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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
7
Rod Cooper, missing an arm, visits Joseph Rohan head of Inter American Steel seeking a job. The interview reveals Rod’s struggle with honesty and self worth as he faces the boss and his own limitations.
Department P P L Anne Adams Pattern Dept located at 60 Front Street West in Toronto. The listing confirms a business address likely for costume or pattern services, with the department name and street address provided for contact or mailing purposes.
Alberta receives grants totaling 63 500 to equip a virus centre in Edmonton under Dr. C R Amies. Funds extend infant disease work, support a Lethbridge Guidance Clinic, and expand hospital beds and nurseries at Vernon Municipal and Royal Alexandra in Edmonton. Jasper Place Health Unit serves about 13 000 people.
A collection of kitchen and household tips including remedies for sneezing with milk, lemon sugar adjustments for stewing fruit, potato browning with butter, chicken gravy with peanut butter, camphor to deter pests, am momia mixture with turpentine, and gloves cleaning with a brush.
A wealthy industrialist grants a young man a chance at employment and recalls his own beginnings, calling to a dog named Champ as he leads Rod toward the door.
A Manitoba Motor Vehicles official reports that the driver control and instruction programs in Greater Winnipeg helped cut fatal traffic accidents from 86 years ago to 2 in the January to March period of 1955, despite a 37 percent rise in registered vehicles since 1950. Outside Winnipeg, areas with only the Driver Control program show improved January–March results over 1954 but still higher than 1950 figures.
The item describes a large table pattern suitable for family dinners games hobbies and dressmaking. It includes a lumber cutting list and hardware requirements, all square cuts by hand saw. Order pattern 372 with 35 cents or add the Sewing Corner Packet five standard patterns for $1.50 postpaid.
Resources Minister J H Brockbank announced new regulations extending the minnows ban to all Saskatchewan waters south of the 54th parallel to curb carp spread. He warned anglers will be prosecuted for using small fish as bait, noting fingerlings can be mistaken for minnows and move carp between waters. The move covers central and southern regions after prior southeastern limits.
Readers can order Pattern 342 for 35 cents to build thatched nesting places for wrens blue birds purple martins and others. The article notes that small kegs and boxes have fallen from use and round metal containers make attractive bases when thatched and painted in old style.
An Edmonton driven myth of Dunvegan City promoted as the metropolis of the Peace River collapses as a decaying trading post era fades. The fort dated to 1805 with earlier exploration by MacKenzie and Thompson and later railway charter publicity failed to attract settlers. By 1918 the post closed and land sold to Robert Peters.
The Saskatchewan province contains an inland salt water lake named Little Manitou, described as denser than the Dead Sea and located within the province.
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