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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1960
Page
2
A jumbled classified page shows miscellaneous sale items including home heating, garden tools, and small wares. It lists prices and terse product hints with scattered, unreadable brand names and locations.
In a fragmentary ad, a local drug store laments supply needs by mail as costs and access become a concern. The notice hints at requests for names and addresses and offers to print labels in a reusable plastic box for $1.00. It underscores various typographical errors and scattered phrases reflecting a distressed small business environment.
An assortment of ads invites readers to pursue beauty culture training at Phillips Beauty School in Regina with a learn now pay later plan and visitor contact. Other notices advertise teaching jobs in Fort McMurray and Regina training options, plus an instruction program at Comptometer School and a Saskatoon photo service offering album prints and mail-in reprints.
England based inventor Reginald Carter promotes an electric hen device claimed to deliver eggs along a highway. The model stands five feet tall and three feet wide with 72 egg compartments rotating to hold 432 eggs. At half crown 33 cents, six eggs allegedly emerge per use.
Hambrey Hatcheries lists four new Hybrid strains of white layers and Sussex Barred Rock mixes with prices from 6 to 20 dollars per hundred, plus started chicks and chicks up to three weeks old for immediate delivery. Turkeys include California Royal Bronze at 75 dollars per ten, with Cross Leg horns lines and reliable strains advertised by Reliable Hatcheries in Regina Saskatoon Winnipeg.
Saskatchewan septic tank cleaning with reasonable rates. Address Lacon Street Regina. Phone LA $S801.
Auto and truck supply mixed with diesel service notes call on Electric Motor Service for diesel pump repairs filters nozzles fuel oil treatment and Bosch and C A V factory parts at 1234 Scarth Regina Sask phone JO 9 5464.
W H Hall of Dominion Tar and Chemical Co notes chemists and chemical engineers are vital across industries beyond chemicals including wood pulp, metals, food, and mining. He urges Canada to boost domestic manufacturing to provide more employment and reduce imports while improving export value.
National recognition at the sixth Canadian Highway Safety Council conference in Vancouver went to three groups. The Junior League of Toronto won first prize of 1000 dollars and a bronze statuette. Echo Hill Women’s Institute earned second place with 500 dollars and a plaque. West End Safety Council of Montreal took third with 250 dollars and a plaque. Echo Hill’s campaign promoted reflectorized tape on farm equipment on highways. Montreal group created maps showing safest routes for children going to and from school.
A nostalgic verse from The Arrow Lakes News notes a shabby mountain lean-to with a sagging door, rags for carpet, and a battered roof yet offers high mountain sunsets and pine covered scenery that keeps the speaker returning home. The piece juxtaposes the shack’s flaws with deep affection for its landscape and memory.
Campfire Memories a stage tribute to Saskatchewan pioneers will run July 4 through July 9 at the Western Development Museum Saskatoon. Sponsored by the Hugh Cairns Chapter LODE organized by Mrs Jensen chair citizenship and immigration committee. The show features 130 performers and will display flags of nations that settled western Canada. Audience participation closes the performance with a sing along.
In 1949 Canadian women bought an average 127 pairs each. Canadian mills supplied 0.6 million dozen pairs while foreign producers provided 566 thousand dozen pairs, reflecting strong domestic and import demand for nylons.
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