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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
4
Items discuss modest farm yields and labor needs, with estimates of wheat output and value losses. Mentions include suffragettes in London and Aero balloon incidents, plus editor quarrels and a call to leaders to claim substantial prize money. Farmers warned to use two labor agreements to avoid delays.
8. A. Bedford formerly superintendent of the Dominton Experimental Farm is appointed head of the department of field husbandry at Manitoba Agricultural College and will assume duties immediately.
A curling meeting called for Monday evening failed to convene a quorum. Only six people and three dogs attended, waited an hour and a half, then abandoned the attempt.
Dr Roche addresses electors in Miniota Hall on the 21st to discuss election matters. Local figures Mr Geo Stone and Mr Wm Ferguson visit for campaign work. Hog and cattle prices advertised for Oct 20 with highest market quotes. Chicken shooting slated daily from today through month end. Further notes mention a 30 000 bushel elevator at Uno and a land buying list.
Residents report theft of wood from a local pile costing six dollars a cord plus 1.25 to store it and threaten names will be published for future offences. They praise Messrs Craig and Simpson for improving telephone service and urge the Board of Trade to show energy and utility rather than remain dormant.
F A Wilcocks licensed auctioneer conducts sales across Western Manitoba and Eastern Saskatchewan. Leave or send orders to Miniota Herald office or direct to me and they will receive proper attention.
Lost a sum of four dollars on Friday night between Geo, Craig's and A. E. Harris' farm. Finder please return to this office.
A pair of gold-rimmed eye glasses were found on Louis Avenue last Sunday between the English Church and A Schofield's and are to be returned to the Herald Office.
A notice states on Thursday October 8 a gold watch and chain were lost on a public road between Crandall and Miniota. A $3 reward will be paid to the person delivering the item to the Palace Hotel in Minniota.
Street notes reveal a fragmented item labeled ON TRACK with stray letters and numbers. The readable portion lists 806 as a potential page or code amid jumbled OCR text.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh cure, claims Hall's Catarrh Cure works through the blood and mucous membranes, and lists endorsements by local businessmen. It notes price and availability from druggists and suggests Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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