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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1961
Page
2
Practical packing guide with crease resistant fabrics and packing order. Discusses luggage sizes, garment handling, toiletries transfer, shoe and hat packing, cardboard spacers, tissue paper, and safety tips for travel. Ends with note on manners and a home waffle iron tip.
Princess Margaret shifts from royal dressmakers to a tiny shop next to a hamburger house for maternity wear. Mrs. Hetty Russell reports first dress batch delivered and plans to sketch more for Kensington Palace. Prices start at £3 13s 6d with ready to wear options, and many titled clients have shopped there.
The Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa reports large drops in BC landings of herring and salmon for 1960. Provincial fisheries value fell 19.5 percent to 53.98 million dollars from 67.07 million in 1959.
A reader guide to making meal in the hand sandwiches for Sunday suppers and parties. It describes three supper sandwich ideas and a petite smorgasbord with open face selections and easy assembly. Recipes include chicken salad, garnishes, and serving tips for a do it yourself spread.
Consumer guidance on selecting and preparing five vegetables. Snap beans broccoli cabbage cauliflower and corn are described with quality cues, trimming, and cooking times for best color texture and tenderness. Includes specific quantities and methods for boiling steaming and cutting.
Pattern 345 offers actual size cutting guides and materials for awnings and shelters. Paint the frame to match house trim with slats in contrasting colors. Order pattern 345 for 50c or the Home Improvements Packet No 29 for $1.75 from Home Workshop Patterns, Department P.P.L. Vancouver.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports June 1 cattle on Canadian farms reached 12,116,600, up five percent from 11,501,000 a year earlier. Increases averaged seven percent in the West and 3.5 percent in the East, with gains in all provinces except New Brunswick.
The Canadian government ice breaker John A. Macdonald carried the world s first atomic powered weather station to Graham Island 750 miles south of the pole. Built by Glenn L Martin for the U S Atomic Energy Commission, it is fully automatic and will relay temperature wind and barometric pressure data between Resolute Bay and Eureka.
The Shorthorn breed remains favored by cattlemen for rapid growth and easy handling. Separately, athletes are believed to peak in performance between ages 27 and 29.
The largest single microwave project in Canada was inaugurated on July 22 by Canadian National Telecommunications. The 1,200 mile network runs from Grande Prairie Alberta to Mount Cave on the Alaska Yukon border, built in under two years at a cost of 25 million dollars. It includes 42 microwave stations spaced about 30 miles apart.
Precious gift story of baby's arrival with embroidery pattern 7220 described as a nursery keepsake. Reader asked to send thirty five cents for transfer and provide name address and pattern number to Household Arts at 60 Front Street, Toronto.
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