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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1953
Page
7
A woman fleeing a stifling home on the countryside bus confides in a fellow passenger. She weighs leaving with her children to seek a town life, hoping a kinder future, while the confidante reveals she once ran away but chose not to return.
Tom Kempling of Drumheller district, Alberta, created a mobile unit mounted on a farm truck that sprays crops and doubles as a fire fighting device. The 500 gallon tank and nozzle system cover 33 feet per pass, with a power take off pump and adjustable pressure. The unit quickly converts for firefighting and can be moved between fields, enhancing farm efficiency and safety.
A brief Q and A asks whether most furs come from wild or farmed stock, Ottawa welfare spending, participation in nonprofit medical plans, CBC TV station cities, and whether Canadians’ average dwelling occupancy has risen or fallen.
Construction of a P F R A dam southeast of Raymond Alberta is progressing. The earthen dam will be 74 feet high and 2 200 feet long creating an artificial lake over 15 miles long.
An advertisement touts Hem-Roid as a fast relief for itching soreness and burning from piles. A 69 tablet package costs $1.59 with a money back refund if not pleased after 2 or 3 days.
The article promotes Home Workshop patterns showing an easy to build outdoor living room set requiring only hand tools and simple cutting. It also describes a light portable boat built from marine plywood with an erecting frame and oak frames. Readers are instructed to order patterns 35 cents each from Prairie Publishers Limited Vancouver BC with name address and pattern number.
The Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister announced grading rules to benefit producers and consumers. Potatoes must meet Canada Fancy to Canada No 2 standards, be sound and clean, and packed in marked containers. Until August 31 new potatoes have relaxed size rules. enforcement in Regina and Saskatoon begins after August 1 with noncompliant sales illegal.
Calvin Scouten of New Westminster BC becomes the youngest Canadian to receive the Gold Shield from Dominion Marksmen for a perfect 6000 score. At the South Westminster Rod and Gun Club he hit 60 targets with no misses across standing sitting and prone. Since inception 16 years ago about 75 of 150000 Canadians have earned the award.
Answers cover dwelling per person records at 4.07, a population estimate of about 1.5 million, ranch pelt share under ten percent, per city distribution in Montreal Toronto Ottawa, and a federal budget share near one quarter of 4.326 billion dollars. The hydrogen element is the lightest substance, specific gravity 0.139.
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