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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
3
A Winnipeg mother recounts her young daughter's burn from a stove spill. The druggist recommended Zam-Buk, which soothed pain rapidly and aided healing. The child recovered quickly with daily applications, and the mother urges mothers to keep Zam-Buk for emergencies. Zam-Buk sells for fifty cents.
An Adelaide narrates a chat with her father about fear. The girl asks if he is afraid of cows dogs thunder and wonders if he fears nothing except Mama, prompting a lighthearted contrast with parental reassurance.
Artificial vanilla, or vanilline, shows wide price swings from 180 dollars per pound in 1880 to 80 in 1888 and 20 in 1900. Current artificial vanilla sells for 9 dollars per pound, near the real vanilla's average. Synthesis offers forty times the aroma strength but lacks the delicate perfume of genuine vanilla, which arises from substances absent in the manufactured product.
The term hackney originated in twelfth century England for a saddle horse used by knights. Records from 1298 show hackneys among horses killed at Falkirk, paid from public funds. Over time hackney came to mean a hired horse and then broadened to conveyances like hackney coaches and chairs.Eastern counties long famed for hackneys, with discussions on trotters and the distinction between hackney and palfrey, plus notes on the trotting horse as a distinct variety shaped by environment and use.
The article discusses whether creatures reported by savages as haunting lakes and forests are remnants from the pre glacial epoch. It cites Hagenbeck and Clift on beings like a Brontosaurus like animal in Rhodesia and a sea serpent, plus the mammoth discovery and portraits by Ernest Griset, noting few scientists believe in postglacial survivals.
The article discusses trotting horses as the main attraction at agricultural exhibitions, noting Danish and Norse stock influence on Norfolk Suffolk and Yorkshire. It urges varied race formats, including team races and longer distances, to boost excitement and gate receipts. It also touches on grafting in horticulture and quirky notes on dragons and extinct creatures in travelogues.
Prof points to weigh the earth by imagined steps, noting the earth's weight is the pull it exerts on objects. He cites a 13 followed by 24 zeros figure and explains density versus water, then suggests pendulum tests to show variation by location. Mass remains constant despite movement of the object.
The text traces the search for Earth's mass from Newton's law of gravitation to the first real weighing. It covers Poynting, Maskelyne, Hutton on Swirehallion in Perthshire, then Mitchell, Cavendish, and Boys, noting density results and the path of discovery from Manchester to Cambridge to Birmingham.
A tradition in Japan chooses a newborn's name by temple rites at two weeks. The father proposes three names to the priest, who writes them on slips and tosses them upward. The last slip to reach the ground determines the baby's name, copied by the priest on silk for the parents with the blessing So shall the child be named.
Edna Valentine Trapnell writes in Success about a timeless romance that haunts the hills. The narrator seeks the elusive horn of Romance, hoping to hear its distant sigh before life ends, while others may pursue it without recognizing its passing.
A verse masterwork expresses enduring love despite separation. The speaker pledges that love can bridge time and space, touching a beloved distant hand through long lonely leagues. Clinton Scollard’s lines from Ainslee's magazine convey romantic longing.
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