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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1960
Page
3
Fragmentary ad describes patterns for a Lawn Chair, Child's Chair, and Bench with materials and directions. Mentions 269, 253, 278 codes, priced at $17 for all three and lists a shop at 4433 West 57th Avenue in Vancouver.
Advertisement for a pattern kit from Anne Adams Pattern Dept with options for slim or softly flared skirts. Details include sizes W2 4 14 16 18 20 22 and yardage 3 2 yards 35 inch fabric, plus printed directions and price fifty cents. Send name address style number to 60 Front Street Toronto.
Step by step directions explain how to rejuvenate furniture with new slip covers. Includes instruction for making slips for bars and sofas and notes a 30 cent pattern price and where to send requests. The address given is Household Arts Department at Front Street in W. Beronto.
The city plans extensive modernization including removing street cars on Hollywood Boulevard and replacing them with diesel buses. New terrazzo Walk of Fame tiles will honor stars like Bing Crosby and Clark Gable with embedded symbols. Lighting will improve with high lumen standards and 225 trees will be planted at intervals, costing about 450 dollars each. Canada fights tuberculosis with chest x rays skin tests and campaigns to detect and cure cases early.
A. M. F. Hennig of the Experimental Farm at Beaverlodge Alberta reports that breaking bushland in June doubles the following year's wheat yield compared with breaking in September. The procedure uses a 4 standard moldboard plow at four to six inches, then a heavy serrated disk plow at six to eight inches.
In 1959 Canadians spent 16.149 billion dollars in retail stores, up 704.624 million from 1958 and almost three times the 1946 figure of 5.8 billion.
The Canadian Red Cross plans to collect 500000 bottles of blood in 1960 to meet transfusion therapy demands of Canadian hospitals.
Ernest Symons of Rocanville Sask seeks mementos of early days including farming photos and museum pieces. Reproductions will be made, owners may have photos returned, and old engines or plows are welcome with compensation. He urges preserving pioneer tales as archives across the province. Potential donors are asked to contact Symons.
Russell I Brown of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety urges couples to drive as a team with each watching a road side. He notes navigators in cars and tour groups can aid by watching signs and turns without distractive orders, comparing a navigator to a ship lookout who guides without overstepping.
A University of Vermont expert urges letting children control a night light to ease fear of darkness. An article from Redbook cites Fels Research Institute findings at Antioch College showing a child’s IQ can rise or fall with learning environment, offering reassurance to hopeful parents.
A scrambled excerpt blends butter production facts with a misattributed Sphinx riddle. The text nods to milk yielding butter, the Great Sphinx at Giza, and a mythical figure, all tangled with garbled names and questions about Oedipus. The fragment reads like a jumble of trivia and myth.
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