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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1923
Page
4
A local writer urges readers to embrace community team work over self interest. He argues honesty and public spirit uplift towns, while money alone harms civic life. The piece frames idealism as essential to building a strong, cooperative community.
Western Canadian tale tells how Dimitrios Tsakiros sent ten dollars to his grandmother in Constantinople through the Red Cross in Regina. Mme Solorion signed with her thumbprint as receipt for 138.1 French francs or 14.24 Turkish livres, witnessed by Red Cross officials.
The Panama Canal Record notes the largest commercial vessel, the America, and the largest warship, the British cruiser Renown, crossing the canal. The America paid a toll of $16,855, and the steamer Hefron recorded the deepest draft at 35 feet 2 inches on November 2, 1922.
Two traveling salesmen aboard a Union Pacific train share a tense moment over a whispered query. The dialogue shifts to a quip about tinware care and a curious aside on life expectancy, noting a man who lives to seventy spends six years eating.
The article warns dry well ventilated sheds prevent dampness which harms sheep in cold weather. It emphasizes dry quarters, fresh air, and exercise. It advises plenty of hay or legume hay, supplemental oats and corn for lambs, and keeping breeding ewes thrifty without overfat condition.
Britain's first aerial dreadnought seaplane for the Air Ministry will be living afloat and lit by electricity. It features an electric capstan for an anchor, watertight bulkheads, crew rooms for five, a three-part superstructure, five machine guns, and torpedoes carried under the lower rings with a novel releasing rear.
The Renown lies moored at Portsmouth dockyard outer north basin awaiting armor plating alterations to meet new armament standards. Officers and crew regret missing the Prince of Wales voyage to South Africa in early 1924, as he had sailed previous Imperial tours aboard her.
Professor J B Johnson in London argues a 6 ft 3 in man tires first when walking with a 4 ft boy due to abnormal muscle use. He cites hobble skirts and high heels as factors that reduce natural stride and increase foot muscle workload.
An Irish woman bid farewell to a British soldier in Dublin, saying we are glad you are going so we can fight in peace. The remark captured the mood of reduced obstacles as troops departed.
A local columnist brands a reckless driver as an eutomaniac, signaling concern over dangerous behavior on city streets and urging tighter traffic enforcement.
Voltage measurement now favors sphere spark gaps over needle points. Tests of 500000 volt currents show breakdown occurs when spheres exceed about fifteen inches apart, indicating more consistent jumps and improved accuracy in determining voltage.
The article notes that animals instinctively sense weather changes and may forecast rain or storms. It cites cats, donkeys, bees, ducks, garden spiders, moles, field mice, sheep, peacocks, swallows, and even rocks and fish as reacting to coming weather, while questioning human ability to read these signs accurately.
The passage extols frequent laughter as safe healthy exercise that benefits the lungs facial muscles and circulation. It cites an eminent surgeon praising laughter for children and adults as mood lifter and blues fighter, noting merriment is contagious and uplifting to listeners.
London Punch notes many insects inhabit oak trees, while reflecting on crime in America and safety abroad. The remark contrasts crime seriousness with a jab about official safety reports amid murders.
An old advertisement text from a Boston Transcript piece portrays a Japanese dating ad. It touts a "very pretty" girl with "wavy hair" and "mobile" expression inviting an intelligent, amiable husband to share life and a tomb in red marble.
The article argues that salt is essential for human life due to daily losses from perspiration and other causes. It notes some diets may lack salt temporarily, and that many peoples live without a conscious salt intake by ingesting salt in hidden forms within food.
General Wm Mitchel, assistant to the US air service chief, told Ottawa’s Canadian Club that solving the big questions is only a matter of time and Canada will lead. He said northern transport development would come in winter and that world circumnavigation with a single gas charge will be possible in the future.
The Shallowford cottage where Izaak Walton lived and wrote the Compleat Angler has been bought and will be endowed as a shrine for anglers worldwide. Walton cherished angling, and now his modest home becomes a pilgrimage site beloved by fishermen two centuries after his death.
Alberta produced 5 976 432 tons of coal in 1922 with 1 443 942 tons sold for Alberta use and 1 999 785 tons for other provinces. October set a monthly record at 926 888 tons as 379 mines operated, 100 opened, 9 reopened, 44 abandoned and 67 closed temporarily.
The Central Mercantile Bulletin reports that Fourteenth Street in New York handles the most traffic worldwide with over 58 million annual subway and elevated riders and about 193 thousand daily. Last year the central mercantile district saw 167.06 million passengers, up 6.402 million from the year before.
On a hot day in the city seven cars queued at a busy filling station. A rattling five passenger car nears a gas pipe as a joke unfolds with Mr. Fliv declaring “one,” prompting a facetious remark from the Judge about weaning it.
A news note suggests in informed circles that the Duke of York is being considered for the Governor General post in South Africa. It is believed Prince Arthur of Connaught will likely extend his term to October 1924, after which the Duke of York would succeed him.
A historical note describes the polka as having originated as a peasants dance. It traces its roots to rural communities and contrasts it with later stage and ballroom adaptations.
The Dominion’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture explains Canada’s global egg leadership with standards based on weight size yolk visibility white firmness and cleanliness. It notes government inspection for export and imported eggs and an active home market grading regime with retailer accountability and a recent advertising push.
The piece surveys historic beauty practices from gilded teeth in Japan to red-painted teeth in the Indies and blue faces in Greenland. It notes Arabian patches tied to astrology and 18th century mole eyebrows at Louis XV courts, illustrating evolving feminine vanity.
Norse explorers from Norway crossed the Atlantic nearly a thousand years before Columbus. A Viking ship was found in an American river mud confirming their landings on the Western World. Greenland graves with spears and skin clothing further attest to these ancient voyages.
A Bagdad despatch to the London Times says Irak authorities approve that half the ancient treasures found at Ur shall remain property of the Drak kingdom for a Bagdad museum. The other half will be shared between Britain and the United States branches of the expedition. All treasure excavated will go to England for classification.
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