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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1938
Page
7
Crump faints in the kitchen after a bungled attempt to solve the Elaine pug theft as the earl and Rosa manage a luncheon with Crump, Ernest, and Mrs. Featherby. The group debates stock, Punder, and a playful but tense household atmosphere continues.
Indiana University medical experts report a quick healing remedy from pectin in apples to treat deep infected wounds. They note pectin is antiseptic only in acidic environments, while alkaline conditions negate its germ killing effects, with acidity aiding wound cure.
The rate of deaths from heart and arteries rose 53 percent in Canada from 1926 to 1936, with Ontario at 310.5 per 100000 and Saskatchewan 121.2. In the United States the rate climbed from 124 to 224 per 100000 between 1920 and 1932. Experts urge periodic exams and lifestyle changes to cut future rates.
Simon Commando, long claimed Canada’s oldest resident, died of pneumonia at his son Paul’s home in Beaucage near North Bay Ontario. He served as Nipissing reserve chief for 20 years and reportedly lived to 110 based on Hudson’s Bay records. He fought for government forces in the Riel rebellion, the only time he bore arms.
The note C on a piano has a wavelength near 17 feet. As the pitch rises by each octave the wavelength halves, illustrating the inverse relationship between frequency and wavelength in musical tones.
In a Harvard laboratory, high pressure reportedly transformed tellurium into a new kind of metal. The discovery was presented to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in New York. Dr. P. W. Bridgman said the change has no direct practical value.
John Ringling North, head of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, was bitten on the arm by Gargantu the Great a giant gorilla. He stood before a cage in Florida winter quarters when the animal seized his arm through the bars. Keeper Richard Kroner struck the gorilla with a club to drive it off.
A proverb about forgiveness contrasts with a brief report that jellyfish blocked the suction pipe of a liner in Durban South Africa, hindering its operations.
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