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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
7
A comic collection retells fables with talking animals. The Fox outwits the Hare causing its death. a bullfrog serenade backfires on a lonely peasant. an ox breaks a leg in a ditch while horses and a wolf discuss rescue. a thief mistaken by a judge due to a sheep’s silence explores misjudgments.
A brief quip from Browning's Magazine features a connoisseur asking about a cigar while the other man laments trying to forget it. The exchange captures a playful tension over a remembered gift.
A comical exchange between a young man and Miss Bings as he admits, in a drunken moment, that a proposal was made while intoxicated. She retorts that if he accepted, he would be crazy, reflecting a playful miscommunication reported by the Philadelphia Record.
A clipped fragment from a newspaper exchange notes how a character named Squaliop reacts to offered cigars. The text references Atlanta Constitution and Culesgo Tribune and mentions wagons, haymaking, and daily improvements in life.
A timid borrower named Blithers ventures to a national bank seeking a 5000 loan for one year. Cashier Snatchem crafts a fake advance of 4700 against a signed note, then reveals the false cash without actually giving funds. Blithers leaves baffled, puzzled by the 300 interest and the bank’s security hold.
Farmers learn to manage hard milking cows by daily teat insertion to relax the sphincter. The simple treatment aims to restore normal milking, reduce disturbance, and improve herd value.
A Metropolitan Magazine excerpt outlines cancer as internal cellular misgrowth not inherited or contagious. It details immunity concepts, animal studies with killed cancer cells, and instances of spontaneous recovery, noting active and passive immunity and the search for a reproducible cure.
The hoop pole man follows loggers through second growth birch and ash around rotting stumps. He travels with a horse to haul cut poles to camp and fashions hoops by firelight with a draw shave and pipe. Finished hoops earn harvesters 2 to 3 cents each, supplementing wages.
Justice of the Peace David Barb of Clifford reports an apple tree that bears seedless apples with no cores and never blooms in spring yet produces fruit. He brought samples to the city for exhibition amid curious observations from the Columbus Car and Indianapolis News.
The Geneva police took a plaster imprint of Luechent’s face post suicide, after which a strand of the murderer’s hair attached to the plaster. The hair, seized by Geneva youths, has drawn large offers. Swiss belief holds a murderer’s hair can bring luck, with a woman consigning it to a jeweler for a golden locket.
Poetic lines express belief that holidays do not exist, asserting continuous labor through Christmas. The speaker claims uninterrupted toil and dreams of unimagined tasks, imagining imagined efforts and a raised voice of effort amid weariness.
Cattle with mucus discharge may be aided by steam from hot water with pine tar. Do not force a sick animal to rise. Keep horse legs mud free and stalls dry. For pig scours, break four eggs into a quart of fresh milk and feed the litter with twelve hour intervals. If a horse stands over on its knees, lower the heels to bring knees back in place.
Hoard’s Dairyman argues farmers misjudge cow performance and profits. Across state stations cows yield wildly differing profits per head despite identical feed costs. A proactive farmer buys registered bulls and reads dairy literature to lift county averages from 140 to 250 pounds of butter per cow annually.
The article recounts recruitment inducements offered to light dragoons in 1801. It promises mounts on fine horses, superb clothing, rich accoutrements, and pay of two guineas weekly. It notes social respect, courting by society, and chances to rise to fortune, urging immediate application.
Salted crude sea salt from the Crimean coast was found to preserve railway sleepers. A worker’s trial after rotted telegraph poles showed wood lasting five times longer. The experiment was repeated and extended to sleepers in the region, demonstrating effective preservation.
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