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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1953
Page
3
Readers learn practical pest control with sprays and dusts using arsenate of lead DDT copper sulfate nicotine and sulfur blends. Emphasis on proper timing windless days after rain, and following directions. Tools like long-handled hoes and cultivators speed weeding, with sharp edges and neat storage.
Practical tips cover flavoring prunes with cinnamon and lemon, chilling them in syrup for juiciness, removing tar with oil, cleaning silk and worsted fabrics with alcohol, restoring pearl buttons with olive oil and nail powder, and using lemon juice to whiten a bread board.
A speaker recounts shooing a neighbor girl from a garden and forbidding play on the lawn. Years later the girl’s rapid, joyful footfalls are missed as her feet are described as weak and twisted and unable to return. The poem laments missed chance and changed fortunes with a tone of regret.
A lively collage of historical wrestling lore, seaside quips, and social bits. It notes Yousouf the Terrible Turk towering over opponents and being coached by W. A. Brady, alongside humor about beards and kissing, hotel age rules in Spain, June wedding hints, gendered geese myths, name changes, twins odds, and a final numeric尾 3034.
London report notes Soldier magazine finds new generation of soldiers uses far less profanity. It says the colorful swearing of the old guard is fading and that modern troops rely on fewer than a dozen hard words used across parts of speech in one sentence.
A wandering Indian holy man who blessed a housewife with the phrase May you be the mother of seven sons was beaten by a village mob. He learns in hospital that the housewife leading the attack already has nine children.
Chinese press reports describe a severe drought spanning about 2000 miles from Szechwan province in the southwest to the Manchurian frontier in the northwest. The affected region within this arc is described as very serious by Communist sources reaching here.
The Leakville post office near Moose Jaw operated from 1914 to 1941 serving the surrounding district. Named for first postmaster Charles Leak, it moved locations after multiple deaths linked to a gas-filled well and later closed as roads improved and larger farms reduced demand.
Government officials estimate northern Saskatchewan trappers lost about 98000 by submitting damaged or poorly processed muskrat pelts for sale in the last two seasons. In the same period beaver pelts suffered a loss of 13000.
A sports clinic warns of many pitchers injuring arms by early season overuse and offers drills. It advises slow starts, consistent wrist snap, loose delivery, and gradual distance increases from 30 to 60 feet, with at least 10 to 14 days of pre season conditioning.
Before game nerves rise from anxiety and arousal, a natural boost to performance. Sports College offers free membership by mail, inviting anyone to join and receive-form guidance.
Some 5,000 men in Germany have bullets embedded in their hearts or nearby. Dr. Robert Janker of Bonn University’s X ray institute stated the finding at the event in Remscheid Lepen.
A scanned crossword puzzle page with across and down clues listed in a dense grid format. The puzzle includes numbered entries, multilingual hints, and references to scientific terms and historical names, all arranged in two polemic columns typical of a newspaper feature.
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