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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1946
Page
7
The Health League of Canada campaigns for compulsory pasteurization in eight provinces noting Ontario already enforces it. They warn that unsafe milk, even when clean, can carry disease germs from cows handlers or recovered patients. Proper pasteurization is presented as the only way to ensure safety.
Recipe details for sandwich bread include sifted flour baking powder salt milk molasses and shortening, with steps to mix dampen and bake in a leaf pan at 350 F for about an hour. Also notes Dr Griffin named director of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, first Canadian to hold the post, with roles in the Health League of Canada.
A memory from a harsh prairie life told by a child. Dave and Edna milk cows as their mother, known as plucky Mrs. Weaver, drives chores. A sick hobo named George Weaver is cared for by the family with the priest, ending in his death and a striking reaction from Mrs. Weaver.
A damaged excerpt shows a speaker recalling leaving home twelve years ago and urging a captain to press on a line about no next step, with narrator Ma reacting from a barn and the dialogue trailing off into unclear phrasing.
The Prices Board announced 1946 maximum prices for new potatoes imported and domestic, with little change from 1945 and regional variations. Base prices at Harrow Ontario and Vancouver remain, but transportation allowances were removed, making basing point price plus transport to centers. Imports require Wartime Food Corporation permit, limited to areas with short 1945 supplies. A strong US crop suggests ample apples for distribution until domestic supply recovers. Britain moves to reduce bread loaf by 10 percent wheat-extraction as a temporary measure. Sir Ben Smith outlined further wheat shortage steps.
Two scientists from Clinton Laboratories Oak Ridge Tenn and a former pilot plant head report in an American Chemical Society publica tion that atomic fission radiation may slow aging. They note some radiations accelerate aging in animals while others could delay aging with correct dosages and application. Experiments on rats and mice show rapid death from certain rays but potential to extend youth with controlled exposure.
Harold H. Leather reports 16,310,892 food parcels for prisoners of war packed at six Red Cross plants from January 1941 through July 1945, costing 41,831,652 dollars. In 1945 the Purchasing Committee's orders reached 13,487,667, totaling 67,758,963 from 1939 to 1945, with funds also for Canadian United Allied Relief Fund and repatriates from the Far East.
Archaeologists study bomb craters across Europe and Britain and uncover evidence of ancient cultures. A Pomell American bomb revealed archaic terra cotta revetments while a Canterbury German bomb exposed a Roman city dating to about 43 A.D. The pieces highlight how war debris can illuminate history.
President Eurkco Gaspar Dutra decrees abolition of all gambling and cancels casino race-track lottery concessions across Brazil. The crackdown aims to restore moral tradition, impacting about 200000 workers and roughly one million dependents.
A jumble of humorous exchanges and pop culture quips features a mistress scolding a clumsy servant over china, jokes about wages and marriage, a bride and groom noticed by a waiter, and war reminiscences. The piece also mentions a sawdust ring game, a Swiss cheese debate, and a new xenon flash bulb for daylight photography, illustrating lighthearted social banter and early tech notes.
The Lidice rebirth drive gains momentum with the birth of Jan Stephan Kucera and reports that about 50 of the town’s missing children have been found near Hamburg. Jan, a few weeks old, links a Lidice family to wartime tragedy as his godparents, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk and Mrs Eduard Benes, attend a Prague christening. The Ministry of Information notes roughly 30 Lidice children located near Hamburg, with earlier finds totaling about 18. Further details describe scattered locations from Germany to Slovakia and estimates of missing youths remaining.
Vintage pattern advertisement offering Anne Adams designs for toddlers and children. Pattern 4932 includes a frothy frock boot-full bonnet slip and panties in sizes from six months to five years. Dress and bonnet in size 2. Cost twenty cents, orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg.
About 60 000 British troops have left Egypt with nearly 100 000 remaining to depart once they can dispose of as many prisoners of war as they guard. The Ottawa Citizen notes Egyptians fear a fresh treaty with Britain might lead to ending the occupation but losing lucrative revenue from the arrangement.
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