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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 02, 1946
Page
7
The Christian Science Monitor notes seeds now offer finger-length cucumbers flower-pot tomatoes and vest pocket midget watermelons seven inches long six inches wide three pounds. These compact varieties suit city dwellers with limited space letting them grow roasting ears from a window box and ease care with simple soil and routine watering.
Nikki Howard mourns Ted Kentworth’s homecoming at Chez Paris as secrets threaten their future. Catherine reveals Ted’s affair with a nurse in England, and the pair confront a shaken trust amid reunion and vows. Also includes gardening notes on transplanting roots and optimizing small plots.
The brick smokestack in Copper Cliff Ontario rises to 510 feet, weighs 15 000 tons and has an inside diameter of 65 feet at its base.
The 1941 India population stood at about 389 million, nearly matching Europe west of Russia and triple the U S figure. By today’s estimates it exceeds 400 million, and India accounts for about one in five of the world’s roughly two billion people. China remains the only country believed to have more people, though recent censuses in China are absent.
Britain holds vast wool wealth with over 200 million dollars in Yorkshire and Lancashire stores. Britain plans to purchase Australian wool for ten years as mills face demand and capacity limits. A Bradford firm cites heavy orders and a looming labor shortage of about seventy thousand workers.
The Alaska Highway opens up a large area previously inaccessible and largely unexplored. Resources remain largely unsurveyed but may prove substantial. With roads and relaxed wartime controls, prospectors and timber crews may flood north to spy out the land, similar to railways unlocking rich prairie and southern British Columbia.
The Admiralty states Britain will be cleared of explosive mines by June or July this year. Northwest European waters won’t be completely safe until Summer 1947. Since war end, these mines have sunk or crippled 72 merchant ships or fishing boats, with Hitler’s submarine crews having contributed. Mines were used for harbor protection and some may have drifted.
A Windsor Star column laments the upcoming season when carrying items becomes hard as clothing drops. without coats people face storage woes for pencils pens notebooks cigarettes and spectacles. It notes women already carry handbags and predicts envy for such handy gadgets in the fashion cycle.
A batch of light humor and wry lines, from mistaken engagements to a polar bear in fur. A valet on credit, a farmer asking about milking cows, punny exchanges about grapes and sixpence, and a taxi driver quip about cost.
C. F. Publow of the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario was elected president at the 97th annual meeting in the Royal Ontario Museum. Born in Pilot Mound Manitoba, he studied in Winnipeg and Toronto and earned a Bachelors in Applied Science in 1909. He has chaired electrical engineering committees and belonged to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Advertisement promotes pattern 478% for an evening blouse and two piece basque from two pieces. Pattern 4788 offers sizes 12 14 16 15 20 with yardage details for blouse and skirt and 20 cents by mail to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
Trooping the color at Horse Guards Parade is canceled due to insufficient available troops, delaying the official birthday procession in peacetime.
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