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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 27, 1931
Page
5
A narrator muses on vast future progress from steam to electricity, atoms, and space travel. He suggests humans may ride in steel capsules to Australia and Mars voyages could become common. Martians might reveal unseen secrets. Reincarnation supporters welcome these prospects.
A Detroit News column contrasts past and present travel and vehicle figures from 1900 to 1930. It notes bicycles per population, autos per people, horse and mule counts, average vehicle values, and the absence of roads in 1900 versus modern long trips and global travel.
Premier George H. Henry announces Canon H. J Cody of Toronto will head a provincial inquiry into radium as a cancer treatment. The commission includes Professor J. C. McLennan of Toronto, Dr W. T. Connell of Queen's Kingston, Arthur Ford of the London Free Press, and Hon Dr J. M. Robb health minister.
Saskatchewan beekeeping expands as 1 041 bee package orders arrive, up from 600 at the same date last year. Provincial Apiarist R M Pugh says imports could exceed last year by at least 50 percent and many applications come from new beekeepers.
Imperial Airways and Canadian aviation firms negotiate a regular air link between England and Canada using giant flying boats. A London Daily Herald air correspondent reports experts have gathered full meteorological data and route details.
A Memphis editor reports results from an information bureau showing 205 questions total. Of these, 125 came from men and the remainder from women.
Hon. Robert Weir explains Saskatoon Board of Trade resolution urging government to insure use of Canadian grown barley over foreign corn in livestock feeding. Tests showed barley suitable for poultry and livestock, though weed seeds in Head of the Lakes stock raised concern about spreading weeds to eastern farms.
Norman S Clarke of Didsbury reports a three year old Jersey cow Waikiki Zenia's Fanny achieving a 98 percent butterfat test over 60 days in the official ROP test. The cow, imported from Washington, yields about two gallons of milk daily and would produce roughly two pounds of butter at that rate, per government verification by F King.
The Dominion Experimental Farms annual report notes 85,000 tractors in Western Canada in 1929 and 7,726 combines across three provinces. The combine method cuts harvest time and costs, saving about 9 cents per bushel on a 200 bushel crop versus the binder and thresher. Other items mention Java population density and ancient coin counterfeiting as a historical aside.
In 1930 British Columbia shipped 160237 24 pint crates of strawberries, 95229 pint crates of raspberries, and 9000 pint crates of loganberries. Canneries jam makers and wineries produced 1263 tons strawberries 547 tons raspberries 752 tons loganberries and 25629 tons tomatoes.
Wheat exports for the first eight months of the current crop year total about 161.59 million bushels, roughly 61.50 million more than the same period last year at 100.01 million bushels. A Scotland built liner will feature 13 decks.
Our Fashion Magazine presents pattern numbers 281 296 196 619 and 175 with sizes for adults and children including bust measures 16 to 42 inches. Materials required vary by pattern and include yards of 39 inch and 35 inch fabrics with ribbons binding and contrasting fabrics. Also notes Paris spring summer styles and sewing lessons. book price 15 cents, patterns 25 cents in stamps or coin. Wrap coin carefully.
Winnipeg newspaper union advertises pattern orders with address at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. Pattern No Name.
An Ottawa report notes Canada’s past decade of impact on global progress. It cites developments such as the first railway sleeping cars, all electric radio, paper from pulp, commercial helium, panoramic camera, electric heating, the first electric stove, Marquis wheat, telephone trials in Ontario, calcium carbide, standard time, the first submarine telegraph, insulin from Banting, and the compound steam engine transforming ocean commerce.
Saskatchewan dairy data show April 1931 creamery butter production at 1,362,176 pounds, up 93.1 percent from April 1930. Year to date output reaches 4,331,904 pounds, an 81.3 percent rise. Gains are strongest in the north at 126.1 percent, with central and southern regions up 90 and 80 percent respectively.
Lord Baden-Powell tells of a patrol that spent an entire morning learning to build a bridge. The Scoutmaster returns to find the structure weak, but a boy reveals the knots were wrong and the bridge was meant for use by the enemy.
The wholesale destruction of beaver has caused water shortages in parts of interior British Columbia. The government plans to trap many beaver in Bowron Lake country east of Barkerville next fall and release them in the Cariboo country where they are scarce to rebuild water dams.
Horace H. Jayne of the University of Pennsylvania Museum announced the discovery of a tablet from Ur of the Chaldees. The inscription is claimed to show Ur was inhabited as late as 324 B C during the reign of Alexander the Great.
A new Texas railroad line shifts its survey to dodge a mature cottonwood grove, creating a detour that preserves the trees while continuing construction.
Tuberculosis testing in Saskatchewan shows 164 reactors among 13 165 cattle across Indian Head South Qu Appelle Edenwold Sherwood and Lumsden municipalities, about 1.2 percent. Tests nationwide vary from less than one percent to nine percent, conducted by the Department of Agriculture with Ottawa input and Dr. M Parker as chief inspector.
British Columbia plants fifteen thousand two year old firs on logged land near Campbell River. One thousand acres were reserved by the provincial government for reforestation. Trees come from Vancouver greenhouse and are planted under a long standing plan. It is a wise man that doesn't repeat his own wisdom.
A Florence report notes Marconi’s 4000 words per minute wireless transmission. A rival asserts an apparatus to surpass him, quipping about his wife’s voice as the supposed test signal. The exchange echoes early wireless competition and hype.
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