This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 14, 1928
Page
4
Paris police test a camera system to transform horn vibrations into images and classify horns as desirable or undesirable. Traffic complaints rise as taxicabs top offenders with loud horns. Officers will issue fines and drivers must have noisy horns photographed. enforcement begins by stopping newsboys from crying papers on streets.
A psychology student claims hearty laughers are trustworthy and generous, with vocal laughter signaling good nature and parenting potential. Throaty or explosive laughs suggest shrewdness or bluff, while rare, large-hearted laughter shows self contained joy reflected in the eyes.
The United States once welcomed many immigrants with little screening. The article argues past broad doors harmed assimilation, leading to current exclusion laws. It warns policy may still be too lenient and stresses balancing security with humanitarian values.
Report notes tobacco grown on British Columbia Kamloops fruit lands praised by expert Holman as equal to top tobaccos. District farmers plan continued tobacco culture. In court an old offender denies assaulting his wife, claiming she struck first. A cartoonish exchange questions office furniture insurance while the clock remains unpaid.
A scientist catalogs Hollywood trades among leading lights, showing stars have pursued stage dancing, hair cutting, piano, landscape gardening, college teaching, coal mining, crane cornets, animal training, printing, oil work, cooking, law, wrestling, boxing, chemistry, exploration, and more. One actor even was an undertaker.
Sir Oliver Lodge, British scientist and spiritualist, argues in a lecture that the earth’s rotation is gradually slowing due to tidal friction. He says days lengthen by about 240,000,600th of a second daily and that in millions of years the earth will stop spinning as the moon drifts away.
A lesson on fractions features Doris who prefers a half tart to two thirds and declares she does not like tart. The anecdote contrasts classroom confusion with a punch line about Doris’s preferences. Also notes 1927 Western Canada gas production at 11 500 900 000 cubic feet and oil at 329 000 barrels with Alberta as the main source.
A. H. W. Birch of the Central Experimental Farm explains beekeeping suits many localities with ample nectar. Bees aid fruit pollination and profits, but must respect neighboring bee-keepers rights, with apiaries even atop city rooftops.
A London Observer note quotes New York officials worried about business district congestion. It asserts no real danger of crowding to the point of walking on heads and whimsically recalls Isle of Wight space for the world population, noting a tight four per square yard would suffice.
A fragment notes Adrian IV as the sole English pope, then shifts to a remark about whiskey as an accurate senses tak. The text is incomplete and presents disputed historical attribution and an unrelated aside.
A Globe Homemaker correspondent urges abolition of steel leg traps used on fur bearing animals in America. The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has long advocated a humane, effective alternative to reduce animal pain and calls for parliamentary support at federal and provincial levels.
The daredevil aviator who flew from Croydon to Australia in eighteen days in a two seater baby plane recalls inspecting a seaside home from the air. He notes circling the house at low altitude with his wife to view bedrooms and rooms. He previously cut travel times to Australia and Calcutta with a light aeroplane, aiming for fifteen days. The Smith brothers in a heavy machine took twenty eight days.
A local councilor named Hawkins argues against fellow Councillor Smith in a heated exchange over a disputed issue. He claims the case is not six of one and half a dozen of the other, but exactly the opposite. Separately, tomato juice is noted as preventing scurvy in children, on par with orange juice.
Professor de Sitter discusses Greenwich Observatory clocks as potential super clocks. The Shortt series, especially Shortt 3, 11, and 16, are cited for extreme stability with daily rates constant over six months to one-thousandth of a second. The master clock drives a slave via electric impulses. no hands or face are visible.
The flag above the Admiralty in Whitehall is never hauled down because the Board of Admiralty never ceases work day or night. King Edward commanded the flag at mast head, with the anchor on red, a design adopted in 1725. Also a joke about lobster salad and Chicago coal smoke caps the item.
Excellent egg laying records reported at the Lethbridge Experimental Station Alberta with one hen laying 300 eggs and several birds producing 250 or more. A carefully planned feeding regimen included a winter scratch ration of wheat and corn oats, a dry mash of bran shorts wheat middlings corn meal oat chop meat meal salt and charcoal, a moist noon meal without meat meal salt or charcoal, plus green fodder. Spring allowed free range on seeded runways of wheat barley and oats. The 1926 report notes summer scratch feed shifting to five parts wheat and one part each of cracked corn and crushed oats.
The piece recalls Richard I’s capture of Cyprus during the Third Crusade era and notes a proposed stamp jubilee for the island’s British occupancy. It explains Richard’s arrival after a storm and his eventual sale of Cyprus to the Knights Templar, ending with the claim he missed a commemorative stamp.
A man kept a bass and minnows separated by glass. Each minnow that approached the partition drew a strike from the bass, leading to a bruised head and the fish quitting. After removing the barrier the minnows swam nearby and the bass no longer attacked, proving the fish had learned business pessimism.
Canadian and American Norse groups including League of Norsemen Norwegian Bygdelager and Norwegian Singers plan a large joint convention and reunion in Winnipeg from July 5 to July 10. Committees organize arrangements as delegations from the South are expected.
A writer recalls a genial caller who sat beside the desk and urged the author to continue, saying not to interrupt the work. The anecdote highlights a moment of creative focus interrupted by a memorable listener.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.