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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1951
Page
3
The Sports Clinic presents color theory for tennis, explains three court zones green yellow red and when to risk or play safe. It offers fatigue recovery tips with leg elevation and cold chest towels, plus sprint standards and a call to join Sports College via Box 99 Toronto.
Ottawa report notes a national philanthropic appeals review board will inform Canadians about campaign worthiness. R E G Davis of the Canadian Welfare Council says the body will include business labor women and welfare groups and community chests. Final plans will be laid soon.
More than 1,100 immigrants arrived in Manitoba in the first half of the year according to R. N. Munrot western superintendent of immigration. The newcomers come from Britain and Europe with the largest movements from the Netherlands and Denmark.
A column mixes jokes about British Married Women's association led by Edith Summerskill with remarks on women drivers, French wives paying alimony to husbands, Dowager Queen Mary’s 21 year old car, and a German king’s tall-soldier breeding plan.
Sidney Leonard, a 64 year old Winnipeg native who never had a music lesson, toured Calgary giving free concerts for war veterans hospital patients and crippled children. He works without pay, donates gate receipts to charity and covers all expenses from his South Africa estate. Gassed in Passchendaele he now entertains in hospitals jails asylums and army camps to lift spirits. He cannot read music but can play any piece in any key.
Poem recalls faith in divine aid through hard days with the line O God our help in ages past as a healing refrain. The speaker finds comfort in scripture during black hours of doubt and despair, trusting God to share burdens across years.
The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association announced Edmonton Mercurys will represent Canada at the next world Olympics. Mercurys were chosen from six applications after winning the 1950 world amateur title with a seven-game clean sweep. The decision followed an informal CAHA executive meeting in Toronto.
Mrs. M. W. Knight of Burnaby Vancouver is known as the bird doctor for her lifelong hobby of patching up injured birds. A volunteer for the SPCA, she takes ailing birds to her home day and night, nursing cases from a sore eyed saw whet owl to badly injured creatures. The couple breeds budgerigars and claim a top west coast collection.
Prince Albert reports a new control method for the black fly menace this summer. The program involves dumping a mixture of oil and DDT into rivers to reduce the pest population.
Wind gusts of 11 345 miles swept Lethbridge in May with an average speed of 15.2 mph as transport data show. Britain’s 1950 passenger movements by sea and air hit 6 333 000, while Michigan fish hatcheries cut rations to slow growth.
Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian Bolivian border is described as the highest lake where regular steamboat service operates. Its elevation is stated at 12 500 feet above sea level.
A dense list of horizontal and vertical crossword clues includes items like Rocky pinnacle blow gun missile dry to regret notion and many more. Several entries reference languages metals animals plants and objects with scattered numbers and stray phrases such as Malay pewter coin three strikes and Japanese measures.
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