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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 03, 1926
Page
4
An optimistic national vision urges Canadians to develop intensive farming in western provinces from Manitoba to Peace River, expanding grain production and creating urban markets. It stresses national cooperation as essential to building a strong future and avoiding failure.
The Financial Post notes a Canadian mining tale where a promoter group pays a $500 incorporation fee with stock. The lawyer keeps the stock, which now has a value near $30,000, after an early Hollinger mine stake covered the fee. The item highlights luck and risk in penny-stock style ventures.
A renowned Broadway comedian known for copviviality planned to board the Empire State Express to Buffalo for a weeklong engagement. He asked his valet to wake him at 7 30, but after a Sunday night benefit he slept late and, upon waking at 11, berated the valet for not calling in time to catch the train.
Reports say King George may soon depart Dondon for a Mediterranean voyage aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The News of the World dismisses claims of an imminent cruise and notes little benefit from new umbrella wares amid the confusion.
The bone engraving attributed to an ancient Briton or modern hoax is challenged by Oxford geologist Professor Sollas. He cites a schoolboy prank at Haywards Heath School in 1914 as the likely source of the drawing.
Dr. A F Tredgold tells Bedford College Women’s Sanitary Inspectors that many school dunces will become great men. He cites Newton and Darwin as examples of late developing minds who later succeed, arguing dull boys may have hidden common sense enabling practical progress.
Observers note the decline of pedestrianism as people take to riding for self defence and progress on rubber tires. They warn walking, once a moral art with health benefits, is fading as the younger generation loses appreciation for deliberate, purposeful travel.
A Detroit Free Press note quotes Dr. Ben Yorean of Chicago recommending a bizarre regimen to resist aging. The unconventional list includes smoking all day, regular raw whiskey between meals, no exercise, sleeping in airtight rooms, eating underdone red meat, daily patent anti-bilious pills, and avoiding marriage.
Sir John Bland Sutton argues Adam and Eve learned sewing by watching a taller bird spin its nest. He notes surgeons still seek the perfect stitching material for wounds.
The Scottish Farmer warns that feeding a ration deficient in nutrients causes cows to draw on their body reserves for nutrients. Proper feeding is advised to avoid annual losses and maintain health.
A historical note outlines strychnine and calcium cyanide as common gopher poisons. It cites wheat based baits and additives, notes prairie chickens’ immunity, and mentions timing for effectiveness in spring and breeding season, plus smoke cartridges as an alternative and cautions about dangers and practical limits.
A new Chicago stadium ranks among the world s largest open air venues covering over seven acres it will hold about 100 000 spectators and its U shaped plan allows unbroken processions. The arena can be flooded for winter ice skating turning it into a seasonal wonder.
Morning paper reports Lebanon’s cedar forests nearly depleted leaving only a small grove as the era of biblical woods ends. Residents note timber shifts to golf shafts shingles and cedar chests for urban housing in Long Island.
An English paper surveys opinions on fifty year olds and work hours. Prominent figures from Smoot to Poincare to Sir Oliver Lodge offer ranges from eight to sixteen hours daily, noting variation by occupation, mindset, and responsibility.
One third of Yale students receive aid or work to cover costs and nearly half of the year's honors go to those students. The note praises opportunity for those seeking an education and suggests favorable odds for earners.
A London dispatch reports negotiations are advanced to place a large portion of capital in a new company to acquire for Canada the Dreyfus patents and processes related to artificial fiber manufacture. The company is named Canadian Celanese Limited.
A chemist in Manchester England reports the discovery of a cheap black dye that does not rot cotton goods. The find promises an economical method for dyeing fabrics with lasting color.
Snowshoers from Quebec, Montreal, New England, and 47 clubs totaling over 2000 participants gathered in Quebec City for the International Convention. Three world championships were contested, with Canadian honors earned by several races. Torchlight processions and parades lit the old city as clubs from Lewiston, Auburn, and Quebec joined in the festival.
Madame Aino Kallas reports Esthenia transformed from landless serfdom to a free republic after World War I. She notes universal suffrage, peasant land ownership, rising prosperity, debt repayment, education expansion, and genderly equal civic life with no viable Bolshevik or agrarian movements.
A pioneer settler from the Australian bush fulfilled a long standing vow by burying his first wife in England. After her death in Australia he sealed her body in a lead coffin and stored it above, awaiting transport. On his second marriage he sailed to England and her coffin accompanied the voyage, labeled not required en voyage.
Lord Dewar, eminent scientist, sharpens view on error in a London show address. He notes mistakes vary by field, from law creating precedent to burial of errors by doctors, to unnoticed slips by preachers and double charges by plumbers.
Ontario hunters at their annual Toronto meeting passed a resolution urging a closed season on bear hunting. A F Cooper of Toronto, sponsor of the resolution, dismissed bear attack reports as bunk and said bears avoid people and vanish if encountered in the bush.
A public figure last week summed up the clash of two longtime rivals once classmates at the university. He stated that A had all the virtues and no friends while B had all the vices and no enemies.
A compact sun dial described as simple and accurate surfaces. The device uses shadow position to indicate the hour, offering a silent timekeeping method.
The Dominion cereal division under J H Newman outlines a new method to accelerate strain improvement. Plant families from recent crosses will be grown and observed at branch farms before broad selection. Promising pedigrees will be tested over generations to prune weak lines and reveal adaptable, superior varieties. The redrew system enables larger, earlier testing at Ottawa and branch farms.
At a plant registration bureau meeting of the Canadian horticultural council, new varieties were approved for recording. Introductions include Crerar geranium from central experimental farm, MacDonald garden rhubarb, Vanguard strawberry, Viking raspberry, Logarne thornless loganberry, plus primula, dogwood, apple, two peach trees, and a dhalia. All will undergo council trial garden testing to determine registration. This program aims to improve Canadian flowers and horticultural plants.
An octogenarian group in Manchester forms a club to perform a daily dozen exercises, keeping members in shape while younger staff fret about eventual succession. Notables like Lord Inchape aged 73 head a major shipping firm, still vigorous with colleagues, and Lord Balfour at 77 remains active in tennis and global affairs. Thomas Hardy at 85 continues writing poetry, and Lord Oxford at 70 shows surprising energy despite aging, challenging assumptions about retirement.
In a Scottish hospital a nurse asks about the patient as an orderly explains a golf ball lodged in a man’s throat. The same golfer waits in the hall for his ball to be recovered, a tense moment in a medical setting.
Hon. George Henry minister of highways told the Toronto convention that by year end Ontario would institute a system of personal driving permits for all motorists. The statement was made at the Canadian and Ontario Safety Leagues meeting in Toronto.
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