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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1928
Page
6
The advertisement outlines using Cuticura Ointment to part the heir and rub into the scalp, leaving it overnight, then shampoo with Cuticura Soap and warm water. It advises a light application of Ointment between shampoos and mentions Cuticura Shaving Stick.
China invites Royal Netherlands Indies airlines to organize a flight to Java and China expected early 1929. Canada exports milk and milk products valued at 18 482 518 for eight months to Aug 31. A chair and coach once owned by Sir John A. Macdonald sold for 3 50 in Toronto. BC exhibit at Royal Winter Fair weighs nearly 14 tons. Lord Byng executor gets 1 000 and Lady Byng 557 000 pounds. Western Canada Airway puts two monoplanes in operation on prairie line. Japanese war office seeks 2 750 000 over three years for air defenses at Kyoto Osaka and Northern Kyushu. Myron T. Herrick may become American ambassador to England. Standard Bank of Canada absorbed by Canadian Bank of Commerce. Worms threaten children. Mother Graves Worm Exterminator offered as remedy.
A July report shows the trolley system carried 15,738,526 passengers, highlighting a notable surge in ridership and mentioning a personal passenger among the totals. The figure underscores public transit usage during the period and hints at broader mobility trends.
A dialogue scene shows Professor A boasting of a discovery as he races a high powered car around a bend. Professor B stammers questions while A reveals the breakthrough perpetual motion concept, claiming he cannot stop the vehicle.
A Manitoba farmer C R Sommerville loaded grain twice in a CN car at Argue on September 20 and October 1. CN official T P White notes the incident reflects transport odds, estimating a one in thirty six billion chance of a car returning to the same shipper at the same point. The tale closes with a cautionary line about love.
Badger skins fetch higher prices when taken in the correct season and handled well. At a Winnipeg fur auction the top badger skin sold for 52 dollars, with average skins around 20 to 25 dollars. Many harvest before winter dormancy lowers value, as spring skins are less valuable and fall skins are even weaker. About twenty thousand badger skins are sold annually in the three Prairie Provinces.
Four health officials appointed to Connaught Laboratories Fellowships at the University of Toronto School of Hygiene. Recipients include Dr. R B Jenkins Edmonton Dr. F W Jackson Winnipeg Dr F S Leader Battleford Sask and Dr Eva Mader Kentville NS. Fellowships established last year to boost Canada's public health workforce.
The advertisement claims childhood illnesses stem from a disordered stomach and bowels and promotes Baby's Own Tablets to regulate digestion. A testimonial from Mrs L M Brown of Walton N S endorses the product, available from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont or medicine dealers at 25 cents a box.
In a vivid domestic exchange, a husband accuses his wife of repeating everything she hears, while she retorts that he forgets what’s said. The quarrel highlights miscommunication and sparks of frustration in a crowded, familiar setting.
An old advertisement touts Minard's Liniment as a remedy for cuts and bruises, claiming it promotes healing and vigor unlike other family remedies.
Airplanes in New York equipped with loudspeakers advertise products by flying over the city. The broadcasts reach all street levels with no escape, prompting calls to apply public nuisance laws to curb the intrusive campaigns.
The text spotlights Captain Malcolm Campbell finishing a Daytona Beach record drive and requests tea. It endorses Red Rose Tea as a robust blend of Assam and Ceylon, emphasizing strength and flavor from London trained tea marketers, available in aluminum packages through grocers.
Parafte Lazaruk and Harry Strynadka of the Northern Alberta Boys and Girls Swine Club won first prize in the Canadian Pacific Railway competition at Willingdon. Benny Flancis and Bernie Kobitzsch took second for Hardis Ty Club, Thurston Smith and Erwin Bergus were third for Sedgewick Club.
A veteran speaker explains long life by noting no motor cars for seventy years and years of house confinement. The piece also reports that over 2,000,000 women in Soviet Russia belong to trade unions.
The piece asserts the Pekin Gazette is the oldest paper, allegedly produced for over a thousand years, and notes a dramatic martyrdom claim of 1500 editors executed. It also includes a humorous vignette about a radio TV discussion, domestic banter, and a suspicious customer at a grocer.
Paul addressed the hostile crowd from the stairway above the temple court, defending his Jewish heritage and Christian witness. He recounted his Pharisaic training, his dramatic conversion, and his calling to testify about Jesus to both Jews and Gentiles.
Cut veal into six to eight squares and marinate with salt and pepper. Place a heaping tablespoon of Piquant stuffing on each square and skewer with at least four skewers per bird. Brown in deep fat then bake in a roasting pan with frying fat, add 1 cup water, cover and bake slowly for one hour. Enough for six to eight veal birds.
A recipe outlines heating a food chopper in boiling water then processing chopped raisins. Butter melts, flour and seasonings join with water to thicken, then raisins horseradish lemon juice are stirred in and served hot. A concluding sentence notes a remark about night schools.
A commission of the Academy of History investigates claims of Columbus’s tomb at Oliva de Jerez Spain finding traces in Santa Maria Grecia church and stones inscribed Here lies Christopherus Sanchez Enriquez Grand Admiral of the Oceans and the Lands by Him Discovered born 1441. Some authorities claim Enriquez was Columbus’s real name.
Canada’s Pacific gateway ships 80 million bushels last year with Vancouver likely to handle about 120 million this year. The growth since 1921, new elevator capacity, and shipments via the Panama Canal to Europe and Japan mark Vancouver as a booming North American port. The Peace River country north of Edmonton could become a vast farming belt. its 47 million acres yield wheat crops up to 70 bushels an acre.
The Northwest Grain Dealers Association projects this year's harvest at 558,459,600 bushels of wheat and breaks down other grains: oats 317,714,800. barley 91,375,000. rye 11,809,000. flax 5,079,200. Includes a brief, dark humor exchange and a classroom joke about scarlet fever.
Advertisement seeking women to do plain and light sewing at home with good pay. Work can be done full or spare time, shipments sent anywhere with charges paid. Send stamp for particulars to National Manufacturing Co in Montreal.
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