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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 16, 1925
Page
4
A discussion on artificial lightning transmutation and atomic energy cites a German chemist’s costly gold from mercury. Dr Gerald L Wand of Pennsylvania State College argues atomic energy could reshape civilization, though current costs and ethics limit development.
Sir Arthur Keith told the British Association that a skull from a Galilean site near Capernaum supports Europe as cradle of humanity and culture. The Turville-Petre discovery was shown as a model beside him in the meeting.
Eight girls at the Hotel Savoy London exchange, all with red hair, are described as unusually gifted in oral con trivances according to a Harley physician. The staff, serving Indian prices and American millionaires, take pride in their Titian combination.
A physician’s son and his playmate pretend to be doctors at home. The son reveals a skeleton to the frightened friend insisting it is his father’s old patient. The exchange ends with the line that it has been in the family long time.
A farmer sends a hurried note to a neighbor requesting a donkey loan. The neighbor, too busy to read the poor handwriting, offers to come himself and asks a lingering question. The farmer replies that the 'custer' has been ready for months.
A Chicago Post article notes the adding and computing devices never fully replaced arithmetic prowess. A survey of 35 workers from accountants to salesmen shows grade school arithmetic remains valued for accuracy and reliability, with test averages rising from 62.7 to 76.1 percent over fifty years.
Dr. Issa Tanimura the Japanese government food commissioner in the United States discusses experiments with raw meat for diet to lower costs and feed the masses. He notes meat may become practical though not yet decided and contrasts Japanese practices with American use of meat in soups.
Dr. Vernon Kellogg argues in Scientific Monthly that ants bees and wasps practice a form of communism with individual life giving way to the community. Workers aid the colony, animals reproduce for queens, and insects thrive globally though humans question happiness in such social life.
A Capuchin known as Father Ymnocente de Pioverza reportedly used a divining rod to locate gold in the Apen Nine Mountains. Peasants began digging and unearthed gold bearing quartz, which assayed four grams of gold and 56 grams of silver per ton. A company has been formed to mine the gold.
Forty nine Irish settlers from Cork Limerick Carlow and Dublin arrive in Northern Alberta to be housed in the Edmonton district. Archbishop O Leary and archdiocese officials commit to helping the newcomers settle and succeed.
Professor Charles Henry of the Sorbonne argues there is a scientific, mathematical certainty that nobody dies entirely. He cites radiation and energy concepts to claim a hidden, elusive force and says the soul transfers its essence to others after death.
Heinz Horst patents a rail magnet system that halts trains to prevent collisions. A magnet in the rail near signals intensifies the loco magnetic field to automatically cut off steam and stop the locomotive.
Lawyer questions the witness about swearing to high words. the witness states the words were particularly low and not heated.
An experimental malaria treatment is described at Epsom mental hospital where patients with general paralysis of the insane are exposed to infected mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are released in a controlled room to induce malarial fever, with patients given standard treatment for the fever. The method, adopted from continental practice, aims to alleviate paralysis by targeting the spine and brain networks linked to insanity.
Sir Henry Gauvain, a British surgeon, claims sunlight acts as brain food. He cites mental tests from two London hospitals showing children with regular sun exposure outperforming peers not treated the same.
At the Canadian National Exhibition Mrs Owens of Toronto was 103, the oldest exhibitor contributing in embroidery and reading without glasses. The second oldest was a 96 year old Toronto woman. The Women's Building housed 3,000 exhibits, a notable increase from prior years.
The international committee on Intellectual Cooperation under the League of Nations has set up a permanent organization with headquarters in Paris funded by the French government and 2,000,000 francs for operations. It envisions eliminating errors in histories and textbooks to foster mutual respect, with a universal history geography textbook to be compiled by national experts.
The Manitoba Free Press describes London’s new Gloom Club where members share sorrows and complaints before sympathetic audiences. Meetings drift to graveyard excursions and funeral colors, recalling similar 19th century clubs for the sad, the ugly, and the unlucky.
The natural resources intelligence service reports Canada produces over 800 million pounds of salt annually. Canadians consume far less per capita than Americans, with 1924 figures around 120 pounds and spikes to 127 pounds. Most production centers near Windsor Ontario, with growing Nova Scotia deposits aiding the fishing industry.
British Columbia minerals continue to draw attention from capitalists in the United States and from English and Eastern Canadian interests, who have provided the bulk of funding for developing the province's natural resources.
Streamers of colored paper are used to adorn graves as a Chinese custom. The practice serves to honor the deceased and mark remembrance in funeral or ancestral rites.
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