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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1947
Page
6
News from East London reports Princess Elizabeth inaugurates a new drydock worth 10 600 000 dollars bearing her name. Elsewhere the baby show at the Canadian National Exhibition is to be revived, Rembrandt auction brings 750 guineas, and U S aid and immigration debates unfold.
An excerpt questions who first created toast and jokes that the inventor may never be known. It argues toast underpins American breakfasts and that its aroma can wake people, noting quirks about monuments and traffic from would be founders. The piece ends with a quote on happiness about liking one’s duties.
A survey names 26 major league players with salaries from 20 000 to 80 000 in 1947 led by Bobby Feller at 80 600 to 100 000 and Hank Greenberg at 75 000. Ted Williams 65 000 Hal Newhouser 60 000 and Boston Red Sox near 500 000 in total payroll are highlighted with several others in the 20 000 plus range.
The text explains pernicious anaemia as a grave progressive disease with shortness of breath pallor and general weakness. It notes onset in middle life, rarity in children and those over 60, and common accompanying symptoms such as languor nausea vomiting diarrhoea tongue soreness numbness weight loss fever and skin spots.
A list of crossword clues in horizontal and vertical grids with numbers and partial answers. Clues span topics from animals and objects to verbs and adjectives and include references to gods and bodily terms. The fragmentary text mixes punctuation and spacing, typical of OCR crossword material.
The article notes that about 80 percent of advanced pernicious anemia cases show loss of sensation and limb disturbances from spinal cord injury. Diagnosis rests on blood and stomach secretion tests with low hydrochloric acid. Liver extracts given hypodermically and a daily liver rich diet are highlighted as beneficial.
The Ottawa Citizen reports a fireproof mattress designed for people who smoke in bed. Makers claim a smoker could burn himself to a crisp without leaving any trace on the mattress, reflecting the surprising wonders science may achieve.
Ten geisha girls are summoned to Kumagaya to save cherry trees vanishing as stoves provide fuel for freezing citizens. They will sing and dance near the Chichibu charcoal district to urge producers to supply more fuel. The note mentions Vedmosti first appearing Jan 13, 1708.
The Boston Post reports a new grass growing device shown on a housewives program. It uses strips of seed and fertilizer embedded in paper that are laid on soil and watered. The paper dissolves, releasing seed and fertilizer, and grass is claimed to appear in four to five days.
The article explains thunder results from heated air cooling and contracting as lightning flashes. It also states Buenos Aires ranks sixth in world city size.
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