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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1929
Page
6
In a broad tally of world happenings France’s Parliament ratified its signature to the Kellogg renunciation of war by 570 to 12, while unemployment in Germany reached 2.3 million on February 15, up 50,000 since January. Canada’s hail insurers posted a 100.39 per cent loss ratio for 1928.
An inebriated man asks what his wife will say when he returns home and a friend replies that long marriage brings foresight. The exchange captures a wary, rueful humor about domestic life.
Legislation to protect investors in British Columbia mines will require all new mining companies to file prospectuses with the mines department on issue. The goal is to act promptly against misleading statements and curb wildcat promotions by preventing public funding of dubious mineral properties.
Pattern No 353 offers a patterned wool jersey dress with hip yoke illusion and jabot plaited skirt. Sizes 16 through 42 bust, requires 27 yards of 40 inch material plus 36 inch contrast, fabrics include tweed, wool crepe and canton crepe. Pattern price 25 cents, add 10 cents for Fashion Magazine copy.
Winnipeg Pattern Service lists address at 175 McDermot Ave. Pattern numbers and sizes are requested to place orders. The note provides pattern order details and how to specify size for mail or in person purchases.
Canada plans a large exhibit at the World's Poultry Congress to be held at the Crystal Palace in London in July 1930. About 1,000 birds will be shown along with an educational exhibit. An executive committee of provincial agriculture ministers is named by Minister W R Motherwell with H B Donovan as chairman, plus sub committees and chairmen.
The piece extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood builder to ease nervous weakness and headaches, cites testimonial from Miss Margaret R. MacDonald, and claims asthma relief with Kelogg's Asthma Remedy. It also notes Indus River dam irrigation and Miller's Worm Powders as a worm treatment for children.
Golden Text from Matthew 12.8 guides a Sunday school lesson tied to Genesis Exodus and John passages. Noted explorer Captain Edward Atkin dies at 46 after leading the Antarctic expedition that found Captain Scott and carried back records in 1912. He earned the D.S.O. and des patches in Gallipoli and France. Also reports new identification methods using teeth prints alongside fingerprints and footprints for crime solving illustrated by a Danish burglary case involving a marzipan pig.
The essay cites Exodus 20 8 11 to define the Sabbath as a holy, separated day set apart from work. It argues six days of labor and one day of rest sustain body, mind, and spirit, quoting Ruskin and Amory H Bradford on rest as a moral duty and social necessity.
A description notes that the Japanese alphabet comprises two scripts: katakana used by men and hiragana used by women. The distinction reflects traditional gendered usage in writing practices.
The piece touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a premier remedy praised as a people’s oil with many benefitting users. It notes a Turkish captain sentenced to a year of hard labor for resisting Kemal’s new alphabet and mentions the first wallpaper patent dated 1692.
Turkey holds key forest resources, especially in northern Anatolia. The brief notes resource wealth and a patent medicine claim linking Minard's Liniment to Flu prevention.
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