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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1949
Page
4
Dr. McGinnis describes a sugar beet by product turned into a vitamin alongside streptomycin and aureomycin. Cane or beet molasses may be needed in the fermentation step. He calls the vitamin one of the generation’s major nutrition developments, noting its impact on poultry by reducing needs or improving efficiency.
In Winfield Louisiana Bryan McBride recounted he killed a skunk that leaped into a car seat during a hunt. He said self defense led to choking the animal and the incident ruined car upholstery and clothes, totaling about $300 in losses. The event occurred as their dog chased the skunk toward the vehicle driven by hunting partner Lou Anderson.
Experimenters find pigs given free diet choice select well and grow notably.
A new division of the Health League of Canada will educate the public on maternal and child health and welfare. Dr. Gordon Bates chairs, with Dr. Nelles Silverthorne and Dr. H. B. Van Wyck leading a 50 member committee of pediatricians obstetricians and officials from each province. The division will coordinate with the Department of National Health and Welfare and expand immunization nutrition and pasteurization efforts while gathering sickness and mortality data.
Ottawa reports the House of Commons observes the forty minute rule by clocks. When clocks froze at 2.05 officials kept to protocol and Speaker announced 6 o'clock before resuming at 8. The note also mentions Cloudcroft New Mexico hosting the highest US golf course at about 9,000 feet.
The column surveys New Zealand postage stamps from early portraits of Queen Victoria to pictorials of scenery and natives. It notes 1903 Maori arrival and Cook discovery imagery, 1936 agriculture marcas for a Chambers of Commerce convention, and ongoing UPU themed issues from France Japan and others.
A brief list notes United States stamps issued for the American Bankers Association and a 100th anniversary Otago settlement stamp along with many other issues. Mentions Republic of Indonesia map stamps for the Universal Postal Union 75th anniversary, Monaco Red Cross stamps, Belgium poet Guido Gezel le death centennial, Algeria postal system anniversary, and Iran Persia planned values. Also advertises Canadian Newfoundland and British stamps sales through a Toronto address seeking amateur collectors.
A humorous Central Press piece riffs on outsiders and animals, noting the Norway rat and Japanese beetle as ones readers wish would leave. It cites Fun Facts about elephants and a quirky forecast, plus Nehru headlines, a potato social influence book, and a Dutch news-eating man.
A reader asks how to vary a pale green bedroom with existing curtains and furniture. Advice suggests bright contrasting wallpaper on closets and focal walls, with coordinated bed linens, chair covers, and appliques to add gaiety and avoid monotony.
When tea first arrived in England it was drunk in large quantities with gallons brewed at once and stored in barrels like beer, illustrating an early surging demand and storage practice for the beverage.
A spiritualist medium proclaims the presence of a deceased wife to a client after wriggling and knocking. The client remains silent. The medium urges conversation while the client quips that if it is her, she will do all the talking. Pasteurized Milk Is Safe.
A London pipe factory now makes special ladies pipes in green blue and dark mauve to match dresses. The manager suggests women turn to pipes as a fashionable alternative to cigarettes, noting a lighter, less self conscious image and a new kind of smoke. The article also quips about the Bible use of the word girl and girls.
A humor essay touches on originators of police ideas, Sagittarius marital traits, and Dorothy Parker misquotes about glasses. It then wades through proposals in marriage, nightstick quips, and opinions on glasses wearers as matrimonial material. It mentions Nebuchadnezzar grazing and a brassiere dryer invention.
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