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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 18, 1954
Page
7
A woman left behind by family in a rural house faces loneliness and a sudden urge to escape. She contemplates a Colorado vacation and resents her husband for staying behind, then drives off hoping for freedom before turning back to check the stove and tidy the beds. The chickens’ laughter punctuates her isolation.
An advertisement touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a clean stainless penetrating antiseptic that quickly relieves itching from eczema and rashes. It claims rapid healing of open sores boils ulcers and pimples and offers money back satisfaction at any drug store.
Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, derives its name from a phrase meaning new flower. The city is noted for its wide variety of flowers and floriculture.
The Capilano River near Vancouver will receive upstream salmon assistance for spawning. Tank trucks will transport cohoe and steelhead to upper reaches while a ski jump on the dam face guides yearlings into water channels. A steel fence and a 300 foot concrete fishway channel fish into loading pools and onto trucks for release miles above the dam. Pumps maintain oxygen in the tanks during transport.
Ace Brookes offers a washable color transfer pattern 7316 for a medium size apron needing one yard 35 inches without embroidery. Send twenty five cents to the Household Arts Department in Toronto for the pattern and for Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog featuring 82 designs plus four printed patterns.
About 30 British pedigree Hereford cattle will be shipped to Regina Saskatchewan for an international show and sale in July 1955 as part of Saskatchewan's centenary celebrations. The shipment was announced by Jack Gibson president of the Hereford Herd Book Society at the society's annual meeting in Hereford England. Gibson said world wide demand for pedigree Hereford cattle has never been greater.
The Calgary Highlanders will be outfitted in scarlet tunics gold epaulettes kilts and busbies as a gift from honorary Colonel Eric L Harvey oil magnate. The move revives the regiment’s traditional dress for ceremonial duties.
Saskatchewan's official Jubilee Calendar featuring 13 full color photo enlargements went on sale early in November, offering a pictorial tribute to the province's jubilee celebration.
Regina reports Canadian women may be perfume shy as Roland Haumont, representing a famed French producer, tours Canada to learn why. He cites high costs and elaborate packaging as factors, plus ads that push perfume with too much sex appeal. He notes disguises in products and explains basics of perfume composition and usage.
In Memphis a young girl visits a Union Planters Bank branch and asks to exchange a dollar into coins then back again to learn counting. She changes to nickels, dimes, and quarters, explains she is learning to count money, and leaves with her half dollars.
Deputy minister J W Churchman said a joint survey of the Saskatchewan Northwest Territories border will begin in November with costs shared equally by Saskatchewan and the federal government. An Alberta Northwest Territories border survey is near completion.
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