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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1938
Page
5
The Aquitania from Southampton to New York carried 380 barrels of gold valued at about 21 million dollars amid its vast passenger cargo. The captain worries more for passengers than the precious metal, trusting the gold is secured in a strong room while the ship remains afloat.
Sir Ernest MacMillan, head of the Toronto Conservatory of Music, calls for Canada to stand on its own in music and defense. He criticizes dependence on the United States for nourishment and urges greater financial and moral support to develop the nation's musical foundation. He argues music unifies, civilizes, and peace makes when nations share songs.
Mrs. Jessie Graham, 79, claims to be Gretna Green’s original anvil priestess and returns to work after 30 years retired. Gretna Green, just across the Scotland border, is famed for declarations before witnesses at a blacksmith. Rising runaway marriages prompt her comeback, she says she wants a share of the action.
Provincial accident and prevention bureau reports 114 tested in Manitoba safety lanes. 4,592 or over 60 percent failed to meet safe standards. Of these, 38 percent had defective brakes. A writer notes in a hostile air raid the public statues would be vulnerable, yet public support for peace remains. Mining in South Africa is hampered by a shortage of motive labor.
Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare announces sweeping prison reforms in the House of Commons. Notable jails such as Pentonville Reading Oxford and Holloway will be restructured or closed with Holloway replaced by a country camp for women. The plan funds housing for prisoners and improves amenities with hot meals and self service clothes. Women prisoners’ welfare and routines, including improved food and clothing, are emphasized alongside extended privileges and physical fitness programs.
Britain will remove blue air mail posting boxes once common in London and provincial towns since 1930. The boxes, once used to route urgent air letters to overseas destinations for an extra fee, have become a delay risk as air mail carriage expands from 40 tons yearly in 1930 to about 2,000 tons now and 2,200 tons planned.
Four German battleships and four cruisers lie wrecked at Scapa Flow after their crews sank them on surrender. The British are gradually raising them for scrap metal, recovering vessels one by one.
Canada reports 19 plants producing processed cheese in 1937. Ontario has 11 plants, Quebec six, Manitoba one, and Alberta one, distributed by province across the country.
The distant planet Neptune experiences an extreme average temperature around 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, highlighting its icy outer atmosphere and harsh conditions far from the sun.
A New Zealand buttermaker developed a vacuum process for churning and handling cream. By mid period about 75 percent of Dominion butter came from vacreation, especially in Auckland and southern districts. The method reduces feed flavors, improving quality from second grade to finest, boosting profits as factories adopt tandem vacreators.
Dr Edward A Doisy a St Louis University chemist reports isolating pure vitamin K from alfalfa meal oil. He previously isolated the elin female sex hormone. The notes also mention tortoises live about a century, US nickel plating of 1 000 000 tons yearly, and Australia producing twenty thousand tons of currants this year.
An Ontario city witnesses a Boston bull terrier with amber sunglasses in a car with New York plates. The dog, post eye surgery, wears glasses per veterinary advice to avoid rubbing the injured eye and loves the wind on trips, secured by a neck wire. The owner notes the dog now expects sunglasses.
Swiss importers, driven by high ocean freight rates, find Canadian hay and straw imports impractical. Recent inquiries to the Canadian Trade Commissioner in Rotterdam yielded offers too low to consider seriously.
Captain F Dismore, veteran Imperial Airways pilot, set a unique record by twenty five years of continuous flying across all aircraft types from early days to now. The feat marks a rare achievement in aviation history.
In Milwaukee a 25 year old husband lost his job and after the birth of his second daughter chose washing clothes for a living over welfare. He canvassed neighbors, secured customers, and supported his family through initiative, putting pride ahead of relief according to the Detroit Free Press.
E. F. Kohman of Camden New Jersey told the American Chemical Society that onions contain an aldehyde that acts as a strong bacteria destroyer. Grandma’s old remedy idea parallels scientific inquiry into the onion’s healing aroma.
Salem city council outlaws nightly roosters crowing with a 25 dollar fine and up to 10 days in jail for violators. The item also notes beech family trees such as chestnut and oak belong to Beeches.
Dr J F Booth chief of the Economic Division of Canada’s Marketing Service explains in the Economic Annalist August issue how the division emerged from farm self sufficiency to global market dependence. The article covers origin early research co operation farm management dairy surveys marketing taxation credit and the agricultural outlook.
The Ottawa Journal reports a proposed British scheme to classify licenses by safety history. All current and new licenses would start as CC, advancing to B after six accident-free months and A after another six. Cheaper insurance and plates would accompany A, with downgrades and suspensions for accidents or repeated offences, plus a D class for multiple trouble spots.
A hand made chair of peculiar cedar form built 20 years ago by Solomon Levesque of Campbellton attracts attention in the Edmunston hotel lobby. A U S hunter offered 700 dollars but was refused by owner J L Boudreau who later sold for 150. A later U S visitor offered 300 but was declined.
Mitchell South Dakota funds 10 thousand dollars annually to redecorate the Corn Palace interior. The massive hall features murals themed with native corn and grains, crafted by expert decorators each autumn.
Report highlights bamboo reaching up to 116 feet and growing as much as 16 inches in a day. Nearby in Sydney surrounds, land crabs are observed emerging from holes to steal golf balls on local courses.
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