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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 03, 1949
Page
7
A married couple, Martha and Jim, celebrate twenty five years with dinner and dancing. They observe a young couple on the floor, reminisce about youth, and reaffirm their own enduring affection as they leave the restaurant together.
A brief romance unfolds as a couple speaks of time, saying there is no past or future when they are together. They recognize separation looms, yet confess love before parting at a doorway as red velvet curtains close.
In Winnipeg Prof. A. G. McCalla notes barley growers in the prairie provinces lost about 2 million dollars worth of grain unfit for malting after last fall. He says farmers failed to adapt threshing methods to dry weather and over-threshed brittle grain following a wet season.
Regina, Saskatchewan hosts a Musk ox expedition area around Black Lake east of Lake Athabaska to fix boundary lines for mining concessions. An advance plane load of supplies is in place with caches near Fond du Lac River, and Government Airways will deliver food and gear as surveying extends into spring.
Ottawa reports the Bureau of Statistics foresees large world wheat supplies in 1949 barring bad weather. Argentina faces reduced crops from November frosts and drought, while Australia yields remain above average. Canada may increase spring wheat plantings as lower flaxseed and rye prices shift acreage to wheat. Parrots imitate sounds but do not articulate ideas.
Anne Adams reveals pattern 4824 a two piece sewing project featuring a flattery plus swallowtail peplum shape with a back bow. Sizes range from 12 to 42 with fabric needs listed and 25 cents price. orders go to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
The Winkler chamber of commerce asks the village council to provide every household with poison and instructions for use to wage a winter anti rat campaign. The poison will be harmless to pets, aiming to curb the rodent problem during colder months. The idea reflects local concerns about a serious infestation in the community.
Washington reports an Economic Cooperation Administration announcement granting 55.44 million dollars to the United Kingdom to buy Canadian wheat, one of the largest single Marshall Plan aid sums.
A Philadelphia customer who bought household furniture with an ad promising buy now pay as you earn lost his job and quit payments. He argued he wasn’t earning and therefore didn’t owe money, and won the case in court.
Labor Day 1950 will see the official opening of Hope Princeton Highway as the British Columbia Government lays plans to make 1949 the biggest road and highway building year in its history.
Lethbridge reports that southern Alberta produced 91,275,700 pounds of beet sugar, out of 175,714,000 pounds total in the Dominion for 1948. Ontario followed with 56,000,000 pounds, Manitoba 20,500,000, and Quebec 7,938,000.
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