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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 22, 1956
Page
6
A collection of light anecdotes and brief gags includes a grade school misunderstanding about teeth and a driver on a narrow bridge refusing to back up. Other bits feature an advertiser wary of selling time, jokes about boiling water, cosmetics in a sermon, and a fisherman comparing catches with a boy. The black widow spider bit appears as a closing bite of humor.
A history of the poppy as a remembrance emblem traces its roots to Napoleonic graves and Flanders battlefields. Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields” helped forge its meaning, leading to adoption by the Great War Veterans Association in 1921 and widespread Canada wide distribution by veterans and French War relief efforts. In 1923 disabled Canadian veterans first produced poppies sold on streets, and yearly distributions have risen to about five million to honor the dead and aid the living.
A Times opinion urges driver annual efficiency checks and stricter bicycle discipline to reduce crashes. It notes liability cards becoming mandatory October 1 and emphasizes keeping the card in the vehicle. The piece cites recent student bicycle incidents and calls for obedience to road rules to prevent harm.
A writer recalls Route No 1 from Manitoba border to Regina in 1952 and compares it with today. The highway’s revolution brings microwave towers, new motels, and neutral zones that alter the old folk lore and local commerce while preserving some trees and memories of pioneers like Joe Bird.
The passage notes the FBI in Washington maintains a Civil Identification Section with about five million fingerprint records. These are separate from the Criminal Bureau files and include people who choose to have their prints on record for various reasons.
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