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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1958
Page
7
A Saskatchewan branch of The Canadian Mental Health Association lists representatives who will forward gifts to mental hospitals in Canada. Donors are asked to wrap gifts plainly and indicate contents on the outside of parcels.
The Saskatoon Leader-Post profiles Mrs. Lulu Chalmers and SSPCA volunteers who patrol at night to rescue stray animals. At Albert Ross's West Dewdney farm, 35 cats and 11 dogs await new homes, with Christmas hopefuls including border collie pups and kittens. A long donor list follows, urging support for homeless animals and the Lady mascot.
In the 1880s in Quebec electricity lit textile mills marking the first practical use in Canada. Union membership at end of 1957 totaled 1,386,185. Personal savings about 1.4 billion dollars versus tax payments near 9 billion. The first trans Atlantic cable raid occurred in 1858 from Ireland to Newfoundland. The Yellowknife name derives from northern Indians the Yellowknives who carried bright colored knives of native copper.
Jim Biss of Outlook received a Royal Humane Society Award for saving seven year old Judith Stone from the river in Saskatoon in September 1957. He applied artificial respiration successfully at the Biggar pool where Mayor L A Jones presided. Present were Mr and Mrs Stone and Mrs H D Hart Water Safety Convener for the Saskatoon Red Cross Branch.
The article explains proper meat storage from aging to quick freezing at very low temperatures to prevent spoilage in home freezers. It notes Saskatchewan locker plants prepare meat and wrap it to maintain quality for up to a year for beef, six months for pork, and nine months for poultry. It also reports Miss Elaine Sawby winning Wheat Pool barley champion in Golden Prairie with high yields across several varieties, highlighting Vantage as promising.
Clerks opened a stamp-less letter addressed to Santa revealing a child’s Christmas wish list and a plea mentioning mental hospitals. The note requests 40 army men planes Hoody Doody puppets a cowboy hat and thanks the reader, signed by an eight year old in third grade and asking for happiness for someone else this Christmas.
The narrator recalls longing for bed and rest but discovers real value in being busy. They note sleep needs, the lure of inactivity, and the way daily life carries on despite absence, concluding that activity and purpose restore satisfaction.
The term cantons denotes the states of the Swiss federation, reflecting Switzerland’s federal structure where each canton has its own constitution and government.
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