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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1953
Page
8
Ellen and David move to a farm where chores test patience. Ellen battles cooking mishaps, isolation, and envy as she learns farm life slowly. A sudden choice at journey’s end hints at new hope beyond the farm gates.
Winnipeg man Hugh Cawker joins the French Foreign Legion leaving civilian life after serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He earned the Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre with palm for a January engagement near Thai Binh and Hanoi, losing his right arm to Viet Minh fire. He previously flew in an air sea rescue group and a photo reconnaissance unit and served on a British carrier in the Pacific.
Blairmore Alberta ski club widens an old mine trail to the hill top to ease base congestion. They aim to buy a snowmobile for uplift, improve the base logo area, and operate a lunch stand along with extending the ski run.
More traffic moved through Alberta customs in the first eight months of 1953 with a rise over six percent. Coutts saw nearly ten percent higher passage than the previous period.
Anne Adams Pattern Dept at 60 Front Street W Toronto is listed with Miss Mississippi bins. This item appears in a desultory catalog snippet for a publisher. The readable text centers on a publication address and a named department.
Mrs Jessie Keeler of Camrose reports a horse on her homestead sixteen miles west of Cold Lake that is forty five years old and still sleek and fat on ordinary pasture. The animal was once used on the Vegreville to Cold Lake run and, though retired from work four years ago, remains in good condition due to ample grazing.
In Edmonton Alberta a housewife won four thousand dollars in a Supreme Court of Alberta ruling against Dr A L Miller for leaving a sixty one inch forceps inside her abdomen for five years after an operation. The instrument was removed after a subsequent procedure last year and the plaintiff endured five years of pain and incapacity.
Several Saskatchewan communities show interest in turning historic sites into community parks and playgrounds. J. D. Herbert, director of historic sites for the 1955 Golden Jubilee committee, reports the bid for local heritage spaces grows.
A Jersey cow in Picardville swallowed a binder slat 22 inches long after being given a turpentine soaked stick to chew for bloat. The slat, with nails and brads still attached, emerged through the skin near the breastbone after a week, and the animal recovered under veterinary care.
Fred W. Hallworth of Taber Alberta, 46, left 25 years as a coal mine electrician to farm. In Chicago he won Canada’s 25th North American wheat crown with the Reward variety from a 160 acre plot on his 1,400 acre farm ten miles south of Taber. His brother in law T M Allen Jr urged him to enter. Allen won Royal Winter Fair top honors last year with the same wheat.
A Canadian buyer, Mr. G. M. Brawley of Myrtle Ontario, paid 900 guineas for Lessnessock Cal orific, an Ayrshire bull from A. W. Montgomerie and Sons of Lessnessock Scotland. Another bull, Lessnessock Lloyd, sold for 450 guineas to Mr. Sam Shannon of Cloverdale B C. Also noted: Quebec hosts the world's largest asbestos deposits, accounting for 85 percent of global supply.
Final reports show more than 4 000 farmers seeded over 60 000 acres of hay and pasture crops in Saskatchewan for 1953. This activity reflects widespread agricultural planting across the province during the season.
Thousands of British Columbia firs travel east and south as experts say distant centres will display tinselled BC trees in homes across Canada and the United States this Christmas season.
Provincial officials estimate nearly 170000 dollars of work will be complete in the Uranium City mining district by year end. The spending includes strengthening the road linking Prince Albert with local mining camps.
Reindeer are being raised in Scotland for the first time in eight centuries, marking a rare shift in wildlife farming. The project signals new livestock diversification and ties to Arctic species adaptation in the region.
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