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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
3
West German Parliament names Bonn as capital. Britain's Comet airliner makes long test flight. Food Minister Strachey pledges Christmas candy tea and fat rations. Lord Horder warns health plan may crash economically. Victoria hospital adds 63 beds in spring. Princess Margaret visit denied. Grand Central to air music and train info with ads. Carrot River pupils learn banking from Royal Bank manager.
A domestic poem about finishing a washday with laundry on the line and the kitchen clean The narrator thanks the Lord for a peaceful end to a busy day and remembers the children’s fuss and the song sung while chores ended
The text notes that guinea pigs lack tails and asserts that handling by the tail does not cause the eyes to drop out, then emphasizes cleanliness as essential to disease prevention and contagion control.
The article explains building solid stone gate posts with a concrete foundation. It advises a 1 to 5 cement to gravel mix, embedding field stones, and using a 1 to 1 to 5 mix for mortar with lime. A concrete cap uses a 1 to 2 to 3 mix and is precast before placement.
Chicago Hawks rely on the Boilermakers trio Metro Crystal Bep Guidolin Bert Olmstead for timely goals. Bill Durnan often hopes for October 23 shutouts as past and present goalies share six scoreless dates. Eight Bills and four Jims headline NHL names with notable feats as Maurice Richard racks up goals for Canadiens.
The page presents a puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues. Entries include terms for times, abilities, actions, animals, objects, and names such as Nightingale and Keats, forming a standard crossword grid.
Eskimo youth David Koontayuk, 18, fitted with artificial legs after leg amputation, hopes to work in an Arctic post as a clerk. Doctors at Charles Camsell Hospital praise his IQ of 120 and rapid learning. He arrived by RCAF mercy plane from Cresswell Bay after losing feet last Christmas.
William Semenuk of Fort William aged 25 says a wounded deer charged him after he shot it in two legs. He wrestled the animal, was thrown by its antlers, but killed the buck after he landed and held on to finish the job.
Saskatchewan agriculturists welcome Ottawa Winter Fair’s pick of Dr E S Archibald as Canada’s No 1 farmer. Professors Rayner and Hardy back revived master farm movement and urge extension to all provinces for fair competition.
Ottawa report shows heart disease led all deaths in the first quarter of 1949 with 9,307 fatalities. Cancer 4,024. pneumonia 937. tuberculosis 985. general accidents 1,479. intracranial vascular lesions 2,703. nephritis 1,808.
A composite anecdote recounts Sholem Aleichem’s original meeting between a Russian ghetto elder and Parisian Bar on Rothchild, a Baron's servant barred entry, and a bargain of three hundred rubles for life. The tale closes with a witty line about marriage and money and a magistrate’s intoxication inquiry.
The Financial Post notes Western Canada shows the fastest oil exploration growth, led by Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Seismic and gravity surveys cover vast Crown lands as Husky, Phillips, Shell, Imperial, B A Oil and Royalite participate. Devonian tests aim to identify big pools like Alberta.
Ottawa reports 1948 bicycle output at 124 747 bikes valued at 3 861 437 dollars. This compares with 1947 production of 90 644 bikes worth 2 726 133 dollars and 1946 with 85 404 bikes worth 2 310 185 dollars.
As early as the ninth century books were first engraved on stone with ink spread over the surface and impressions taken by hand, showing the origins of printed text.
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