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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 16, 1950
Page
4
Consumers benefit from lab work on cost and quality of food and goods. Butter graders test taste and texture to assign grades AA to cooking, while researchers develop methods to detect brucellosis in cattle and pasteurization status in dairy products.
Garden 4 Notes advises sowing grass seed in spring on dry ground after frost. Emphasizes using quality lawn seed, windless days, and even broadcasting. Also covers new berry varieties, carotene from stored carrots, and a shopper coat for housewives. Mentions hybrid pines for lumber, crossbred beef cattle, sweet peas, and pruning rules for spring-blooming shrubs.
Practical tips cover separating bathinette parts with talc powder, using tissue in corners to prevent sticking, and dusting. Advice warns aluminum utensils stain and pit under strong cleaners. It also suggests mesh bags or tied fabric for laundry items to keep small articles together during washing.
A hotel guest refuses to tip staff for minor services and insists on receiving a telegram. A knock at the door yields a page with the telegram who offers to slide it under the door. The guest replies that he will accept only with direct delivery, noting the telegram is on a tray.
The odds are six to five that within the next year your automobile will break down and you will need to phone a garage for help.
Absurd gags and one liners parade in this humorous collection by Bennett Cerf. A absent minded professor story about a math wizard and a porter prompts a memory joke. A farmer dismisses girls as cheap, a red headed boy mocks grownups, and a pepper comparison closes.
Interprovincial Pipeline Co moves into final phase of securing legal authority for a 790 mile prairie trunk line crossing Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Superior Wisconsin. More than 2100 land tracts face easement agreements with compensation based on current market value. Construction set to begin in May with culverts fences and gates replaced and damages settled after completion.
The Hockey News lists the six team captains choosing a First and Second Team. Detroit players Leo Reise Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay dominate the selections with strong representation from Canadiens Rangers and Toronto.
In Yorkton Saskatchewan a goldend cocker spaniel named Ricky brought a two dollar roll of dimes to the Bank of Montreal tellers. Bank staff checked the vault and counters while Ricky’s owner Angus Spice and Yorkton curling club manager Bill Kerr traced the missing roll to Kerr’s office area. The bank’s stamp on the dimes suggested mislaid money from Kerr, and Ricky may have unintentionally helped solve the mystery.
Oregon gathered 113.39 per vehicle from 777,450 visiting out-of-state cars this year totaling substantial state revenue.
At the Toronto convention the Canadian Paint Varnish and Lacquer Association elected J. Arthur Brodie of Winnipeg as its 37th president succeeding G Cc. McEwen who held the role since 1948. Brodie has long ties to the industry including work with Marshall Wells and International Laboratories and has led Winnipeg’s Paint Oil and Varnish Club.
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