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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
2
The Canadia n Citizenship Act took effect January 1 granting Canadians the right to describe themselves as Canadians on passports and legal documents. British citizenship remains a privilege for those Canadians who hold it.
The Citizenship Act is described as an act of faith in Canada and its future. It reflects on wartime unity and the national effort that expanded Canada's status. In postwar Canada, citizens are urged to maintain national consciousness and cooperative work to shape political and economic direction.
The Citizenship Act ceremonies impress new Canadians with the meaning of full status. New citizens seek freedom and opportunity Canada offers and formal recognition matters to them. The act marks a milestone in Canada's development and future depends on guarding privileges and duties of citizenship.
More than 6,000 children began immunization against diphtheria and whooping cough in a Quebec City drive organized by the Health League of Canada with provincial and city officials. Clinics operate in 28 parishes with municipal support and hundreds of volunteers. The organizers aim for over 25,000 immunized by next spring. The drive, heavily publicized, drew crowded clinics and mothers with strollers on opening day.
The Ottawa Journal notes many fires from discarded cigarettes. Floating ashes can smolder in wastebaskets sofas beds and chairs and ignite hours after being dropped. The piece suggests cigarette manufacturers consider stricter treatment for all varieties to prevent needless blazes.
The Prices Board extended price controls to motor vehicles including cars motorcycles trucks and trailers while allowing a 10 percent rise for new car prices. Tires tubes batteries bicycles and parts also stay capped under the same decree.
A collection of humorous vignettes and puns about letters, love, misdelivered mail, courting antics, and shop interactions. Items include a mail joke from Wheeler Company, a lovers scene in a mansion, and playful exchanges about eggs and autographs. The century voice and quick punchlines echo a lighthearted newspaper humor page.
Arthur Dunn, a Denver street car operator, notes a mysterious $50 entry in his bank book while discovering the US government has deposited $450 to his account since last June and cannot determine the reason.
Labor Minister Mitchell, back from a month in the West Indies and South America, says Canada can catch up on production in 1947 if workers stay on the job. He argues continued production at a price enabling mass output, and calls Canada the best country to live in. The note ends with a fact about the firefly being a beetle.
The Admiralty ordered submarines to supply power and light to royal dockyards and conserve coal for industry. Thirty more subs, oil fueled, could produce about 1 000 kilowatts daily each, with a weekly coal saving of about 2 000 tons. Some factories have closed or face closure due to fuel shortages. Submarines previously fed Naples’ Italian generating station during the war, and miles of cable will link them to dockyards.
A compilation of brief quotes promoting unity and universal love from Carlyle Pascal Mary Baker Eddy Geikie and Tryon Edwards. The selections urge lifting self for global harmony and rejecting division by race merit or rank.
Collier's Magazine calls Sable Island the graveyard of the Atlantic located 85 miles east of Nova Scotia. Discovered in 1497, it has shrunk from 14 600 to 20 square miles and now lies amid fog and dangerous reefs. About 1 000 ships have been wrecked near its shores.
The ad promotes New Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast as a full strength product ready for pantry shelf use for weeks. Available at your grocer with daytime hours implied for purchase.
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