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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1949
Page
3
Arthur Peaston age 70 says he has walked 160,009 miles during his 49 years as a London postman. Vacationers cleared from Great Yarmouth beach as soldiers detonated three mince found in the sand.
Poem by Jane Dale questions a small bird singing at dawn near a rose bush. The speaker wonders why the bird sings with merry clear music and if it serenades the rose in the garden setting.
Six members of a bee keepers' club used sun helmets and masks to gas the hive blocking the Graham Chapel door for three weeks. Lloyd Ravenscroft said the three hour cyanide operation killed about 60 000 bees and allowed services to resume. Watermelons are native to tropical and South Africa.
A homemade poultry waterer shown uses a 40 gallon drum as a supply tank and a cave trough as the drinking surface. Water flow is vacuum controlled, with the drum filled airtight and recharged by removing a bung. The design emphasizes level setup and portability for moving with a tractor or horse.
Vancouver swimmer Irene Strong, 20, is regarded as certain to join Canada's squad for the 1950 British Empire Games in New Zealand. The 120 pound athlete, already a five Canadian and one United States record breaker in six months, set a new Canadian mark in the 400 yard breaststroke and won the Pacific Northwest 100 yard breaststroke title. Mentor Percy Norman has coached her since age 14 and expects major results in New Zealand.
The saying distinguishes wages from salaries by how workers are guided. Wages are paid for prescribed tasks while salaries compensate for broader duties without direct instruction. The difference in wording hides a large gap in earnings potential.
Canada nears a 1937 sheep population low as meat from sheep remains a small share of total consumption. Prices, predators, and harsher winters curb lamb raising, with cattle favored for profit and resilience.
Vancouver nurses Evelyn Hunter and Doreen Pendray prepare for a 10 month assignment aboard the United States medical mission vessel Willis Shank. Hunter, from Lacombe Alberta, embraces sea life while Pendray, a lifelong Victoria resident, joins after meeting Dr. Lindsay MacClenney.
The labor department reports strikes and lockouts in Canada rising about 33 percent in time lost compared to last year. In the first six months, 63 strikes affected 14,761 workers with 671,591 days lost, versus 77 strikes affecting 21,204 workers and 458,458 days lost in 1948.
A 16 year old, Robert April, was honored in Saskatoon for reporting a CNR washout near Zenon Sask on June 9. He ran over a mile to warn of the danger just as a passenger train was about to depart. He received an engraved wrist watch from CN R and attended a hotel dinner with dignitaries including Mayor J S Mills.
Unity, Sask is home to Western Canada's largest brome seed cleaning plant and a growing mineral sector. Prairie Salt Co operates one of the province’s largest salt plants near Unity using local natural gas for heat and processing. Potash development is in negotiation as the town expands with electric power from Saskatchewan Power and rising population. The Unity Board of Trade led by Dr Henry L Wylie drives new industry and civic improvements.
Two Melbourne safe crackers ignored a sign that warned no entry and tried to blow open an office safe. They found only books and a final note reading See. The incident shows the men mistook a harmless shelf for a secured vault.
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