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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1938
Page
2
The article links the proverb about gold to untapped wealth in tourism and road infrastructure. It cites Canada 1937 tourist expenditures at 294.7 million dollars, notes U S travelers dominate spending, and urges better highways, parks, reforestation, and coordinated publicity to boost cross border travel and regional development.
Pete Herrington fourteen owes his life to two sisters Florence and Marion and a police dog after a mother bear knocked him unconscious while he examined a cub. The sisters and the dog fought the bear and dragged him to safety as the dog drove the animal off into the brush.
British philanthropist Lord Nufield accepts a degree from the University of Sydney in Australia. He vows to continue doing everything possible for the suffering and deformed.
Soviet leaders push a four sea fleet strategy grouped on the Baltic White Black seas and the Pacific. They expect fruit within four to five years with big calibre guns up to 15.78 inches and strong protective armament. Foreign help, including Italian engineers, aids initial construction at Leningrad.
A vintage recipe for a citrus fruit dessert uses milk, sugar, corn starch, orange and lemon juice and rinds, eggs, and salt to make a thick custard base. It finishes with a meringue topping and optional crushed pineapple with the oranges.
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that using the title The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo in a film did not infringe the song copyright. The appeal by Twentieth Century Fox was allowed, with no words or music used and no harm to the song owner.
Turku and Vibourg in Finland emerge as centers of the ant egg industry exporting from local farms to pet dealers and zoos across the globe.
The article notes a baby grand piano has an approximate weight of 450 pounds.
Major Gladstone Murray of the CBC announced at the Canadian Authors Association that cash prizes will be offered to encourage Canadian writers to produce radio drama reflecting Canadian manners. A semi independent board will adjudicate entries. Murray cited the success of Miss Mary Weekes's The Last Buffalo Hunt and praised Bruce Hutchison's broadcasts. He urged directness and simple Anglo Saxon language and argued for artful broadcasting over foreign imitation. Caplan noted writers have not seized the opportunity and that inspiration is found in everyday life.
Lord Tweedsmuir told Bishop's College convocation that without the crown the empire could not endure. He called the throne the center of unity linking diverse peoples and stressed the monarch's role as enduring national bond beyond political change. Britain has defied kings many times but never the kingship.
The London Daily Telegraph reports Walt Disney secured film cartoon rights to the Alice in Wonderland books. The purchase signals Disney’s plan to adapt the classic tale into animation, expanding his studio’s repertoire and capitalizing on a famed literary property.
The piece reflects on the seasonal shift from straw to felt hats, noting straws' brief three month life and the stubbornness of felts this year. It discusses social mood as hats evolve with weather and time, and end with a cautious hope that straw hats may endure.
Dr. G B Barton federal deputy minister of agriculture told the Canadian Seed Growers Association in Guelph that Canada could greatly boost seed use. He cited that from 10 bushels of certified seed 7,500,000 bushels could be produced in five years while current seed availability remains low. Canada’s seed needs total about 70 million bushels annually across wheat oats barley rye peas beans and buckwheat. Only about one percent of registered seed grain and under three percent of certified seed grain are available this year. Barton blamed farmers for sowing indifferent quality and nondescript grain.
Gustaf Wennlund, a railway draughtsman, finished an all handwritten Bible after seven years of work drawn at a rate of 4 000 000 letters by hand. He began February 12 1931 and completed 1 612 pages in roughly two and a half to three hours per page. He has insured the set for 5 000 dollars. Bamboo plants may grow as much as three feet in 24 hours.
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