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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1923
Page
5
The Vancouver Province discusses Canada’s industrial and financial growth, noting exports per capita, rising rail, mine, oil refining, and manufacturing. It cites investment by Americans, Canadian agriculture, and water power expansion shaping a prosperous future for trade with the United States.
An elderly clergyman sends his son to Oxford where study does not sharpen his mind. On a summer visit the son preaches two odd texts and then delivers a grim punch line about his own son. The father ends with the plea Lord have mercy on my son for he is a lunatic and sore tormented.
The seller cannot sell hip wheat as his market is largely destroyed by Europe’s economic and political chaos. Europe is too poor to buy wheat because postwar recovery struggles persist, despite American wartime aid. The Living Church muses on love and loss versus breach of promise. The Matterhorn’s ascent faces a harsh average temperature of about 30 degrees.
A London biologist warns that continued use of very high heels could reduce women’s toes over time, drawing a parallel with evolutionary reductions in horses and deer. He notes birds too and says today’s two inch heels may still be linked to progress, while women in the US adopt inch-high heels to emulate American styles.
London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian asserts Canadian reports about Britain dropping its Wrangel Island claim are unfounded. He says the Foreign Office has not renounced the claim and there has been no change in official stance.
Sir Donald Mann Canadian railway builder returns to Toronto after a 42 500 mile trip through Soviet Russia praising the earnestness of the people and noting Russia will honor contracts. He observed government workers toil through the night as the country moves to recovery.
The article notes the summer 1873 arrival of Icelandic settlers in Canada and marks their fiftieth anniversary in Manitoba. It praises their climate fit, industrious citizenship, valuing education, and impact in business and professions. It quotes the Winnipeg Free Press on their suitability and contribution to Canadian settlement.
A historic Salt Lake City monument honors the 1850 rescue of Utah settlers from famine by sea gulls that fed on crickets and grasshoppers threatening crops. After prayers, a large flock appeared to eradicate the pests, and the birds vanished once the threat ended. The memorial was unveiled in 191%.
A dialogue reveals a son praising his father for pluck and hard work. The father recalls his youth carrying mortar for bricklayers. The exchange ends with a nod to personal restraint and family pride as a path forward. A sentence about yellow silk raised in Japan adds a distant note of production.
Tok io, the capital, with 2 000 000 people in 1905, leads in administration and education, while Yokohama on Tokyo Bay, about 17 miles from Tokyo, has 500 000 residents and a strong foreign quarter. Nagoya, capital of Owari, houses potter y and porcelain manufacture, embroideries, and is the birthplace of cloisonne enamel.
A Federal report on 1922 dairy shows Alberta produced 15,417,000 pounds of butter valued at $5,126,844, placing it third among provinces for both quality and quantity.
A brief noting the tagua or ivory tree grows prolifically in South America with a casual aside referencing a London Daily Mail line about a husband’s death and a line about what he left behind.
In Toronto at the Canada National Exhibition Prostion vice president Wol Robb and officials say expansion plans for the Western region depend on capital and industry growth. He forecasts hundreds of thousands of settlers will join the western population in coming years as immigration and railway strategy align with development aims. The talk highlights Canada’s push to attract settlers while inspecting nurser stock regulations and maritime opportunities for British Isles migrants.
The Canadian Government organizes rapid shipments to Tokyo and Yokohama including canned milk lumber and other materials. The Department of Trade and Commerce buys large quantities of foodstuffs as the Canadian Red Cross arranges to send essential goods at once while Canadians rally to aid Japan in its time of need.
Six hundred boxes of Okanagan apples will be shown in England at the Empire Exhibition next year. Frank Dehart, fruit expert of Kelowna, has been commissioned by the Dominion Government to assemble British Columbia’s contribution to Canada’s fruit display.
A narrative guide describes the Peak vantage and the Public Gardens in Hong Kong. It notes scenic flowers and plants, street chairs and coolies, the superstition around photography, and the costs for the chair bearers and a token tip.
A prominent national consultant links rising nervous disorders to lack of exercise and overfeeding. He urges walking at least two miles daily to prevent insomnia and high blood pressure, warns that urban life temptations to ride reduce fitness, and extols shoe leather for efficiency of body and mind. A mile a day keeps the doctor away.
Offer by Hon T. D. Pattulo representing British Columbia to supply curkoe of lumber to aid Japan’s post cataclysm recovery has been sent to the Imperial Japanese Government in Tokyo.
A terse exchange unfolds on a fast train as a conductor affirms its speed and a passenger insists on getting out to inspect the fastening. The remark about land sharks contrasts with water sharks, suggesting a cautionary note or metaphor for devious schemes.
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