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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1947
Page
2
Agriculture and industry discuss turning waste farm products into industrial inputs. The article notes alcohol from grains, plastics from milk protein, and oils from sunflowers for paints and fats, but cautions that technical feasibility must balance against processing costs and financial viability.
Dr E S Larmour of Canada warns against pursuing industrial uses for surplus crops without sound economic grounding. He cites Western Canada and the Prairie Regional Laboratory at Saskatoon as studying new uses for straw and crops like sunflowers and flax to benefit farmers and employment, while stressing careful financial feasibility.
Col H C Osborne secretary-general of the Canadian agency of the Imperial War Graves Commission says Canadian war graves in central Europe are in excellent condition. He visited eight main cemeteries including four in France three in Holland and one in Belgium after a two month tour.
Measure juice and sugar in a 2 quart pan. Bring to a rolling boil over high heat while stirring. Add Certo, boil hard for 2 minutes, then remove from heat. Skim and pour into glasses. Parafin at once.
Former U S secretary of state James F Byrnes stated that true world peace depends more on inner intentions than on treaties. He emphasized moral resolve and shared responsibility as essential to lasting security.
A collection of light humor sketches and quick quips. Jokes pivot on marital banter and workplace mischief, featuring a wife debating a makeup shade, a typist turning nails into waste, and a gossiping office orbit. The tone mirrors a late 19th to early 20th century humor page.
The Ottawa Citizen reports Canada has developed Rescue, the first insect resistant wheat by A W Platt at the Dominion Experimental Farm Swift Current. This new wheat promises more grain for markets and higher income for farmers and will be commercially available next year.
John Pirie a retired minister and former newspaper man with $100 built a 40 by 22 foot hand hewn log home in six years in Port Coquitlam British Columbia. All timbers are hand split cedar window frames walls panelled and the ceiling insulated. An inlaid table uses wood from every country in the British Empire. The couple live quietly in the snapping doors glide silently on felted hinges.
Mrs. D. Hoffman of Gray Creek faced a prowling bear in her orchard at Kootenay Cottages. Without a gun she blew a guest horn and frightened the bear, which fell from a tree and fled into the woods.
Canada opens two Arctic weather stations sending four reports daily. The Eureka Sound station on Ellesmere Island near 600 miles from the North Pole was started by aircraft. The Resolute Bay station on Cornwallis Island near Barrow Strait operates at about latitude 75 north, established by a waterborne expedition.
Seattle Superior Court judge Clay Allen sentenced 28 year old Raymond Scott to up to 20 years in the state reformatory for abandonment and non support of his wife and twin children describing it as the only remedy for the growing number of lazy husbands.
The letter m shows only small design changes from early Phoenician forms to contemporary usage. It traces a continuous line in shape from ancient carvings to today’s typographic and handwriting styles.
Edmonton police urge drivers on the Edmonton Calgary highway to stay in their lane and not crowd the white centre line to reduce highway injuries. Sgt James Muir says many crashes occur when the line is used as a wheel guide. The moon completes a circuit around the earth in 27 days seven hours and 43.2 minutes.
Edmonton bus driver R. E. Lisson shot an unusually colored mallard near Wetaskiwin. The bird, of fair size, features a sand white mix from head to tail, adding to a list of ornithological curiosities observed locally.
A compact collection of quotes on pride from diverse authors. Dillon, Johnson, Gay, Eddy, Shenstone, Sterne offer views on pride as a fault born of limited sense and action, likening it to attic emptiness and moral vanity. The lines probe why pride misleads and when good actions deserve restraint.
Production in Canada relied on wartime development with higher yields and easier harvesting enabled by improved semi dwarf strains such as Mennonite and Sunrise. These varieties can be harvested with the ordinary combine.
A historical note records fox farming starting in 1894 on Prince Edward Island, a detail tied to a broader claim about language diversity and global linguistic counts.
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