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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1921
Page
6
An old advertisement promotes Catarrhozone as a cure for catarrh and related ailments. It claims inhaling piney vapors of ozone from the stomach clears the nose throat and lungs. The two month course costs one dollar with small sizes five cents, distributed by The Catarrhozone Co Montreal.
A quiet cottage near a lamplit window hides the life of a solitary caretaker. One stormy night a group of artists arrives led by Madame Lesia, a famed singer, stirring memories of the distant glamorous house on the hill and the unspoken past it conceals.
A famed singer confronts the cost of fame when a cottage wife returns to claim simple happiness. The cottager reveals his own triumphs from invention, underscoring that passion and art reshaped their lives. The pair decide their futures: she stays to embrace home, he presents the moonlit house as their shared achievement.
Cardinal Bourne argues there can be no complete separation between Ireland and England. He says the Irish do not want it, noting the issue rests on sense rather than sentiment. He claims Ireland and Great Britain depend on each other for defense and survival.
The piece compares a man’s weight in coin silver and coin gold. A 180 pound man would balance on scales with about $2,500 in silver coins and about $40,000 in gold coins. It ponders the value of a billion dollars in coinage and the vast scale of wealth.
The article marks the 400th year since the death of Ponce de Leon the explorer credited with early Floridian discovery. It highlights his role in Spanish exploration and his legacy in Florida's colonial history.
A letter outlines five women pooling funds to buy a seaside summer cottage. They will have their husbands do repairs while the women furnish and decorate on a tight budget, sharing duties to allow four days of rest for each woman. The plan includes repurposing rooms, adding a bathhouse, windmill water, shared chores, and inexpensive mission brown furniture with green wall boards and simple textiles.
A sample of sawdust fuel has been sent to New Westminster by Walter Thomas of Eureka California. Methods to convert sawmill waste have been tried locally for years without a viable commercial option. Thomas claims to have solved the issue and is exploring establishing a plant here and seeking a site.
A prominent New York hotel reports it contains 2300 bath rooms as part of its sprawling facilities. The figure underscores the property size and amenities offered to guests.
The Fort McMurray detachment of the Alberta Provincial Police is expanded as the townsite grows at the end of the Alberta and Great Waterways line. Constable J. Smith arrives from Clyde to join Constable J. McDonald, while Constables Moses and McCarthy are posted at Lac La Biche.
A reader condemns the killings described as un-Irish and calls out gang violence. The piece argues government action is needed to stop brutal murders and rid society of mercenary criminals who disregard human life.
Bulgarian authorities enforce compulsory labor across society. The law, adopted last year, requires men 20 and older and girls 16 and older to perform state service. About 700,000 fall under the scope, with 600,000 already at work on road making sanitation canal digging street paving and school building projects.
Four hundred boys under twenty in Canadian penitentiaries, says General W S Hughes, superintendent. He attributes much of the issue to insufficient home training and discipline.
The Detroit News notes that good health is essential to social progress and national welfare. It cites an annual loss of at least 700.9 million dollars in wages due to ill health in the United States and an average of about seven lost working days per worker, a large aggregate when multiplied by all workers.
The provincial legislature approved a 3.87 million dollar vote to extend the government telephone system in Manitoba and to erect new public buildings this year.
A party of twenty families from California recently passed through New Westminster to inspect farming lands in northeast British Columbia. Most have already purchased acreage and are moving in household effects stock and implements.
Plans for a brick tile and glazed tile plant to be built in Winnipeg this fall or early spring were announced by C. L. Thompson of the Martin Engineering Company. The initial unit will produce 20,000,000 face bricks annually, with clay deposits nearby suitable for red buff fine brick.
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