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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1923
Page
4
An Ontario experiment at Kapuskasing tests pasture use for pigs. Three groups of Yorkshire pigs aged 12 weeks are fed similar meat rations. one stays in pens, two graze clover pasture with shelter. Results show pasture plus self feeder lowers feed needs and costs, suggesting turning shoats out on pasture is economical where labor is limited.
Before the Geographical Board of Canada formed in 1899 no central authority guided Dominion placenames. It regulated publications, consulted provinces, and preserved history in names such as Thousand Islands and Canadian mountain peaks. The board promoted local preferences, restored original forms, and published pamphlets on city names and Gulf of St. Lawrence locales.
E. W. Howe's Monthly argues provincials need not seek cakes and ale in New York or Broadway. It claims true joy comes from country life with its brighter, younger people and natural beauty, noting our old leave for the city while younger, better looking men stay in the countryside.
A colloquial dialogue depicts Free State Patrol asking a motorist for a driving permit. The motorist responds and questions the patrol’s reason to inspect the document, highlighting tensions in enforcement and compliance.
An exchange from the American Legion Weekly shows a prisoner and prosecuting attorney debating plea, with the prisoner answering not guilty or guilty, and claiming ten years served in each round. The humor hinges on a jailhouse logic about sentences.
The piece argues against the idea that fish alone boosts brainpower noting fish is a wholesome body building food fit any time. It credits fish for health and fisheries prosperity while stressing education remains essential.
A boy named Tony sobs over losing five cents. An elderly woman comforts him with a pragmatic remark about money. The tale leads to a curious aside noting that if lung cells were laid flat they would cover 480 square feet.
Susan tears her dresses and dirty frocks after play. Her mother, tired of mending, frees her to wear a knicker suit of checked cloth. Susan greets friends in the comfortable outfit, and praise follows as the parent accepts the change.
A clerk asks to be released this afternoon to shop with his wife. The employer declines, citing current busyness. The clerk replies with gratitude, thanking the boss for the consideration.
A judge notes a farmer offering a boy five dollars a day to dig potatoes, urging the boy to work alone since he knows where the potatoes are. The exchange underlines an implied labor issue in a quoted wartime or rural setting.
A maid asks her mistress for permission to visit a toy shop to buy a skipping rope. The exchange reveals a simple household scene as the maid explains she forgot to shake her medicine bottle after taking it, prompting a note of domestic routine.
A boss and new clerk discuss filing letters with the clerk suggesting using scissors to trim them, a remark the boss approves as an easier method.
Dr. N F W Hazeldine announces a patented sun based method that preserves organic products and vitalizes seeds. The lab at 1318 Exposition Blvd demonstrates butter stays sweet, oils resist rancidity, and Canadian wheat heads reach about six inches under prosaic conditions.
Manitoba saw about 9 000 more farms in the last decade, rising to over 53 000 occupied farms covering 14 6 million acres. The average Manitoba farm size is 274.2 acres and total farm property value, based on the 1922 census, is 656 500 961 dollars.
California plant wizard Luther Burbank has developed sunflowers one foot high intended to feed poultry. His early trials show promising results as he continues refinement of the dwarf variety.
On Stella’s birthday her four Brownies gift tiny items and warmth. A Pig drinks from a Get-Little-Pool and shrinks to a frightened size, then learns to drink from Get-Big-Pool to restore himself. The tale ends with a note about baby pigs’ proportions at birth.
An explanatory piece on tooth pulp vitality and pulp death due to irritation. It describes pulp anatomy, how swelling traps circulation, and how dead pulp leads to abscesses. The article urges keeping teeth clean and fillings to avoid painful procedures. It notes that sound teeth with healthy nerves function without trouble.
Government panel reviews advisability of banning women from Indian mines as mining grows deeper and risks rise. About a third of workers are women. past English ban and local opposition inform current debate. Proposals face opposition from imperial press and arguments about family labor dynamics.
A sharp clerk dismisses a hesitant customer asking about dog collars. The man, deemed weak in appearance, quips that the store will keep the collar he planned to buy tomorrow. The exchange conveys a tense, ironic domestic scene in a retail setting.
A fragmentary narration shows a character praising a newly bought cottage funded by a late father. Exchanges hint at a fiancée and a sharp remark about selling birthright for a poor dwelling. The scene centers on inheritance, property, and perceived value.
Dialogue shows a woman and a man debating golf terms as she quizzes him about a foursome and twosome. She jokes about lonesome and the man notes it is not clever to mock meals during mealtimes.
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