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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 15, 1934
Page
5
Dust storms threaten the prairie trio as 6,000,000 broadleaf trees and 200,000 evergreens are allocated to Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba farmers. About 300 to 400 bales depart Indian Head and Sutherland for shelter belts to combat drought and aid farm beauty.
Professor Abdulio Fernandez head of the Madrid University pharmacy faculty reports progress by chemists in producing small synthetic diamonds and believes larger synthetic diamonds will become a commercial possibility soon.
Two men drink at a bar. One declares he will buy the hotel, but his friend Dick jokes to wait until more drinks are had, then sell it to him. The exchange captures a comic impulse toward impulsive business bets.
Dr Otto Schmidt leads a Soviet Arctic expedition claiming potential gold and oil in frozen Siberia using icebreakers from Vladivostok and Archangel. The Chelushkin wreck survivors, over 100 Russians, seek a return in months with new expeditions to continue scientific work.
The article recalls Charles Dickens visit to Montreal from Toronto in May about 82 years ago. It notes his admiration for Canada’s changing seasons and Montreal’s enduring roads and public works. Dickens stayed at Rasco’s hotel, now a faded memento of his visit. He praised Montreal’s setting, streets, shops, and suburbs.
The notice promotes a pattern for a slenderizing jacket dress using tricky bias lines. It notes navy and white crepe silk versions, suitable for travel and weekends, with other fabric options and sizes 36 to 48. Pattern No. 677 costs 20 cents in stamps or preferred coin.
Researchers note that butterflies possess taste organs on their tarsi enabling tasting of compounds upon contact. Separately, a red ant colony’s hunting preserve reportedly spans 17 acres, illustrating expansive foraging territory.
US expert Captain Thomas J. Lee forecasts rainfall in 1936 to 1938. He links expanding sunspots to climate shifts causing floods and droughts, citing prior Mississippian floods and broad global droughts as context for his warning.
The Department of Agriculture notes heavy consumer demand for Grade C eggs, with supplies scarce this year. Cool weather keeps poor quality eggs low, and current Grade C entries are mainly due to size or dirt. Producers cannot easily control size but can reduce dirt with cleaner production, boosting profits.
Rome marked its 268th birthday on April 21 with public works inauguration led by Premier Benito Mussolini. He accepted a monument to Simon Bolivar, funded by Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia and Panama, placed outside the national stadium.
Sir Norman Watson of London spoke at the United Service Institute of Ottawa about a coast range ski journey starting at Tatla Lake. He praised British Columbia as a ski paradise and Banff as a potential St Moritz, detailing blizzards faced and a 2000 step climb in Fury Gap and bush travel to Knight Inlet. He emphasized empire mindedness and the coast range’s beauty and skiing attractions in the temperate zone.
Smithfield Market, London's meat market near St Pauls, is the largest dead meat and poultry market globally. Last year it handled over 456000 tons of meat and poultry, with major portions of Australian, New Zealand, and Argentine exports passing through. Around Christmas up to 5000 tons are sold in a day, and annual wholesale value reaches about 175 million dollars. The cattle market there has existed for centuries.
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