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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1935
Page
4
Botany links with crop production through practical research and education. The Dominion Department of Agriculture in Canada highlights botany’s role in disease control, weed extermination, pasture conservation, seed certification, stem rust work, and pure seed production, emphasizing international collaboration and national impact.
A Port Authority Monthly correspondent recalls Old Westminster Bridge with reports of mysterious whispers from alcoves. Historical notes describe the alcoves as perfectly proportioned so a whispered word could be heard across the way, enabling discreet conversations amid street noise.
Sergeant Jozef Horvath of Budapest is hailed as the bravest police member after saving 132 people from drowning in the Danube. Since 1926 he has served at St. Margarets Bridge Head with a small motor launch, surviving knife and chest wounds from rescuers, and hopes to save more lives before retirement.
Two large timbers cut on Grouce Mountain near Lake Cowichan BC are described as masts for a royal yacht. One timber measures 106 feet with a 20 inch top and the other 96 feet with a 22 inch top. Both are heart-centred at the ends and qualify as mast grade.
The Yeomen of the Guard, a British royal troop tasked with kingly safety at St James Palace, is described as the oldest regiment in the world with a history of about 450 years.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture released a booklet from its Publicity and Extension Branch titled Salads that are different. It features over 40 recipes for salads, all using accessible ingredients suitable for broad households and kitchens.
Mrs M Hinchley of Rainworth England built a six room red brick house valued at 3000 dollars largely by her own labor. She lives there and now starts a bungalow while serving as her own architect quantities buyer mixer and plasterer and even cooks and keeps her own house.
Canada produced 6,538,960 pounds of maple sugar in 1935 valued at 740,145 dollars, up from 4,490,690 pounds at 576,450 dollars in 1934. Maple syrup output reached 2,250,769 gallons valued at 2,782,275 dollars, vs 1,838,400 gallons and 2,464,150 dollars in 1934. The total value of the maple industry totaled 3,522,420 dollars, up 481,820 dollars or 15.8 percent from 1934.
Dr. Alfred Wegener leads a Greenland expedition that reports central ice thickness exceeding 1% miles. The team notes substantial ice volume as evidence for ancient climate.
A Dominion Fisheries vessel reports about 25 000 sea lions and pups on Haycock Island and nearby rocks off Vancouver Island during a summer survey. The annual Pearl and Virgin Rocks hunt in Rivers Inlet keeps the rookeries in check to protect salmon fisheries. 623 lions and pups were killed this year, about 150 fewer than 1934.
The City of London nominates its Sheriff for next year with September election due. The honorary post costs the officeholder about 35000 dollars annually, covering entertaining judges at the Old Bailey and related duties. Wealthy men seek the honor. competition remains rare. In Scotland the Sheriff is a well paid county court judge.
The Duke of Kent, on a private inspection of Hampstead and Highgate lines, drove a train between Waterloo and Goodge Street. Warned by a danger signal from a defective train, he released the brake and stopped safely. The regular driver rode in the cabin. the duke was praised for his good driving.
Observations from Saskatchewan in the summer of 1934 show soil drift or wind erosion is strongest on very heavy and very light soils. Drought periods shift drift to medium-textured soils once considered relatively non-drifting, with humus content not preventing drift.
A $3,000 radium vial tossed with hospital waste was retrieved from the stomach of a pig on damp Sioux Falls grounds. University of Minnesota scientists A J Moe J W Buchta and H H Barver used a gold leaf detector to locate the single pig among 500, tracing the tube to its stomach and confirming its recovery.
Collected after an alleged accident in Tokyo, Kameki Shimura a former school teacher admitted to earning 3 to 5 dollars on the spot by crashing his bicycle into motor vehicles over 14 months He feigned injury to collect payment A doctor found no injury and a taxi driver refused to pay Police confirmed the tale of the unusual profession
Public warning from the King over damage to trees and stonework at Sandringham grounds. Police prosecuted two vacationers for maliciously damaging a beech tree on a favoured walk.
Statistics rank bread as the most nourishing food by value, with peas potatoes butter cheese milk apples eggs cod and beefsteak following in order. The list highlights bread's nourishment per cost across common staples.
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