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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1956
Page
2
The article recommends planting vegetables at one to two week intervals through July to spread harvests, with midseason watering, cultivation, and moisture conservation. It covers path and stair planning between garden levels, materials for paths, and notes on using small tractors and mowers for efficiency.
A Strictly Fresh Bronze razor dating to the eighth century BC was discovered in Ancona Italy. The relic was noted as needing sharpening and is described alongside a local barber’s comparable aged tool. The piece is referenced amid light commentary on optimism and spring cleaning metaphors.
Austra lia's first woman flying doctor Dr. Margery McKinnon has begun work at Charleville in southwest Queensland. Her duties include medical advice via pedal radio and frequent flying to outlying settlers. she previously served as medical superintendent on Norfolk Island where the hospital residence is a sandstone house built by descendants of mutineers from HMS Bounty.
Stephen J. Meyers Jr., 15, serves as chief of the Five Towns Ground Observer post in Maine guiding 25 adult volunteers in the sky surveillance effort assessing weather and air activity.
Dr J Mitchell Dunn who gave Columbus Ohio's first blood transfusion in 1917 recalls the era when there was no blood bank and a miner survived after an improvised transfusion. He warns blood is overused today and should be saved for necessary cases while acknowledging lives saved by transfusions.
Mr and Mrs Jim Gray and Mrs Carrell McCrea narrowly avoided injury when their car skidded and rolled over on a trip from Fresno to Wells. An ironing board in the back seat pinned three Gray and McCrea children, preventing serious harm.
At the University of Toronto chemistry building an abandoned elevator shaft houses a machine that burns 600 pounds of cigarette tobacco weekly. Dr George Wright and colleagues extract tobacco tar to test links between cancer and smoking, sending fractions to Dr E L Wynder in New York for mouse experiments. Wright notes no proven link to lung cancer yet and that tar, not paper, is the focus.
Thrifty tissue pattern 7052 offers a washable iron on color transfer set for a medium size apron. Includes bright blue yellow and green motifs and uses a 35 inch fabric. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain the pattern. stamps cannot be accepted.
An advertisement from the Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto urges readers to order the Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue. It requests plain name address and pattern number with 25 cents to receive a book featuring knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and more.
The notice promotes two sizes of a Dutch wine mill pattern with a top weather vane, pivoted design, mailed for 35c, plus a Weathervane Packet at 1.50. It also advertises a double-deck teacart use for hot trays and serving, with patterns showing assembly steps and fiber casters, order to Home Workshop Patterns Vancouver BC.
A simple sewing pattern advertises Pattern 4634 for children's sizes 2 through 10 in cotton fabrics with pastel colors. It claims quick assembly, easy use, complete illustrated instructions, and a 35 cent price plus mail order to Anne Adams Pattern Dept.
Edith Mann, 40, of Sydney, underwent an osteotomy of the spine to realign her neck and restore upright vision after two years. Surgeons fractured and reset her neck, an rarely performed procedure for ankylosing spondylitis, with serious risks of death or paralysis.
A Kiel resident unknowingly slept 11 years atop an incendiary World War II bomb. The new homeowner discovered the device embedded under the bed while moving. A disposal team removed the bomb, which had lain in place since a 1945 raid.
Richard D. Voigt of Tonawanda says his 1941 car runs on butane and propane LPG at about one third the gasoline cost. He has driven ~50,000 miles with 50 percent or more savings in operating costs and minimal crank case oil contamination. He spent just under $300 on the conversion and can switch to regular gas.
The article explains that TB germs are common and most people resist infection. It notes TB can remain hidden until treatment is needed. It states chest X rays can reveal TB and modern treatment nearly always cures it, with free X rays available in Canada.
A London woman admired a six month old girl at a bus stop and took the child from her mother who said she could not afford to keep her. The magistrate placed the infant into care of the London County Council as police investigated the adoption action.
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