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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 17, 1949
Page
2
Measures for safety and constant precautions protect employees from purse thefts while at work. Safety engineering has become a specialized profession with plants retaining safety officers and a central safety committee to reduce accidents and keep conditions safe.
The article outlines approaches to reduce industrial accidents including machine safety devices, hazard removal, worker education on potential hazards, and investigation and rectification of accidents. It notes penalties for careless employees and contrasts regulated plants with farms where supervision is looser, while acknowledging widespread machine use and injuries in farming, especially in the West.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 37 200 farmers injured at work and over 1 000 000 man days lost in 1946 47 due to fires and accidents. Sixty percent of incidents occur in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta where farming populations are one third. Efforts focus on farmer training and safer machinery as agriculture seeks to cut man days lost.
The International War Veterans' alliance decided at a meeting to promote a chapel at the International Peace Gardens on the Canada United States border. The site is to honor veterans and foster cross border reconciliation.
Vancouver reports importers anticipate 85 million Japanese oranges for the Christmas season. A $1,000,000 shipment aboard the SS Island Mail marks the largest postwar trade with Japan. Prices are set near $1.30 per box, about 20 percent above last year but below the 1947 peg of $1.59.
A collection of aphorisms on kindness love and human relations. Quotations by Johnsson Washington Irving Landor Mary Baker Eddy Richard Brooks George D Prentice celebrate the value of a kind heart forgiving wrongs and sowing courtesy to reap friendship and affection.
An expert adult sea lion requires teaching to swim as thousands drown annually during the learning process, highlighting dangers in early aquatic training for the species.
A drawing shows an hayfork installation in a barn without a track. The rope path uses a center fork pulley and two mow pulleys to lift bundles nearly vertical, then draw them to the mow. A second rope end travels to the barn floor and teams.
A collection of lighthearted quips about family, weddings, clerks, and church events. Jests include a mother calling Tommy’s brother, a cake stealing child, a tourniquet versus wedding ring comparison, and a Sunday school vanity remark.
Manitoba sent the largest Royal Winter Fair exhibit from the province at Toronto with 37 horses 80 cattle and 48 swine from 63 farmers. Saskatchewan showings doubled cattle with nine carloads including about 40 horses 35 cattle 30 swine and some sheep leaving Regina Saskatoon and Melville on multiple carloads.
AWelland Ontario grandmother over 60 works daily at home and finds relief from backache using Dr Chases Kidney Liver Pills. The product claims to treat kidney and liver disorders causing backache with over fifty years of use and is sold at drug counters.
The Canadian March of Dimes campaign gains approval from the Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis. The drive aims to start in January and supports polio relief efforts across the nation.
Calgary gas engineer Stan ley J. Davies told public commissioners that Turner Valley natural gas reserves now have an estimated life of 10 years down from 30 years in 1989. He cited rising gas use by large industrial consumers as the main factor behind the reduction.
Laying hens confined to soggy yards or drinking from stagnation develop dark yolks and possible off flavours in their eggs, a consequence of poor grazing and polluted water sources.
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