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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
11
Trends show manpower and material shifts to support war demands. Unproduced wartime goods created shortages and rising living standards increased demand for many products. Resulting skilled worker shortages and postwar attitudes toward immigration evolved from these pressures.
The ILO analyzes recent immigration patterns stating large movements like early 20th century Europe to the Americas are unlikely again. Countries favor selective, skilled workers for specific labor needs as a short term approach while crafting permanent policies.
The writer notes that immigration policies are likely to change but expect only small selective movements no longer fueling large population shifts. Mexico and South America remain open to settlers, South America favors skilled technicians, while Australia New Zealand maintain strict rules and South Africa limits unskilled workers. Italy remains a last major source with Britain Belgium France and Sweden recruiting workers for post war tasks.
The London Daily Mirror reports a House of Lords ruling via Viscount Simon stating a policeman must provide a true, known reason for arrest. False imprisonment may follow if the officer hides or gives an incorrect justification, upholding individual liberty in Britain.
A nineteenth century style hansom cab demonstrates how a driver’s position protected him from blows during robbery. The piece notes how the driver’s location in the vehicle offered a defensive advantage in avoid being struck by a thief.
Ottawa reports the Mosquito, famed all wood wartime aircraft, has been abandoned as an active plane in the postwar RCAF. Officials cite maintenance challenges in Canada’s climate and the craft’s handling, leaving the Mosquito alongside the Spitfire as aging air force history.
Prime Minister Smuts aged 77 and father of six marked his golden wedding anniversary with his wife. The United Party caucus presented him a wood and gold casket in a ceremonial gesture.
The cranberry is described as high in acidity and low in sugar while offering iodine vitamin C and other nutritional values. The note highlights its food value and potential health benefits.
A collection of humorous vignettes and snippets including barbed wage talk, a wry porter exchange, romantic print gags, golf misadventures, bachelor talk, a Sunday boat voyage, and a playful portrait of a hopeful suitor with exaggerated masculine ideals.
In Whitehaven Tennessee principal Fred Elliott issued a circular to 700 students warning that co-educational courting leading to marriage will trigger indefinite suspension and five day suspensions for dating while at school. Since September eight student marriages have occurred at the school.
Adorable Anne Adams sewing pattern 4747 offers a frock with slip and panties and a sunsuit for play. Includes illustrated instructions and sizes 1 and 2 with yardage notes. Send 25 cents to the Winnipeg Pattern Dept at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
In Tennessee residents celebrate Honor the Mule Week citing Sam McGee’s birthplace while Ottawa Citizen editor T. D. wonders why not honor the horse with a week and replace Father’s Day focus on the old horse.
A fragmentary note hints at the tallest living person, described as towering beyond rivals. Researchers and local officials weigh possible measurements while public curiosity builds around the extraordinary figure and how such height is verified.
WA Waterton, a Canadian born Gloster test pilot, explains jet aircraft testing at Moreton Valence Airfield Gloster. He set speed marks from Paris to London at 618.4 mph and contributed to RAF missions including Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain before returning to test jets in England.
In Havana on Galiano and San Lazaro streets opposing groups of secondary students fought for control of their student association. One local grocer was wounded, and three students were arrested as a mid town fracas unfolded.
A compilation of short maxims on silence from Carlyle Lavater La Rochefoucauld Mary Baker Eddy Zimmermann and Addison. It asserts silence as a powerful tool for creation response and judgment and notes its use against calumny and derision.
Maj Gen Hjalmar Riiser Larsen will head a Norwegian Swedish British Antarctic expedition planned to begin late 1948 costing about 100000 pounds. The 150 member team includes scientists from all three nations with Larsen remaining in Queen Maud Land from November 1948 to January 1949 and twelve scientists continuing nine more months to study meteorological conditions.
A Wall Street Journal item describes a Mississippi style boarding house landlady in Alabama who collects past due board bills with a silent signal. A new boarder notices an extra fork at a table and learns the device means payment is due.
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