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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 17, 1949
Page
4
The design describes a 2000 bushel capacity drive through corn crib with doors at both ends and a central alley for tractors or wagons. It covers concrete dry floors raised above ground, 8 inches of cinders, slatted floors option for better air, rat proofing with hardware cloth, and strong anchorage to prevent floor and wall movement.
A short notice advertises easy crochet projects including nine dallions for a chair set and a tablecloth spread. It invites readers to enter a fair and national contest, asking to send five cents for patterns and directions with photos.
A set of practical household hints covers making furniture polish with equal parts turpentine benzine and paraffin oil, removing scotch stains with peroxide and heat, using a wall shelf as a dressing area, and extending broom life by ammonia-soaked water.
Frt. Lt. B. C. Hartman of Tisdale Sask leads Goose Bay search unit with 30 staff performing 28 searches and 24 mercy missions in two years. The base, co managed by RCAF and U S forces, serves Arctic defence, air commerce, and rescue for Canada and the International Civil Aviation Organization. Regular visitors include Group Capt. Jim Verner and Air Commodore Frank Waite as Goose maintains its role amid a looming Canadian transition.
A rumor states the Mississippi river runs uphill because its mouth sits farther from Earth's center than its source, a claim contradicted by geography experts who explain gravity and river flow principles.
Quotes from J. P. Morgan Ramsay MacDonald Mary Baker Eddy Elbert Hubbard Smiles and Joel Hawes on character as bank collateral mental attitude time effort and resilience.
Prairie farmers expand small irrigation to store surface runoff from melting snow and rains. Since 1935 over 1,500 projects built with PFRA help guard prairie agriculture against recurring drought and improve feed and garden crops in dry years.
The piece argues pasteurization protects public health and notes Ontario’s compulsory pasteurization law, in effect since 1938, markedly reducing typhoid and bovine TB cases. It cites a Readers Digest feature and a 1915 Toronto by law as evidence that pasteurized milk prevents undulant fever and disease.
Not too deep. Plant seeds at three times seed diameter. tiny seeds press in soil, larger seeds 4 to 8 inches for bulbs and tubers. A 10 by 20 foot patch with planning and double cropping yields many meals. Favor beans beets carrots spinach radish lettuce and a few tomatoes and cucumbers near the fence. Early plantings suit lettuce radish spinach early onions and hardy peas with rows 18 inches apart and intercropped between.
Birmingham University girls surveyed 128 students find home is the chief source of happiness in childhood and a major cause of unhappiness in adolescence. Eighty two percent report happy lives, eleven percent see childhood happiness turn to adolescence unhappiness, and six percent gain happiness after an unhappy childhood. One student calls home a lonely place with cherished belongings gathered there.
An 18 inch garter snake lived 21 years encased in the concrete wall of the Welland Ship Canal at Port Colborne. Workmen breaking the block for repairs found the reptile alive though injured by the drill. The lock concrete was poured in 1928.
After a building plaque dedication to a famous writer, two men of letters depart. One jokes about his own future plaque, asking if it will be placed inside his house. The other replies surely, guessing the wording will say Room To Let.
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