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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1952
Page
2
A Dominion Department of Agriculture review states 1952 farm output will be about twenty percent higher than 1951 and fifteen percent above the prior record set in 1842. Despite rising production the farm population is falling with about one in five Canadians now living on farms, down from earlier years.
In Canada overall 2,527,732 of 14,009,429 people live on farms. Saskatchewan leads Prairies with 47.9 percent on farms, Alberta at 362 percent, Manitoba at 276 percent of a 776,541 population. The grain core provinces produce major crops yet less than half the people are on farms.
Increased use of machinery and scientific farming methods raise crop yields while farm worker numbers decline. Fertilizers, weed control, seed varieties, and other farm innovations contribute to higher efficiency and record production, with Canadians taking pride in this year’s bountiful crops.
In Cranbrook British Columbia trapper Frank Fitzsimmons from Wardner defended himself by prying the jaws of a wounded grizzly apart with his hands. He escaped with gashes to his hand as the female bear charged him and was then killed by a companion with a shot behind the ear after the bear had been hit twice. Fitzsimmons is recovering in hospital.
A Scotland Yard expert reported at a London meeting that since 1901 British police have identified 913 292 persons by fingerprints with no errors. The claim highlights a century of flawless fingerprint accuracy cited by law enforcement officials.
A four month old Arctic tern is documented as flying more than 8000 miles, highlighting extraordinary early migration capability and endurance.
Instructions for sewing slippers using scraps in various fabrics. Suggests embroidering a flower on each scallop and provides pattern sizes T7049 with transfer motifs. To obtain the pattern, send twenty five cents in coins by mail.
Household Arts Department at Winniwannenee Union promoting a book with 91 illustrations of needlecraft patterns. Readers are urged to send twenty five cents, include name address and pattern number. Postal address in Toronto provided for order details.
A collage of light humor and brief court quips moves from domestic foibles to misadventures with property and sleep, including a lazy tree dweller, a riverside bungalow drift, a solicitor’s fees, a convict’s outlook, and a golf club line in a magistrate’s courtroom.
The Andes are described as the longest mountain range on Earth, stretching across western South America with vast geological significance. The note includes the number 3016 as part of the text.
Remove peel from three oranges and simmer to tenderize. Make a sugar honey syrup and candy the peel, then drain and dry. Prepare orange gelatin by soaking gelatin in orange juice, cook sugar to hard ball stage, mix with gelatin, whip egg white, fold in peel and juice, set in buttered pan, chill and cut into powdered sugar dusted squares.
Dr O J Firestone of the Trade Department forecasts Canada's population will rise from about 14 million to over 23 million in the next 25 years. He also predicts national output could exceed 60 billion dollars by 1977 fueled by expanding purchasing power, exports, and investment.
A Memphis woman keeps her key on her collie and never leaves it under the doormat. A Chapel Hill beekeeper harvests honey by removing wall boards. A Duke of Edinburgh friend reports Elizabeth II’s husband quit smoking by chewing buttons. A Taunton speaker cites a nettle cure for lumbago. Police chase a car that seems to hunt a missing owner. The Dalles patrols cite new laws after a council talk on prisoner meals.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a 320000 drop in farm population over ten years while total population rose by about 2500000. Last June figures show farm population at 2825000 within a total population of 14 million.
Oklahoma oilman Joan O. Maberry, 45, president of Canadian Pipeline Producers Ltd, urges ambitious U S youth to move to Canada for oil frontier opportunities. He predicts vast future reserves in western provinces and Northwest Territories and says Canada offers greater potential than the U S.
Calvin Blue of Rouleau may receive an antique Bible owned by his father Roscoe Blue, 69. The Bible was purchased by the Blue family in Scotland in 1552 and has passed from father to son through generations.
Thrills of the Roarin Game present a list of twelve etiquette rules for curlers. Key points include punctuality, courteous language, sharing credit, helping less experienced players, keeping the broom off the ice except when sweeping, and avoiding negative comments about others. Rules also cover proper positioning, cleanliness, substitution, not blocking delivery, staying on the ice, and shaking hands after the game.
The statement notes that Canada hosts more than three times the number of Indians as the United States. It highlights a large Indigenous population concentration north of the border relative to the U.S. across demographic contexts.
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