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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 30, 1927
Page
4
The account recalls the shift from blue horizon uniforms to khaki in 1915. It evokes memories of soldiers marching, battles near Vouziers and Port-Douaumont, and a Senegalese casualty amid horizon blue remnants, praising the discipline and sacrifices of French troops.
Trade Commissioner A S Dileakney notes Brazil's farming uses few ploughs, averaging 14 per hundred farms. Hoes replace ploughs with unique designs. Hand tools stem from Portuguese models, with imports from England United States Germany France and Britain trade marks carry high value in Brazil.
An experiment at the Scott Saskatchewan Experimental Station with four Yorkshire pig lots found buttermilk fed after weaning yielded the best gains and highest net profit. Lot 1 with plain buttermilk and Lot 2 with tankage showed poorer performance. later, Lot 3 switched to tankage while Lot 4 had neither supplement, both underperforming.
The University of Saskatchewan owned Plymouth Rock hen completed a pallet year on August 30 with 333 eggs, breaking the breed world record. Despite efforts to induce moult after the record, she continued laying, reaching 375 eggs by October 27.
The British Columbia Land Department leases land near Victoria to grow trees from seeds and plant them artificially to renew timber stocks for future generations. The young trees will be planted in Government Amber reserves across the province.
The British High Commissioner reports Solomon Islands tribesmen Dasiena and 41 natives alleged to have joined the uprising in killing several officials including whites have been rounded up and jailed. Patrols faced opposition near Baglana’s visiary. one sentry wounded two natives, one escaped. Basiana charged with killing District Commissioner Dell. outbreak first reported October 6.
Austin Norman Palmer, creator of the Palmer system now taught in many city public schools, died in New York after a brief illness. He claimed about 25 million Americans had learned his method. Once nearly fired for poor handwriting in the 1880s, he adopted the muscle movement technique, built a business college, and expanded his method nationwide to build a fortune.
C R Davidson of the Greenwich Observatory reports success in daylight eclipse experiments to compare calcium line strengths in the sun’s blue and infrared regions. Using modified Giggleswicks spectrograph and a fifteen inch reflector, he formed solar images and compared line intensities despite wet weather.
Sultan Ibn Saud bans jazz and related instruments including gramophones violins harmonicas saxophones and pianos along with cards dominos chess and checkers sets eau de cologne green bottles statuary toys and alcohol. A 120 percent duty is placed on cigarettes and tobacco amid a bizarre Munich gossip note.
The Western Manager of Colonization and Agriculture in Winnipeg announces the promotion of an assistant to the Director of the Department. The new role centers on operations with headquarters in Montreal.
Britain leads December foreign debt payments to the United States with $92.6 million, bringing yearly total to $163.6 million. Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Poland and smaller sums from Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia follow, while France faces a potential funding deal after spring elections or a lump sum due next August.
A thick snow bank six feet deep stops bullets at fifty yards while a solid embankment fails at triple distance. The bullet shatters steel, penetrates the solid bank, but the feathery snow absorbs and holds the lead in a striking demonstration of its odd behavior.
In England dogs are allowed to roam front gardens after dark, and postal workers on the last round often endorse letters Dog loose in garden and delay delivery until morning.
Ralph Linton of the Feld Musani Chicago, touring from Madagascar to New York, brings 4 000 Madagascar jewelry specimens to the museum. He notes an Arab custom of wearing heavy clothing in dry heat and describes Saure Savers and a sorcerers box. He faced malaria and heard tales of man eating trees, but found no such flora.
Five new murder bags join Scotland Yard gear for the CID chief inspectors. Each bag holds fingerprinting kit, clothing and hair test tubes, magnifiers, gloves, apron, scissors, forceps, disinfectant, towels, tape, ruler, compass, torch, handcuffs, and other tools. A related remark notes long service and a silver wedding upcoming.
The brief notes that American humor leans toward Life while British humor is anchored by Punch, illustrating differences in tone and tradition between the two outlets.
The Gordon Regimental piping awards were finalized after a nationwide competition at the Banff Highland Gathering. Major-General Thacker announced Lieut Charles Dunbar as the recipient of the Beatty trophy plus $106. Pipe-Major McPherson secures second prize of $56 and Pipe-Sergeant Hugh McBeth wins $25,000. Neil Sutherland earns $100 for first place as Champion Pipe Player, with James Hamilton second and others noted.
Britain names its 201 400 horsepower electric locomotives for the Metropolitan Railway instead of numbering them. The first is Florence Nightingale, with others including William Penn John Hampden John Low Dick Whittington John Milton Michael Faraday Oliver Cromwell Benjamin Disraeli Sherlock Holmes Charles Dickens Sir Christopher Wren Sir Ralph Verney Lord Byron Sir Francis Drake Edmund Burke and John Wycliffe. The trend echoes England’s kings with the largest locomotive recently exhibited in America named for King George V.
J A Wilson director of civil aviation spoke to the Rotary Club in Ottawa outlining Canada’s postwar aviation progress. He cited rapid surveys of remote region development and a 15 ton drilling machine and 12 men moved to Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay, claimed to save a year of work. He said regular routes are not yet set but expected soon and that air transport will begin from big population centres within a few years.
A Yugoslav sculptor Iva Despic creates a unique war memorial honoring mothers who sent sons to war. The piece, possibly shown in London, aims beyond Yugoslavia to all nations, reflecting the artist’s belief that mothers everywhere deserve tribute.
Odd customs and census quirks appear across regions with strict measures. In Almendraljeo women’s skirt length dictates taxes with ankles showing paying least. Turkey plans a census with stay-at-home order and transport shutdown for 24 hours. Eskimo tribes reportedly bury a dog with a dead child for guidance in the afterlife.
The jack pine once seen as a weed tree now shows strong commercial value with at least 5 060 000 feet board measure of ties and lumber produced annually. Rail ties dominate, about 20 000 cords are cut for pulpwood, and large outputs of lath shingles and other products follow.
A narrator recalls a maid whose dresses rise from ankle length to knee length and then above the knee, culminating in a week’s notice. The line from Der Gotz in Vienna reflects social expectations and abrupt dismissal.
A health officer cannot single handedly fix public health. Public opinion must be shaped by voluntary organizations educating Canadians about mental moral physical and social factors. Better housing recreation and health examinations reduce disease and death and economic losses, enabling communities to cooperate with local officials.
Four train loads of horses are en route to Leningrad, bringing 300 head from Western Canada due to late harvest and snowstorms. This season total is 3,000 horses shipped by the Dekabrist with a final 850 on the last load. Officials plan to boost next year purchases to about 10,000 and may charter an additional steamer.
Jane walks with a pretty girl and two men under a green-eyed monster’s influence. A severe thunderstorm erupts as lightning flashes. One man admits fear, another mocks him, then the first warns for Miss Marples’s safety in the dangerous storm.
It is estimated evaporation and fire losses cost the oil industry more than 200 million dollars annually. Clay from chinaware is being used to coat highly polished art papers.
A brief note clarifies that sponges, though often mistaken for plants, are animals in their living state. This distinction emphasizes their animal biology and sessile aquatic lifestyle.
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