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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1949
Page
3
A bus plunged through a woolen bridge near Shanghai killing two newlyweds and 11 guests at their wedding feast. The incident prompts inquiries into bridge safety and transport conditions in the region.
Sports notes profile Cliff Thompson Boston Bruins defenseman born in the United States. The 28 year old, 5'11\" tall and 180 pound player works as a mortician in Stoneham Massachusetts when not playing. He served 27 months overseas with a U S Army tank destroyer unit seeing action at Anzio Southern France Austria and Germany. Coach Charlie Conacher of the Chicago Black Hawks says the Rangers and Toronto likely will miss the Stanley Cup playoffs this season without further detail.
One hundred twenty players participated in NHL games during the first half of the 1948-49 season, seven fewer than the first half of the prior season. The figure stands at 2812 character count?
1949's Margaret O'Brien sweet pea from W Allece Burpee Co is a salmon coral orange Giant Spencer type variety suited to home gardens. It won the Scottish National Sweet Pea Society gold medal in Glasgow after trials and a show.
E. J. Trowbridge has managed a water delivery route in Saskatoon for 24 years delivering 12 000 gallons weekly to about 100 homes in North Park. He braves 40 degree below zero weather with a team of horses, refilling a 400 gallon tank from hydrants six days a week, and noting a 44 hour work week despite frozen hoses and broken wagons.
In Shephersdwell Kent villagers collected a penny from each house to fund a birthday cake for Mrs Mary Stupples who turned 100 in December marking a village birthday celebration and community effort.
Readable grid of crossword clues with mixed languages and garbled phrases. Several lines present across and down hints including geographic terms and personal titles. The jumble includes references to rivers, kings, musical terms and historic names, though many entries are corrupted.
A collection of quotes from Hazlitt Sherman Morgan Napier Galsworthy and Eddy praising honesty in speech thought and writing. The excerpts urge sincerity, fair dealing, keeping promises, helping others, and resisting prejudice as path to a better life.
National Health Week designated January 30 to February 5 to boost health awareness and improve habits through education. The Health League of Canada sponsors the fifth annual event with slogan Guard Your Health Know How and urges ongoing public access to science based health protection. The article notes natural gas as a major use for pipeline gas in electric power generation.
A motion picture titled Canadian Headlines Of 1948, produced by Associated Screen Studios Montreal and distributed by Empire Universal, is sealed in the cornerstone of Toronto’s Variety Village vocational guidance school for crippled children. The project, funded by Variety Club of Toronto welfare drives, chronicles Canada’s 1948 sport politics and fashion.
A historical diagram shows a circulating hot water pipe system to reduce wasted water when hot water is unavailable at taps. The illustration traces the range boiler riser, branch pipes to faucets, and a return line back to the boiler. Heat loss occurs from continuous circulation but can be reduced using insulation or asbestos straw board wrapped around pipes.
New York reports both moon and sun will eclipse in 1949. The moon’s eclipses on April 12 and October 6 will be total and visible across the United States and Canada. The sun will show two partial events, April 28 not visible in North America, and October 21 mainly in the southern hemisphere near Australia and Antarctica.
In Green Bay Wisconsin a misaddressed letter from Jordan Minnesota asks for Richard Hansen’s aunt who recently moved from Oshkosh. With 85 Hansens in the directory, mail carriers face a confusing citywide surname search and vague recipient details.
Earthworms lack eyes but possess primitive light-detecting organs that help them avoid light. They emerge from burrows to feed and cast during the night, keeping exposure minimal.
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