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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1953
Page
7
A busily misfit pair, a youth and a traveling vendor, meet in a drugstore soda fountain. The youth uncovers a pistol, discovers an elderly victim tied in a back room, and learns the partner was the one who placed the help wanted ad. The two collide over a planned robbery.
Suzanne Lamport endorses Blue Bonnet Margarine as the best price and flavor option. The ad touts Brie Bonner’s sunny flavor and credits Birr Boswer for budget-friendly help. Rice Bonxet Margarine is promoted in regular and Yellow Quim bags with colorful branding.
Anne Adams Pattern Department and Prairie Publishers Limited are listed with addresses at 60 Front Street West, Toronto. The notice records business presence and mailing details for these entities in the city.
The RCMP annual report shows 176 horses for 4,333 uniformed officers about 25 to a horse. The note mocks past estimates of mounting the force. The piece also mentions England issuing the first railway timetable in 1839.
Two eggs beaten with milk and salt are dipped into a mixture then fried in shortening until golden. Serve hot with jelly or preserves. Yields four servings, two slices per person.
A collection of jokes and light tales including a husband bought car after wife’s influence, a jealous breakfast, a clever father line, a sailor’s telegram pun, a homework remark by a psychiatrist, a rabbit foot luck quip, a blacksmith arms joke, and Hawkins the long married club member.
Near Wapella Saskatchewan, Harry Klenman revived a 60 hp J. S. Case threshing engine once used to thresh hundreds of acres. The boiler inspector passed it at 135 PSI, and 41 carloads of visitors attended with rides and whistles. The engine may become a local museum piece.
In Vancouver the Chinese Times window serves as a dead letter board for letters without addresses in Chinatown. Carriers send undeliverable mail to the bulletin, and about 2,000 letters have been delivered this way in nine years. Only one or two exceed the one year return limit.
Winnipeg reports researchers at the University of Manitoba used a pinch of antioxidant and sterilization in an airtight can to preserve ordinary butter for two years without refrigeration. Dr J M Nesbitt notes mass production could come by spring and the method suits northern camps and army installations though the product becomes perishable once opened.
Mr and Mrs L L Haden visited Leslie Haden on November 11 and the group walked in the garden where they picked about a pint of fresh strawberries.
Zadok Dumkopf asserts that no scientific invention can surpass the paradoxical speed of money, arguing wealth drives progress more than technical breakthroughs. He claims markets shape innovation faster than laboratory effort.
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