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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 24, 1931
Page
2
A discussion on constructive versus destructive criticism, arguing the word should denote balanced judgment. It laments cynicism and fault finding, urging readers to weigh facts, apply reason, and practice the Golden Rule in all aspects of life.
An insurance agent overstays his welcome in a merchant’s office and is pitched downstairs after persistent nuisance. He crawls up, retrieves his hat, then asks jokingly for the policy, prompting a sharp response.
Dr. Johnson authored his dictionary in nine years while the French Academy of forty scholars spent forty years on a rival compilation.
Professor Edouard Montpetit and four commission members voyage to England and the continent to study social relief methods. The investigations will span several months and inform proposed social insurance legislation to be enacted in Quebec.
Fossil fish from ancient seas help modern geologists locate water wells deep underground. Researchers use fossilized remains to infer ancient groundwater patterns and guide drilling in remote regions.
Premier Bracken outlined a feasibility plan for developing the Dauphin River as a major hydro project. He said properly developed it could become Manitoba’s largest single development, adding about 400 000 horsepower and providing low priced power to urban and rural areas, boosting industry and municipal services across the province.
The Ontario based Amish Mennonite conference at Mapleview church in Wellesley Village near Kitchener ends a three day session by ordering a nationwide ban on radios in all homes. Radios join musical instruments and other modern luxuries as forbidden items as the creed tightens its strict code. Violating the ban incurs church excommunication.
Judge J. G. Wallace of Woodstock Ontario recommended cancellation of 170 naturalization certificates obtained fraudulently after investigating cases in Montreal and Toronto last April. The cabinet weighs the report and criminal charges plus possible deportation are being considered.
Gregory Kotek, son of a Foam Lake area farmer, ate wild parsnips found near his father’s farm and died before medical help could arrive. He had told his parents what he ate, so no inquest was deemed necessary. The weed is deadly even when cooked, and a University of Saskatchewan warning was recently issued.
Corporal Roy Brown, who spent thirteen years in Christie Street Military Hospital Toronto for a Great War arm ailment, left the hospital cured. He first entered a Boston hospital shortly after the war and came to Toronto in 1927. The farmer is not unemployed, merely unpaid.
A Wrangell despatch reports a dense cloud of insects descended on Wank Island Alaska carried by a southwest wind. The pests, about half an inch long with red legs, damaged trees and leaves with a single bite per leaf and strawberry blossoms turning black.
The family that owns and actively works land will be better off than most city dwellers, even if currently unemployed. Farmers have had a hard stretch, yet they retain a usable resource to pull through, unlike the urban unemployed.
William MacKirdy of Windsor and Detroit shows a revolutionary engine blending Diesel combustion with superheated steam to reduce losses. Sir Harry Brittain of D Napier and Sons visits Detroit to inspect plans for a mammoth flying boat engine as England considers world rights. A separate note jokes about stock market psychology.
Advertises remnant fabrics and prints with prices 3 lbs prints 1.60, 2 lbs silk velvet cretonne 1.00. Seeks agents and dealers for A. McCreery Co. in Chatham Ontario.
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