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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1956
Page
2
The Lethbridge Experimental Farm has researched frost protection by water spraying to extend the growing season in southern Alberta. Experiments address delaying damage from one early frost and enabling a longer harvest windows for vegetables and flowers.
Kay Bojesen, renowned Danish toymaker, says nature yields the best toys with sand and water and acorns and seashells. He notes simple toys spark imagination and that fathers often buy toys they enjoyed as youths, with boys remaining playful longer than girls.
Retirement from business often leads to a new phase of life. Do not fear being useless as you leave the old job. Pursue hobbies that are interesting and creative to fill leisure days with substitute, potentially profitable occupations. The public library offers many books with ideas for keeping busy.
A clay tablet dating about 4500 years ago was found in ruins 200 miles north of Babylon and is preserved in the Harvard Library museum collection. The artifact marks one of the earliest known geographic representations.
Olli barley is the recommended variety for the central interior of British Columbia. Prince George Experimental Farm data over 13 years show Olli outperforms others with early maturity and good yield. It resists lodging and suits short growing seasons, though its rough awns irritate handling. Promising Alberta varieties are being tested.
A thief entered a Knoxville Tennessee apartment and stole a kitchen sink while the unit was vacant. The rest of the items remained, suggesting selective theft amid broader crime reports in other towns.
Industrialist Frank J. Soday identifies the 17 key modern developments from the past two years as essential to 20th century progress in a paper prepared for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Pattern 450 shows each step with actual-size cutting guides for wagon seat and cricket projects. Includes jig guide for leg holes, and tracing guides to replicate antique racks. Maple preferred for finish and aging. white pine also suitable. 35 cents.
The pattern offers tracing sawing assembling and finishing steps for half size fashion cutouts using a coping saw. Pattern 231 priced 35¢ or five early American Reproductions for $1.50 postpaid. Orders to Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver BC.
Louis XVI reportedly ordered handkerchiefs to be square to replace oblong styles. A Pakistan tribe is noted for an act of apology by sticking out the tongue.
Department P P L and Household Arts in Toronto promote sewing patterns and crochet designs. Patterns 4782 and 7129 feature a sweetheart neck bodice six gore skirt and cap mitten set with sizes and yardage, requiring coins for order and full illustrated instructions. Alice Brooks Needlecraft catalogue offers knitting crochet embroidery iron ons and toys.
A Louisville man who installed a safety belt in his wife’s car coined the slogan The wife you save may be your own after his wife escaped an attempted kidnapping. He described a red light incident where a young man opened the door and tried to drag her out, but the belt kept her secure until the light changed.
The article notes that babies resist changing from bottle to spoon but a gradual plan helps. Start at one month with vitamin D then fruit juice to ease the shift. It also mentions that horizontal writing from left to right dates back to about 2600 BC.
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