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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
3
The article advises proper pitching stance to improve target accuracy and reararm release, notes common faults in young players, and stresses identifying and training weak hitting spots. It also recommends butter as a digestible fat in training diets and suggests timing its use around game days.
The article discusses persistent wheat surpluses on the North American continent and limits to expanding export markets. It notes that lowering prices could raise domestic wheat food use, but demand shifts with income: low incomes increase consumption as incomes rise, while higher incomes reduce per capita wheat intake, helping explain the long term decline in U.S. and Canada per capita consumption since 1900.
The weekly reflection urges readers to know Jesus through the earthly life in Galilee Samaria and Judea and to walk with Him through His feasts and temple visits. It emphasizes the Gospels as ever new and the transformative effect of Christ’s love on believers through the centuries.
Thumb sucking in very small children need not be regarded as a problem unless it continues beyond his first year. The bigger child may suck his thumb as compensation because he is afraid or bored or has a fear of scoldings.
The deciphered sequence links names to places and items including Lily of the Valley, California, and a set of gem names such as Niagara Have Not Has Not Do Atlas Emerald Agate. The note ends with the code 3142.
A humorous note recalls a man taxed on his wife’s tip about smuggling. The Internal Revenue Service rules that it counted as earned income, sparking reflections on impulses and justice in a breezy local column.
The article extols birds as friends to gardeners, noting invitations like shrubs, birdhouses, feeding stations, and water features attract species such as wrens, orioles, robins, and hummingbirds. It advises planting bright flowers and fruiting shrubs to provide year round food and shelter.
POM McCormick, executive director of the Canadian Civilian Association of Marksmen, argues that predators and pest birds should be controlled rather than destroyed. He cites starlings, pigeons, coyotes, foxes, skunks, gophers, groundhogs, jackrabbits, crows and magpies as overabundant in many areas, threatening livestock and nests, while acknowledging some beneficial insect control but noting nest piracy outweighs virtues.
The bashful bride jokes with her husband as they enter a hotel. She says they should pretend they have been married a long time. He replies asking if she can carry both suitcases. The line blends whimsy with playful routes.
REGINA Eric Beveridge Saskatchewan live stock commissioner urged farmers to dehorn calves during calving time noting two thirds of beef calves will be born in two months. He cited economic and handling advantages and recommended caustic paste as the most satisfactory method, with the cautic stick also effective.
A word puzzle lists clues for a horizontal 56 item grid with many numbered entries. Answers include items such as night before an event, hostelry, extinct bird, prickly plant, and various other terms spanning food, objects, and places.
Letters from California and Ontario recount reactions to the jubilee announcement. A. Thiselton recalls Regina events from September 4, 1905 and sends photos of that day including a Seventh Avenue foot race with Longboat. Dr G C Armitage encloses his mother's 1892 teaching certificate, now archived.
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