy to others. Tanlac is marketed by leading druggists.
Laura Bromwell a famed aviatrix and loop the loop record holder died at Mitchell Field Mineola New York while flying at about 1000 feet after completing one loop she was about to begin another. The 23 year old Cincinnati native set the May 15 record with 199 loops in 1 hour 20 minutes and had also flown a 135 mph two mile straight run. Her aircraft a Canadian J N 4 type powered by a Curtis motor belonged to Canada.
In a Boston Transcript note, Germany acts as a peacemaker by paying reparations to avoid Allied seizure of the Ruhr industrial heart. The piece argues obedience to self-preservation drives this, not a high national conscience, while warning that nonpayment could hand over Germany’s key resources to occupiers.
A colored preacher led converts to a Louisiana river for baptism. When alligators appeared, one convert doubted divine protection. The pastor cites Jonah's salvation, prompting the reply that a gator would swallow the speaker and nap in the sun, forgetting him.
Canada saw 11009 immigrants in March 1921 with 4865 from Britain and 4292 from the United States. Fiscal year end March 31 reports 148477 total immigrants, with 74265 from the British Isles and 48059 from the United States. The year shows a 27 percent increase over the prior fiscal year.
An advertisement extols Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a universal remedy for sailors fishermen lumbermen and outdoor laborers. It claims to ease pain relieve colds dress wounds subdue rheumatism and suggests keeping it at home or on journeys.
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