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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1922
Page
4
A 1922 survey notes the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act's tightening and its uneven provincial impact. It highlights deportation penalties, youth-penalty whipping, and varied conviction rates across provinces, with Montreal showing high Chinese-related figures in a cosmopolitan city context.
The Montreal Committee of Sixteen censures tolerant praise of criminal acts and commercialized vice. The text argues social vice and narcotics are twin crimes driving each other, as the key explanation for widespread societal harms.
The Dominion Livestock Branch notes cross border pressure for bacon price and supply reform as U S and Canadian products compete in the British market. Quotations Sept 22 show Canadian lean bacon at 130–140s per long hundredweight and US bacon at 98–108s, with Irish and Danish around 151–156s, indicating a shift toward quality as well as quantity to Britain.
Dominion Livestock Branch reports from Montreal on September 28 a load of hogs sold to a boys swine club for 12.40, forty cents above average for selects and ten cents below the week’s top. The note also forecasts US tariff effects on lambs and sheep, suggesting price gains and the option to hold lambs for late winter sales.
A New York estimate puts five thousand professional beggars in the city with 3000 in Manhattan. Their daily takings average 100000, about 700000 weekly, 2090000 monthly, 36000000 yearly. Figures drawn from Charity Organization Society, Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, Salvation Army, business groups, and police.
Alberta butter earned top honors at five major western fairs. P. Marker, Dairy Commissioner, reports 60.1 percent of first prizes and four of five championships. Exhibits appeared in Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon Brandon and Regina against many provincial entries.
A brief note contrasts the idea that a hag should not be blamed for her nature with the contrasting expectation placed on men to behave differently. The piece probes social double standards in behavior and accountability.
Questions and answers cover Russian Olive versus Caragana hedges hardy in the prairies, fall versus spring planting of nursery stock, proper burial depths and soil packing, fall watering to prevent fall kill, and advisability of fall stock intake for Green Ash and other nursery trees. It emphasizes moisture need and site preparation for successful spring planting.
A metre long walnut branch in a Nantes village school court moved without wind, leaped several feet, and roamed the ground for an hour before resting twenty feet from its start. No external manipulation was found and a paper on the event is to be read at the Academy of Sciences. The leading theory cites hygrometry or elasticity as possible causes.
Saskatchewan livestock commissioner G. J. Robertson says wool and mutton markets are improving. He notes higher wool prices and strong mutton lamb demand in stockyards and US markets, urging farmers to buy a flock of grade ewes with a purebred ram to start sheep raising now.
The Provincial Government Savings Bank with two Winnipeg branches reports a monthly profit over expenses of 2000 and 13000 depositors. In two years it has earned 4,334,013 in deposits, repaid 33544 government funds, and shows a net surplus of 10000.
British coal shipments to German ports remain heavy with 1 133 402 tons exported in July, up 889 644 tons from June. Germany becomes the leading customer, France second, the Netherlands third, and Mary fourth with substantial totals.
Lord Bledisloe told the British Association that as a class landowners have bungled the land business and face nationalization if they fail to reform. He said many landowners are merely rent receivers with little incentive to manage estates commercially for national benefit. He warned public opinion would demand their extinction and Parliament would back it. He criticized their political power loss due to lack of economic base.
Dominion Fire Commissioner J Grove Smith addressed the Ottawa Branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada, warning that Canada suffers high fire losses. He cited 1922 figures of 45.5 million dollars in direct property losses, 65 million in indirect losses paid by insurers, and 24 million in public works costs. He noted per capita destruction, high insurance rates, and 300 to 450 annual fatalities, urging stricter enforcement of existing laws.
Relics of long extinct animals join the Princeton University fossils in Guyot Hall. The skull of a giant tlanthere, sabre-toothed tiger skulls, and remains of three-toed horses were found by Prof. William J. Sinclair after a research expedition to South Dakota's Bad Lands.
Proceeds from all plays written by Queen Maria of Romania are devoted to Romanian charitable efforts.
Commissioner J. B. Harkin notes broad rises in migratory waterfowl with few exceptions. Eastern provinces see variable breeding due to rain, while western regions report widespread gains in black ducks, ducks and geese. Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario all report increases in various species.
At the Mutual Fire Association Convention in Regina a campaign against playing with matches by adults is urged. Reports from many companies show rising fire hazards from careless smoking near farms and threshing outfits, with a quarter of 1921 1922 losses linked to smokers and matches.
Clarence Seaman pulled a strange four inch fish from Patchogue water near Blue Point, New York. The creature had one eye an owl like head and three tails waving together. It allegedly blew up hissed whistled thrice and died after removal from water.
To remove ink stains from deal boards, wet the wood with cold water and rub salt into the stain for cleaning效果.
In desert regions certain mammals, notably prairie dogs, never drink water in their lives. Some rodents, including poached mice and kangaroo rats, also avoid drinking. Their bodies separate water from their food, mostly seeds, to meet their water needs.
Canada has received 2,222 immigrants from Ireland this year with 1,029 listed as adult agriculturists. Monthly totals show January 23, February 65, March 117, April 205, May 626, June 1866, July 402, and August 20.
The Winnipeg Free Press notes the growing turn to the League of Nations in international troubles and reports a proposal to entrust the guardianship of the Straits to this body. It observes that even in its undeveloped form the League appears to meet a world need.
Detectives guard King George whenever he departs Buckingham Palace joined by a small squad of Scotland Yard officers who accompany him until his return.
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