Prairie Pride Mink Ranch Enables One Man to Care for 1400 Minks
Saskatchewan rancher Omar Crabb and former manager Wilfred Cook developed a push button system at the Prairie Pride Mink Ranch Rouleau to maintain 1400 minks with a single keeper. The complex uses eight sheds per lot clean lab-like floors floodlights cinder paths and removable nest boxes for efficiency. The operation features multiple mink strains and an on site auction concept begun in Regina two years ago aimed at expanding sales beyond traditional show ribbons.
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Prairies
Rouleau
Omar Crabb
Wilfred Cook
Crabb
Regina
Fear Floods Again In Souris Valley
In Melita Manitoba veteran observers warn only a miracle can avert a repeat flood in the Souris river valley after heavy snowfall. If winter remains normal in the watershed, grave flood danger exists as 50 inches have fallen, nearing last year’s 57 inches total.
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Melita
Man
Souris River
World Happenings and Niche Updates Across Regions
World Happenings reports on mink breeding experiments and raised feed efficiency in Saskatchewan. It notes 1948 rapeseed production and other global items including a Sotheby’s sale, a Suffolk parish getting a rectory, and Britain Russia trade shifts alongside Berlin airlift records.
Baldur Game Association Plans Immediate Aid for Deer
Baldur Manitoba Baldur Fish and Game association will act quickly to relieve possible starvation in the local deer population. President George R. Fowler says the executive is arranging the purchase of elevator screenings to be distributed to district key members.
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Baldur
Man
Weekly Tip New Life for Toothbrushes
A reader explains that common table salt can stiffen toothbrush bristles. Apply salt when the brush is wet and rinse the salt out of a dry brush before using.
All-Day Frock Pattern 4815 by Anne Adams
Pattern 4815 offers a no shoulder seam no collar no set-in sleeves wrap design easy to iron with scalloped detail and alphabet transfer. Includes illustrated instructions and sizes 12 through 20 plus yardage for size 16. send 25 cents to Winnipeg Newspaper Union for order. Birds carried messages as early as 218 BC.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Kitchen Meditations on a Day Gone Awr
A weary homekeeper recounts a day of mishaps from forgotten salt to a burned stew. A knock brings her mother and a child inviting her to sea, and after tea they share a laugh. By sunset she admits the day was not as awry as it seemed.
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Hubby
Kru or Krumen: Noted African Coast Boat Builders and Sailors
The Kru or Krumen of the African coast are described as skilled boat builders and hardy sailors valued as crews for men of war and merchant ships across maritime trade and naval service.
Crossword Puzzle Clue Grid and Answers
A crossword puzzle prompt lists across and down clues with numbers, partial word hints, and theme style. The readable text includes clue fragments such as Female servant, Dawn Sir, The magic city, Prefix not, Note of chromatic scale, Weathercock, Public writer, Framing in which panes of glass are set, Group of eight, Ram, Pronoun, Colloquial dispute, and various down clues like Siamese coin, Electrified particle, Hungarian composer, and Molten lava initiative.
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Henri
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Labor Party
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Admiralty
Fred Allen
Nanaimo
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Miss Wright
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Ferguson
Game Association
Jane Dale
Dawn
Jack Johnson
Chaldea
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Reggie
Hazel
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Pop
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Pey al Vermeer
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