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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 09, 1922
Page
5
Bir KR Horton Chadwick, MP, reflects after a month in Canada. He praises the country’s imperial spirit, notes Canada’s resources and untapped wealth, and stresses the need for closer social and commercial ties with Britain while warning against losing sight of postwar realities.
Saville organizer of Boys' and Girls' Club reports about 225 fairs this year in Saskatchewan with prizes ranging from purebred animals to seed potatoes and eggs. He notes transportation challenges reduced livestock shows but quality remained high and calf displays drew praise. He says exhibitions are a community effort aligned with regular schooling and wider adoption of club rules.
Early December cattle markets favor the Christmas trade with a premium on fat cattle. Farmers should finish stock with succulent fodder and liberal grain to command higher prices. Also notes a joke about wealth and indigestion and mentions 156 miles of towpaths along the River Thames in England.
D J McConnell administrator of the Narcotic Drugs Act argues for a farm to house and treat dope users. He favors a single licensed narcotic shop on prescription and praises Manitoba as cleaner than other regions. He estimates 5 to 100 Winnipeg dope fiends and 15 in prison, condemning jail as futile for permanent cures. A dedicated farm would cost about 160000 with hopes for provincial and federal support.
The Englishman the Frenchman and the American each view others as ill mannered. The Frenchman resents English manners and tolerates American crudities. The Englishman scorns both French and American manners, while the American hopes to learn and discovers European manners are as good but distinct from his own. Milwaukee Journal.
A London Sunday Pictorial remark notes that a majority of American doctors favor big breakfasts. It cites an American admirer of Ralph Waldo Emerson who linked eating pie for breakfast to the philosopher’s alleged mental decline.
A father scolds his son for being late again after hours. The boy replies with a ten minute delay. The father orders him to his room and to bring the key, insisting the thoughtlessness must be checked.
The judge explained nautical phrases reflecting seafaring terms. He noted expressions like sailing too close to the wind out of depth bearing losses and leeway and beam ends carry familiar meanings in everyday speech.
The Saskatchewan forestry farm launches a spring programme to distribute four million trees. Superintendent James Mclean and helpers prepare a plantation of five or six hundred trees per quarter section. Leaders emphasize trees as windbreaks and prairie scenery, not just timber.
A short lived exchange features Uncle Titus offering a dime to Bobby for a favor. Bobby questions the coin’s value with a quip about holes, highlighting a lighthearted moment in a family scene.
Dorothy prefers a quick stroll over a car ride asking her mother to tarry. The playful exchange ends with a request to delay the walk.
A Spanish aviation magazine claims Britain plans to transform Gibraltar into a massive underground air station. The project would tunnel the hillside to store fleets of aeroplanes and seaplanes with oil tanks and repair shops, centered on a hall for planes with multiple galleries and elevators.
A three car expedition in 67 days covered 6000 miles from Adelaide to Port Darwin and back revealing vast grazing plains and fertile, well-watered soil across unsettled country. They noted rivers suitable for irrigation and tied land development to a north south transcontinental railroad and settler influx.
Archaeologists dig the world’s oldest boat from a bog on the Slesvig coast. The vessel is believed to date to the start of the second century, offering rare insights into early maritime craft.
In a fairy tale dialogue, Stella explains the Whipsnake of India and Malay regions as green and poisonous, while the U S Whipsnake is black and harmless. Baby snakes form darker color with age, lay twenty to twenty five eggs in June July, and feed on frogs birds and small snakes.
The article discusses population density worldwide and asserts the British Dominions need immigrants who will settle on land or provide domestic service. It notes Belgium, Holland, Britain, Japan, China, Australia, Canada, and the United States have varying densities, with Britain and its dominions seeking new arrivals while the United States imposes quotas that affect unskilled labor.
England and Wales show 120000 fewer acres under crops and grass this year, with arable area down 309000 acres in twelve months. The piece warns of a backward drift toward prewar soil neglect, noting weather, prices, and policy as factors shaping a troubling trend in national agriculture.
The Babylonian tablets dated to 2100 B C describe Adam’s banishment as a defensive act by a Babylonian god, not caused by Eve’s temptation or immortality. Dr. Edward Chiera, assyriologist at the University of Pennsylvania, notes the tablets predate Genesis by about a millennium and omit the serpent, yet align with the fall narrative.
A film star, described as a recent creation, deposits the first instalment of her salary at a bank. On the paying-in slip the words cheque and specie appear. Opposite cheque she writes the amount, and opposite specie after hesitation writes female, as noted in Tit-Bits.
The article explains why keys are not in alphabetical order and how speed drives layout. It notes frequent letters sit for easy access in the middle, edges hold rarer letters, and each finger carries assigned letters. It also mentions avoiding collisions of type bars during typing.
The victim recounts a frightening incident saying it was his first car ride and he accelerated too fast. He tried to stop, spotted a bridge rushing toward him, and attempted a turn to avoid it, leaving little else known about the accident.
The newspaper apologizes to Mrs. Or lando Overlock for a prior misprint. The headline should have used fete a French word meaning celebration. The correction is issued from Wie Hiamsonville North Dakota.
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