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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1956
Page
2
Health League of Canada warns that about 1,500 children die each year from preventable accidents such as traffic incidents, drowning, fire, poisonings, and falls. It lists twelve safety rules for parents to follow to protect children from infancy through age 15.
Strictly Fresh Women on Chicago's election board were asked to omit girdles on certain days to facilitate lie detector tests in a scandal probe. Officials claim the belts restrict breathing, influencing readings. The quip about “charting outlines” reflects mocking tone toward the test.
University of Minnesota extension entomologist Herbert L. Parten, after 30 years studying mouse diets, reports mice favor strawberry jam over cheese. He notes peanut butter and bacon rind are popular, but jam is the strongest attractant for laboratory mice.
The Winnipeg Livestock Exchange trophy goes this year to the Treherne 4-H Beef Calf Club led by Eric Green and Jim Hird. Boissevain wins reserve, with Shoal Lake third. Manitoba 4-H sets a 1955 record with 124 clubs and 1,725 members.
Regina reports a University of California bulletin warns tinted automobile windshields cut night visibility by 10 to 45 percent. The study notes sharper losses in critical driving conditions and suggests drivers slow up to 30 percent to maintain stopping distance.
The pattern describes a canvas or plywood indoor game court for shuffleboard with pattern 408 for court disks cues and score board and pattern 422 for a lazy susan and holiday centerpieces. It offers a rumpus room packet of five patterns for $1.50 and provides ordering details for Home Workshop Pattern Service in Vancouver British Columbia.
Margaret Eerry known as Lottie Leroy reappears at Central Station Sydney after leaving in 1910. Police traced her in Perth, she sailed to West Australia on the Katoomba in 1910 and missed the Waratah tragedy. She reunites with six siblings and recounts life in Perth, marriage and World War I.
A London newspaper awarded a prize for the best definition of money. The winning entry called money an article serving as a universal passport to everywhere except Heaven and a universal provider of everything except happiness.
Household Arts Department advertises Pattern 4529 for Misses sizes 12 to 20 in wool tweeds corduroy and cotton with illustrated instructions. Pattern price 35 cents and requires name address size and style number to orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept 60 Front Street W Toronto. Also promotes Pattern 7311 daily embroidery transfers selling for 25 cents and the Alice Brooks Craft Catalogue for 25 cents with vivid descriptions of knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novelties.
Tokyo's Meiji University professor Hajime Uda suggests a link between paternal nourishment and baby sex. A well fed husband is said to father girls while a tired undernourished husband tends to sire boys, based on a survey of ten towns including fishing villages with hearty fish diets. He notes little support from other researchers.
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