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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1956
Page
2
The Canadian Red Cross invites volunteers to teach Home Nursing through a 12 session course for laypeople. Instructors train families to recognize illness, care for patients, prevent disease spread, and use community health services. Courses adapt to community spaces and include manuals and guides.
A five inch Brown or Black Bullhead may be the rare Amelius Nebulosus specimen from the Sours river near the Middle Dam. Captured by J K Frederickson of Werburn, the fish is being preserved and sent to the University of Saskatchewan for positive ID before joining the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History collection.
Department store sales increased in Canada for the week ending July 14 this year, with gains in Atlantic Provinces 10.3 percent, Quebec 18.1 percent, Ontario 13.2 percent, Saskatchewan 7.9 percent, Alberta 18.6 percent, and British Columbia 99 percent. Manitoba declined 45.5 percent.
B. S. Pulley dreamed of the number five and bet 500 dollars on entry five in the fifth race at Santa Anita. The horse powered to a fifth place finish, matching the ominous omen.
Winnipeg shows fewer fatalities in six months of 1956 while rural Manitoba records 21 fatal accidents and 537 injury crashes by end of June. R. B. Baillie credits Winnipeg driver improvement for lower city deaths. Brandon may begin a program when space is available.
Creamery butter stocks in nine Canadian cities total 66,101,000 pounds as of July 19, down from 67,322,000 a year earlier. City totals include Quebec 5,086 thousand, Montreal 35,296, Toronto 6,449, Winnipeg 15,148, Regina 803, Saskatoon 790, Edmonton 992, Calgary 530, Vancouver 1,007 thousand pounds.
Pattern 4649 features a scoop neck Empire style dress with bolero in plaid cotton pique or linen for girls sizes 6 8 10 12 14. Includes full illustrated instructions and 35 inch fabric yardage for size 10. Send 35 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto with name address and pattern number. Also pattern 7921 provides crochet motifs with a 25 cent pattern fee.
In a sharp office exchange a colleague mocks a pending two week vacation. A gag on Miss Goosepimple of 1956 and Western Sunbathing Association draws away from the domestic scene where Mrs Bright confronts her husband over a long overdue letter.
Cunard liner Mauretania schedules four Sunshine Cruises for 1956 57 with 14 to 18 day itineraries from New York. Call at Nassau St Thomas Martinique Barbados Trinidad La Guaira Curacao Cristobal Kingston Havana Port au Prince Nevis Grenada St Lucia Rio de Janeiro and more. Fares from 390 to 515 dollars. Christmas New Year voyage Dec 22 aboard Carinthia.
Production of hard board by Canadian manufacturers rose 22 percent in June to 21,523,009 square feet from 17,614,514 a year earlier. Domestic shipments increased 17 percent to 12,444,630 square feet, while export shipments fell slightly but remained up 29 percent for the first half. The Mauretania begins her LOSE A MINUTE-SAVE A LIFE.
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto offers two free patterns from the 1956 Alice Brooks Needlecraft book. The ad promises stunning home designs and dozens more patterns to order, all easy hand-work. Send 25 cents for a copy today.
A lawn and garden pattern packet labeled No 1 is offered at 1.50 dollars, containing five patterns including an actial size cutting and painting guide. The item will be mailed for 25 cents.
Bird feeding stations for nonmigratory birds described with simple coping saw cutting. Pattern 208 offers detailed decorating guidance. Price 35 cents. Free catalogue on request from Home Workshop Patterns, 4433 West 5th Avenue, Vancouver, B C.
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