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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1947
Page
2
Three Canadians earned top honors at the hay and grain show linked to the international livestock exhibit in Chicago. The awards reflect Canadian farming progress and their ability to compete with the world’s best, underscoring industry advancement beyond the trophies.
Mrs. Amy Kelsey of Erickson British Columbia tops the list of Canadian winners along with W. S. Simpson of Dawson Creek and Gordon McArthur of Stayner Ontario for outstanding achievement. The report notes Canada’s soil and climate aid grain farming while frost rust insects soil erosion and other hazards were overcome to build premier wheat and grains.
Canadian wheat and grain producers owe much to agricultural research by farmers, universities, and government bodies. As competition rises after the war, farmers increasingly use technical information from agencies and extension departments. Recent success at Chicago shows they will stay at the forefront of fine grain crop production.
In St. Louis a teller at United Bank and Trust reports a slender brunette, about 35, robbed the bank quietly of 582 dollars. She drew a pistol from beneath a silver fox fur coat, demanded cash, and left in a casual manner after receiving the bills.
Western Nova Scotia lobster fishers began the Dec 1 to May 1 season hoping for last year’s million dollar haul but winter storms and gear losses 30 to 40 percent along 30 miles of shore left many facing losses. Some units near Yarmouth reported 100 percent gear loss as price rises to 45 cents a pound while most catch heads to Boston by coastal craft or air freight.
Readers ask about lost ration books and replacements, name and address changes, and requirements for deceased entries. Tea and coffee price increases effective January 1 are outlined: coffee up four cents per pound. tea up eight cents under half a pound and ten cents per pound for half pound or more. Please contact your Wartime Prices and Trade Board for pamphlets Consumers News and ceiling price Blue Book.
The Canada Club announced a gift of two fine chairs to Westminster Abbey for use by the King and Queen at a dinner welcoming Canada’s High Commissioner Norman Robertson. Lord Greenwood noted there were no royal chairs in Abbey history for regular worship use, and the Dean of Westminster welcomed the memorial yet highlighted the lack of ordinary occasion chairs.
Detroit police examining a safe robbery found a footprint in the snow. They collected it and placed it in a cooler at headquarters, but the evidence did not stay preserved as intended.
The page presents a crossword puzzle with multiple labeled clues and answers across and down, including topics such as Ethiopian title reverence music phrase You and I dine and several vocab items. It contains enigmatic terms like silkworm and a variety of cross-referenced hints, some with currency symbols and foreign language hints.
Boston Maj Gen Curtis E Lemay warned that by 1950 rocket weapons with a 6000 mile range could place the United States within range of any industrial nation. He said missiles of 3000 to 6000 miles and several tons of explosive could be developed by then using atomic devices. He urged maximum peacetime research and air power to prep for war.
A collection of quotations on prejudice from Bovee Jeffrey Bancroft Barrow and others. It reflects on ignorance bias and the power of public sentiment and the need to recognize and correct prejudices. The piece concludes with a note by A Eustace Haydon.
A collection of brief jokes and anecdotes from everyday life. Scenes include a wedding mishap where the supposed groom is at the door, a will reading delay, a piano being moved with comic miscommunication, golf banter about a jealous husband, cinema chatter interrupted by a rude remark, and a bridge game misplay sparked by inexperience.
A Coventry mother of ten credits Kruschen salts with ten years of relief from bilious attacks headaches and constipation. She explains the powder’s six minerals aid digestion and regularity, urging others to try Kruschen morning doses sold by druggists for 25 or 75 cents.
Hon J A MacKinnon announced in Edmonton that Yellowknife N W T will start a 1 000 000 sewerage and waterworks system to serve a future population of 10 000. The town has about 3 000 residents now.
A motor boat that seats fifty carries a church for medium term ministry in the Northern Fjords of Norway. The vessel moves from port to port and a local pastor conducts services aboard during the two or three weeks it remains in each parish.
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