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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 03, 1947
Page
2
The text notes that wartime and postwar economics caused price rises in Canada. It cites International Labor Office figures showing overall price levels up 56 percent since 1937 and food prices up 42 percent, despite wartime controls deemed among the most effective.
The International Labor Office notes steep price increases since 1937 in several countries. United States overall up 48 percent, food up 78 percent. Japan food prices now 64 times prewar. France nine times. Italy 19 times. Netherlands 101 percent.
The piece notes price increases across the British Empire with Australia up 47 percent and South Africa 49 percent, Britain 32 percent and food 51 percent. It argues Canadians have been fortunate amid rising costs and expects supply and demand to balance, stabilizing prices soon.
Mrs. Ruel Edmister of South Lancaster Massachusetts reports a singing mouse that sits on a kitchen radiator and trills merrily at night. The animal began its career last fall after being found in a box of popcorn and now frequents the radiator, even posing for pictures.
Thomas Alva Edison disputed the idea that atoms contain internal energy. A penciled memorandum by Edison denying internal energy was sold at Philadelphia for $230 at a public auction of letters and signatures gathered by Frederick Stanhope Peck. The memo responded to a question about harnessing atomic energy.
A mixed collection of aphorisms on custom, education, and fashion from Fielding Bacon Bovee Mill and Dumas. References to immortality and Australia note enduring ideas about tradition and age. The lines illustrate how behavior adapts to prevailing norms yet questions their value.
A Boston University professor, W. K. Pinard, argues spring fever is real and beneficial. He says the urge to create, sing, laugh, play and love should be allowed within decent limits, warning repression can cause mental or social problems. He urges society to loosen propriety to let spring fever express itself constructively.
A collection of light anecdotes features a policeman querying a drunk about a 3 AM lecture, a lecturer making a joke about corpuscles, an asylum inmate reversing a wheelbarrow, a reporter noting a convict, a pupil explaining eight family members causing lateness, a boy seeking a collar for his father, a jelly weatherstripping joke, Bill suing a company after a dinner whistle, and a worker dropping iron on his foot during a loud moment.
Ground beef or sausage cooked with onions and green peppers in drippings. Add broth tomato sauce cheese and vinegar simmer then fold in spaghetti and reheat. Serve with extra cheese for 6 to 8 servings. Cook spaghetti until just tender in salted water.
Instructions describe making chocolate kiss cookies from egg whites sugar and chocolate chips with vanilla and a slow bake. The recipe yields about 20 kisses and suggests variations. A separate anecdote features a quip about an efficiency expert and a wife.
On England s east coast at Eccles the sea reclaims land and exposes a church destroyed about 350 years ago. Erosion reveals pottery fragments and skeletal remains from the old burial ground, washing away sand that had covered the site.
J Dainty a British Atomic Energy project member told about 100 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Ottawa Centre members that the sun tends to get hotter and will gradually lessen only after a very distant future. He discussed stellar evolution theories building on H Norris Russell of Princeton.
A study notes mushrooms are about 90 percent water with 4 percent protein and small amounts of iron copper calcium phosphorus potassium riboflavin nicotine and pantothenic acid plus vitamins B1 C and K, highlighting their nutrient mix.
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