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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 26, 1953
Page
2
Cautionary notes on curling style play highlight risks of falls and injuries. Advice covers halting fast runners at the end, keeping out of play areas, avoiding wet ice and pebble hazards, and restraining older players from risky actions. The piece emphasizes strategic safety and the value of a final rock.
A modern sugar beet factory can process 6000 tons of beets daily, signaling potential upgrades and increased production capacity for regional growers and related industries.
A string of light humor and wry observations from a vintage page. Jokes include a pen gift misread, a cub reporter’s terse style, and quips about families, bishops, a steel magnate, and a boy mistaking milk bottles for a cow nest.
Britain reports steady growth in tourist traffic and earnings since the war. Five years ago earnings were £33 million. last year 720,000 visitors produced £115 million. Canadian visitors in 1952 reached 46,000, about 4,000 more than 1951, spending over $25 million that year and over $22 million in 1951.
L. H. Lyall of Central experimental farm predicted larger vegetable output on the prairies and more processing plants, warning that higher production could raise plant disease. US fungus costs cited at 1.75 billion dollars. Ottawa report followed by CP Rail official J. R. Almey urging horticulture growth and ornamental demand. elasticity plant cited as future example.
Capt Jerome Sweeney received a love letter mailed March 11 1947 from Mary Ellen McGough of St Paul Minnesota. The note had traveled through several army posts before reaching Fort Slocum New Rochelle where Sweeney handed it to his wife of five years the former Mary Ellen McGough.
Regina resident Edward Ashley Banbury, who moved from Prince Albert Ontario to Wolseley in 72 years ago after a westward pamphlet urged him to grow with the country, recently celebrated his 95th birthday. He later settled in Regina and held multiple roles including mayor, with sons Perley Roy and Carey.
Mrs Clyde Scott promotes Blue Bonnet Margarine praising its fresh sweet flavor and year round Vitamin A. The ad compares it to Burn Bonnet and Bree Bonnet spreads and touts nutritional value and money saving price. It mentions packaging options including economy and low cost bags and asserts superiority over competing spreads.
Tests by the National Safety Council and two other bodies show tinted glass and sun visors reduce daytime glare for drivers. At night these aids help only if glare from oncoming headlights is blocked while keeping a clear view of the road.
Bohemian waxwings invade the Winnipeg district in large winter numbers. The hardy wanderers, chocolate colored with crested heads, will move north again with the advent of warmer weather.
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