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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 28, 1953
Page
4
Net income from farming declined from the 1951 peak as gross farm income fell 4 percent to an estimated 3.449 billion with farm operating expenses rising 6 percent to about 1.505 billion. Cash income remained near record due to field crop receipts and strong potato prices, while year end inventories dropped sharply.
The Blood Indians of southwestern Alberta are chronicled in Indian Chiefs Kainai Chieftainship by Archdeacon S. H. Middleton. Middleton, known as Chief Mountain, has long served St. Paul’s Indian Residential School on the Blood Reserve near Lethbridge and speaks the Bloods’ language fluently. Earl Alexander of Tunis provides a foreword. The Lethbridge Herald lauds the work as a long awaited, comprehensive account of Blood life and culture.
A collection of short humorous vignettes from a southern town featuring Old Mose waxing a doctor’s car and recalling a lantern during courtship. Jokes cover misadventures, self made men, teacher quips, army exam banter and a boarding house exchange about a warm summer. Cosmic rays trivia closes the set.
This item advertises Home Workshop patterns with instructions for a small sink cabinet and a larger across wall cabinet as Pattern 335. It also promotes an 18 inch animated garden scarecrow using Pattern 307 with bright colors. Each pattern costs 35 cents and orders go to Home Workshop Pattern Service, Prairie Publishers Limited, Vancouver.
Canada produced 17,879,602 tons of coal in 1952, down 5.4 percent from 1951’s 18,586,823 tons and below the 1950 peak. Despite lower production, mine values rose to 111,026,149 dollars from 109,038,835 in 1951, while imports and exports fell 7.4 percent and 10.6 percent respectively.
A Devonian Alberta paper reports teachers shifting to marriage while staying in teaching, citing 28 percent single after a prior eight percent. A Canadian city offers extended maternity leave for married teachers. Also included are light local curiosities about weather extremes, a wild duck nest finding, and small-town observations.
Ottawa reports the federal share of old age assistance for people 65 to 69 reached 19.13 million in the year ending March 31. Provinces list contributions by jurisdiction, with Ontario and Quebec as top recipients, and per province average payments ranging from 24.07 in Prince Edward Island to 38.68 in the Northwest Territories.
Winnipeg report from the provincial synod says more workers are needed for Canadian Indian missions. A committee member warned that unless action is taken soon the torch passed from early missionaries may be extinguished.
A common fact highlights the human foot contains 26 bones arranged to form the arch. This knowledge underpins understanding of foot mechanics and common injuries.
Justice Minister Stuart Garson ignited a belt labeled genuine cowhide to prove it was paper. E G Hansell, protesting misrepresentation of goods, claimed the belt failed and proved to be paper rather than leather.
Practical instructions cover cleaning brass fixtures with kerosene mixed soap and a flannel cloth, testing butter by flame, and whitening ivory with alum and fuller's earth. The guide also suggests sun drying white ivory and repeated soapy wetting for several days to restore whiteness.
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