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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 04, 1925
Page
4
A historical note discusses public health measures, urging vaccination and reduced contact to limit influenza attack rates. It argues masks, chlorine, and prophylactics have limited value and promotes world-wide vaccination readiness and direct investigations to better cope with future epidemics.
Seven hundred Negro writers and artists competed for the Army Spingarn prizes in art and literature. Awards went to Willis Richardson of Washington for Best Play The Broken Banjo and Rudolph Fisher of Washington for Best Story High Yaller. Marietta O Bonner of Massachusetts won Best Essay On Being Young a Woman and Colored. B R Harleton of South Carolina won for Best Illustration.
Farmers learn that prize stock at fairs reflects value for marketing and production. The lamb fair, backed by the federal livestock branch, shows that high quality breeding stock boosts flock profit and saleability of ram stocks. This program emphasizes economy of production through better sized, purer flocks and easier sales for top rams.
A Providence Journal excerpt condemns loud car noises as ungentlemanly, childish, and disruptive to neighbors, describing automobiles as noisy symbols of twentieth century civilization. It critiques shrieks whistles roars and blares from vehicles as harmful to public peace and civility.
Hon. E. D. Barrow proposes a Sheep Buying Plan where large flocks are purchased in the United States and sold to smallholders and farmers in British Columbia. Buyers would obtain from 25 to 200 sheep per selection, all sheep purchased would be graded.
A comparison notes that youth stay on the farm when drawn by livestock interests, while in St Catharines a different view claims parents secure their children’s stay by providing an automobile to leave the farm.
French scientists led by Jean Cabrerets claim a giant generator could break down radioactive particles and yield a continuous 900,000 volt supply. They note existing transformers reach 2.6 million volts with alternating current and expect to manufacture units delivering X-ray intensity for medical cancer treatment.
Young Gustaf Dalén, later Nobel laureate of 1912, devised a clever wake up contraption at fourteen. He rigged a wall clock with a tinplate alarm, friction wheel, and emery paper to ignite a coffee lamp 15 minutes early, waking to boiling coffee. A later beacon lamp explosion caused his blindness, yet he continued to invent and lead his plant.
The best evidence shows the atmosphere forms a shell not extending beyond 200 miles from Earth. At fifty miles up air is nearly negligible and density falls rapidly with altitude. If sea level density stretched through, air would fit within five miles. most mass lies near the surface, with seven-eighths below ten miles, leaving Earth largely airless compared to its size.
Alfalfa seed must be inoculated before sowing on land new to alfalfa or sweet clover to supply nitrogen fixing bacteria. A bulletin from Altalta Manitoba explains how to inoculate and where to obtain proper cultures free of charge from the Dominion bacteriologist. An alternative is broadcast spreading 5 to 6 inches into topsoil at 100 to 200 pounds per acre, though this method is labor intensive and risks weed spread.
The Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines in Fairbanks opens its fourth year 100 miles from the Arctic Circle with 54 anticipated enrollment. The Fairbanks College, founded September 18, 1922, lists 14 faculty this season. President is Charles Ernest Bunnell, a former federal judge. Courses cover agriculture engineering mining metallurgy geology mineralogy English French and business administration. Gymnastic training is offered this year.
A grizzled farmer answers a professor about hog feed. He explains hogs digest corn differently and questions the value of a hog’s ime, prompting a puzzled response from the professor.
After many travels the Gutenberg Bible printed by John Gutenberg in 1456 has arrived in England and is owned by Edward Goldston. American collectors have made tempting offers, but Goldston vows the Bible will stay in England.
A fragment shows a fortune teller remarking on letting things aside and a young man replying correct while playing the trombone. The snippet hints at a playful exchange and musical moment without clear context or full narrative.
Lady Constance Howard sister of Lord Carlisle has joined a well known firm as a stenographer and secretary to the Manager. She says she enjoys the work and finds it less arduous than the training to master shorthand and type writing.
Visitors flock to the British Museum to view ancient Chinese relics praised for magical delicacy and beauty. A 1900 year old diamond bag and silk bag, once carried by a Chinese traveler near Julius Caesar's era, are highlighted alongside a case of well preserved items from about 1360 years ago.
A panda in the Zoological Gardens of London displays unusual fur coloring with brown nearly black legs and bright orange body, white ears and facial tint. The piece mentions secondhand newspapers selling briskly in rural Chinese villages.
Dominion entomologists warn that six million square feet of greenhouse space produce crops valued at about three million dollars annually and are ravaged by insects. The bulletin outlines prevention and treatment including soil sterilization, weed control, stock inspection, rotation, and insecticide use such as tobacco preparations.
Howard Carter spoke in London about alabaster lamps found in Tutankhamen's tomb. Egyptian lamps 3275 years old used translucent alabaster with hidden interior decorations that projected a colored image of the king and queen when lit.
A renowned London barrister with annual fees around 100000 dollars recently led a lengthy case for less than five cents a day as per an old English custom. The mechanism allows an undefended prisoner in the dock to choose any barrister to defend him.
A speaker urges entrepreneurs to actively seek work. He compares those who claim to lack business to a man with a small pail in a pasture awaiting a cow to approach. He asserts opportunity will offer itself if pursued.
A claim that plants exposed to electric light at night grow twice as fast as under daylight alone is mentioned as an intriguing idea highlighting the broader message that saving is good but not for hoarding good deeds for the future.
A Canadian woman new to London learns from English relatives that nut means a dandy or well dressed man, not the American insult. She initial ly misreads the term and discovers local usage where knut is a stylish male compliment and may be spelled with a silent K.
The piece notes a railway boom in Transvaal driven by Randfontein gold and diamonds. It cites 12 090 miles of track under one management, growth since the Boer War, frontier advances beyond Beestekraal, and rail expansion pushing civilization northward.
The Oriental owner uses two simple rug care techniques. He lays a rug face down for a week, treads it, then flips it, brushes once toward the pile, and daily brushing preserves quality. Larger or more delicate pieces may be washed, but only well-made vegetable dye wool rugs receive this treatment.
Samuel Larcombe of Birtle Manitoba has developed a new wheat named Axminster, showing strong rust resistance and higher yields under controlled trials. Compared with Marquis Red Fife Kota and Red Fire, Axminster remained largely rust free, while others suffered infections. Larcombe notes the line offers clean golden straw and surpasses Marquis in yield by about eight percent, though he does not claim absolute rust immunity.
John Hopkins economist Joseph Lingewald and geologist Ernest Rosehen report no bravery among aguamans and haulmbisas head hunters they studied in interior South America. They traveled by canoe and motor truck through rugged trails facing hazards but faced no attacks.
The article explains that house flies never grow after emerging as adults. It traces life from egg to grub to chrysalis, then final fly, noting the creature eats but does not enlarge in size once fully formed.
An Avion of the Amsterdam Rotter camine en route to Paris crashed in a wood ten miles from a famed battlefield. Three passengers and the pilot died. The victims were a French man a Dutchman and a German.
A brief dialogue between a sweet girl and a rich young man describes his offer to place his coat around her shoulders while she coyly questions why removing it. The exchange hints at social dynamics and romantic tension.
In a light exchange, Uncle Ezra notes a hostess appears alone as guest towels remain unused, prompting a sharp, witty rejoinder about expected company. The banter highlights social etiquette and the host’s reaction to the observation.
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