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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
3
Detective Roberts describes how counterfeiters distribute notes by luring locals with large rewards and tracking buyers. A banker’s notes trigger a shadowing operation that follows a suspect woman to a house opposite a rented room where multiple crews move counterfeit bills through various stores and a final hideout remains elusive.
A store opposite housed a telephone enabling a young woman to call police. They surrounded a house and found a man in women’s clothes leading a counterfeit gang with full tools. The reticule held genuine money meant for distribution. The man used disguises to pass as different people, while a female assistant’s instincts helped expose the plot.
The Balkans in the name given to the Balkan peninsula includes Turkey in Europe with its possessions Mace dgonia and Albania, Bulgaria with eastern Roumelia, Servia, Montenegro and Greece.
The papal line shows distinct grooming eras from St. Peter onward. Beards ruled until 1153, then two centuries of bearded popes, followed by a long era from 1700 to today with clean shaven faces.
A description notes that wave force scales with height and the sea can strike rocks with about seventeen tons per square yard, illustrating the power of ocean waves.
A London Chronicle writer reports a forerunner to Mary Baker Eddy found in Japan. He notes a pre Christian Science cult called len rique or the medical religion, believed by about 4 million Japanese followers long before Christian Science began.
A diary excerpt quoted in Cornhill Magazine recounts a Washington hotel lodging tale from the 1890s. A lady, denied a room, is placed in a sixth floor chamber where she awakes to a childlike cry, Oh mother, mother, felt as a restless spirit of the room's prior occupant who died in delirium tremens.
A fragmented note describes glass spoons made of pressed glass intended for medicinal uses in a New York showroom. It notes they imitate metal spoons in shape and size but are thicker to endure regular use.
Pearson's Weekly reports Meng Yu Shih, a 66 year old widow in Mangtao Weihaiwei, heads the largest Chinese family with sixty six members plus one servant under her roof. The piece notes Wu Fu Tung Tang prestige and that many households exceed forty members, while small families of three or four are viewed poorly despite wealth.
A curious English law mixup centers on Mrs Wilks a suffragette who owns property taxed by the state Her husband Wilks says the property is not his and claims no debt He is jailed under law for his wife debts while the tax fight exposes views on women’s property rights and suffrage.
A duck farm is profitable with low startup costs and steady demand in large cities. Growth can continue until a practical limit is reached. Gross profit near 100 percent, net profit hinges on the raiser’s organization and effort. Some fail, but many succeed when well managed. Source notes Leslie's Weekly.
A 1703 pamphlet titled The Deformity of Sin Cured was preached at St Michael's Crooked Lane before the Prince of Orange. It was sold by Matthew Denton at the Crooked Billet near Cripplegate. The text proclaims that every crooked path shall be made straight by divine guidance.
Australia faces a dramatic decline as its famed black opal mines near exhaustion with current output nearly halted. Mining operations are shifting focus amid scarce high grade stones.
London plans spread for storing a huge amber of 1 100 carcasses as new cold storage facilities rise. Officials say the massive stock will be kept in secure facilities to support distribution and trade.
Irank H. Beath of Corning Iowa runs a 266 acre Beath farm in Adams County. For five years he has fed Hereford calves he raises, proving beef production profitable in the corn belt. The operation uses 80 acres for a breeding herd on bluegrass pasture and the remainder includes bottom land and woodland suitable for pasture and hay.
The Kansas State Fair showcased a herd from Kansas Agricultural College drawing much attention. Each animal earned a first prize in its class, comprising Anguses Galloways Shorthorns and Herefords. Orange Dale, a two year old champion Shorthorn steer, exemplifies the ideal killing animal and top beef quality.
The herd relies on pasture and coarse farm feeds with corn silage becoming key in the last three years. Calves are born April to June, weaned in October, and sold at 11 to 13 months with profits averaging over five years. Output notes steady gains despite occasional losses.
The text explains that mercury rises and falls with barometer changes because dry air is heavier and moist air is lighter. An open tube in a barometer shows this: moist air cannot support the mercury, while dry air allows it to rise and fall with weather conditions.
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