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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1927
Page
4
The article traces the history of lightships around British shores from early bonfires on cliffs to modern wireless aided vessels. It describes design changes such as steel masts, pendulum lamps, and railed platforms for keepers, noting the shift from crewed to potential autonomous operation and the impact of wireless communications on mariner safety and shipshore links.
The piece notes poorer Indians increasingly wearing shoes though prices stay high for the masses, while footwear remains an ornament for peasants. It also recounts a U.S. veteran leaving for a world trip with a $200 passage and anecdotes about travel, gambling, and peculiar wartime era observations in Europe and Asia.
Instructions urge daily cleaning and proper storage of tools and implements to prevent rust and wear. Emphasizes bringing items to the barn at night, oiling all working parts with quality oil, and ensuring every part receives lubrication to extend machine life and reduce draft.
The milkweed secretes a sticky milky juice that hardens like rubber to mend wounds and resist germs. Its seeds carry silky down and a corklike edge, allowing them to ride on water to dry land and safety.
Bankers on La Salle Street discuss a hypothetical deposit of one dollar by William Stellenis of Holland Michigan. The charted plan uses semi annual compounding for five years to reach 2127 with heirs in Michigan getting 75 percent and others 25 percent. Edward Jones notes a 3 percent annual rate would yield about 2.9 million.
The Calgary Herald argues that many successful Eastern business leaders still know Europe better than their own land. A few have toured Western Canada for the first time, gaining a broader view of the country’s potential and recognizing the Prairies are not wild but productive. The East grows to understand the West and the need for firsthand experience to form a complete national vision. Toronto Globe
Robert M. Macdonald argues in Chamber's Journal that Chinese smugglers are the world’s most subtle, having long perfected law breaking as a fine art. The Celestial smuggler uses deft methods and vanishes unseen, operating openly under the noses of authorities.
A Boulogne man paddled a 15 foot unsinkable canoe from Cap Griz Nez to Dover Beach. A passing steamer created a wake that upset the craft, but he remounted. Crowds greeted his landing as he waited to ask permission to marry the financier's daughter, with repeated refusals noted.
The Dominion Field Husbandman 1926 study at Swift Current Saskatchewan shows weed infested land yielding 20 bushels per acre vs 34 on clean land and 24 by stinkweed competition. It warns heavy moisture loss follows summer weed growth and reduces moisture available for subsequent wheat crops.
Z Wasloff and 24 neighbors plan to settle in Lac du Bonnet Manitoba after two seasons of hail and drought. W W Childs Dominion Lands sub-agent arranged housing for 25 families as Wasloff returns to North Dakota to lead the migration effort.
A two foot long nickel model of a fifteenth gal leon crafted from pure Canadian nickel and crafted in England for the Mond Nickel Company was shipped to Canada by the Canadian Pacific Express Company and forwarded to Hon Charles McCrea Minister of Mines. The model stands on a base with curling waves and battle towers and is valued at 3000 dollars.
A Tit-Bits article explains that the common sponge is an animal with a nervous system and life cycle. It describes the sponge’s living core called the skeleton, its canals and the milk-like sarcade, and notes its growth from rock and its cleansing properties for skin and wide commercial uses.
A note from the Reptile House explains the zoo’s need for vast numbers of flies to feed tree frogs lizards and other reptiles. The article describes a homemade hatchery under heating pipes where flies are bred on moist bread treacle and meat and released into the animal caves.
Joseph Hart left Manchester by steerage for New York and built a factory with his brothers after arriving as a laborer. Henry Folland, a pit boy who lost an arm at 14, rose to wealth as High Sheriff of Carmarthen with tinplate fortune and a £10,000 bequest to Swansea Hospital.
Canada forecasts a total commercial apple crop of 2 999 000 barrels this year, up 14 770 from last year. Provinces estimate 1 150 000 barrels in Nova Scotia 1 649 000 in British Columbia 650 00 in Ontario 120 000 in Quebec and 20 000 in New Brunswick. Most Canadian apples are exported to the British Isles and the United States.
The Dominion Experimental Farms System runs sixty two illustration stations across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia to bring experimental results to farmers in remote districts. Stations involve 10 to 50 acre plots with rotations crops and practices chosen by officials to boost productivity. The 1928 report by Chief Supervisor John Fitter details province specific aims including summer fallow rotations seed production tests and local crop variety trials.
An Edinburgh Scotsman article recalls the brutal treatment of witches in history highlighting public denunciations, innocent defendants, and rare acts of mercy. It notes memorials and the changing view of witchcraft across Scotland and beyond.
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