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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
5
A Paris couture review notes yellow as the season’s key novelty with natural and beige tones rising, blacks stronger than navy and grays fading. Designers like Dior Balenciaga and Fath feature bold color pairings with yellow, while soft blues violets and beiges blend into greige palettes.
R W Oliver of the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa advises using small plants for hedges with two year olds for most deciduous hedges and four years for conifers. Trim deciduous hedges after spring planting and by late June or early July. conifers by September first. Clip during cool spells to avoid tip burn and maintain shape for the season.
A survey of American oil operations finds more than 100 million dollars spent sinking wells below 12 000 feet. Individual wells in this deep drilling class range from 89000 to over a million dollars, with an average around 250000.
Canada issues a 4 cent stamp to celebrate Newfoundland and Labrador joining as Canada's tenth province. The piece surveys Newfoundland stamp history from 1857 to commemoratives and wartime issues, noting collector demand in Canada and internationally and inviting readers to contact a Toronto stamp collector for sales or exchanges.
The columnist recommends updating wallpaper to pale yellow with a lace green background to suit a north-facing small room. Suggests a continental bed with a green pleated skirt, an unbleached cotton three-section bedspread with piping, tie back drapes, and potential knee-hole desk or dressing table. Repaint chest and wardrobe in complementary greens and yellows, and dye rag rugs to a deeper green to blend with the scheme.
A British food minister ends candy rations as life grows sweeter in the UK. A dog returns home after six years, possibly avoiding a K nine draft. An airline survey finds more US women fly to Europe than men while more European men travel to the US. The Indian government commits 3 million a year to the Nizam of Hyderabad. A jeep wreck in South Africa involves an ostrich. Conan Doyle allegedly hated Sherlock Holmes.
A monitor lizard, called the warning monitor, is a large semi aquatic reptile of the old world. About 30 species exist across Africa southern Asia to Australia. Some species grow six to seven feet long.
The phrase red tape originated in England in the 19th century from pinkish tape used to bind official documents signaling delay or inaction.
A motorist in Wallington Surrey misapplied the pedal causing the car to mount a footpath smash a wooden fence plough through a vegetable garden topple a brick wall strike a street gas lamp and emerge onto a neighbouring road. The driver was unhurt.
The White Sea is an inlet of the Arctic Ocean located in northwest Russia. It serves as a vital waterway linking regional ports and supports maritime activity in the Barents Sea region.
Ottawa health minister Paul Martin discussed water fluorination as a potential tool against tooth decay at a children's dental health day. He noted limited conclusive evidence but cautious optimism from western Ontario tests and highlighted a nationwide dentist shortage, with Ontario harboring over 40 percent of practitioners and Saskatchewan particularly under supplied. Federal health grants could partly correct this maldistribution by increasing the number of dentists.
The Nu-Fab Corporation paid over 40000 for a full page ad printed on rayon fabric in all Sunday Chicago Tribune editions. The 440000 square yards of material carried a sample of its all purpose cleaning cloth product. Readers were urged to cut out the sheet, wash off ink, and reuse the cloth for washing, dusting and polishing.
Garden seed packets must show the testing year and germination percentage if below the minimum for each kind. The Plant Products Division of the Dominion Department of Agriculture enforces the Seeds Act and may detain or confiscate inferior seed stocks or those not properly labeled. Pasteurized Milk Is Safe.
A reader recalls an Ashbury Park New Jersey Baby Parade bid, noting an unplaced result and considering a baby picture show for three year olds. The column riffes on bow ties for men over 35, age and style, and cites a dog scolding a drinking owner in Sausalito with a long aside about Terhune.
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