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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1936
Page
2
London dispatch reports Britain now has 178000 miles of roads with 2581000 vehicles last year. Cycling traffic exceeds 10 million. Hore Belisha says Britain is the most densely vehicled country, with plans for heavy road expansion and new cycle tracks, though cyclists resist limits on regular arteries.
A Canadian editorial urges public action to curb reckless driving after a surge in crashes during warm weather. It calls for eyewitness reporting, license suspensions, and the formation of a mobile Safety Council to educate the public and reduce the road toll nationwide.
Japanese aviation planners pursue three trans Pacific dirigible routes linking Tokyo with Hsingking Shanghai and Hong Kong. Tokyo to San Francisco or Los Angeles via Honolulu. all require two or more German airships. A German expert was summoned but failed to reach agreement. Germany reportedly would loan Zeppelin experts for only short terms.
Flood waters from the Skeena river wrecked the March Memorial church at Usk with overturned organ and scattered chairs. The Bible on a small table remained undamaged despite mud and flood debris. Four hens nested in trees nearby produced four new eggs after waters receded.
An ancient star explosion, dating back about 2000 years, reached Earth after light traveled at 186,300 miles per second. Observers in Delphos Ohio and Yerkes Observatory noted a new bright star near Cepheus and La Certa, previously mapped since 1893 but unseen until now.
Henry Gingerich of Baden Ontario retired after 16 years as rural mail carrier on a 22 mile daily route. He completed nearly every trip, missing only during two storms, ending a career with about 140000 miles travelled behind a slow horse.
The Britannia, royal racing cutter built in 1893 for the Prince of Wales later King Edward VII, will be scuttled in the Nelson Channel after sails and rigging are sold. The vessel earned 231 first prizes and 129 other awards across 629 races in 43 years of competition.
A vintage recipe card lists bran drop cookies with shortening sugar eggs sour milk chopped nuts salt soda cinnamon and cloves. The batter is mixed and dropped by teaspoon onto buttered sheets and baked at 350 degrees F.
A newly announced discovery places a 15 BC cuneiform inscription as the earliest written psalm, challenging prior assumptions about ancient hymn texts. The item has stirred scholarly debate over its literary and religious significance.
An old Devonshire tale claims a spring fed bath pool at North Tawton fills with water when a royal dies. The pool reportedly filled for Albert, Victoria, and the Duke of Clarence, then vanished three days after King George V died as cattle grazed nearby.
In the narrowest stretch near the Florida Keys the Gulf Stream is fifty miles wide. As it moves northward the current expands to about 150 miles in width.
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