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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 31, 1945
Page
7
Edmonton businessman Geo F Gordon predicts a Yellowknife district gold rush akin to Klondike days as 10000 men are already in the camp. Airplane trips for 20 major investors are being arranged for June while claims reach about 35000 with 100 formed and 50 financed for exploration.
A long affair tests Dave Thorne and Mary Mills as Evangeline Clayton returns to town. Mary’s quiet independence collides with Vangie’s bold plans, sparking dating upheaval, a new car, and a revived bond with Dave while his mother’s memory lingers in the background.
A recipe for Brown Eyed Susans cookies with raisins and cereal crumbs plus a historical aside noting medieval surgeons used wine as an anesthetic to render patients unconscious. The directions include mixing, chilling, rolling, cutting, filling, and baking at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Yield is about two dozen cookies.
This article outlines thinning crowded plants for better growth, timely watering after rain, and pest control using sprays from government bulletins or seedsmen. It emphasizes staking tall plants, supporting climbers, and regular picking to sustain flowering while detailing green manure and composting to enrich soil for flowers and vegetables.
The traditional belief that eating between meals harms health is wavering. War-plant efficiency experts report mid‑morning and mid‑afternoon snacks improve general well being and sustain high production levels.
An astronomy note explains Jupiter possesses nine moons with four large ones visible without aid, while observers must have sharp vision. A practical tip advises rubbing down glossy enamel with steel wool before repainting to ensure better paint adhesion.
The article details a country wide secret Dutch telephone network in WWII linking villages to central exchanges. Engineers maintained automatic lines under German noses, even tapping German lines and relaying intelligence to the Allies.
S H Vigor provincial field crops commissioner reports a vigorous drive in districts heavily infested by the wheat stem sawfly. The 1943 crop loss reached 18 million dollars in Saskatchewan.
Anne Adams Pattern 4751 offers a simple girls dirndl with drawstrings at waist neckline and sleeves no buttons placket seams. Sizes 6 8 10 12 14 with size 10 using 2% yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 20 cents to the Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Man. Allow extra mailing time.
Bavenda tribesmen in Africa believe illnesses travel from the tilted crescent moon causing widespread coughs and colds across the land told in a traditional cosmology.
A National Film Board Rural Circuits presentation examines farm costs versus income from 1926 onward, showing why machinery and grain prices lagged and debts grew in hard years, then how price controls and higher production boosted profits. The film aims to explain past mistakes and promote discussion for future prosperity.
R Leighton Foster of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association spoke at the Underwriters' Sales Congress luncheon. He noted life insurers began newspaper advertising 25 years ago as a cooperative effort to educate Canadians about life insurance and its public and national benefits. The program relies on the press, reaching over five million monthly readers, and emphasizes a government-regulated, subsidy-free, cost-efficient personal security.
The skylark, rare in America, now established around Victoria B C from its European roots. It resembles the horned Canadian lark but lacks horns and shows a striped breastband. Overhanging eaves stay shadowy. painting undersides of eaves or porch ceilings light reduces dark shadows.
A Chilliwack woman reportedly raises silkworms on mulberry trees in her backyard and keeps the family in silk stockings. The Edmonton Journal doubts the movement will spread widely in Canada, noting wartime stocking lines are quicker.
The article notes the British Empire has a total population exceeding 500 million. It highlights vast colonial reach and demographic scale across multiple continents and seas.
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