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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1945
Page
7
Stephan Dates focused on success and family philanthropy, ignoring marriage as he rose from farm labor to factory owner. He hosted curious schoolchildren, answered their questions in stilted English, and built a thriving textile business through hard work, fair prices, and personal ties. The Balkans faced tension as a fanatic asserted control.
A catalog entry from S. H. Leventhal & Co. in Winnipeg outlines diesel crawler tractors and bulldozers. Items include RD7 Caterpillar with yard scraper RD4 variants TD40 bulldozer and TD1S with optional bull over scraper, plus RD4 with highlift bucket. Also notes 40 to 150 HP engines and 1500 watt electrical gear.
Stephan’s factory is destroyed under pressure from Karosi to produce explosives. Facing prison or death, he flees to America with help from a corrupt ally. The wrecked empire behind him contrasts with a fragile new chance as he finds shelter with his sister and a newborn sense of wealth in family and freedom.
About 200 inmates in three federal prisons volunteer to be bitten by malaria carrying mosquitoes to test preventive drugs. They undergo screening and face potential illness for up to 18 months, with results kept secret as sensitive military information.
The article explains how modern seed varieties extend garden seasons with early, mid, and late crops and new vegetables. It stresses planning and succession planting for continuous harvests and notes Canada’s seed supply, soil readiness tests, and thorough preplant cultivation to remove weeds.
King Gustav of Sweden is now the country’s longest serving monarch. It has been more than 37 years since Gustav VI Adolf ascended the throne on December 8, 1907, as Sweden’s 21st modern monarch.
Ethiopian Embassy acclaims the Emperor of Abyssinia for visits to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in Egypt. The statement notes the President’s invitation and an American airplane for the trip, with Eden arranging a meeting with Churchill. The Emperor then returned to Addis Ababa aboard the American government aircraft.
Britain produced compact emergency flour plants to feed liberated Europe after Allied landings in Italy. Each 16 cwt per hour mill runs on simple equipment and can be operated by unskilled labor. Self-contained on skids with a year of spare parts and 24 hour operation capability.
H M C S Cowichan, a Bangor class minesweeper and veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy, returns after 54 weeks overseas. She helped clear German minefields to the Normandy landing beaches on D day.
A bread method using All Bran molasses and yeast. Mix All Bran boiling water salt and shortening with lukewarm water and molasses. Add softened yeast, then flour, beat well. Rise until double, shape into two 1 pound loaves, bake at 350F about an hour, finish with butter brushed top.
The St. Catharines Standard recounts Germans using corpses and wounded as explosive booby traps in this war. It recalls past schemes from dugout rails to helmets and highlights a fatal trap set in a French estaminet in 1918 where a pianist's note sequence triggered a blast killing many.
Chicago shoe builder Jack Hoffert created 500 wooden duplicates of tiny feet and special size 18 models for circus performers. He began 25 years ago designing for midgets after noting children's shoes looked large on tiny feet and now serves nationwide customers with tailored footwear even for six inch heels.
Pan American Airways reports thousands of delicate orchid blooms arrive via Hoboken New Jersey to destinations across the United States. The blooms are fumigated to US Bureau of Plant Quarantine specifications at Hoboken, the only approved fumigation site.
A concise definition of plumbing as the science of delivering water where needed and removing it efficiently. The text notes plumbing governs water flow and waste management, hinting at the technical precision behind piping systems and fixture integration.
A Toronto Telegram piece warns that young children 2 and 3 years old are drawn to stoves matches heaters and gadgets and may start fires or be injured if left unsupervised. Parents are urged not to leave children alone even for brief errands.
A resident of Bellows Falls Vermont asks J C Webber stationmaster at Canadian National Montreal Central Station to locate a lost guinea pig placed in a small shoe box in bedroom D of Car K 106 on The Montrealer. The note says the owner wants the animal alive and asks that lettuce or carrot be placed in the box. the animal was found amid Canadian Customs bustle.
Pattern 4559 offers a sun dress jacket and bonnet set for beginners in sizes 12 8 4 5 and 2 with jumper and short pieces. Order by sending size name address and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave E Winnipeg Man with twenty cents in coins for postage.
A professional safecracker named E. Pratt explains the allure of the trade. He says once you enter the safe business you cannot leave, which he claims helps keep jails full.
The muskrat delivers the largest financial return of any single furbearer in North America based on total receipts.
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