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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 09, 1953
Page
2
A Moréen Experimental Farm report describes shelterbelts as essential for Northern Great Plains farms. It highlights snowtrap and rain shelterbelts, north and west hedge rows, and south and east rows to protect the yard. Well kept grounds, fencing, roads, and tasteful plantings create a welcoming estate image.
A pretty girl rejected a persistent suitor who then bombarded her with a special delivery letter twice daily for 47 days. On day 48 his scheme succeeded as the girl eloped with the mailman.
Plain request urges readers to obtain the 1953 Alice Brooks Needle Craft Book with complete patterns for embroidery crochet and printed designs. It promises many more patterns for for gifts home items toys and fashion and asks readers to send 25 cents. The note also mentions the month of March is named for the Roman god of war.
A weekly Home Wostuban feature introduces ready to use patterns. Readers can secure patterns loaned for homemakers without blueprint reading. Includes actual size cutting guides for coffee tables wardrobes screens storm sash picnic tables lawn furniture bird houses and more for hobbyists.
A collection of short humorous vignettes and eye catching lines. An elderly professor waters artificial flowers while a neighbor jokes about the watering can. A tax dispute over a border farm ends with relief. A child, a lover, and a set of witty exchanges portray family life, misdirection, and social irony with light satire.
New low voltage soft x rays penetrate food to kill molds viruses and other spoilage organisms, extending shelf life for meats vegetables fruits and beverages. The autogiro, invented by Juan de la Cierva in 1922, is noted.
Premier Antonin Zapotocky chosen by the Czech Communist Party central committee and approved by 271 parliament members in Prague to succeed the late Klement Gottwald as president. Gottwald died after illness described as pneumonia and pleurisy, following his return from Stalin's funeral.
Cunard Line directors chose the liner name ending in in just before its launch on September 26, 1934. The ship was to be named Victoria and Queen Mary was asked to christen it. King George V approved the idea that Her Majesty would be pleased, and the ship was christened Queen Mary.
A Norwich candy shop claims Britain’s last rationing system serving only polite customers. Epping’s women prisoners may curl hair wear lipstick and choose five dress colors. In Memphis a family of seven walked from hotel to car as five youngsters counted aloud. Vermillion librarians used a bucket brigade to move books. Hartford officers arrested forty motorists for red light violations. Myron Wilesky hit a low hooded car after green light. A nine foot python in Lueneburg fed a live pigeon which befriended the reptile.
A Vancouver pattern offer by Prairie Publishers Limited provides a Home Workshop pattern for building extra chairs. The ad notes stock lumber sizes and hardware fittings, with foam pads and leatherette upholstery options, priced at 35 cents per pattern. Send name address and pattern number to 4433 West Fifth Ave. Vancouver B C.
In recent years Canadians have grown to value native maple, birch, and pine furniture. Europeans bought Canadian woods for luxury pieces long before Canada’s furniture industry became top ten. Scientific research improved adhesives glues stains and varnishes, enhancing natural wood beauty.
An advertisement promising relief from itching burning and soreness of piles offers Hem-Roid as an internal treatment. It claims rapid improvement within 2 to 3 days and a full money back refund if not 100 percent satisfied after use, with price set at 1.59 for a large 66 tablet package.
On a Sussex farm the Holland blue hen Duplicate reportedly laid 462 eggs in 365 days becoming the fastest layer yet. Owners Mr and Mrs Wilfred Hutchings describe the bird’s feats from two eggs daily to bursts of ten in 24 hours before she died at 18 months.
The article offers quick kitchen and cleaning tips. It suggests using safety pins as corkscrew substitutes, browning nuts before adding them to dishes, and cleaning marble with a soda pumice salt paste. It also warns that oxalic acid cleans a wooden floor, detailing a strong solution and spreading method.
A 12 inch coconut sent to Vlad Pardely in Vermilion, Alberta, bore a customs declaration reading to be opened for inspection, but the coconut arrived without being opened.
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