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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 07, 1953
Page
9
A stepfather murders Cora after carefully revealing a life spent manipulating her. He plans a grand, staged supper and fakes gentleness before caressing her neck and delivering the fatal blade. A production voice calls time out for lunch, ending the scene.
Regina reports the Federal Provincial Farm Labour Committee approved moving 200 Saskatchewan farm workers to Ontario for baying and harvesting with up to 1500 eastern harvesters to Saskatchewan later. Last year 1074 Ontario workers came to Saskatchewan and 2000 to 4000 others came independently.
At the How ard Windsor farm near Pittsburgh Kansas chickens began laying double yolk eggs. Windsor joked that the eggs omen what would come. On April 1 a cow delivered twin calves and soon after Mrs Windsor received twins two boys from the stork.
Mrs Helen Grassick a Calgary nurse technician closes a six year Red Cross career after donating nearly 70000 units of blood. She helped establish the Red Cross blood donor clinic there in 1947.
Edmonton reported Frank Keily a former gold miner said a mammoth body with flesh and hide intact was found near Fairbanks along with a mammoth calf and a tiny horse. He described the animal as appearing as it did in life and showed an 11 pound tooth nine inches long with a seven inch grinding surface.
The Winnipeg School Board will reopen city schools on August 31 to ensure a minimum of 200 school days for provincial grants. A board official notes August 31 falls on Monday, avoiding a September start that would shorten instruction time. Australia’s population was estimated at 8,538,000 as of 1951, up 3,000,000 in three decades.
Ottawa reports a likely upcoming wheat short crop as Canada has benefited from a large previous harvest. Trade Minister C. D. Howe rejects claims of a wheat glut, noting transportation limits and adequate reserve stocks. He cites several years of unusually large crops and warns moisture on the prairies may worsen conditions.
Between June 1 1931 and June 1 1952 Canada's population rose 421000 from 14009000 to 14430000. In six months to December 1 1952 the gain was 194000 bringing total to 14624000. Slower growth mainly reflects fewer immigrants in 1952 about 164000 versus 194000 in 1951.
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