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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 30, 1927
Page
5
The text explains sun and clock methods to determine south at noon, Polaris as a night guide using the Big Dipper, and signs from nature for direction. It notes limitations of sun and star methods and promotes using a compass and maps from the Topographical Survey, including the National Topographical Series with magnetic variation information, available to the public.
A fashion pattern description details a chic one piece frock with three plaits a deep V neck and long sleeves with turn-back cuffs. Notes sizes 16 18 20 for misses and small women with material yardage and ribbon needs and prices for pattern and fashion book.
A Red Cloud Nebraska farmer sits in a stalled wagon on a railroad track as a freight train bears down. The engine crew stops inches away and the farmer angrily questions their awareness, demanding to know what they are doing.
The saying holds that a man’s influence reflects in his offspring, with virtues and character serving as a lasting inheritance. This view emphasizes parental example shaping future generations through daily conduct and guidance.
The Pas dog derby heated up as 120 mile race part of The Pas winter carnival runs March 12 to 15 with racers covering 49 miles daily on a Saskatchewan River course. B. M. Stitt was reelected president of The Pas Dog Derby and Winter Carnival Assoc. Entries expected from Canadian and American districts. An additional 100 mile endurance event for commercial dog teams is planned, with five Northern Manitoba teams entered in eastern dog classes from New Hampshire, Quebec and Montreal. Participants include Emil St Goddard Leo St Goddard Shorty Russick Earl Brydges and Harry Otsenski.
Richard Byrd, famed polar and trans Atlantic aviator, faced early retirement over a foot injury but won reinstatement as a student aviator in 1919. He later flew to the North Pole and across the Atlantic, earning 21 citations for heroism and multiple honors from the United States, Portugal, Britain, and other allied services.
Bishop I C Stringer of the Yukon and Mrs Stringer reached Vancouver en route to Toronto after a summer trek by gasoline schooner from Edmonton. They travelled via the Mackenzie River visiting Akalavu Haillie Island Bernard Harbor Corona tion Gulf and Cambridge Bay. Seamen say the passage through Franklin Straits and Peel Sound was open this year though no further expedition occurred. Eskimos estimate it will be at least ten years before a similar chance arises.
At the Scott Saskatchewan Experimental Station the mix of sweet clover and western rye grass improves hay feeding value. The first crop yields a good aftermath dominated by sweet clover, while the second crop usually lacks sweet clover unless seed failed in year one. The clover often matures earlier than rye grass but cures more easily when mixed than when grown alone.
A Midlothian cyclist reached the summit of Ben Nevis in 2 hours and 2 minutes despite heavy rain and mist. Snow about midway and nearly two feet on the peak added to the challenge on Scotland's highest mountain.
Miss Doris Morgan of Penygelit Town was top girl in the county exams and won several scholarships totaling £350. She gave away the scholarships to fellow pupils less fortunate, including a Welsh State scholarship.
Dialogues reveal a candid exchange where Jack and Tom discuss marriage. Tom notes he wed because his partner wanted him more than he desired her, highlighting unconventional motives and uneasy affection in a terse exchange.
The boycott term traces to Captain Charles C. Poycott, an agent of an Irish lord, who was the first person targeted by the Irish peasantry in their 1880 campaign against land lords.
Negotiations among Saskatchewan Manitoba and Alberta and the federal justice department seek to shift provincial policing to the RCMP to reduce duplication. The interior department will also dispatch W. I. Hoare to oversee a musk ox sanctuary east of Great Slave Lake with a census, wildlife protection plans, and wardens’ camps.
Walter Nash of the New Zealand Labor Party spoke at the Honolulu conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations. He said New Zealand has long been an experimental nation with pensions for the aged, women’s suffrage, a State Advances Department funding farmers and workers, state coal mines, railway operation, and public insurance programs.
Scott Saskatchewan Experimental Station reports two year tests on four steer groups. One group fed only oat straw showed the highest profit, while Western rye grass with oat straw yielded the lowest returns. A good grain mix kept profits steady with oat straw, indicating farmers with oat straw can prosper without extra roughage.
J. Newman the 320 acre farmer says Peace River block is Canada’s finest territory and settlers are pouring in with population nearly doubling. He notes too many Central European immigrants and not enough British newcomers joining the settlement.
East India soothsayers crack eggs on boards and study shell fragments and their postl tions to predict future happenings.
A concise note states that cap and gown wearing by college graduates remained comparatively safe in America until the final quarter of the 19th century.
In Borris Ireland a farmer and his hired man argued over possession of a house. The man claimed he could not read or write but kept accounts by notching a stick. He produced a bundle of sticks, each notch representing money he says he is owed. The case highlighted the man’s unusual method for record keeping.
A brief, unclear line references Pele Mele in Paris with a remark about a man who did not return for five years, suggesting an ominous or distancing anecdote amid fragmented text.
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