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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1929
Page
7
A historical ad touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the best, fast neutralizer for excess stomach acid. It claims one spoonful in water neutralizes many times its volume, with relief in five minutes, and urges getting the genuine product prescribed by physicians for decades.
Forest crews battle up and down the hillside as flames leap from the fire breaks. Andy, Wilkinson, Connie, and Donald endure heat, thirst, and peril while a dramatic rescue scene unfolds. Blackie is wounded as rain finally nears, and the danger ends with medical aid pending.
The snippet promotes Nerviline throat gargling three times daily to keep germs at bay and rubbing Nerviline for chest congestion. It also urges Dr Hamilton's Pills to cleanse impurities and hasten recovery, claiming effectiveness for grippe influenza and bad colds.
In fiscal year 1927 28 Canada admitted three Chinese immigrants two of whom were women. Two students entered as non immigrants. Eleven Chinese were deported. 1923 24 registration shows about 55 706 Chinese in Canada 48 305 males 1 302 females 6 099 children under 18. British Columbia houses 31 116 Chinese residents. Japanese entries in 1927 were 511 and in 1925 535. Over two years 275 adult males 557 adult females 216 children under 18.
Floyd Smith demonstrated a passenger dumping device at Mercer airport. He tilts a seat and releases a 186 pound dummy from 1500 feet. the parachute opens in one and four fifths seconds and the dummy lands safely.
A report estimates only five percent of Florida's white residents are foreign born, highlighting a predominantly native born demographic.
The article describes Oakland Municipal Airport in California with rental rates for hangar space, ground parking, and services. It notes overnight ground rental at one dollar per plane, hangar space from two to four dollars daily depending on size, plane washing at 1.25 dollars per hour, mechanics at two to three dollars per hour, and night bunking at one dollar. The field features a seaplane channel from San Leandro Bay, a 150 seat restaurant, coffee shop, dining room, banquet room, and standard airport amenities. The seaplane channel connects to San Francisco Bay and the ferry post office is 11 miles away.
Western horses totaling about 25 000 were shipped from prairie provinces to Eastern Canada last year. Alberta and Saskatchewan supplied most stock, sent mainly to Ontario and Quebec with some reaching Prince Edward Island. Animals ranged from heavy draught to light range stock, about five percent unbroken. A carload of unbroken Percheron and Belgian range horses was auctioned in Paisley Ontario, averaging 71 dollars per head for 21 horses.
Traveller asks if fast trains stop here and the porter recalls a past crash at the station. The exchange captures a dramatic moment and a local memory of a railway accident.
Poem fragment and devotional verse urging trust in God. Includes lines from James Whitcomb Riley about calm after sorrow and hopeful guidance. Ends with a Spanish proverb about God guiding despite crooked lines.
Taken Without Question notes a public debate over a prominent naturalist's assertion that lions are near sighted while a social trend shows a rising number of Chinese wearing shirts.
Peter J. Hill concealed himself as a museum robot for nine years in New York City by moving pawns with jerky motions while remaining silent. His reveal ends a famed deception once believed to be a mechanical marvel as crowds and famous players failed to beat the device. An aside notes whales possess the largest mammal brains on record, weighing about 7,000 grams.
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