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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 01, 1910
Page
2
Reverend John Swinto e struggles to avert a financial ruin caused by a builder and his miserly father. Mary Swinton schemes to secure funds while Netty prepares for a social outing, and a sheriff’s officer lurks as tension builds over debt and debtors.
The next morning Mrs Swinton finds her money vanished after losing three hundred dollars at bridge. She, feeling out of sorts and irritable, contemplates appealing to her father for assistance as she grapples with embarrassment over the loss.
The article outlines diplomatic privileges such as unique dismissal customs when an ambassador leaves a court, the privilege of being ushered through folding doors, the right to demand audience at any hour, and the symbolic sword. It notes gender nuances and adds humorous remarks about sword use and historic incidents with Turkey and Russia.
Heat and drought reduce straw length and grain recoveries prompting a new device. The Improved Gleaner and Shocker, tested at the Winnipeg Agricultural College, promises to save grain lost from short straw by better binding, catching four seeds, and easing handling. Sold directly from Winnipeg by Munro Steel & Wire Works Limited.
Fireflies are used in Japanese social events from private parties to tea gardens. Firms employ men to catch them with bamboo poles and nets at sunset, releasing swarms for guests. Some fireflies are caged for display.
A skilled catcher nets branches to lure fireflies and gathers them by hand into an apron then bag. The work lasts until about two in the morning as insects cluster and escape attempts are thwarted. Firefly hunting has become a festival pastime in Japan with children and adults chasing the insects in bright summer revelries.
The article explains New England bells for cattle sheep and horses are produced in a town in Connecticut. Bells start as iron sheets cut by a steam cutter then drilled and riveted into the bell shape. They are brass plated heated in furnaces and finished by burnishing to produce tone. Wolves are deterred by chimes from West ranch bells.
The excerpt records a Paris restaurant dispute between Englishmen over French usage, a wife erasing a single item from a deceased husband’s property list, Harte’s wry travels and remarks, a Calcutta motorcar with a potash impregnated lake water, and other stray vignettes from a dated newspaper page.
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