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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1935
Page
2
Western farmers face rust devastated crops and drought while awaiting the Canada Grain Board’s minimum price for No 1 Northern wheat. The piece argues a fixed minimum could salvage costs, reduce waste, support morale, and avoid punitive burning of grain.
At the University of California dairy barn experiment, 10,572 flies perched on orange, 2,067 on green, 6,541 on primrose yellow, 4,415 on carmine, 3,480 on light blue, and 2,360 on white. Coral red and pink also attracted many flies under Lester J. Berry's observation.
The mayor laid the foundation stone for a new hospital wing while spectators awaited his speech. He quipped to his wife in a moment of stress, asking what he could do as the stone sat atop the work.
Business Week cites Howard W. Haggard and Leon A. Greenberg in Diet and Efficiency arguing that five light meals daily, especially a light mid-morning or mid-afternoon meal, raise work efficiency by about 10 percent. The finding challenges the traditional three-meal view and aligns with office routines and candy drink advertising.
A young guest at a party teases with a self study of impressions. He claims to mimic any bird and asks for a bird name with a homing pigeon proposed by a guest.
A concrete Paris shelter thirty feet underground on Avenue Foch serves as a luxury air raid model for the city. It features gas detection, first aid rooms, machine rooms, storerooms, dual stairways with heavy doors, and its own lighting via generators and batteries, beneath a mansion.
After May 1, 1936, Nanking residents aged six to fifty who cannot read will be fined under a new law. Authorities issue a 1000 character primer and require students to teach the ignorant, with police as examiners collecting a half-cent penalty on the spot. The measure, dubbed the Ignorant People's Tax, aims to curb illiteracy in the capital.
The Miraat-Ash-Sharqan notes early establishment of a legislative council in Palestine is considered certain and that Arab leaders await a British Order in Council before signaling a position. It adds that Jews in Palestine oppose a council under any condition and asserts the most useful citizen creates jobs.
Salvatore Cantarella, an Italian cane farmer, died after a giant Portuguese man of war jellyfish sting at Coogarra Beach near Brisbane. Bathers pulled him ashore, attempted artificial respiration, but he succumbed en route to hospital. Tentacle marks confirmed jellyfish cause, initially mistaken for an octopus attack.
A honey making wasp species has been identified in Mexico and the southern region of Texas. The note adds a saying about honesty, stating that an honest man never needs to declare such traits.
Prince Albert Alderman G. H. Carr receives two volumes of Stanley's In Darkest Africa believed lost in Greenland 41 years ago. Discovered among Admiral Peary’s effects, the books were forwarded by the admiral’s daughter Mrs Edwin Stafford of Washington DC and await customs at the mail.
The passage argues that widespread availability of top quality eggs with milk-like assurances at every market could raise egg sales, but notes no basis to estimate the benefit to producers.
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