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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 03, 1938
Page
5
In a London News illustrated piece Air Commodore JG Hearson explains a balloon barrage plan to defend cities from air raiders. Balloons are tethered by cables at 100 yard intervals and counted as lethal barriers that force bombers upward toward anti aircraft fire and interceptors.
A London weekly quotes two Canada in England letters praising a Quebec City CBC program heard by British listeners via the BBC. The writers celebrate the carillon and Niagara thunder and urge CBC BBC exchanges to showcase other Canadian cities and Maritime stories in transatlantic radio. Ottawa Journal.
Brantford Ontario inventor Norman Clark demonstrates a 3.7 meter high frequency short wave radio egg cooking device. Eggs placed in a coil inside the apparatus reportedly cook in about 15 minutes. Clark, back from Seattle where he taught radio physics, says the method will not replace the traditional saucepan.
The sponge fisheries of the Mediterranean grew into an important industry at an early date and the entire populations of seacoast towns made their living at the trade.
Rev I H Pritchard announces a new Business Man's Prayer Fellowship to aid anxious businessmen and their families. A Toronto Bible College student will serve as receiving secretary in the office, which will route requests to four women referees who pray. Also included is a Calgary report about bald men challenging barbers in Chickasha Oklahoma over hair cut charges, highlighting humorous disputes and facial glare issues.
The piece argues that while machinery brings calamity, progress cannot be halted. It urges statesmen and philosophers to prepare for crises as machinery multiplies and labor shrinks. It predicts an adjustment of interests and a shift toward viewing machinery as a friend to the poor, a future beneficent angel.
T. O. M. Sopwith, who twice failed to win the America's Cup, declares Britain will not challenge again for many years. On returning from New York he said, Under no circumstances will I make another attempt with Endea vour 17.
A damaged OCR fragment describes Mrs Smith’s pet dog being run over and mentions an abrupt reaction. The text is unclear but implies distress for Mrs Smith and a miscommunication about delivering the news.
The statement notes that only one in three automobile owners in the United States has ever owned a new car. It speculates on the further impact if people were born old and had to age into youth and silliness.
Toronto advertising executive Bacon Brodie cites Prof. E L Thorndyke of Columbia University to argue adults retain learning power well beyond youth. After two years study, age is a minor handicap with a 40 year old only 20 percent less efficient than a 20 year old, and capable of learning new trades languages or ideas.
An exchange between an old lady and a porter plays on directions and roles. The porter jokes that turning left makes you right, then concedes by saying turn to your right and you will be left, reflecting witty platform chatter.
A noted strong man unveils a fresh golf club set while his wife wears a hat from last Spring. The scene captures a casual public appearance with family fashion.
The National Museum of Canada houses the largest collection of recorded folk songs with about 7000 cylinders. Anthropologists Marius Barbeau and Diamond Jenniss preserve French Canadian, North American Indian, and Eskimo melodies, noting a world wide revival and the value of recordings for learning and exchange.
The editorial lauds a recent Telegraph and Morning Post tea supplement noting London as the world’s leading tea market. It cites Sir Alfred Pickford on 97,500,000,000 cups consumed annually and Hon. W. Ormsby Gore on London as the capital’s prime tea hub. It recalls Basil Lubbock on the Taeping Ariel Serica tea race of 1866 and reports 454,000,000 pounds of tea imported into London last year, 93 percent of UK totals.
A playful exchange has a speaker lamenting being viewed only as a cook in the household while the other retorts that meals here prove otherwise, highlighting affection and humor within domestic life.
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