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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1950
Page
2
Canadians treat vast tracts as waste yet the country has 128000 square miles suitable for agriculture not currently used. Only about 271195 square miles are occupied and roughly 143000 of those are improved, leaving substantial area with potential to increase production if needed.
Sir William Ogg head of a seven man UK mission says Canada can meet its own needs and still export. He notes Canada is a land of plenty with potential to greatly increase output beyond current foodstuffs.
The article notes Britain and Canada could boost output by bringing more land under cultivation and adopting intensive farming. It highlights soil and moisture conservation, improved cultivation methods, and lessons from wartime exports, suggesting production could greatly exceed past peaks and benefit other nations.
Eatonia Saskatchewan grew into a tree laden community after Canadian National Railways shifted its roundhouse from Eatonia to Kindersley. Water pumped from a nearby well funded the change, with lines laid through town and residents gaining running water in 1927 and planting lawns and gardens along tree lined streets.
A man named Arthur Reinhold Emisch opened a bank account with 50 cents and raised the balance to 744.50 dollars. He then tried to present a 200 dollar cheque as proof of solvency to a Brandon storekeeper. The court heard the details of the bad cheque passing scheme.
An odd instrument, the octobass, towering 13 feet, required the musician to stand on a box to bow it. The long description notes its unwieldy size and dramatic pose as a prime example of unusual musical innovations.
The Vancouver B C Underwriters Association cuts annual fire insurance rates by about 10 percent in many B C towns and cities citing a favorable loss ratio. Not all risks qualify. last year’s reductions and certain risk types are excluded. A three year term option now costs three times the annual premium minus 10 percent for eligible risks. Cities affected include Vancouver Victoria New Westminster Nanaimo Oak Bay Nelson Powell River Fernie Ocean Falls Kamloops Kelowna Vernon.
In Springfield Ohio a Christmas-like scene unfolded as hundreds of toy houses lay along the streets after a Robertson Sign Co truck dropped about 1,000 toys bound for a Pittsburgh firm. Police reported around 60 houses were returned, and nearly every child kept at least one.
A historical note on salads becoming daily staples with a recipe for a gelatin molded salad. It includes soaking gelatin in water, dissolving with sugar salt and boiling water, adding catsup vinegar and optional horseradish, then folding in shredded carrots cabbage and celery. The mixture is cooled set in six moulds and served on crisp lettuce with mayonnaise. Yield six.
SWIFT CURRENT Saskatchewan Irwin W. Studer M P for Maple Creek who farms at chelletier says his 20 acre orchard yields the best apples on record. He notes apples hang in clusters like grapes and that he has picked as many as four boxes from a single tree while thinning. He cites a ratio of 48 apples per leaf, compares moisture, and explains last year’s crop failure followed by a bumper crop this year.
Five timber wolf pups 24 chipmunks and eight raccoons left Canada by steamship for Edinburgh Scotland as a gift from the Resources Department to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland for exhibition at the Edinburgh zoo. The wolf pups came from Banff National Park and the chipmunks and raccoons were captured in Georgian Bay Islands National Park Ontario.
Six U S tourists watched in amazement as a Niagara Falls Ontario Chamber of Commerce receptionist filled a form for a newlywed couple then kissed the groom who was her brother. The note adds a wartime fact about tanks in the Somme on September 15, 1916.
An advertisement touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a clean stainless antiseptic remedy popular across Canada. It claims relief for eczema barber's itch lamet rheum itching toes and feet and various skin eruptions. Sold by druggists with satisfaction guaranteed.
A collection of quick witticisms and social sketches includes a wife asking why her husband did not say goodbye, a salesman promising earnings, egg timer banter, cannibals gossip, a judge and police exchange, a pay as you can sales dispute, and shoppers in a drug store debating smoking rules.
OTTAWA The second Monday in October October 9 has been set as Thanksgiving day this year. The date is fixed annually by order in council as a statutory holiday.
Ottawa reports that eastern Canada harvesters will travel to the prairie provinces for the grain crop. About 2 000 farmhands are expected to move, with most arriving in late August. Saskatchewan to receive about 1 000 workers, Manitoba and Alberta at least 500 each, and workers from Quebec and Ontario will be dispatched to Winnipeg for distribution. Transportation costs are $15 outbound and $11.50 return.
Kenneth A. Robertson of Edmonton won the $100 top prize in the Ottawa Drama League Workshop 12th play writing contest for Forever, Till Friday. Sydney Risk of Vancouver selected the best of 79 one act plays. Dorothy Pfeiffer of Montreal took second prize for Creative Art and Jean-Marie. Mary O’Meara of London Ontario earned the third prize for The Highest Mountain.
Capt. T. C. Bannerman reports an 11 day struggle through severe ice with Hud son Bay around the Regina Polaris. Despite danger of being crushed, the supply ship pressed through the maze of ice to become the first vessel into Hudson Bay this year.
Manitoba flood relief fund boosted by 7052.50 donation from three Canadian societies in New York City. Honorary F F Williams received the cheque with a note of Canadians and friends of Canada in New York being appalled by the damage. The letter is signed by E B MacKenzie Carleton Sawyer and Kenneth C Ball. A survey shows 22 percent of women rank faithfulness as top quality in a husband.
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