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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1925
Page
4
The article extols Canada as a good country to live in year round, praising winter sports and energy of northern Europeans. It contrasts Canada with warmer climates and highlights the appeal of skiing and hockey during cold seasons for prospective immigrants.
The passage explains that a buoyant air sac or swim bladder in many fish keeps them afloat, being lighter than water. It notes that some fishes lack air bladders, like flatfishes and certain eels, while others such as catfish and codfish have them. It describes gill respiration and blood oxygen transport.
Popular Mechanics notes the U S army plans protective gear for animals in gas attacks. Horses and mules wear cheese cloth nose bags, dogs get full jaw covers, and pigeons use a cage shield when not in sight, to guard against fumes.
The English favor metal knuckled dusters while Parisian criminals like the Apache use a knife or revolver. Italians prefer the stiiette, Spaniards the stifette and knife, and Americans favor the revolver.
The new British Columbia companies include at least three for farms with fox and ermine operations. Several more fox and otter farms are active or under formation. Irish primary schools require students to study the Irish language.
The old post office building in Sheppertenam Thames Mid Hewes is to be demolished. C C Newman who runs the post office and shop occupies the house, famed for its strange bone decorated wall and 400 year age with legends of Julius Caesar.
Captain Cecil Herbert Attfield, long in Heixton Prison England for last year’s gun running, is expected to be freed around October 13. He faced a $136,000 fine for exporting guns without a license, three times the goods value, and could not pay. His weekly prison earnings of $1.25 would require roughly 2,005 years to settle the debt.
Admiral A R Emdin declared at a Wembley Bible and Empire event that King George reads a Bible chapter daily. The speech denounced Bolshevism for rejecting the Bible and was held under World Evangelical Alliance auspices.
The Dominion Forestry Branch reports large orders for Britain Europe and New Zealand for Douglas fir Sitka spruce lodgepole pine seed. Seeds gathered from suitable Canadian locales will be cleaned at New Westminster and Rocky Mountain House with Calgary coordinating collection. full fulfillment unlikely this year due to scarce seed and recent poor crops. Britain seeks 7000 lb coast Douglas fir 2000 lb Sitka spruce 500 lb Finland Douglas fir 200 lb Alberta lodgepole pine. Finland among European customers.
The department of immigration notes 733 former Canadians who died in the United States were returned to Canada within the first nine days of October to assume permanent residence. In the same period 479 immigrants entered Canada from the United States and total non immigrant entries reached 376 258.
The New York Department of Agriculture experimental station announced six new oat varieties tested on state farms for four years. They averaged 50 bushels per acre versus 31.8 bushels per acre for currently used varieties.
The piece argues that saving money is a matter of will power not income. It cites examples of earners from $1,000 to $15,000 annually and notes many avoid sacrifices needed to save. Those who save under tight budgets build character, with growth over time and greater rewards, per S. S. Straus of the American Society for Thrift.
A Belfast family of 13 led by Tredtor Alexander arrives aboard the White Star Dominion liner Rerina and will settle in Kingsville Ontario joining three relatives in Toronto. Also on the same ship a group of 24 English youths head to Alberta to begin farming after a Canadian methods course.
A Boston Transcript note claims a sugar lump contains brain food to fuel Shakespearean thought, but warns aspiring playwrights that it must feed a brain like Shakespeare’s before buying sugar.
Ripley reports a sharp rise in big game across Northwestern Ontario with plentiful moose deer and caribou. Moose are common between Nipigon and Jack Fish River and near Bass Creek and Lake Bass. Black bears appear around Bass Lake and along Jack Fish River east country shows the largest moose and bear supply in Ontario.
The article cites Sir Arthur Keith and Dr. Raymond Pearl arguing that continuous mental work over extended periods does not injure the brain. It notes that physical toil can shorten life, while mental exertion has no known limit, though urges against mental parsimony and mentions Steinmetz as an extreme example of intense use of the brain.
Grove Vosburg, a 70 year old farmer near Walkerton Indiana, secretly uncovered a mound burial site with eight skeletons arranged like spokes of a wheel. One skeleton wore copper armor and a giant stature skull bore a chipped flint arrowhead. Treasures included three pounds of ore possibly silver or white gold, corroded copper bands, two pipe bowls, and artifacts suggesting non Indian mound builders.
Dr James Wilson Robertson Ottawa chairman of the Dominion executive of the Canadian Red Cross spoke at the Winnipeg branch dinner. He stressed the need to improve infant feeding practices and hygiene to ensure proper physical development, highlighting the organization’s peace time program.
About one hundred farmers have taken land in the Lethbridge northern irrigation district this year. Approximately 60,000 acres in this scheme are now under crop, an increase of 20,000 acres over the 1925 estimate. There are more than 106 languages spoken in New York, with a news dealer on East Side selling 25 newspapers in as many languages.
Sir Frederick Dutton of London told a joint Ottawa meeting of the Canadian Club and the Women's Canadian Club that the empire remains unique and must stay unified. He warned against granting equal voice to all parts, noting New Zealand's population versus Britain’s and citing trade route protection and taxation as current pressures on the empire.
Kellogg praised ambassadors as well qualified and connected, recounting a joke about a wealthy donor who became Turkey envoy after a Cook's tour encounter. The anecdote highlights concerns over qualifications and connections in diplomatic appointments, with a humorous exchange about Turkish figures and fezzes.
The piece notes that eighteenth century insight led to shot manufacture. Modern machinery births vast output, with molten lead dropped from height into water, pellets dried, sorted, and polished in a black lead box to finish the rounds.
General Sir Arthur Currie, president of McGill University, spoke in Winnipeg en route to Vancouver and opened the University of British Columbia buildings. He praised Western Canada and predicted a bright future as farmers employ modern scientific methods.
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