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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 02, 1950
Page
7
Marcia Morgan waits beside the door to a hospital room where her husband lies after a failed poisoning plot. A nurse reveals injuries and the doctor reports the husband will live, exposing Marcia’s cold, calculating motive and her jealousy toward Ellen as the scheme unravels.
Thrifty sewing ad offers Halos Four gay aprons from pattern 4694 in sizes small to large with bib and one fabric. Indicates 25 cents price, requires 35 inch yardage, includes illustrated instructions, and lists address for orders in Toronto. Also promotes Fall Winter Pattern Book by Anne Adams and a free pattern from a man’s shirt for a child.
Maple Creek Saskatchewan reports the largest sheep and lamb sale in provincial history at Tompkins. A total of 2 859 ewes lambs and rams sold for 58 147 dollars with Alberta buyers paying up to 30 dollars per head for ewes and 31 dollars for two year olds to G S Hawkins Moose Jaw. Three and four year olds brought 26 dollars while five year olds averaged 16 dollars. University of Saskatchewan top rams sold up to 135 dollars a head for the first eight and 126 dollars for the next six. Pet lambs attracted 42 entries but many owners refused to part with them even for 24 dollars per cwt. They were sold to Lethbridge Feeders.
Edmonton streets yield cash and securities totaling 31534 since October 5. Constable J Hallberg recovered 30513 in common shares from a gutter and electrician Anders Anderson found 1021 in bills from a gutter on October 5.
Cr anbrook witnesses a noisy night as whistling swans circle lights then settle at a marsh at dawn. Regina studies horticulture in the Churchill river basin to match Alberta’s Peace River district. Vancouver reports bank transfer cheques worth a quarter million found in a lost pouch from a Wheat Board office girl. High River notes a contract for 2 000 nylon lanyards for revolvers. Macleod plans a southern Alberta museum with Fort Whoop-Up cannon arrowheads and West relics. Edmonton announces an east west boundary survey between Alberta and the Northwest Territories starting next month to locate the 60th parallel.
Sets record for chrysanthemum production in Medicine Hat as Dr A P Chan notes the city has the second largest greenhouse acreage in Canada. Vermilion reports Marvin Os Baldeston in unconsciousness on day 130 after June 10 crash with no brain function since surgery in July. Gravelbourg re elects S M Bonneau mayor by acclamation for fifth term.
In Madison Tennessee Rev James H Elder meets the groom instead of the bridegrooms. He had previously arrested state patrolman Walter Toone for speeding. Elder jokes about an agonizing Methodist ritual and demands a $14 95 fee plus costs if Toone faces him again.
A Cowichan tribal member reportedly forecast a heavy snow winter for Vancouver Island. An enterprising reporter asked the tribal chief how predictions are made, and the chief joked that they may simply listen to radio weather reports.
Devon Alberta resident Thomas Staley a 64 year old sourdough works two spots on the North Saskatchewan River near the Alberta oil country. He uses a flume and mud box to wash river sand collecting gold that brings about 28 dollars per ounce and nets him around 6 dollars daily after sharing with gravel crews. Old Tom has panned North Saskatchewan for about 16 years.
The Bank of England publishes a detailed survey showing British investments abroad dropping from £3,545 million in 1938 to £1,960 million in 1948. Losses occur across Commonwealth, Argentina, and the U.S. Yet income fell less than the asset value and U.S. investments yielded more income in 1948 than in 1938.
The mid-Winter council meeting of the Canadian Bar Association will be held in Regina February 23 and 24. Saskatchewan vice-president Frank L. Bastedo announced it is the first such meeting in Saskatchewan since 1928.
William Mitchell, who asserts he is the only person outside Burns family born in Ayr's Burns Cottage, plans to retire in November after 36 years with Calgary Transit System.
More than 300 of Saskatchewan's 7 000 teachers left this fall to teach in other provinces. Of those, 159 went to Alberta, 94 to British Columbia, 28 to Manitoba and 20 to Ontario. This exodus reflects a broader shift in provincial education staffing.
The Labor Ministry in Buenos Aires orders all workers to donate two days pay annually to the Eva Peron Foundation. Employers must deduct May 1 and October 12 pay from workers’ envelopes and deposit the funds within 48 hours into the National Bank.
Walter Figgures of Hudson's Bay company holds the rare albino muskrat skin in Grande Prairie Alberta after Gene Gerwatorski trapped the animal on his registered trap line. The prized specimen draws attention from fur buyers in the region.
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