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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 25, 1954
Page
7
In a dim fight club Slugger stays to lose for money but seizes a chance to win for love. Eileen asks for a change, reveals she has earned a hundred dollars, and the couple plans no more fights as Gabby’s scolding fades.
A string of short comic scenes unfolds as a man reports a kiss on his wife and recounts a knee jerk reaction with an umbrella, a motorist boasts of dangerous driving, a rope and brick gag, a disciplinary family joke, a landslide of jewelry vanity, and a child’s quip about inherited mischief.
Southern Alberta seed potato growers formed a new organization with W L McGillivray elected president and Ed Shimbashi as secretary treasurer. A Furukawa of Taber joined as director along with others as government aides supported efforts to improve quality and marketing. There are 586 certified seed growers in Alberta supplying 1 percent of Canada’s seed. In 1953 irrigated Southern Alberta produced seed potatoes on just over 600 acres with 24 farmers in the business. The group markets seed potatoes in Sunny Alberta Brand bags.
Rosetown Saskatchewan will sponsor a professional baseball team in the Western Baseball League named the Ro town Phillies after lengthy talks between a local Canadian Legion committee and Fred Banks of Philadelphia. Banks will bring the team to Rosetown from Philadelphia shortly before league opening. Also mentioned are new electronic aids for the blind shown at the University of Michigan.
Mrs. Agnes Keith aged 103 has been bedbound since a stroke a few months ago but her nurse says she remains interested in things around her.
Winnipeg reports J Fodchuk of Fort William Ontario claimed the champion title at the Manitoba chinchilla show. A Barnabe of Letellier Manitoba won the reserve championship and four additional titles.
Farmers in southwestern Saskatchewan test baled straw and hay for walls and structures. Dominion experimental station reports straw bales coated with plaster make strong, low cost walls. Cattle sheds show suspended roofs and rapid erection while a concrete root cellar is under development for repeated farm use.
A Oklahoma paper runs a reader comment on a photo of a dilapidated farm and washed fields. An Indian respondent declares the white man is crazy and urges traditional living with teepees and buffalo, blaming plains erosion on settlers and rejecting relief or dam building.
A conference sponsored by the agricultural advisory council in Armstrong British Columbia urged the government to adopt roadside spraying to control weeds. Officials emphasized practical methods and local needs as part of a broader weed management program.
Dough recipe combines chopped cherries folded into a loaf dough. Shape and place in a greased pan, let rise until doubled, bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes, brush top with butter or margarine.
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