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Miniota Herald

Location

Miniota, Manitoba, Canada

Date

May 15, 1947

Page

7

Home Run Brings Matt Johnson Back to Baseball

Matt Johnson, star second baseman for the Red Legs, struggles between baseball and Mary's bank career dream. After a late season home run clinches a win, a crowd cheers and Matt realizes his love for the game outweighs prodding by Mary. Mary acknowledges the fans’ praise and the couple faces an unresolved future.

Matt Joe Crowder Mary USO Frisco Pacific Rankin Red Legs Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate

Baking Powder Biscuits With Buttermilk Substitutes

Buttermilk or sour milk can replace sweet milk in baking powder biscuits. The batter needs more liquid due to thickness. add soda to the flour, baking powder, and salt. For large batches use 1 / 4 to 1 / 3 teaspoon soda and about 1 3 / 4 to 2 cups buttermilk. For half recipes use 1 / 8 to 1 / 6 teaspoon soda and roughly 3 / 4 to 1 1 / 4 cups buttermilk.

Chocolate Buttercream for Layer Cakes

Lift together four cups sifted confectioners sugar three tablespoons baker's breakfast cocoa and a teaspoon salt. Cream butter. Add sugar mixture gradually blending well. Alternate with coffee until right consistency to spread. Add vanilla. Makes enough to cover tops and sides of two 9 inch layers or top and sides of a 13x9x2 inch cake.

Garden Notes Be Prepared for Insect and Disease Damage

Advice on protecting a garden from pests and disease, stressing early countermeasures, healthy plants, and weed control. Encourages use of sprays or dusts, timely watering, fertilization, and cultivation to conserve moisture and speed growth.

Canada

Mounties aim to revive famed musical ride at Regina barracks

Regina hosts 45 black horses awaiting the RCMP revival of the mounted musical ride once idle since 1939. With the force nearing authorized strength at 3544, new recruits train at the Regina depot with a six month program covering physical fitness, criminal law, and motor maintenance, leading to red coats and possible postings across Canada including Ottawa and Arctic outposts.

Regina Royal Canadian Mounted Police New York San Francisco R.C.M.P Canada Saskatchewan Arctic Ottawa

Electric power reach on Canadian farms shown

The Agricultural Institute Review reports only 16.1 percent of Canadian farms have electricity. Ontario leads with 35 percent while Saskatchewan trails at 0.21 percent. Ontario uses 79.75 percent of farm power, indicating strong potential for expansion of electric power on farms nationwide.

Ontario Saskatchewan Agricultural Institute Review

British Oversize Car Rejected by Government Panel

London reports that British automobile makers and the motor industry advisory council rejected as impractical a proposal to produce a car larger than standard British makes for export. Supply Minister John Wilmot told Parliament the idea would cause too much dislocation in current circumstances.

London Motor Industry Advisory Council John Wilmot House of Commons Wilmot

Booth elected president of Agricultural Institute of Canada

J F Booth PhD of Ottawa associate director in Marketing Service at Dominion Department of Agriculture has been elected president of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. He grew up on Manitoba and Saskatchewan farms, graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1919, served as Agricultural Representative in Saskatchewan, became Commissioner of Co operation and Markets in 1921, did post graduate work at Cornell, then led the Economics Division of the US Department of Agriculture before returning to Canada as head of the Economics Division in the Dominion Agriculture Department. He is described as a constructive worker for Canadian agriculture.

ALC J. F. Booth Ottawa Dominion Department of Agriculture Agricultural Institute of Canada Dr. Booth Manitoba Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan Cornell University N.Y Bureau of Agricultural Economics United States Department of Agriculture

One Old Timer No Longer Seen

Old-fashioned clay pipes are no longer sold in the city. Thomas Richard Henry notes stores in Toronto with explanations ranging from wartime Japan imports to dwindling Scottish production and shrinking markets. An old pipe relic forgotten, once kept noses warm in winter.

Thomas Richard Henry Toronto Japan Scotland

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