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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1924
Page
5
Dr J G Weaver denounces a wave of what he calls filth uplifting in magazines and books. He argues these works corrupt youth and undermine society by promoting sexual material. He urges readers to resist these magazines as a grave moral threat to Canada.
The Forest Products Laboratories of the Department of Interior study nail holding power across wood types. Six hundred tests using specially designed equipment explore cut versus wire nails, coating and length differences, with aims to cover all Canadian commercial woods for optimal selection and cost savings.
A pear tree brought from England in 1630 by Governor John Endicott and planted in Massachusetts continues to bear fruit. Last year yielded over a bushel and this year promises an even larger crop, suggesting the tree may be the oldest fruit bearer in America.
A father guides his family through the natural history museum stopping before a stuffed ostrich. He claims the hostrich is extinct while his wife corrects him. The exchange ends with a humorous challenge about extinction and distance light travel time from distant stars.
Thomas Brown a Richmond Virginia clerk in 1810 is credited by his great granddaughter Miss Mary D Lewis with inventing the post office box. Postmaster General New has replied ready to acknowledge Brown as inventor. Brown described a room partition with pigeon holes and numbered glass fronts for holders. About 402 boxes were rented for 50 cents quarterly and the plan persists in many small town post offices.
Mr F L Englelow of St Johns Cambridge reports at the British Association that yield in two wheats varies with inter plant spacing. Spacings affected ear size grain size and tillering differently, explaining field yield differences and guiding breeding for higher yielding forms.
A banker living in Rome in the late eighteenth century ran an antiquities venture. He supplied foreign visitors with intaglios and cameos crafted by his own workers whom he kept hidden in a portion of the Colosseum ruins. The piece also notes a job vacancy ad urging readers to advertise open offices stores or factories.
In 1973 Jones and colleagues compared 36 Yorkshire pigs divided into paddock and pasture groups at Agassiz Experimental Farm. The pasture group with 1 lb grain daily grew steadily, finished well after stall feeding, and yielded higher returns than the paddock-only group. Paddock confinement tended to shorten hogs while pasture lengthened them.
A Nuneaton household buys a tortoise but the resident dog grows jealous. The dog digs a large hole in the garden and buries the new pet, but bystanders intervene and rescue the tortoise. The dog and tortoise are separated afterward.
D Muir of the Scottish Co operative of Glasgow visited Vancouver to inspect harbor grain and shipping facilities. His company may use Vancouver for grain shipments to Scotland and operates a line of elevators in Saskatchewan.
A sentimental landlady laments cooking a lamb as the boarder agrees, calling it tough to destroy the young animal for appetite. The brief dialogue captures a moment of moral reflection at a shared meal.
The Forest Products Laboratories studied fire killed timber in Canada and found that salvageable bark and lumber can be used for pulp manufacture by the sulphite process. This expands forest resources to meet growing newspaper demand and supports the paper industry amid widespread fires.
Edwin EB Slosson of Washington, eminent chemist, addressed the British Association for the salvation of the world. He warned that energy demand will outpace supplies as populations grow, urging solar heat solutions and desert heat plants to store energy by sunlight. He called this the greatest problem facing scientists today.
A four page leaflet from the Dominion Department of Agriculture explains bruising from rough handling lowers hog value. It cites 27.5 million hogs slaughtered annually with 15 percent bruised, costing over 900 thousand dollars. In a four month sample 34,000 hogs showed depreciation up to five dollars per carcass and an average loss of 2.50 per head. In cattle horns also cause injury and loss.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands concluded negotiations for a $40,000,000 loan with an American banking syndicate, marking its first external borrowing on a dollar basis.
An eminent motor engineer predicts a 1000 pound car achieving fifty miles per gallon will soon be common. He argues current vehicles are too heavy and wasteful while designers push lighter, more efficient models. Gasoline cheapness in the U S slows progress, while Europe pursues lighter cars to save petrol costs.
In a rustic exchange, Farmer Wilkins asks his son to eat separately from summer boarders to avoid setting a poor example with his appetite, provoking a retort about the value of his social company.
Scientists explain that starlight color reveals a star’s age, distinguishing young luminous bodies from older cooler ones. Color bands indicate temperature and composition, guiding estimates of development stage and stellar evolution.
Native observers held that a fish buried in the corn hill would bring a better corn harvest. The belief linked harvest outcomes to ritual soil treatments and seasonal planting practices observed in the community.
Sir Robert Greig, chairman of the Scottish Board of Agriculture, announced a British Association of Science address detailing cross breeding cow buffalo hybrids to survive northern climates. About 7,000 animals are used in experiments to create shaggy manes and weather resistant coats for better wind resistance and cold tolerance.
University of Toronto expedition scientists locate two dinosaur skeletons in the Red Deer Valley this summer and prepare them for shipment to the Royal Ontario Museum. A Canadian Geological Survey find may yield a third specimen as paleontologists plan months of mounting and indexing work.
Osallamy of the Hungarian national museum has spent a quarter century searching for Attila the Hun's tomb. He has unearthed about 1000 Hun warriors and now suspects Attila's grave lies in the center of a vast cemetery housing his followers.
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