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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1937
Page
2
One handy guide advises sprinkling half a tin of Gillett's Pure Flake Lye over closet contents weekly to keep outhouses sanitary. It promises quick cleaning, unclogging drains, grease cutting, dirt removal, and time savings, and warns not to dissolve lye in hot water.
A West focused editorial urges organized bodies to present strong, accredited evidence to a government appointed commission led by Hon. Newton Wesley Rowell on Dominion provincial relations. It warns of unclear authority divisions harming Western producers and stresses timely, concrete submissions over individual testimony.
A brief note describes the Todas a southern Indian tribe elevating pork and veal costs due to purity rules their purveyors enforce. It mentions they prohibit mixing meat with dairy and reference chicken in milk as a holy practice. The fragment ends with the odd phrase chicken salads and the number 2224.
Grants in aid to provinces will cost Canada $46,985,000 in the present fiscal year per the Bank of Canada monthly summary. The rise from $38,333,000 last year reflects higher old age pensions and subsidies, with detailed regional allocations listed for Prince Edward Island through British Columbia.
Colonel S. T. Wood of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police urged the creation of an international crime commission linking Canadian United States and Mexican police. He spoke at the 23rd annual convention of the International Association for Identification proposing three projects to improve international police cooperation research in mutual law enforcement problems and collaboration with European crime commissions on technique organization and equipment.
An article discusses dental health, advocating diet and raw foods for stronger teeth. It includes two recipes Waldorf Salad and Apple and Cabbage Salad, with preparation steps and serving ideas. Readers can request free home cooking advice from Alice Stevens in Penticton, B C.
The September Bank of Canada summary notes over twenty million dollars in Canadian hands and an August average note circulation of about 203 million dollars outside banks, a level not seen since 1929. The 1934 act began replacing chartered bank notes with Bank of Canada notes, now representing about half of active circulation.
The Department of Agriculture imposes a new import ban prohibiting live animals including goldfish, worms, shells, centipedes, fleas, beetles, insects, spiders, frogs, reptiles, birds, rodents and certain mammals. No entry without special ministerial permission.
Chinese scientists report a cattle breed from Hangchow districts yielding butter fat near a United States standard. Nanda Devi, at 25 660 feet, is noted as the highest Himalaya peak climbed by man.
Rev. C Ross Diebler, a missionary for five years in Borneo, recalls that skulls of white men count little in head hunting among the Dyaks. He spoke at the Christian and Missionary Alliance convention in ToT. Diebler notes Christianity reduced the practice, though hill natives sometimes resume the habit, and he has slept beneath a row of about 500 skulls.
The Japanese Home Office bans sentimental and popular songs and phonograph records as detrimental to national spirit and urges martial music. The Japan Times notes public complaints that the new martial songs are hurriedly composed and poorly sung.
A Tahiti report notes the sun and moon exert equal influence on tides locally, while globally the moon dominates tidal patterns. The observation contrasts regional tidal behavior with broader ocean dynamics.
Adhesive postage stamps are not redeemable nor can they be exchanged at the post office for other stamps according to postal regulations.
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