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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1933
Page
5
The article surveys explanations for sun dimming without solar or lunar alignment. It notes sunspots likely not the cause, recalls Kepler’s 1547 red sun mystery, and considers atmospheric dust from eruptions like Krakatoa, plus speculative ideas about comets or birds. It argues against changes in the sun and without invoking supernatural causes.
Two Steinbach area beekeepers travel by truck to Mayhew Mississippi to secure 300 bee packages about 2 000 000 bees for Manitoba hives. Saskatchewan association sold 1 700 last year and this spring orders exceed 1 700 as shipping starts. Package bee imports may double last year with many orders for 25 50 75 and 100 or more packages.
E Miller Australian representative of the Oxford University Press opened a Wellington campaign against the sales tax on Bibles and prayer books. He called New Zealand the only country besides Russia where the Good Book is taxed.
The piece describes Japanese soldiers as hardened by hardship from childhood and shaped by compulsory schooling that instills cheerfulness, reverence for authority, and moral training. It contrasts them with European troops and dismisses direct comparisons to the British Tommy while emphasizing discipline and resilience.
Dainty collars and cuffs appear in Paris fashion spreads. Crisp organdie, crinkly crepe silk, and white pique lead the new look. Patterns show collar and cuff sets in crepe silk or pique, with options in organdie and gandie. Style No. 622 offers one size and costs 20 cents. Wrap coin carefully.
Pattern ordering guidance appears from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg. The message references a pattern number but provides no further details or instructions.
Ontario farmers show March sales 6.5 million dollars higher than a year earlier, with Dominion exports to the United Kingdom rising across products including canned fruits and ham and bacon. UK buying power and Canadian city sales resist weakness, while Montreal receives seven and a half carloads of Louisiana strawberries.
The Automobile Underwriters Association backs reduced rates and big bonuses for careful drivers. It argues that drivers with no accident claims deserve favorable rates and that cutting accidents by half could sharply lower premiums for all.
A Brigg England farm sale offered over century old implements including cutters, single-knifed slice rs, ploughs weighing over half a ton with beams up to ten feet, and old pole wagons. An air mail service across the Sahara desert is planned to start soon.
Indians in Fernie BC claim a ancestral curse on the Elk River Valley has followed the town since early coal mining began. They cite disasters from floods fires and strikes linking them to the closure of Crown Nest mines while noting lamb markets and prices for ewes and wethers.
A South of England school teacher used a one acre allotment for fruit vegetables and raising ducks chickens and rabbits. She fed fifty people nine months a year produced 1000 lb of jam and sent six dozen eggs to a hospital at Christmas beyond school needs.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture reports Garnet wheat shows promise alongside Reward and Marquis, with gains for farmers though not recommended where Marquis or Reward do well. In Japan, rice storage on March 1 reached 235 million bushels, up 20.5 million from 1932.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture notes that at 49 degrees F milk shows little bacterial change over 24 hours, at 50 degrees growth rises fourfold, and at 60 degrees nearly a hundredfold. Milk should be cooled promptly. freshly drawn milk contains a bacteria-inhibiting enzyme that helps restrain growth briefly. Delayed cooling allows bacteria to continue, reducing effectiveness of the lacten effect beyond 21 hours.
A historical note states that casein is employed in the factory production of artificial ivory billiard balls, indicating material use and trade practices in that era.
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