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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1932
Page
4
Fifty years after Edison lit New York the New York Times recalls his Pearl Street demonstration on September 4, 1882. He foresaw electricity transforming society with trolleys subways electric lighting and motors everywhere signaling a new epoch in modern life.
The 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago will fully recognize women's contributions to social and economic life over the last century. Officials say no dedicated women's building is needed as women's position has become too important to be isolated. Plans also include the International Congress of Women alongside the exposition.
Professor Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns, both Belgians, reached 16 201 metres or 10 miles 117 yards in their world balloon ascent of August 18. An official Swiss Aero Club report, received in Brussels, states the height was the highest ever reached by humans, slightly below the 16 500 metre claim but surpassing last year’s mark.
Brown warns about Scotsman tales with a pinch of salt after recounting an Aberdonian who found a 22 carat ring and placed a local ad. The joke turns to the Scotsman as editor. A note recalls Poona badminton in India and new Norwegian pencil and lightning rod factories.
A Sheffield firm creates a near gold dinner service from an aluminium bronze alloy that mimics gold. The novelty began as a joke, but demand rose quickly as the metal is durable and easy to maintain. Latin America shows strong interest in the look of gold.
The text details automatic poultry house features including a rod to open or close all windows on a 30 foot shed, motor-lorry delivery of feed, a wall door with an internal hopper, and a blender to create an all mash ration. Water is kept at 40 to 50 degrees F by electricity, and feeding days are extended to fourteen hours from October to February to boost egg production.
Canadian wheat drying has reached practical perfection due to the National Research Council’s Grain Re search panel. Past crop losses of 28.6 to 50.8 percent and millions in cash deductions are reduced as commercial driers dry damp grain without harming milling quality. Work now extends to barley and other grains.
The Italian salvage vessel Artiglio IL delivered a fourth cargo of gold recovered from the sunken liner Egypt to Plymouth England. The latest haul is worth about 450000 dollars, bringing total salvage to 3250000 dollars of bullion from the 5000000 in Egypt's strong room when she sank in 1922.
General Soler Pacheco of the Corps of Carabineers in Madrid notes extraordinary canine cleverness aiding smugglers. The dogs evade coastguards by silent direction changes and sprint to shore with waterproof bundles strapped to their backs, though many are shot down.
From a Dominion Bureau of Statistics report in Economic Annalist the current issue shows 321,306 automobiles on 728,623 farms in Canada. About eighteen thousand farms had more than one car. The data also include 48,402 trucks 105,059 tractors 75,560 threshing machines 8,925 combines and 18,626 electric motors on 14,638 farms.
Department of Agriculture notes July exports of Canadian condensed milk up 33 percent. Evaporated milk exports nearly doubled from July 1931 and milk powder exports increased 27 percent. Also included are a humorous dialogue about joint bank accounts and a train crash anecdote.
Thirty nine countries provinces and states are listed as official participants in the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference to be held in Regina from July 24 to August 5, 1933. Nations and regions include Belgium Czecho Slovakia Estonia France Germany England Scotland Northern Ireland Wales Holland Italy the Netherlands Poland Spain Switzerland Yugoslavia Union of South Africa Algeria Tunis India Japan Philippines Australia New South Wales New Zealand Siam Palestine Jewish Colonization Association Argentina Peru Chile American states United States Department of Agriculture Guatemala Mexico Norfolk Islands Burma and all nine Canadian provinces with the federal Department of Agriculture. All will participate by delegates entries in competitive classes or national exhibits.
Canada shows 5872 total grain elevators with 414 660 260 bushels capacity in western and eastern divisions. Country elevators number 5734 with 192 328 000 bushels. Manitoba holds 139 elevators for 23 751 500 bushels. Saskatchewan lists 3237 elevators with 103 855 400 bushels. Alberta has 1748 elevators totaling 75 344 200 bushels.
An aeroplane buzzed overhead while a truck with a cut‑out sped through Red Wing Minnesota to no notice. Two minutes later a sheep on a second truck began to bleat drawing clerks and workers to the street. Traffic stalled as curiosity took center stage.
The Old Bay Store once built in 1881 at the Red and Assiniboine rivers is demolished in a move labeled for economy. Its stone foundation came from Fort Garry and bricks from St. Louis, linking to Winnipeg’s early frontier era and events around Louis Riel and Wolseley.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 155,609 miles of highway open for traffic in Saskatchewan on December 31, 1931, far ahead of Alberta and Ontario. Other provinces list Quebec 35,763 miles, British Columbia 22,459, Nova Scotia 14,719, New Brunswick 11,825, Manitoba 5,230, and Prince Edward Island 3,650, totaling 378,094 miles nationwide.
A courtroom spoof features Sambo admitting to driving a Ford Mode T at 70 miles per hour while the judge questions the speed and the car's make. Sambo insists the car is a special Ford with a Packard body and Pierce Arrow parts, claiming extraordinary speed.
Carlyle’s remark about human generation reflects on time and the enduring stars Arcturus Orion and Sirin as witnesses to ages gone and to the Shepherd’s early observations. The passage contrasts human mortality with celestial permanence.
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