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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 18, 1925
Page
2
The piece urges early shopping and gift mailing to ease post office and store staff strain during the holiday rush. It notes congestion risks, benefits of sending gifts early, and tips for proper parcel handling and postage placement to speed service and improve overall efficiency.
Quirky dialogue shows a customer mistaking a stove failure for a fire out while a waiter justifies an extra boiled egg as a spare. A rescuer steadies a distressed maid as instructions on speech get corrected.
A 1790 Massachusetts farmer shows frugal living by spending just seven dollars to sustain his family and run his farm, with all essentials produced on the property.
A fresh engineer M de Monge invents a lightweight aeroplane driven by auto engines with no fuselage. The cockpit sits centrally between two nine horsepower engines and can travel up to 3009 miles, at about 100 mph. Britain builds another all metal experimental craft with sails and mast to convert into a yacht on water, designed by German engineer Rohrbach.
A 15 cent package promises simple directions for tinting or dyeing fabrics. It claims quick results for lingerie silks ribbons skirts and more and advises buyers to tell the drugist material type wool silk linen cotton or mixed.
Marion B Shaw holds all speed violation records and is accused of breaking more laws and insulting police as hick cops. A New York judge, Tal ley, rules against her husband possibly sending him to jail. She has been summoned for speeding 53 times and escaped when chased by motorcycle police 27 times. In 1923 she was fined 25 dollars for calling a policeman a hick cop.
Advice for treating early cold symptoms in children with Baby's Own Tablets. A testimonial from Mrs. Joseph Cadieux of Holyoke, Miss notes ease of use and recommends keeping the tablets on hand. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
Hon P C Larkin the Canadian high commissioner in London and Mrs Larkin hosted a dinner at Lancaster Gate. Guests included US ambassador to Great Britain Hon Alanson B Houghton and Mrs Houghton, Rudyard Kipling and Mrs Kipling, Speaker J H Whitley and Mrs Whitley, Irish Free State high commissioner J MacNeill and Mrs MacNeill, and British foreign secretary Austen Chamberlain and Mrs Chamberlain. A quip about one-sided thinking closes the item.
A compact observation notes that humans rely on cookbooks for recipes and physicians for medical care, framing the human as a creature guided by practical knowledge from both cooking and medicine.
In Saskatoon the Western Colonization Company office saw two Danish settlers hand over two thousand dollars in thousand dollar bills as part payment on a section of land twelve miles from the city. Agent Alex Fespersen, a former Danish immigrant, facilitated the deal.
Mrs I M Parks of Consecon Ontario writes of heart and nerve trouble causing extreme breathlessness and nerves. She could hardly do housework or stay alone as every sound felt like a shock. She seeks relief for her distress.
A skit mentions a 22 year old heart and nerve remedy from The T Milburn Co Toronto praised for relief. Dialogue contrasts Marjorie and Anita with jokes about Dorothy and a dentist husband. It notes worm risks to children and promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator. The piece ends with a remark about an unraised Egyptian obelisk weighing 1 168 tons.
The Jews pass a forged case against Paul as Tertullus flatters Felix and accuses him of stirring disturbances, opposing Roman law, leading Nazarenes, and defiling the temple, while the Sanhedrin backs the charges in Caesarea. John A. Shedd is cited on flattery.
Scientists report a new device called the radium clock that uses atomic energy and should run indefinitely, unlike prior perpetual motion efforts. The claim suggests a breakthrough in long term timekeeping, though practical verification remains to be seen.
A Brooklyn woman accepted a $25 000 radium package misaddressed as radio parts after a hospital ambulance driver left it at the wrong home. The error arose from confusion between radio and radium and the package was not opened.
The department notes a strong sockeye salmon run in the Stuart Lake district at the Fraser River headwaters in British Columbia, the first since 1909. Officials credit the 1913 Hell's Gate rock slide for previously blocking the river and reopening access over the past 16 years.
British bluejackets escorting the Prince of Wales home from South Africa aboard the Repulse displayed versatility in a series of quarter deck comedies. In one act the Prince himself appeared in the role of a woman with notable success.
Humorous quip notes that love often departs through the dining room window and suggests using Minard’s Liniment for hoarseness. A light, era-tinged teaser reflecting familiar homefront humor.
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