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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1937
Page
4
Winnipeg Free Press notes that modern traffic often crawls in cities as congestion slows autos to around one mile per hour in cross-town blocks. The piece compares today’s delays with horse-drawn speeds of the past and urges reflection on progress versus impediments.
Writer H P O’Brien in the Chicago Daily News argues the hardest task for a professional writer is sustaining self importance. A relaxed author hears a devil whisper that writing is a poor living. News of disagreement, whether mild or violent, still matters as it proves the writer moves others with his words.
Laurence Gilliam, features and drama producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation, is loaned to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for six months to aid programs and gather material for broadcasts to Great Britain. He will return to London to resume duties after the period.
A mechanics professor extols a great time-saver during a campus lecture while a sophomore remarks on an unexpected connection, framing a light moment in the classroom.
The St Thomas Times Journal notes new British anti-dazzle regulations require non dazzling white lamps beyond 25 feet and three feet six inches eye level, with downwards deflection allowed. Front lamps over seven watts must not stay lit when stationary. Frosted side lamps required and mirrors at blind corners aid approaching drivers.
Walter Rutter, a Jasper mining man, reports a valuable kyanite deposit near Cedarside British Columbia about 87 miles west of Jasper. Ottawa and Saskatoon assays are favorable. The find is described as the first commercial quantity in Canada. The Escorial near Madrid is Europe's largest palace requiring four days to tour and about 120 miles walked.
A famed bull elephant in Addo Reserve is wounded while foraging near farms as water runs low. The herd’s cows carry water in their trunks for ten days to ease his suffering, a display cited by native witnesses at a commission investigating reserve conditions.
Lady Victoria Braithwaite, daughter of the Earl of Dufferin and widow of a former viceroy, arrives in Canada with Colonel Francis Braithwaite. She hasn't seen her birthplace in 57 years and plans a coast to coast tour before visiting Ottawa and Rideau Hall. A separate tip notes that finger marks on furniture can be removed with a soft rag and sweet oil.
The abbey reopens after a long closure for the coronation amid debate over sacred duty versus spectacle. Critics argue the national shrine should not be sacrificed for spectators while others propose trimming peer attendance by electing representatives to participate.
Sir William Makin, legal adviser to the Foreign Office, told Bury St. Edmunds School that a dictator must be taken seriously or he cannot dictate. He warned that if a dictator ever gains power in England, the English sense of humor would remove him within about six months.
Claudius Ptolemy authored an astronomy work that served as a foundational textbook for about 1,500 years, influencing scientific teaching and celestial models across eras.
Dr Carl Absalon reports a 30 000 year old ivory head portrait of a Stone Age woman found in Vestonice Moravia amid mammoth bones. Sir Arthur Keith calls it proof of a Leonardo da Vinci level figure among early Central European hunter gatherers, redefining Paleolithic art and European ancestry.
Doctors at the 87th State Medical Society meeting in Philadelphia presented a device to measure night blindness. They linked it to vitamin A deficiency and cold susceptibility, noting higher accident rates among drivers after illness.
King George expressed keen interest in housing conditions in a letter to the Countess of Athlone. The Countess opened two blocks of Slum clearance flats in Kensington. The letter says the King is gratified with the Kensington project and attentive to his people’s housing needs.
An American visitor asks a French girl for dining tips in Paris, prompting light exchanges about finding tasty, reasonably priced meals in the city. The exchange captures cross cultural humor and a casual street scene.
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